The Conservative Choice for Texas Senate Seat

Two weeks ago, I sat down with the Dallas Morning News editorial board. Their first three questions were: (1) “Is it good to be a moderate?” (2) “Do we need more compromise in Washington?” and (3) “How will you be bipartisan and work across the aisle?” At that point, I laughed out loud and told [...]

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CEO Pay Trend Bucks Class Warfare Rhetoric

A graph by the Economic Policy Institute shows that while the relative pay of CEOs shot up in the 1990s, it has since fallen by nearly half, a trajectory that hardly supports the class warfare rhetoric of Occupy Wall Street and the Obama Administration.  

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Obama’s Atrocities

When President Obama made the declaration last week that his stance on same-sex marriage had “evolved” into supporting it, the New York Times called me up to see what the conservative movement thought about Obama’s evolution.  I said to the reporter, “Just when you thought the conservative movement couldn’t be any more energized against President [...]

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Occupy NATO Protesters Arrested On Terrorism Charges

Early Saturday morning Occupy Chicago began tweeting that three protesters have been on charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary or explosive devices. The Examiner is reporting that the arrests happened after a raid on an apartment in a Bridgeport neighborhood: According to National [...]

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US Chamber, Manufacturers to Congress: Drop Green Building Program

A group of industry heavyweights have asked a top House Republican to put the breaks on the federal government’s likely adoption of new green building standards, a letter obtained by Breitbart News shows. After a Congressional hearing last week examining the science behind green building rating systems, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of [...]

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Updated: Evidence of Author Plagiarizing Elizabeth Warren Book

Editor’s Note: Katrina Trinko, the National Review author who reported the claim first made by this article, has retracted the story that Elizabeth Warren may have plagiarized in her 2006 book All Your Worth: I took down my earlier post on Elizabeth Warren plagiarizing from the book  Getting On the Money Track.  On Amazon.com, the [...]

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WI Union Member Supports Scott Walker Over ‘Marxist’ Union Leadership

Less than three weeks remain until the June 5th recall election in Wisconsin that will decide whether or not Governor Scott Walker remains in office. Recent polls have been trending in Walker’s direction after showing a dead heat last month. Most of this seems to be the result of sky-high GOP enthusiasm. Dave Weigel reported [...]

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Facebook IPO: Huge Volume, Slumping Price

The first day of trading for shares of Facebook didn’t go well, with the stock struggling to stay above it’s IPO price of $38. Earlier in the week, buzz about the Facebook IPO led the company to increase its target price from $28-35 up to $34-$38. The company also increased the number of available shares [...]

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‘Exorcist’ Author Prepares Canon Lawsuit to Cut Georgetown’s Ties to Catholic Church

Academy-award winning author William Peter Blatty, who wrote both the screenplay and book, The Exorcist, is helping Georgetown University students and others to prepare a canon lawsuit to be filed with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Vatican. Blatty, a Georgetown alumnus, seeks remedies “up to and including the possible removal or suspension of top-ranked Georgetown’s right [...]

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Recall: Barrett Donor Gets No-bid Contract in Milwaukee

Two metal-recycling companies are threatening to sue the city of Milwaukee over its controversial awarding of a contract without taking competitive bids. Two metal recycling firms have accused the City of Milwaukee of illegally shutting them out of bidding for contracts to remove and process abandoned vehicles, work they say has gone exclusively to a [...]

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