South Carolina’s Trey Gowdy and Ohio’s Jim Jordan are two rock-solid conservatives. I interviewed both Wednesday on the IRS scandal and on the border fence. The transcript of the Gowdy interview is here. The transcript of the Jordan interview is here. The transcript of my conversation last week with the chairman of the House […]
Senator being blackmailed once again? Image: Wikimedia Commons Senator Lindsey Graham has vowed to introduce legislation in September or October to authorize a military attack on Iran. “If nothing changes in Iran, come September, October, I will present a resolution that will authorize the use of military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear […]
CNN – by Jennifer Liberto The U.S. Postal Service is marching towards a more “centralized delivery,” where residents pick up their own mail from clusters of mail boxes located in their neighborhood. Local postmasters are sending hundreds of letters to fast-growing communities, warning that cluster boxes will be the way mail will be delivered to new […]
Michael SnyderAmerican Dream Central planning in this country is getting completely and totally out of control. These days, you can hardly do anything without running into a suffocating web of red tape. For example, a small-time magician from Missouri that does magic shows for kids was absolutely horrified when he learned that the Obama administration […]
Deadline Live – by Jack Blood Last Resistance Used to be that only frequent flyers could enroll in the TSA PreCheck program at the airport. You probably know what the PreCheck line is. It’s that more quickly moving line of shoe-wearing nonpareils that you used to see in the distance while your private parts were […]
Random thoughts from wise thinkers: “We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” (F.A. Hayek) “Many respectable writers agree that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and […]
This article was originally published by watchdog.org. In his novel “The Tortilla Curtain,” T.C. Boyle writes about a coyote that prowls the border between nature and the outer suburbs, sneaking into back yards to snack on pets. If you know the geography of Southern California, where the wealthy are forever building neighborhoods farther up into […]
By John James Kirkwood Watching Democrats do immigration reform is like watching a guerrilla play with its feces. Watching the Republicans do it is like watching the zoo-keeper slip in the dung, then get pummeled by the guerrilla. The truth is that Democrats and the Whig corner of the Republican Party are battling over who […]
I’ve already speculated that Jay Leno is a closet libertarian. If nothing else, the latest batch of jokes, courtesy of News-max, shows that he’s willing to go after Obama. Which is more than can be said for some of his competitors. Jay Leno Al-Qaida’s No. 2 man in Yemen was killed this week by a drone strike. He […]
Under “threat” of drone strike, drivers are encouraged to watch their speeds. Several signs “warning” drivers of drone-enforced speed zones were mounted along highways in the San Francisco Bay Area. The professionally-made metal signs read “Speed Enforced by Drones” and show a Predator drone drawn in a possible homage to a recent Anthony Freda painting. […]