New Jersey governor Chris Christie became the eighth Republican governor to cave on the ObamaCare-driven expansion of Medicaid, adding another 300,000 beneficiaries to the rolls, as reported by the Star-Ledger: As for his decision to expand Medicaid, the Republican governor, a | Read More »

Senator John McCain recently found himself targeted by the same kind of deceptive video editing that made George Zimmerman into a racist, and generated the entirely false “grieving Newtown father heckled by gun nuts” story, as related by NewsMax: The | Read More »

The dark art of manufactured consensus is a long-running interest of mine.  I’ve been fascinated by exposes of operations selling faked positive online reviews, to make products appear better or more popular on shopping websites like Amazon.  Politicians use the | Read More »

It looks like even the people who don’t think much of wind power might have been overestimating it.  Not only are those gigantic wind farms unsightly, and impractical in many area…, but according to an article at Phys.org, they don’t | Read More »

If a society’s body of laws is an expression of its priorities, then the gun-control craze has left ours deeply messed up, at least in New York.  For there, according to Steve McGough at Radio Vice Online, “common sense gun | Read More »

Over the weekend, the New York Times broke a story about Barack Obama’s “rebooted” campaign apparatus, now known as “Organizing for Action,” and its drive to raise money for advocacy by selling access to the President and other top officials: Next month, | Read More »

The absolute miracle of the amazing $85 billion that keeps the entire federal government running continues, as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano explains that we can kiss border security goodbye if we cut government spending by 2.3 percent: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned | Read More »

Anyone familiar with decoding Washington-speak knows that while sequestration is routinely described as a spending cut (usually with adjectives such as “harsh,” “deep,” or the ever-popular “draconian” attached) it’s not really a “cut” at all.  It’s a reduction in the | Read More »

The detailed implementation of New York mayor/nurse Michael Bloomberg is under way, and the New York Post reports “merchants were shocked to see the broad sweep of the new regulations”: Say goodbye to that 2-liter bottle of Coke with your pizza delivery, | Read More »

There’s a big push on the media Left to paint Senator Ted Cruz of Texas as some sort of loose cannon – “the second coming of Joe McCarthy,” as Dan McLaughlin of RedState puts it.  McLaughlin relates a snippet from | Read More »