House Burglaries Baffle Staff, Police - Julia Edwards - NationalJournal.com

Puzzling break-ins over the last month at the offices of at least three House members and several committees have U.S. Capitol Police gumshoes working to find a pattern and the culprits, with missing items ranging from cash and expensive computer equipment to autographed baseball …

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Why are All the Leftist Politicians Who Hate the Rich…So Filthy Rich? - Wayne Allyn Root - Townhall Conservative Columnists - Page 1

Have you ever noticed how almost all the leftist politicians who hate and want to punish the rich with draconian tax increases…are filthy rich themselves? Confusing, isn’t it? Actually, once you know the truth it's really quite easy to understand. Take France&rsquo …

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Kudlow's Money Politics - National Review Online

While President Obama is out on the campaign trail talking about how bad things were four years ago, and how we have to go “forward” to his second term to see just how great things are going to be in the next four years, the biggest problem he’s got is the here  …

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Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » GAO: Recoverable Oil In Colorado, Utah, Wyoming “About Equal To Entire World's Proven Oil Reserves” Combined…

And yet the Obama administration believes the future lies is in algae and exploding Chevy Volts.

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Baby, 18 months old, ordered off plane at Fort Lauderdale airport | Local News - WPBF Home

Eighteen-month-old Riyanna has been called a lot of things: cute, adorable and now ... a suspected terrorist. She was called that on Tuesday night at the Ft Lauderdale Airport. She and her parents had just boarded a JetBlue flight when an airline employee approached them and ask …

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Co-host of Obama Hollywood fundraiser under SEC investigation | Washington Free Beacon

Co-host of Obama Hollywood fundraiser under SEC investigation Getty Images Email Us BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff - May 10, 2012 3:28 pm

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Federal 'Stimulus' Spent $34.5 Million In Michigan For Only 183 Total Jobs [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

If jobs are any measure, 14 Michigan "green" companies that were awarded $34.5 million in taxpayer funded grants and loans aren't generating much heat. According to the Michigan Economic Development Corp., the companies have reported a total of 183 jobs. While a final report wil …

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The Ultimate Disorganizing Organization - Peter G. Klein - Mises Daily

 specialize in the economic theory of organizations — their nature, emergence, boundaries, internal structure, and governance — a field that is increasingly important in economics and was recognized with the 2009 Nobel Prize awarded to Oliver Williamson and Elino …

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Robert Barro: Stimulus Spending Keeps Failing - WSJ.com

The weak economic recovery in the U.S. and the even weaker performance in much of Europe have renewed calls for ending budget austerity and returning to larger fiscal deficits. Curiously, this plea for more fiscal expansion fails to offer any proof that Organization for Economic  …

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RealClearMarkets - The Obama Health Plan Will Squeeze the Middle Class

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that. Middle class families take note. A family o …

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FOR EVERY PROBLEM, THERE'S A SOLUTION!: Governing through the eyes of progressives: An overview

FOR EVERY PROBLEM, THERE’S A SOLUTION!:  Governing through the eyes of progressives: An overview Problem (Americans are….)/Progressive Solution: Too fat?  Ban bake sales and junk food; mandate broccoli Too ignorant?  Censor journalists; control t …

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It should be called ‘Life of a dependent liberal’ - Right Turn - The Washington Post

William Bennett is the latest and arguably most thoughtful of the “Life of Julia” critics. He writes: Julia’s happily-ever-after tale is remarkably void of reality. Nowhere in her fictional life is it mentioned that Head Start has done little, if anything, to i …

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Presidential Narcissism - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online

Former president Bill Clinton just appeared in a reelection television commercial for President Barack Obama. At one point, Clinton weighs in on the potential consequences of Obama’s decision to go ahead with the planned assassination of Osama bin Laden. He smiles and then  …

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Arthur Brooks: America and the Value of 'Earned Success' - WSJ.com

I learned to appreciate the American free enterprise system by quitting a job in Spain. At age 19, I dropped out of school to pursue a career as a French horn player. After a few twists and turns, I wound up in the Barcelona Symphony, which was a Spanish government job. Even as …

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Creating a Risk-Free World - John Stossel - Townhall Conservative Columnists - Page 1

A child leaving home alone for the first time takes a risk. So does the entrepreneur who opens a new business. I no more want government to prevent us from doing these things than I want it to keep us in padded cells.   Everyone has a different tolerance for risk. One pers …

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RealClearPolitics - The Cleveland Five

The Cleveland Five are a sad-sack collection of wannabe terrorists if there ever was one. The amateurish young men who plotted to destroy a bridge outside Cleveland last week give the impression of needing the attention of a guidance counselor as much as a federal prosecutor. Bu …

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Obama's DOJ And Wall Street: Too Big For Jail? - Forbes

Over the past three years,  the Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against hundreds of ordinary Americans for financial fraud.  But no one from the largest banks and firms on Wall Street have been similarly charged for events leading up to the financial cr …

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Happy Birthday, F.A. Hayek! - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Your wide-ranging erudition, the application of your thought to matters from economics to politics to intellectual history to neurology to computer science, that Nobel Prize, your founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, Margaret Thatcher saying she believing what you believed, your …

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The Jawa Report: The Chart That Should Have Destroyed #Occupy Wall Street

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The Institute for Justice

As a new report issued today by the Institute for Justice discusses, more and more Americans now need the government’s permission before they can pursue the occupation of their choice. The IJ report, “License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from Occupational Lice …

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Herding Lizards - Doug French - Mises Daily

What everyone who pays attention already knows hit the front page the other day: Social Security will exhaust its reserves by 2033. That's 3 years sooner than previously projected, and, most importantly, a scant 21 years away for those hoping to retrieve some of what they put in  …

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Would-be bomber signed the lease for Occupy Cleveland’s HQ; media yawns | The Daily Caller

It’s getting harder and harder for the Occupiers to claim that those guys who tried to blow up a bridge near Cleveland had nothing to do with them. Last week I told you about Brandon “Skabby” Baxter, one of the five men arrested last week in the bombing plot. O …

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The Moral Infrastructure - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative Columnists - Page 1

The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created. The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to their organized disruptions of other people's lives, their tr …

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Ignore the Income Gap

Every time a bank fails an angel gets its wings.” So goes a graffito in Manhattan’s East Village. One block away, as marchers occupied Broadway on May Day, their picket signs proclaimed, “Millionaires must pay their fair share” and “No free ride …

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The PJ Tatler » Favorite Weekend Read: Top 21 Congress Members Resembling Muppets

Many hat tips to Cloture Club for coming up with this hilarious list of 21 members of Congress who resemble Muppets. Head on over for a few, readers, I think you’ll enjoy it…

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