1:33 AM 04/03/2013
History -- and especially the time around World War II -- is filled with heroics, and, Lord knows, the bookshelves are filled with tales of great men's exploits. A quick Amazon Books search reveals 12,453 hits for Winston Churchill, 7,811 for Dwight Eisenhower, 3,735 for Douglas MacArthur and 3,526 for George Patton. But what about the millions of citizen soldiers who also served in combat? (RELATED: How to dine like Churchill)
2:19 AM 03/27/2013
Last week, The New York Times did that thing it does and howled accusations of racism from its front page, accusing an NYPD officer of admitting to employing law enforcement tactics that target blacks and Hispanics. "Now," the Greying Lady crowed, "a recording suggests that, in at least one precinct, a person’s skin color can be a deciding factor in who is stopped."
1:15 PM 03/23/2013
Easter is coming.
12:42 AM 03/20/2013
On Monday, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus unveiled the Growth and Opportunity Project, or what could have been called the Save the National GOP From Electoral Doom Project.
1:56 AM 03/16/2013
The war on women. The left has been harping on about it for a year, and we're largely in agreement that while it was effective politics, it's utter horse shit. That is, we were largely in agreement until we spent the last two days at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor. Because everything we saw told us one thing for certain: The Democrats were right -- though not in the way they thought.
2:08 AM 03/13/2013
There's a war waging within the Republican Party, and even the most casual observers are starting to notice. Its outcome will determine the foreign policy of the GOP and, if they're lucky, the country.
3:11 AM 03/09/2013
In February, Republican Gov. Rick Scott announced his intention to accept Obamacare's optional Medicaid expansion in Florida.
2:52 AM 03/06/2013
On March 5, 2013, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez bought nationalized the farm. And not a moment too soon. (Seriously: Why the hell are there still communist leaders in 2013?)
3:24 AM 03/02/2013
On Feb. 6, 2013, Republican Speaker of the House Bill Howell killed the Republican Senate's redistricting plan, which would have reversed the Democrat's redistricting and sealed Republican control of the legislature for years and years to come.
2:40 AM 02/27/2013
On Tuesday morning, the Democrats launched an independent group called Battleground Texas, which is capable of making the Lone Star state a battleground by 2016 and a lean-Democrat state by 2024, effectively breaking the back of the national GOP and blocking a Republican path to the White House.
2:13 AM 02/23/2013
Four months ago, The Politico published one of the stupidest articles we've ever read by them. Really: Reading "Soledad O'Brien puts guests on the griddle" made us uncomfortable, like we were reading the private correspondence of two lovestruck teenagers. (Bedford: The top five reasons Politico is garbage, in their own words)
1:39 AM 02/20/2013
Over the past couple of months, conservatives have been fiercely arguing against gun control, essentially making their case with five points that are straightforward and consistent with conservative principles. But in a strange twist, some of those same pundits have tried to shift the target from guns to violent movies and video games -- in the process, undermining their arguments against gun control.
5:23 AM 02/16/2013
Does anyone know how much, on average, it costs to "get lucky" on Valentine's Day?
11:16 AM 02/13/2013
It's Wednesday morning, and thanks to President Barack Obama's State of the Union, the country is now give-or-take 6,439 words stupider.
5:06 AM 02/09/2013
On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul -- the leading libertarian Republican -- laid out his vision of a conservative foreign policy. Love him or hate him, Mr. Paul is going to be a major voice in the GOP for at least the next four years. And if this speech is any indication, we'll get it all: The good, the bad, and the ugly.
2:23 AM 02/06/2013
This week, a source in the government leaked a copy of a 16-page Department of Justice "white paper" setting "forth a legal framework for considering the circumstances in which" the United States government can blow away a senior terrorist who is also a U.S. citizen, and a whole lot of people got a whole lot of angry about a whole lot of common sense.
2:42 AM 02/02/2013
The Environmental Protection Agency isn't just raising blood pressure and energy prices these days. Through its allegedly green energy demands, it's raising food prices and, with them, international threats to the United States.
2:18 AM 01/30/2013
It's been nearly 250 years since the king passed his Stamp Act to pay for all that royal spending, and nearly 240 years since gramps found that generally Intolerable and sent the British running. But the issue is not dead. On the contrary, legislators are again actively attempting to pass what is effectively taxation without representation, and far from being a distant king in England, the villains today are both Democratic and Republican lawmakers from Washington to Tennessee.
1:09 AM 01/26/2013
Fresh off re-election victories, President Barack Obama and his campaign-trail machine show no signs of slowing down. At all.
9:51 AM 01/23/2013
Last week, President Barack Obama announced 23 largely useless executive orders he said were designed to curb illegal gun violence in the United States. The announcement angered Second-Amendment advocates and likely sets Democrats up for a major public-opinion defeat, but in all the commotion, one revealing aspect of the speech -- the belief that daily chaos and tragedy can be conquered by human intellect and government power -- went unnoticed and unchallenged.
