Hello, MasterCard? Can you raise my Uncle Sam’s credit limit?
Ordinary Americans can’t just walk into the bank, demand an increase on their credit card limit and leave an I.O.U. But that’s what Democrats want to do with the federal debt.
Author: Paul Gleiser
Who’s the boss in NYC? Not the mayor. Sure as heck not the citizens.
Of the services customarily provided by cities to their citizens, one that is very amenable to privatization is sanitation.
WikiLeaks revelation: U.S. government not terribly competent.
The WikiLeaks story is simply staggering. In case you’ve missed it released on the Internet classified U.S. documents.
Groping for freedom.
The holiday season is upon us and that conjures memories of the recent past and a less than pleasant look at the dysfunctional present as it pertains to airline travel.
Our Decision Point.
Former President Bush has emerged from near total media seclusion for the purpose of promoting his new book called “Decision Points.”
One last shot.
Three days after Christmas in 1975 the Dallas Cowboys were faced with ending their season by losing the NFC Divisional Playoff Game.
Taking candy away.
Even a sweeping Republican victory on Tuesday will not be enough to address the problems America now faces.
NPR: Liberal hypocrisy on your dime.
Juan Williams was fired by National Public Radio on Wednesday night for remarks he made on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News Channel show on Monday night.
Capitalism to the rescue.
The 33 miners in Chile who were quite literally resurrected from their grave this week owe their lives in no small measure to two men. The first is Chilean president Sebastián Piñera.
The American (after tax) generosity machine.
Earlier this week on Tuesday morning, the top folks at Trinity Mother Frances Health System in Tyler hosted a breakfast for the purpose of making a big announcement.
The 50-year Tug-of-War.
Since 1960, the country has been in a tug-of-war between those on the right that believe that one can only be truly free when one accepts full responsibility for one’s own life…
Did you ever think you’d miss Bill?
Have you noticed that Bill Clinton has been seen more lately? He’s now the elder statesman of the Democratic Party and he is exercising the privileges that go with that vaunted office. Is he teeing things up for a run by Hillary? The cynic in me might say yes but it’s too early to tell.
Raise your own taxes first, Mr. President.
The so-called “Bush tax cuts” are set to expire, Mr. President…
A Nation at Risk
By 1983, the fact that America had taken the wrong path on public education was becoming clear.
The unbearable cost of discount war.
I don’t personally know anyone who has been directly impacted by our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It just ain’t happening, Joe.
I prefer a vice president who is ridiculously political to one who is completely delusional.
The ‘Summer of Recovery’ that wasn’t.
On the third Sunday of July, Vice President Joe Biden appeared on ABC’s This Week with Jake Tapper and declared that the summer of 2010 is the Summer of Recovery.
What is to come is epilogue.
Look up the word “epilogue” and one of the definitions you will find says, “the final scene of a play or story that comments on or summarizes the main action.” The word epilogue, thus defined, now applies to the Barack Obama administration.
Ideology is one thing. Results are another.
According to former Reagan budget director David Stockman, since the third quarter of 2008, the nation’s gross domestic product has grown at the rate of only $4 billion per month.
Obama’s Unforced Error
When President Theodore Roosevelt coined the term “bully pulpit,” he meant it in the most positive sense. He believed that the presidency was an excellent platform from which to articulate a belief or a position. How unfortunate it is, then, that our current president just wasted a fabulous opportunity to use the bully pulpit to accomplish something good, both for his presidency and for the country. The recent kerfuffle over the proposed mosque at ground...