By now most folks have likely heard about the case of Nigerian-American Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 24, also known as Seun Noibi. On June 25, America Flight 415 from New York’s JFK to Los Angeles was two hours into its journey when passengers in the upscale “Main Cabin Select” section complained that the man seated in […]
“Of course everyone agrees a failure to raise the debt ceiling would have devastating repercussions for our economy,” says the voice on the radio — one of a myriad. “But what the Republicans have to be sure they get in any deal to raise the debt ceiling is a firm commitment to cut spending in […]
Bill Clinton presumably didn’t do much to smooth over his family feud with “upstart” President Barack Obama — running scared from today’s already heavily understated jobless numbers — when the former president came up with a plan, published in last week’s Newsweek, called “14 Ways to Put America Back to Work.” It would have been […]
In a 1967 episode of “The Lucy Show,” efficiency expert Oliver Kasten (Phil Silvers) takes over Mr. Mooney’s office and commandeers his secretary, Lucy, turning her into his order-barking clone. When a major client wants a million dollar loan, “Kasten and Lucy visit their assembly line and start making changes.” President Obama announced a new […]
On the night of Dec. 14, 2010, a firefight erupted in the southern Arizona desert. According to court documents obtained by CBS News, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was part of a squad that spotted a group of illegal immigrants, some armed with assault rifles. When the illegals refused to drop their weapons — in […]
Back in January, Austan Goolsbee of the White House Council of Economic Advisers started chanting for public consumption that if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling this May the “impact on the economy would be catastrophic,” due to the fact the government would have to stop borrowing money and might default. On Jan. 6, […]
As Republicans, and especially Democrats, put on a show of brinksmanship last Friday, pretending to go “down to the wire” in a face-off to determine whether the federal budget would be slashed, slashed to a Draconian degree (in fact, not even Republicans were any longer holding out for a 1 percent cut, while spending reductions […]
On Dec. 20, 2007, the most likely setting for American military intervention on everyone’s minds was Iran, not Libya. (Like waiting to mount your favorite horse on the merry-go-round, don’t despair — just wait awhile and it’ll come ’round again.)
As we saw last week in the “Girl Scout cookies” case out of Savannah, Georgia, government — which was supposed to provide a level playing field by providing courts of law and barring interstate tariffs but otherwise stay out of the way — is destroying our economy, largely to protect the jobs of all its […]
If anyone wondered why the forces of the Left have been so over-the-top during the past two years, shrieking in the face of all contrary evidence that the Tea Party movement — everyday Americans seeking some restraint on government spending and taxation — was in fact some far-right league of racist lynchers, the logic finally […]