Colin Hanna

America’s debt bomb is ticking. No one knows for sure when, but at some point in the next couple of months it will go off unless Congress and President Barack Obama can reach some kind of agreement that raises the debt ceiling. (more)

The pundits who are trying to spin Tuesday’s election as the result of a simple anti-incumbent mood are not merely wrong; they are actively suppressing the truth. Had this been an anti-incumbent election, there would have been similar defeats on both sides. But a comparison of Democratic versus Republican incumbent defeats presents a stark and inescapable conclusion, particularly in the US House: voters rejected incumbent Democrats but not incumbent Republicans. Fifty Democratic incumbents lost their seats, compared to only two Republican incumbents. The two Republican incumbents who were defeated, Joseph Cao and Charles Djou, were both elected under unusual circumstances in heavily Democratic districts. Cao was elected in November 2008, and Djou was elected in May 2010, so both were just barely incumbents. (more)

In the 2005 motion picture Cinderella Man, Russell Crowe’s character, Depression-era boxer James Braddock, is asked by a sports reporter why he returned a welfare payment, to which Braddock replied, “I believe we live in a great country, a country that's great enough to help a man financially when he's in trouble. But lately, I've had some good fortune, and I'm back in the black. And I just thought I should return it.” (more)

The recently passed Arizona immigration law is being subjected to a constant stream of irresponsible and ignorant demagoguery. In their total sellout to the political left and the forces of multiculturalism, the mainstream media have been guilty of the kind of sloppy work that ought to earn a failing grade from any self-respecting journalism professor. (more)