Let's summarize," he said. "We got an albino misfit with a strange name running around from country to country and leaking confidential information onto hundreds of anonymous servers. We'll fund the operation, but he'll pretend to...
There is now a robust political constituency supporting the generous tax treatment given to IRAs. One element is the 40 million people who have an IRA. A second element is the retail financial industry – banks, brokerage houses, mutual funds and ...
-- "This DISCLOSE Act is not about reform...."
Yeah, I’m still feeling pretty wiped out by the activities this weekend in Las Vegas. I have a ton of pictures and video to go thru, and ideas bouncing around in my head trying to get out in some coherent form. One of the many speakers that stood out for me was Herman Cain. He [...]
Unbelievably, this video was posted by Media Matters, who probably put this video together to scare the left. I think it’s pretty good actually. Surprisingly. This may be the only time in my life I ever link to something of theirs… ...
Yesterday, we surmise, was one long headache for those in charge of the Afghanistan war on the Western side. Metaphorically, many good officers in the Pentagon and elsewhere stood in the middle of otherwise efficient offices holding their collective he...
We, who were raised in pre-nihilist America, find most of today's movies, TV programs and literary works hideous and depressing. We cringe at the obsessive sexuality of Hollywood's cinematic pretensions, at its love affair with anti-heroes, and...
Recently the Washington Post ran an extensive report by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on the bloated intelligence community. They found that an estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances. Just what are all these people up to? By my...
A real bill, as its name suggests, is just a notice of payment due that typically the wholesale merchant sends to the retail merchant along with his shipment of goods demanded most urgently by the consumers. It is useful to think of the bill as a secur...