All posts for the month January, 2012

The truly dismal state of the union

By Joseph Curl The Washington Times January 22, 2012 There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. [...]

Gingrich delivers show-stopper at beginning of South Carolina debate

By Rachel Streitfeld and Paul Steinhauser, CNN January 20, 2012 Go to CNN: Gingrich: “To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine,” John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Gary Hart, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, [...]

A Lose, Lose, Lose, Lose, Lose Proposition

National Review, The Corner By Victor Davis Hanson January 19, 2012 As he did with his probably illegal “recess” appointments, President Obama picked a politically advantageous time to cancel the Keystone pipeline project — while the media is obsessed with the South Carolina primary, Newt Gingrich’s second wife, and Mitt Romney’s investments. Yet it is [...]

Presidential Nonsense

CREATORS.COM By Walter E. Williams 01-17-2012 Last week, President Barack Obama, at a Capital Hilton fundraising event, told the crowd, “We can’t go back to this brand of you’re-on-your-own economics.” Throughout my professional career as an economist, I’ve never come across the theory of “you’re-on-your-own economics.” I’m guessing what the president means by — and [...]