Huge Bipartisan House Majority Rejects Obama’s Libya Resolution

From Politico: The House delivered a stinging rejection of President Barack Obama’s military intervention in Libya on Friday, voting in bipartisan fashion against authorizing the mission for another year. The president’s supporters still held out hope that they could stop an effort to restrict...

Americans Still Not Buying Ryan Plan

Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan to end Medicare for Americans younger than age 55 is a big bust with the public. And Ryan gets a vote of no confidence, as well: Twenty-six percent of people view the Wisconsin lawmaker unfavorably while 23 percent see him favorably, according to a Bloomberg National...

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Wow. Just… WOW: In her memoir due out Friday, “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far,” the 20-year-old daughter of former Alaska governor/potential presidential candidate Sarah Palin reveals her true feelings about the father of her son, the daughter of her mother’s 2008 running...

“Please, just once, act with prudence….”

That is Gideon Levy’s plea to Israel, as a new flotilla of human rights activists prepares to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Levy, who writes for Haaretz, begs Israel to remember the past (emphasis is mine): Had Israel not behaved with such wanton stupidity, and not attacked the previous...

It’s the Wars, Stupid

Naive leftist hippie dreamers like me have been saying for years that no one asks the question, “Where is the money going to come from” (for national health care, for a New Deal-type government public works program, for extending unemployment benefits, for providing federal emergency funds to...