Rand Paul Highlights His Spending Cut Ideas on John Stossel's Show

Another Reporter Comes Out with Threats from the White House

This time Ron Fournier at the National Journal: I had angered the White House, particularly a senior White House official who I am unab...

White House Threatens Bob Woodward

The White House just tried to bully Bob Woodward saying "you will regret this".  His crime?  Criticizing them on the sequester?  H...

The Decline of America in One Chart

ZeroHedge posted a couple of interesting charts on the long term decline of Italy and France.  They essentially showed how real 7 year GDP ...

The List of Republican False Friends of Israel

I'm not terribly shocked that the Senate voted to end debate on the Hagel nomination given the Democratic majority (where even pro-Israe...

What the Senate is Accepting if They Approve Hagel

Just a  horrible list (via Breitbart).  Pray for Israel if Hagel becomes Secretary of Defense: 1. U.S. troops  should be deployed to Israel...

Chuck Hagel Favors Sending US Troops to the West Bank to "Enforce" the Peace

Check out this recommendation from a Foundation for Middle East Peace report co-signed by Chuck Hagel back in 2009, a report addressed to t...

Discretionary Spending has Doubled since 2000, so Why the Panic Over Sequestration?

Check out this graph that I came up with using the White House's historical budget tables and nominal GDP data from FRED : As you can s...

If Elections Were Held Today, Yair Lapid Would be Prime Minister of Israel

Just yesterday, I wrote that if new elections were called in Israel if Bibi was unable to form a government that Likud voters who went with...

You Just Don't Want to See How Sausages and Israeli Coalition Governments Are Formed

Seriously, it's like Bizarro world.  Tzipi Livni, who would criticize Bibi Netanyahu for just about every action under the sun, has beco...

Oh Great, the Military is Developing Killer Robotic Bugs

One more step towards the futuristic dystopian nightmare of your choice.  I'm not saying I begrudge the military weapons that will save ...

Hagel: Israel is on its way to being an apartheid state, Bibi is a radical and Hamas should be brought into any negotiation

The hits keep on coming from Obama's Secretary of Defense nominee.  Besides saying he is "qualified" has the White House actua...

Note to Self: Don't Buy a Tesla Electric Car

I always thought electric cars are supposed to be "plug in and go", but based on what happened to this New York Times reviewer (wh...

Chuck Hagel: The State Department Has Become Adjunct to the Israeli Foreign Minister's Office

According to a contemporaneous account that was posted on the website by a Hagel supporter in 2007, Hagel said that the State Department wa...

Does Iran Already Have the Bomb?

A disturbing article from Lee Smith in Table Magazine:  If North Korea has the bomb, then for all practical purposes Iran does, too. If t...

Republicans Are Already Worrying Rand Paul Could Run As a Third Party Candidate

Ron Fournier at the National Journal wrote an interesting piece on how Republican and Democratic insiders are worries about the end of the ...

Milton Friedman vs. Obama on the Minimum Wage

I'll of course go with Milton Friedman on this one:

Bibi Needs to Answer for Prisoner X

I've kind of been ignoring this story for a bit, at first I actually thought that a Mossad spy died in an Australian prison.  But now ...

Republicans Misunderstand the Buckley Rule

Supporters of wishy washy Republican candidates like Mitt Romney and John McCain like to mention the Buckley Rule which states that we need ...

Rand Paul: "The President offers you free stuff but his policies keep you poor."

A great State of the Union response from Rand Paul:

Rand Paul versus Marco Rubio

Some people are making a big deal about tonight's speeches by Rand Paul and Marco Rubio as if it's some great sign of a civil war in...

Video: Dr. Ben Carson Criticizes Obama's Divisive Policies at National Prayer Breakfast

In case you haven't seen it already, check out Dr. Ben Carson's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast last week.  It's very in...

These Are the People the Government Does Give Guns To

Gun control advocates want to take away the guns of ordinary citizens and make them 100% dependent on the police for protection.  Based on w...

Obamacare is Already Under-delivering

According to this , insurance will be more expensive and less people will be covered than thought.  I'll try to withhold by shock: T...