A suburban-Philadelphia man hired by the controversial pro-Obama group ACORN has pleaded guilty to forgery, identity theft and tampering with public records charges involving bogus voter registrations. From The Delaware County Daily Times: The charges ...
Conservation Groups File Challenge To Inadequate DNR Action on Invasive Species MADISON, WISC. (November, 21 2008)—The Great Lakes will not be protected from invasive species by an EPA permit certified by Wisconsin’s Department of Natural R...
The second major drought of the last decade is a wake-up call for the Southeast United States, showing the region’s vulnerability due to its reliance on scarce supplies of fresh water. The region has been operating under the best-case water ava...
Court Upholds Michigan Law to Stop Invasive Species Statement by Andy Buchsbaum, regional executive director, Great Lakes office of the National Wildlife Federation, on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the state of Michigan’s l...
Kathryn Lopez provides an eyewitness account of Attorney General Mukasey’s collapse last night while speaking at the Federalist Society’s national conference in Washington. Kathryn reports that midway through his remarks Mukasey seemed ra...
Yesterday in “An exceedingly strange new respect” I noted Noemie Emery’s column on Hillary Clinton. Emery traced the evolution of the respect at least some conservatives accorded Hillary Clinton as she found her footing opposing Bar...
The second major drought of the last decade is a wake-up call for the Southeast United States, showing the region’s vulnerability due to its reliance on scarce supplies of fresh water. The region has been operating under the best-case water ava...
In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins contemplates the idea that Barack Obama may launch a second New Deal: His friends advise Barack Obama to launch a “New” New Deal. Maybe that’s because the old New Deal is sinking fast. Mr. ...
WASHINGTON – The second major drought of the last decade is a wake-up call for the Southeast United States, showing the region’s vulnerability due to its reliance on scarce supplies of fresh water. The region has been operating under the ...
At TPMCafe, I have explained what is probably my main criticism of Angler, Barton Gellman’s book about the Cheney vice presidency. There’s plenty to like about the book, but here I focus on what I see as a flaw: One of my main complaint...
The stock market is tanking, taxes are rising, the news headlines are all bad. So if you’re ready to flee, consider a tree house. Popular Mechanics profiles ten of the world’s greatest tree houses. Here is just one: They’re all f...
Yesterday, I wrote: “I don’t see why a president hoping to sustain a ‘larger than life’ persona would want a ‘larger than life’ Secretary of State who has been his bitter rival.” A reader explains: The answ...
In the video below, Eric Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the pardons extended by President Clinton to the 16 FALN terrorists in August 1999. Then Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch grills Holder concerning the lack of ...
I’m not seeing anything to like about Eric Holder as our next Attorney General. What I see is one-third standard-issue leftist — on “hate crimes,” on racial preferences, on criminal rights, on terrorist rights (see this NRO e...
Al Qaeda’s number two crackpot, Ayman Zawahiri, called Barack Obama a “house Negro” in an audio tape released yesterday. That was beyond the pale, as State Department spokesman Sean McCormack explained: “It’s just, you ...
The recount in Minnesota’s Coleman-Franken Senate race is underway; today, Franken gained a net 28 votes in Democratic St. Louis County. The gain was attributed to older voting machines that failed to read faint pencil marks. A Republican spok...
The nomination of Eric Holder as Attorney General should alarm gun owners across the country, says the Second Amendment Foundation. Heller supported the Washington, D.C., gun ban that was eventually struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Holder’s...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform has been trying for years to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits failed against U.S. businesses. The Institute notes that Towers Perrin’s annual study on the cost of America’s ...
Looking for more evidence that Gov. Ed Rendell is to economics what Eagles head coach Andy Reid is to NFL coaching? Pennsylvania is among the least competitive states when it comes to attracting and keeping businesses, according to a new study. The Bea...
We’ve been doing a weekly show for Pajamas TV called the Power Line Report. PJTV is a fledgling news network that has attracted a lot of talent in a short time. (No, I don’t mean us!) The shows have been fun to do and PJTV is technicall...
Michael Ramirez unites two stories in the news today; click to enlarge:
A new report confirms what parents of college-age students already know: Pennsylvania is one of the most expensive places to send your kids to to college. The Keystone State ranks No. 6 on the list of most expensive states to attend college, the report...
A portrait of Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll is on display in the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg. Memorial services for the Knoll, who died last week at age 78, are scheduled for Friday.
Governor Rendell Revises Executive Order; Extends Operation of PA Health Care Cost Containment Council
I knew the name was familiar. Now I remember who Eric Holder is. Barack Obama’s pick to become the next Attorney General worked in the Bill Clinton Administration and helped arrange the last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. The more...
That’s the title of Mitt Romney’s op-ed in today’s New York Times. Romney’s reasoning closely parallels what we’ve laid out here: I have several prescriptions for Detroit’s automakers. First, their huge disadvanta...
Pennsylvania’s largest newspaper is urging the Rendell Administration to block a planned merger of the state’s two giant Blue Cross health insurers. Less competition will mean higher insurance costs for Pennsylvania residents, argues The Ph...
We have been dawdling along about fighting global warming. It took a long time for scientists to convince us that there is catastrophe ahead if we do nothing. Even now that the vast majority of us is convinced of the need for action, we have been doin...
Pennsylvania is among the top “Dirty Dozen” states with the most coal power plants generating high mercury emissions, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project. Report to Show That Mercury Pollution Is Up at Most of t...
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader discusses his presidency in this video of his appearance on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Maxim Magazine has an interesting list posted at its Web site of “TV’s 10 Hottest News Anchors.” Sorry, ladies, it’s a man’s magazine, so all 10 are women. Some might find the list “sexist,” but let’s fa...
The Senate Guru blog in The Huffington Post gets some very interesting responses from Georgia Libertarian Allen Buckley. Buckley got 128,000 votes (3.4% of the total) on Nov. 4 as the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate. Because he kept the t...
I’ll be making a return appearance this week to “Journalists Roundtable” on the Pennsylvania Cable Network. Among the topics of discussion will be the new leadership in the Pennsylvania Legislature. The program airs Thursday at 8 p.m....
The following is a media release from the Modern Whig Party: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/18/08 Contact: Mike Lebowitz—National Chairman chairman@modernwhig.org 202-337-0893 or Kevin Bloomfield—Future Voters Coordinator futurevoters@modernwhig...
Pennsylvania Education Officials Announce Efforts to Further Improve School Safety
Office party season is upon us. That is if your company still sponsors a party. With the economy in the tank, many businesses are canceling the traditional office party. But if you find yourself at one, the last thing you want to do is consume alcoho...
The following is a media release from the Constitution Party: P.O. Box 1782 Lancaster, PA 17608 contactus@constitutionparty.com Mary Starrett, Communications Director The “Fix” Is In: Same-Old–Same-Old Two Party Charade Obama –...
Zogby International’s post-election poll gives us an idea how effectively the media got across negative stories about the two tickets. This was a poll of self-identified Obama voters conducted last week. The results are a bit disturbing. Followin...
A reminder to everyone who holds public office or is paid by the taxpayers: “The First Amendment doesn’t exist so we can freely praise our public officials. It exists so we can freely criticize our public officials.” – Chris Lam...
A new report says 30 percent of Pennsylvania children in foster care have no prospect of a permanent family. Large Percentage of Foster Children in Limbo in PA
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Before answering the question of whether taxpayers should rescue the auto industry, we have to know what the situation is, and what the pros and cons are for a rescue or allowing one or more of the Big 3 to bankrupt. Hearings yesterday and today befor...
WASHINGTON, DC (November 18, 2008) – President-elect Barack Obama delivered a speech via video today to the bipartisan Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles. Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, said to...
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal reported the story of the seizure of the Saudi oil supertanker MV Sirius Star by Somali pirates. John wrote about it last night here. Mark Steyn comments here. Reader Charles Barker is a former Coast Guard offi...
We are all familiar with the “strange new respect” accorded nominal Republicans or former conservatives who betray their supporters. As Wlady Pleszczynski recalls, Bethell began bestowing the Strange New Respect Award on once-reliable con...
My respect for Hillary Clinton is neither new nor, I hope “exceedingly strange.” I have always considered her smart, but not as smart as advertised, resilient, and ruthless. Her campaign against Barack Obama largely reinforced this asse...
National Review makes the case that in ordinary times Eric Holder would simply be an uninspired choice for Attorney General. For these times, however, NR argues that “it is difficult to imagine a worse choice for AG than Eric Holder.” It...
Niall Ferguson is a bestselling author, a professor of history at Harvard, a senior research fellow at Oxford, and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Ferguson is also as engaging a speaker as one could wish to hear. Last night F...
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