DVD message from Congressman Dennis Kucinich to American Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area at CAIR mid-year fundraiser May 31, 2009 via YouTube – Video Message from Dennis Kucinich.  Read More →

President Barack Obama has renominated Donald M. Berwick to be Medicare chief six months after bypassing the Senate and installing him in the job in a recess appointment, the White House announced Wednesday. Obama initially nominated Berwick last April. After the recess appointment in July, Berwick could serve through this year without Senate confirmation. Berwick has wide support in the medical community... 

by Irving Kristol As originally published in the August 1971 issue of The Atlantic Monthly IN 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville submitted an Essay on Pauperism to the Royal Academic Society of Cherbourg. The Essay addressed itself to a striking contemporary paradox: why, in the most “opulent” (we would say, more timidly, “affluent”) nation in the world — that is, England... 

(via Bloomberg) U.S. House Republicans prodded President Barack Obama’s top regulatory official on proposed environmental rules and whether they are in conflict with the administration’s pledge to scrap unnecessary regulations. Lawmakers told Cass Sunstein, head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, that the Environmental Protection Agency plans to limit carbon emissions, crack... 

This guy has a solution for everything…Especially for things that don’t need solutions. Bloggingheads.tv – Information Cocoons. The echo-chamber effect in blogs vs. newspapers (04:30) The architecture of serendipity (06:58) Cass offers solutions for blogosphere balkanization (08:41) The Fairness Doctrine sounds good—in theory (07:42) Should blogs be liable for defamation? (09:15) Flag-burning,... 

Cass Sunstein is Obama’s “Regulatory Czar” (read CENTRAL PLANNING CZAR) and author of  many controversial books, such as Nudge, Republic.com, The Second Bill Of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need it.  He is celebrated by the left for his radical views on animal rights, the second amendment, and environmentalism. But there is a dark secret about Mr. Sunstein... 

Barack Obama did it. With Congress in recess, the United States president confirmed the appointment of several ambassadors, including the ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, whose approval had been held up by the Senate. The decision is not only bound to anger Republicans, who now hold a majority in the House of Representatives, it also happens to be remarkably foolish. Let’s go back to one of the... 

YouTube – Van Jones: Cap and Trade is Dead, So Bring on the EPA!.  Read More →