Mon, 18 May 2009 21:53:47 +0000 – By Phil KerpenPolicy Director, Americans for Prosperity With the rest of Washington floundering trying to help the beleaguered economy, good news may be on the way from the unlikeliest of the branches of government: the United States Supreme Court. The Court today agreed …
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Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:07:24 +0000 – Yesterday, the chairman of Britain’s Sustainable Development Commision, Sir Jonathon Porritt, ventured into new frontiers of Green movement nuttiness. Mr. Porritt gave the press a preview of the main conclusions of his commission’s proposals for England’s environmental policy, to be released next month. …
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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:22:10 +0000 – By Phil KerpenPolicy Director, Americans for Prosperity Americans for Prosperity said, back in November, that any taxpayer bailout of General Motors and Chrysler would be money that would disappear into a black hole while buying them only a few months. Congress sensibly rejected …
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President Obama is soon expected to issue an executive order that would make it possible for some illegal immigrants, many of whom are the parents of children who are American citizens, to live and work in this country without the threat of deportation, in effect granting amnesty to up to …
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Who is the Republican candidate whose victory will expand the House majority to 245 members? Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans are looking beyond holding their majority on Election Day. They are aiming to get to 245 members, which would be the largest Republican majority since the end of World …
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Although I never read Tom Clancy’s “The Sum of All Fears” or saw the movie, that title has been rattling around my head for several scary weeks. By Friday, I could think of nothing else, so I dug into his plot. In short, it features dramatic twists and turns and …
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An estimated 30 Muslim women from the West, most of them British, are thought to have traveled to the Mideast to join ISIS, eliciting shock amid the wider public. Yet Muslim women have long been potent radicalizing forces in Islamic jihad. It’s time we unveiled these invisible women. [pullquote] I, …
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Robin Williams made me cry. Like his mentor, the late Jonathan Winters, Williams, who committed suicide Monday, made me laugh so intensely tears would come to my eyes. Williams’ death made headlines and led TV newscasts. His comedic genius diverted us from stories about terrorism and other sadness in the …
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Hey, have you heard about Jay-Z and Beyonce’s sister? Oh, wait, of course you have. It’s being covered like Ali’s “Thrilla in Manila.” But why? Is it the grainy elevator video capturing them from above? Or maybe it’s that a chick is beating up a guy. Or, how about that …
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius resigned Thursday. Actually, according to press reports, Sebelius resigned last week, but the White House waited a week to get ready. Friday, the president, according to the New York Times, intends to announce that Sylvia Mathews Burwell, currently director of the White …
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