My fellow Americans, we’re fat.  But we need not be; the solution is simple.  I...
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The Supreme Court revealed to the world on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, an extraordinary religious extremism that belies any quaint notion of judicial restraint. If the obvious ever needed to be emphasized, the call to replace Justice John Paul Stevens with a liberal jurist is now more critical than ever.

The case in question...
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Our financial institutions do not need to be regulated, they need to be prosecuted. No matter how effectively pending legislation in the end reigns in market excess, the new law can be nothing but a fig leaf barely covering the nether regions of a the hoax we call Wall Street.

For two decades I have pondered how the institutionalized...
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On Bill Clinton’s first inaugural day, the DJIA was at 3310. The market was 6813 when he was next inaugurated. At the end of Clinton’s second term, on the day Bush took office, the DJIA was at 10,578; that is the market Bush inherited from Clinton.

When Bush left the Oval Office on January 20, 2009, the Dow...
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“I have hopes that President Obama will at least try to appoint somebody who will get a huge bipartisan vote, and if he will, he’s going to go down in history as a better president. If he doesn’t, there’s going to be a whale of a fight if he appoints an activist to the court. That’s not good for him,...
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Nebraska lawmakers passed a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks based on the theory that a fetus at that stage feels pain. In doing so, their attempt to restrict abortion paradoxically undermines every argument anti-abortionists put forth in making their case.

If abortion opponents use pain as the threshold for deciding...
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On April 3, 1865, Richmond, Virginia, fell to Union soldiers as Confederate troops retreated to the West, exhausted, weak, and low on supplies. The end would come soon thereafter. On April 5, Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant started an exchange of notes that would lead to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April...
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The most recent sex abuse scandal implicating the Pope in a cover up was filling the airways, so I saw no reason to pile on. In addition, the story has the whiff of a “dog bites man” piece, not surprising in the least. Newly damning evidence that the Pope knew about and actively protected pedophile priests is hardly...
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We fully expect rats to abandon a sinking ship, but even those readily disloyal rodents wait for a leak to spring before contemplating a swim. In contrast, Democrats scramble frantically to jump overboard at the first whiff of a moist towel.

Nowhere was this unpleasant characteristic more glaringly evident than during the...
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