Philip Klein
An undercover video of a departing National Public Radio fundraising executive shows him nodding in agreement as men posing as representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group rip Jewish control of the media. Eventually, the President of the NPR Foundation…
It ain’t easy being a cowboy poet in John Boehner’s America. Earlier today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blasted the House Republicans’ “mean-spirited” spending cuts for, among other things, endangering Nevada’s cowboy poetry festival. Yep, you’ve got that right: “The…
Politico‘s Ken Vogel has a piece up on the left-wing war on conservative Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito (Alito has been attacked for speaking at the Spectator‘s annual dinner). What’s clear from the article is…
Robert Samuelson has a good column up explaining why Social Security is welfare. The failure to recognize this is one reason why the program has remained politically untouchable.
Regular readers know that I’m not shy about criticizing Mitt Romney, particularly for his role in designing and enacting a health care program in Massuchusetts that served as a model for ObamaCare. Jim made some good points earlier about why…
Last month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee requested that the Obama administration release documents related to its closed door negotiations with special interest groups during its push for national health care. But Brian Beutler reports that the White House…
Judge Roger Vinson, who declared the national health care law unconstitional in January, granted the Obama administration a 7-day stay allowing them to continue implementing the law, but he ordered them to file for an expidited appeal within a week….
Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, this morning likened the health care program Mitt Romney enacted in Massachusetts to President Obama’s signature health care legislation, and said he was not a fan of either one. “It’s not…
The Senate just voted 91 to 9 to pass a two-week continuing resolution that will keep the government funded through March 18, and thus avoid the possibility of the government shutting down on Friday. That said, all this does is…
My cover story for the March print edition on the California high-speed rail boondoggle is now available on the main site. This project is worth keeping an eye on, because it has already claimed $3.2 billion from the Obama administration…
