David Paulin

David Paulin

  • March 4, 2020

    Venezuelan Media Starlet Who Soft-Pedaled 9/11 Just Became a Naturalized U.S. Citizen

    Mariana Atencio, a lefty former MSNBC correspondent who grew up in Venezuela, recently became an American citizen. The naturalization ceremony was a sublime moment for her and 128 other people from 27 countries. She celebrated with a tweet, writing t...

  • November 18, 2018

    A suicide at the University of Texas Reveals Dark Side of #MeToo Movement

    Before killing himself with a drug intended for rapid and painless animal euthanasia, Richard A. Morrisett had endured a nightmare at the University of Texas in Austin. The 57-year-old tenured professor of pharmacology and toxicology was once a risin...

  • January 16, 2017

    MSNBC's Mariana Atencio: Rich, Gorgeous, Famous, and a Victim

    Mariana Atencio, a broadcast correspondent for MSNBC, is beautiful and wealthy and lefty. Growing up in oil-rich yet impoverished Venezuela, Atencio enjoyed the privileged life of one of that country's wealthy and fair-skinned elites. She was a p...

  • May 19, 2016

    University of Iowa diversity official says hate-crime hoaxer deserves 'empathy'

    Marcus Owens, the black University of Iowa freshman who plunged the college town of Iowa City into turmoil after falsely claiming to have been the victim of a hate crime, deserves to be treated with “empathy,” said a top diversity officia...

  • May 18, 2016

    Another 'Racial Attack' Ruled a Hoax in College Town

    The laid back and trendy college town of Iowa City was plunged into turmoil a little over two weeks ago, after a black University of Iowa freshman claimed that three white men had viciously attacked him in the downtown and called him a racial sl...

  • May 5, 2016

    Carnival cruise passengers in Cuba unwitting 'useful idiots'

    A Carnival cruise ship carrying do-gooding Americans visited Cuba on Monday – a historic symbol of President Obama's effort to make friends with the Castro brothers and improve relations with the communist island.  For Americ...

  • April 15, 2016

    A Murder Provides a Lesson in Evil at the University of Texas

    Haruka Weiser was lovely and full of promise – a dance major in her freshman year with a full scholarship at the University of Texas in Austin. She had planned to declare a second major in pre-med. Her brutal murder nearly two weeks ago, in the...

  • March 24, 2016

    Will Thuggish Hip-hop Culture Destroy Austin's SXSW?

    It is Austin's most important and coolest festival: South by Southwest. But after two gun-related incidents at this year's SXSW, both involving volatile hip-hop crowds on March 18 and 20, the festival's organizers and Austin's liberal...

  • November 29, 2015

    Trump, American Muslims, and the Mainstream Media After 9/11

    Once again it's Donald Trump versus the mainstream media, with the focus this time being on the aftermath of 9/11. Trump is being portrayed by the media as a xenophobic buffoon for saying thousands of Muslims in New Jersey had cheered on 9/11 whe...

  • November 8, 2015

    Whoops! Texas state troopers classifying Hispanics as white

    Whoops! Texas state troopers during traffic stops have listed large numbers of Hispanics – including those with swarthy skin and Spanish surnames who speak only Spanish – as being white. The disingenuous record-keeping is described in an ...

  • August 25, 2015

    Mexico fights for rights of 'anchor babies'

    Mexican cultural imperialists and their leftist allies have long dreamed of a Reconquista – retaking America's Southwest on behalf of Mexico.  They have sought for decades to use illegal immigration and birthright citizenship to r...

  • August 4, 2015

    What the lives of lotto jackpot winners reveal about America (and its future)

    It is interesting to watch how the lives of ordinary people change after winning whopping lottery jackpots.  For some, the windfalls are a blessing – and for others a curse.  How to explain it?  Obviously it's all about cultu...

  • August 2, 2015

    Steven Vincent, insightful war reporter, murdered in Iraq ten years ago

    It has been ten years since freelance journalist Steven Vincent, an idealistic war reporter and former art critic, was kidnapped and murdered in Basra, Iraq, as an upsurge in violence bedeviled the U.S.-led occupation. His translator Nour al-Khal -- ...

  • July 10, 2015

    Donald Trump Raises Uncomfortable Truths

    Donald Trump enjoyed a surge in the polls after his allegedly "racist" remarks about how all that diversity from South of the Border is not all it's cracked up to be. The brash real-estate tycoon and TV star has struck a nerve, sayin...

  • June 1, 2015

    In Austin, outrage over city-sponsored seminar on female leadership

    It was supposed to be a training seminar for city employees on how to deal with a new leadership dynamic: a female-dominated City Council. Instead, the seminar in hip and left-leaning Austin, Texas, has triggered a political brouhaha resulting in ...

  • May 20, 2015

    In Texas, black race hustlers throw white liberal under the bus

    She voted twice for Obama. Inspired by “hope and change” in a post-racial and more egalitarian America, she worked three months as an unpaid college intern in Michele Obama's office -- though she never actually got to meet the Firs...

  • February 13, 2015

    Can a black man be charged with a hate crime in Austin, TX?

    It will be interesting to see if police in Austin, Texas, will be charging Rashaad Devon Ben with a hate crime. The 23-year-old black man -- allegedly a serial road-rage offender -- has been identified as the motorist who terrorized a young white ...

  • October 15, 2014

    NY Times admits Saddam had WMDs (updated)

    It's a stunning revelation: American soldiers in Iraq came across thousands of chemical weapons -- and a number of them suffered long-term injuries after being exposed to mustard and sarin gas. And today, ISIS controls the territory where thes...

  • October 8, 2014

    College frat lambasted for rejecting openly gay pledge

    A gay college student's claim that a fraternity rejected his application or "pledge" because of his sexual preferences has stirred controversy at the University of Texas in Austin. Alarmed over allegations of anti-gay bias, university a...

  • September 16, 2014

    Why Britain's Labor Party politicians turned a blind eye to rape

    How could large numbers of young Pakistani men in the city of Rotherham, Yorkshire, get away with sexually abusing some 1,400 young British girls? That's the big question in a sexual-abuse scandal rocking the land that gave us Shakespea...

  • September 9, 2014

    Video goes viral of black-on-white mob attack in Memphis

    It's the latest instance of black-on-white mob violence sweeping America -- and a YouTube clip of the attack has gone viral. It shows a 17-year-old boy in Memphis, Tennessee, getting punched, knocked to the ground, and kicked in the head whi...

  • August 21, 2014

    Beaten to Death at McDonald's

    To the four clean-cut college freshman out on a double date, it had seemed like a typical McDonald's: spanking clean, well-lighted, and safe. It was in a good neighborhood too, right next to Texas A&M University in College Station -- a c...

  • July 7, 2014

    Why Presbyterian Elites Turned Left

    Leaders of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have joined ranks with the radical left in recent years. They vilify Israel, apologize for Islamic terrorists, and cheer on the Palestinian cause.   Now, these leftist elites are savoring an important vi...

  • June 18, 2014

    George W. Bush and Neocons Vindicated

    Former President George W. Bush is remaining mum on the tragedy unfolding in Iraq. But as an army of bloodthirsty Islamists rampages across Iraq with the goal of establishing a 7th century religious tyranny -- a caliphate -- it's worth recalling ...

  • May 9, 2014

    Dr. King's dream betrayed

    It's one of the saddest legacies of  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In American's gritty urban centers, many streets and avenues that were named for him, following his murder on April 4, 1968, are now awash in violence. Black-on-blac...

  • April 27, 2014

    A version of 'knockout game' stirs outrage in Austin, Texas

     A YouTube video has gone viral that shows a black teen slapping a black Wendy's cashier in the face and then running away -- part of a little-known trend called "smack cam." The incident provides an unsettling glimpse into black-o...

  • March 30, 2014

    In Caracas, students shame OAS with peaceful protest

    Massive and bloody street protests have roiled Venezuela for two months. But this weekend, outside the Caracas office of the Organization of American States, there were no street barricades or massive marches protesting what Venezuela-style soci...

  • March 10, 2014

    Honoring a Venezuelan tyrant amid bloody protests

    Venezuela may be roiling with massive and often bloody anti-government protests, but that didn't stop a rogues gallery of Latin leftists, including Cuban President Raul Castro, from turning up in Caracas to honor the late Hugo Ch...

  • March 5, 2014

    Leftist leaders fondly remember Hugo Chavez one year after his death

    Hugo Chávez died one year ago today and the firebrand leader's legacy -- "21st Century Socialism" as he called it -- is now driving Venezuela toward basket-case status. Widespread protests by college students over declining livin...

  • February 12, 2014

    New York City battles Third World culture

    Cockfighting rings are proliferating in the Big Apple. So are foreign-born taxi drivers who are killing and injuring large numbers of pedestrians -- and getting away with it. Welcome to New York City after decades of immigration, both legal an...

  • February 6, 2014

    Socialist Venezuela, despite economic woes, continues home-heating oil largess for poor Americans

    Venezuela's economy is on life support, yet its pretensions of humbling the United States persist. This is underscored by its plans to continue Hugo Chávez's showcase anti-American propaganda program  -- giving away free home-heating oil to poor...

  • February 3, 2014

    FAA halts beer deliveries via drone to Minnesota ice fisherman

    It's apparently a hazard faced by ice fisherman -- running out of beer while hunkered down on the ice. So it must have been a godsend when Minnesota's Lakemaid Brewery devised an ingenious solution -- using a six-rotor drone to de...

  • January 15, 2014

    Will a beauty queen's murder help bring down Venezuela's socialist government?

    Beauty queens are revered in Venezuela, none more so than those crowned "Miss Venezuela." So when a beloved former "Miss" named Mónica Spear and her ex-husband were murdered by highway bandits, the crime sparked national outrage -- touching off stree...

  • January 9, 2014

    Venezuela rocked by murder of popular soap opera actress and former 'Miss Venezuela'

    Socialism has yet to bring "social justice" to Venezuelans -- only empty store shelves, roaring inflation, and one of the world's worst murder epidemics. Now, the chaos has a human face -- a former beauty queen named Mónica Spear who was murdere...

  • January 8, 2014

    NY Times puts 'Guns & Ammo' magazine in its liberal cross-hairs

    Guns & Ammo magazine has fallen into the liberal cross-hairs of The New York Times - the target of a bogus scandal the Gray Lady dished up as part of its anti-gun crusade. "Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns." So read the front-page he...

  • January 5, 2014

    Death of Phil Everly of 'Everly Brothers' recalls America's lost age of innocence

    Phil Everly and his older brother, Don, formed the Everly Brothers - a clean-cut musical duo that churned out some of America's most treasured pop songs. His death on Friday at age 74, in a hospital near his Southern California home, is getting promi...

  • December 26, 2013

    Cubans lost at sea as Castro brothers gloat over Obama's handshake

    President Obama gave the Castro brothers a propaganda victory when shaking hands with counterpart Raul at Nelson Mandela's funeral. But that victory and Obama's bumbling good intentions meant nothing to six ordinary Cubans who, on Christmas Eve, were...

  • November 27, 2013

    Texas DA who prosecuted Tom DeLay has mud on face again

    Ronnie Earle's problematic record as Travis County District Attorney is coming back to haunt him - yet again. Earle, a Democrat, made a name for himself with some clever legal sophistry: specifically, he convinced a gullible jury in liberal Travis Co...

  • November 20, 2013

    Rash of black-on-white-violence confounds New York City's media outlets

    It's an infuriating example of political correctness: Most of New York City's media outlets have sanitized the nature of a spate of unprovoked attacks upon hapless pedestrians -- all recent victims of the so-called "knockout game." There have been in...

  • November 12, 2013

    Hugo Chávez's successor takes bread-and-circuses socialism to new heights

    Hugo Chávez must be rolling over in his grave -- convulsed with laughter. Bread-and-circuses socialism has hit new heights in Venezuela as Chávez's hand-picked successor Nicolás Maduro ordered the military occupation...

  • November 10, 2013

    White guy pretends to be black to win election

    Dave Wilson, a conservative white Republican, figured he had little chance of winning a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees. After all, his opponent was black, a 24-year incumbent named Bruce Austin. And the vast majority of ...

  • November 6, 2013

    Texas Black Caucus defends junket to South Africa

    From big-spending liberals in Washington to their counterparts in the Democratic bastions of urban America – all share a singular talent for spending other people's money. Consider the case of Sheryl Cole, the first African-American elected ...

  • October 30, 2013

    Rioting black youths stun Austin, Texas

    It was a spasm of violence that stunned residents: some 200 black youths raising hell - what police called a full-blown riot - in Austin, Texas. Angry black youths inexplicably converged by the Highland Mall, near an iconic haunted house attra...

  • October 23, 2013

    Spain's Green Dreams Blow Up

    Green dreamers in Spain once touted solar power as a cheap answer to their energy needs.  Then economic reality intervened: Spain's economy went from boom to bust -- and "green incentives" became too costly for the government (er, taxpayers...

  • October 20, 2013

    Titanic bandleader's violin auctioned for $1.45 million

    Within hours of the Titanic disaster a little over a century ago, members of the ship's orchestra were hailed as heroes. The eight men had continued playing to the very end. Bandleader Wallace Henry Hartley was the most famous of them. Days a...

  • October 9, 2013

    'Is America edging closer toward Orwellian Newspeak?'

    'Is America edging closer toward Orwellian 'Newspeak'?' That's the headline of a newspaper Op-Ed by a native of Singapore -- a graduate student in the University of Iowa's writing program. She sees parallels between Singapore's restrictions o...

  • October 7, 2013

    Liberal DA who vowed to get Tom DeLay escapes 'abuse of power' charges

    It took only 30 minutes for a grand jury in the liberal enclave of Travis County, Texas, to decide not to indict District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg for abuse of power. The allegations against Lehmberg -- who helped prosecute former House Republican ...

  • October 6, 2013

    Celebrating a Movie the Critics Hated

    Message to high-brow movie critics and cultural elites: Stay away from the Grand Hotel on Michigan's Mackinac Island this weekend. No cynicism allowed! Not among the nearly 800 "time travelers" who arrived on Friday at the historic Grand Hotel -- the...

  • October 1, 2013

    Maduro to Obama: 'Yankee go home!'

    Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro expelled three top U.S. Embassy officials on Monday, accusing them of fomenting economic sabotage, including all-too-frequent power blackouts, in the oil-rich yet impoverished South American nation. Maduro...

  • September 30, 2013

    'Club Fed' a positive experience for disgraced CEO

    Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications International Inc., was recently released from a minimum-security Federal prison -- and it seems that jail time had a positive experience on him. Whether he's rehabilitated is a...

  • September 25, 2013

    Disneyland axes 'entitlement policy' for disabled visitors

    Is the abuse of entitlement programs -- from Food Stamps to welfare -- an inevitable fact of human nature? Forget about the contentions debate underway between liberals and conservatives over record levels of Food Stamp use -- and abuse -- under...

  • September 25, 2013

    Bill Clinton blames Nairobi terror attack on territorial dispute

    Many victims of the Nairobi terror attack had guns put to their heads -- and were shot when gunmen concluded they weren't Muslims. Gunmen with Somalia-based Al-Shabab determined the religious orientations of their captives by dema...

  • September 20, 2013

    Travis County's DA vows to pursue Tom DeLay

    Tom DeLay's legal nightmare is far from over -- not if Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg gets her way. "We strongly agree that Tom DeLay is guilty," declared the liberal Democrat on Wednesday, soon after a Texas ap...

  • September 11, 2013

    At a 9/11 ceremony, a little girl asks why her father died

    It's been a heartbreaking scene at 9/11 ceremonies in recent years: children honoring mothers or fathers they can't remember - yet desperately want to know. Emma Kathryn Hunt is one of them. On Tuesday, she attended a 9/11 ceremony at Sherwood Isl...

  • September 10, 2013

    Why do some nations succeed?

    Why do some nations succeed - and others fail? Presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered an opinion -- that it's all about culture -- and he suffered withering criticism for that view. His assertion that a superior culture explained why the Mid...

  • August 13, 2013

    HUD battles 'Whitopia'

    The Obama administration is exploring ways to dismantle America's "Whitopias" -- cities and towns that are overwhelmingly white and that, according to Washington's social engineers, must be remade to reflect more racial and economic diversity. The...

  • August 10, 2013

    Advice to Jeff Bezos on how to run a newspaper

    Media pundits have been beside themselves trying to divine what motivated Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos to buy the money-losing Washington Post. (The company's newspaper division reportedly suffered an operating loss of $22.6 million for the first quart...

  • August 7, 2013

    A Psychology Professor's Dark Past Raises Questions about the Insanity Defense

    Troubling issues over the insanity defense have emerged amid stunning revelations about what became of a teenager who killed his family 46 years ago in Georgetown, Texas. The ghastly killings by self-styled peace activist James Wolcott, then a precoc...

  • July 24, 2013

    USDA OKs Greek yogurt for school lunch pilot program

    First, Michelle Obama called for healthier school lunches -- and kids complained that the first lady's menus left them hungry. Now, the United States Department of Agriculture has green-lighted a pilot program to serve trendy Greek yogur...

  • July 18, 2013

    Cuban baseball player defects in Iowa

    Political and economic freedom are two sides of the same coin -- and if you don't believe it, ask Cuban baseball player Misael Siverio. The 24-year-old pitcher -- a promising left-hander with Cuba's National Team -- said adios to Cuba's worker's para...

  • July 17, 2013

    'To Kill a Mockingbird' and the George Zimmerman trial

    So much has changed in America since the days of Jim Crow -- an era when racism was seen as an evil suffered only by black Americans. Those days are gone. Consider how Harper Lee's classic 1960 novel ,"To Kill a Mockingbird" can now serve as a me...

  • July 11, 2013

    Governor Leadfoot

    There's a big flap in Iowa over Gov. Branstad repeatedly breaking the law by speeding at 90 mph on Iowa's highways. An "internal investigation" is underway -- rather than simply giving the governor a speeding ticket. Larry Hedlund, an Iowa Divisio...

  • May 20, 2013

    What to tell your kids about the End of the World (according to The New York Times)

    "In my house growing up," gushed New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson, "the Times substituted for religion." Many readers of America's bastion of liberal journalism surely agreed. And they no doubt appreciated reading on Su...

  • May 20, 2013

    Obama's Leak Freakout: Lefty political cartoon

    Brian McFadden, the cartoonist who does "The Strip" in the Sunday New York Times, usually does political cartoons with a very lefty and rather demented point of view (typical of the loony left). That fact that he did this hilarious cartoon,...

  • April 18, 2013

    Boston University's remembrance of Lingzi Lu fails to recognize her faith

    Lingzi Lu, a graduate student in mathematics and statistics at Boston University, has been identified as one of three dead in Boston's terror attack. There are stories about her at the Boston Globe, here, and at Boston University's student newspaper,...

  • April 11, 2013

    WSJ readers mock an Op-Ed defending the MSM

    It's shocking to see how out of touch some members of the old media are about their loss of credibility -- their declining influence. For example, consider a recent Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, "Counting the Costs of the New...

  • March 14, 2013

    Venezuela says permanently embalming Hugo Chávez's body faces 'technical' difficulties

    Venezuelan leaders keen on displaying Hugo Chávez's embalmed corpse in a museum -- just like exhibitions of Lenin, Mao and Ho Chi Minh - apparently overlooked a television interview in which Chávez denounced the public display of corpse...

  • March 11, 2013

    In Texas, a wrongly convicted man relies on God and church

    Michael Morton, who spent nearly 25 years in a Texas prison before DNA testing exonerated him of his wife's murder, was married on Saturday in Liberty City, a small town in East Texas. The story of Morton's marriage to Cynthia May Chessman, a divo...

  • February 28, 2013

    Austin Finds Its Great White Defendant

    Gabrielle Nestande, a former legislative aide in the Texas House of Representatives, faced a public-relations nightmare when standing trial for drunken driving and a fatal hit-and-run in Austin, Texas. The 25-year-old was privileged, wealthy, and a R...

  • February 22, 2013

    Why used cars are scarce - and expensive

    Yes, Obama's Cash for Clunkers program is definitely one reason used cars are in increasingly scarce supply-- and much pricier than they used to be. But another reason relates to something liberals despise: "trickle down" economics or, in respec...

  • February 20, 2013

    In Texas, a high-profile trial for vehicular manslaughter has political overtones

    It's rare that a jury trial for vehicular manslaughter captivates the public's attention in central Texas. But Gabrielle Nestande, a former legislative aid for a Republican lawmaker, has been no ordinary defendant in a captivating six-day trial that,...

  • January 30, 2013

    New York city preppers missing something from their 'bug-out bags'

    Cataclysmic terror attacks. Natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy. Or a nuclear Armageddon. How do you survive the collapse of law-and-order and public services - all while marauding thugs go about their work as they did after Hurricane Sandy? Inter...

  • January 22, 2013

    In Hugo's 21st Century Socialism, Venezuelans grapple with food shortages

    These nearly empty shelves at a shopping store could be a scene from Cuba - yet this is Venezuela under what Hugo Chavez calls "21st Century socialism." A screen grab of these sparsely stocked shelves -- at a rural store near the port city ...

  • January 22, 2013

    From Hell, Muammar el-Qaddafi laughs at Western liberal naïveté

    A little over one year ago, Libyan dictator  Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was brutally murdered by his own people. If he's able to laugh from the eternal torment of Hell, he must be laughing at all those liberals in America and the West who...

  • January 14, 2013

    In Cuba, Hugo Chávez gets spiritual support from Jesus - not Marx

    Religion in Cuba has long been marginalized: Marx was promoted over Jesus. Communist elites along with their goons and starry-eyed wannabees wouldn't be caught dead at a Catholic mass -- a subversive act in the hemisphere's last bastion of ...

  • January 14, 2013

    Prairie chickens come home to roost for greenies

    This little bird below, a grouse known as the prairie chicken, may stand in the way of Obama's wind power dreams, thanks to pending environmental rulings. It thrives on the Texas flatlands and is absolutely terrified of tall things (where h...

  • January 6, 2013

    Exxon Mobil upbraids Vermont's socialist senator for his tall tales

    Exxon Mobil's public affairs department no doubt knows all about the dangers of the Big Lie -- a communications strategy perfected by Herr Goebbels, practiced by community organizer Alinsky & Friends, and now embraced by the powers that be i...

  • January 2, 2013

    Castro fuels rumors of a Chávez death watch

    Rumors are flying in Venezuela that Hugo Chávez is on his death bed  - fighting a respiratory infection in a Havana oncology ward that, according to official statements, developed after his fourth cancer surgery. Now, Fidel Castro is fueling rum...

  • December 25, 2012

    America's 'gun culture' and Piers Morgan's selective outrage

    It's a strange omission: liberal pundits like CNN's Piers Morgan are fulminating over America's "gun culture" following Newtown's school massacre -- yet they seem blissfully ignorant about what happened after Britain's draconian handgun ban...

  • December 21, 2012

    In Key West, the 'Hemingway Home' battles the Feds over cats

    Michael A. Morawski, chief executive of the iconic Hemingway Home & Museum in Key West, Florida, has spent nearly 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees fighting the feds - all to stop them from regulating the 43 resident cat...

  • December 16, 2012

    'Animal House' antics by GOP of Florida at conference

    It was the sort of rowdy gathering that Sens. Edward Kennedy and Chris Dodd might have enjoyed in their skirt-chasing partying days. Except this party or "retreat" at a swanky hotel - paid for by the Republican Party of Florida - was for the benefit ...

  • December 6, 2012

    Veteran reporter in Massachusetts a serial fabulist

    As journalistic fabulists go, Cape Cod Times reporter Karen Jeffrey had a long run, writing myriad stories over the years in which she made up people and quotes. Her denouement was announced on Wednesday by Publisher Peter Meyer and ed...

  • December 5, 2012

    New York Post's subway death photo stirs debate over journalistic ethics

    Some journalistic values are not necessarily the same as human values -- a fact that explains much about the uproar over Tuesday's front-page photo in the New York Post. "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die," screamed the headline un...

  • November 28, 2012

    'Socialism or Death' a grim reality for Venezuela's military pilots

    Hugo Chávez arrived Wednesday morning in Cuba for more cancer treatments just one day after the fiery crash of one of Venezuela's Chinese-built military jets during a flying exhibition -- raising questions about the state of military and civil a...

  • November 26, 2012

    University of Iowa's intolerant liberal law faculty

    "Athens of the Midwest" is how many deep thinking liberals in America's heartland describe Iowa City -- the artsy and liberal college town that's home to the University of Iowa. But as many conservatives might have guessed, some of Iowa City's most s...

  • November 21, 2012

    Letting it all hang out

    Have you seen the Southern Comfort TV ad of a middle-aged guy with his gut hanging over his tight bathing suit, strolling down a beech with a supremely confident attitude? It's one of the year's most popular ads since coming out a few month...

  • November 4, 2012

    Mitt's unwitting campaigner in Florida: Hugo Chávez

    Yes, the Romney campaign has enlisted the help of Venezuela's leftist president in the pivotal swing state of Florida. Hugo Chávez figures prominently in a 30-second Spanish-language television ad being run by the Romney campaign. I...

  • November 3, 2012

    Obama and the 'Repo Games' Voters

    Here's a brain teaser for you: what weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?  If you're still thinking, you've got something in common with more than a few of the contestants on a reality-television show called Repo Games.  In c...

  • October 25, 2012

    Taxing Dancers

    Nite Moves, a strip club in the Albany, New York, area, has waged a legal battle since 2005 against the state's Department of Taxation and Finance over whether its private "lap dances" ought to be exempt from sales tax -- just like ballet performance...

  • October 22, 2012

    Obama's left-wing agenda goes to the dogs (literally)

    President Obama's left-wing agenda has not only put Democrats and Republicans at each other's throats -- it has affected how some Americans relate to their dogs. In a wacky and largely unnoticed trend, perhaps reflecting the nation's polarized politi...

  • October 17, 2012

    Cuba's new travel law a cynical 'survival tactic'

    Cuba's new travel law - announced on Tuesday in Cuba's official newspaper Granma - is being soft-peddled by the Associated Press and others as a historic first by the communist regime - a long-overdue reform giving Cubans the freedom to tra...

  • October 15, 2012

    A BBC pedophilia scandal has a New York Times connection

    Labor unrest and dreadful financial losses aren't all the New York Times has to worry about. A pedophilia scandal now rocking the BBC -- one eerily similar to the Jerry Sandusky scandal -- may prove an embarrassment to the New York Times and raise ey...

  • October 10, 2012

    Venezuela's loss is America's gain

    Hugo Chávez's reelection victory and subsequent pledge to deepen "21st Century" socialism in Venezuela has produced a predictable result -- yet another exodus of Venezuelans is expected to head to Florida. Like early waves of Cubans who fled Fidel...

  • October 8, 2012

    A businessman or community organizer for the Oval Office?

    Alan S. Blinder, a liberal economist who advised John Kerry and Al Gore during their presidential campaigns, and who supported President Obama's "Cash-for-Clunkers" program, has gotten a lesson in how things work in the real world -- courtesy of ...

  • October 3, 2012

    Hugo Chavez: 'I am not a socialist!'

    Yes, Hugo Chavez really said it: "I am not a socialist!" Not recently, to be sure, but 14 years ago when Chavez - as a cashiered Army paratrooper who'd led a failed military coup in February 1992 -- was making a run for Venezuela's presidency....

  • October 1, 2012

    Hugo Chavez says 'I'd vote for Obama'

    Hugo Chavez has made anti-Americanism a cornerstone of his leftist policies - a fact one can't ignore when seeking to explain why, during a television interview on Sunday, Chavez endorsed President Obama for a second term.   "I hope this doe...

  • September 20, 2012

    Guess who's trashing Obama campaign signs in Austin, Texas?

    ...

  • September 19, 2012

    Academic Outrage over Politically Incorrect Gay Parenting Study

    Sociologist Mark Regnerus, whose study on gay parenting outraged gay-rights advocates and their cheerleaders in the academy, started classes at the University of Texas in Austin with, he says, a bit of a load off his shoulders. A university inquiry c...

  • August 18, 2012

    The liberal media vs. your lyin' eyes

    Here's how the "theft suspect" at an Austin, Texas mall is described in news stories in the Austin American Statesman and in the online site of KXAN, a television news channel: white male 25 to 35 years old 6 feet 2 inches tall weighi...

  • August 6, 2012

    Liberal appeals court judge removed from hearing Tom DeLay's case

    Tom DeLay has been on a legal odyssey for one-and-one-half years -- a seemingly Quixotic effort to get a fair hearing before the 3rd Court of Appeals in Texas. On Friday, however, the former U.S. House Republican Majority leader won a criti...

  • July 13, 2012

    'Blobfest' in Phoenixville, PA, honors 1958 horror film seen as metaphor for 'creeping communism'

    This evening around 7:30 p.m., things will be hopping in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. In the normally sedate hamlet, hundreds of people will be screaming and running about -- women, children, and men. Many will be dressed in clean-cut 1950s-era garb....

  • July 10, 2012

    Obama Driving Citizenship Renunciations

    Why are increasing numbers of super-rich Americans renouncing their citizenship? It's a growing trend. Last year, a record 1,780 U.S. citizens and green-card holders said goodbye to the U.S. to avoid paying taxes, according to government fi...

  • June 13, 2012

    A homeless man's improbable fortune and the American dream

    Timothy Yost, a 46-year-old homeless man was in jail on Tuesday in Bastrop, Texas, charged with public intoxication and criminal trespassing.   He must be feeling pretty happy, though. Within a day or two, he'll get the $77,000 he found on a ...

  • June 5, 2012

    Texas Republicans savor ouster of DA

    If you want to understand Texas Republicans, forget about the GOP primary race pitting Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst against Tea Party-backed former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz -- the contest spotlighted by the national media. The most fascinati...

  • May 29, 2012

    Today's GOP primary in Texas follows nasty campaigns

    Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment - "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" -  has been left in tatters in the run-up to today's GOP primary in Texas. Some of the campaigning has been truly nasty. That's particularly been the case...

  • May 27, 2012

    Life imitates art in Obama's references to his 'sons'?

    Obama's references to his "sons" has a loose parallel with a 2004 comedy film lampooning the TV news business and, specifically, a slick and brainless news anchor. In "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," San Diego anchor Ron Bur...

  • May 23, 2012

    How much did U of T-Austin parents spend on college tuition?

    It should have been "public" -- not "pubic."The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs humiliated itself -- twice -- with embarrassing typos connected with last Saturday's graduation ceremonies at the University of Texas in Austin. First, there w...

  • May 7, 2012

    Ousted Iowa Justices who legalized gay marriage to be honored by Kennedy family for 'political courage'

    Three ousted Iowa Supreme Court Justices whom outraged voters removed from office, after they legalized same-sex marriage in 2010, are being honored today by the Kennedy family for their "political courage." Former justices Marsha Ternus, Michael S...

  • May 7, 2012

    Dhimmitude at Gitmo

    The 9/11 hearings underway at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo have quickly turned into a circus. Defendants are defiantly mocking the court, shouting at the judge, and praying when they want to. But perhaps the most bizarre and embarrassing spe...

  • May 5, 2012

    College student wearing Barack Obama mask OK after being hit by bus in Austin, TX

    It was supposed to be a wacky way to blow off steam during finals week. But on Friday some traditional end-of-semester hijinks  -- "Foam Sword Friday" -- had a few scary moments at the University of Texas in Austin when a student wearing a Barac...

  • April 30, 2012

    'Victims' of Nutella chocolate spread (and their lawyers) win $3 million class-action settlement

    Americans with fat behinds, low IQs, and a hankering for Nutella chocolate spread have won a great moral and legal victory courtesy of the beneficent nanny state and vigilant law firms.   A $3 million class-action lawsuit has been settled a...

  • April 27, 2012

    Apple rethinks expansion in hi-tech and politically liberal Austin, Texas

    Apple is reportedly rethinking its expansion plans in Austin, Texas, having grown upset with what it considers are unnecessary delays in getting economic incentives approved that it had wanted. Officials in liberal Travis County h...

  • April 25, 2012

    No charges over 'reverse Trayvon Martin' shooting in Phoenix area

    Police have yet to charge a black motorist who shot dead a mentally disabled and unarmed "white Hispanic," Daniel Adkins, in a Taco Bell parking lot near Phoenix earlier this month. The two reportedly exchanged words before the shooting tha...

  • April 23, 2012

    Volkswagen's 'sexist' 1964 ad: the data

    In 1964, "sexism" had yet to enter America's popular lexicon -- and nor its list of taboo behaviors. So there was no national uproar when Volkswagen started running ads, which would now be considered politically incorrect and sexist, in newspape...

  • April 21, 2012

    'The Ugly Brutishness of Modern Britain'

    The land of Shakespeare and Chaucer whose culture and values gave rise to the "Anglosphere" -- the world's most successful nations -- is being taken over by slobs. So says social critic Theodore Dalrymple in a Wall Street Journal Op...

  • April 18, 2012

    Iowa judge rejects suit claiming blacks suffered 'implicit bias' in state hiring

    A major class-action suit claiming blacks in Iowa were being denied state jobs due to a new type of prejudice -- "implicit bias" -- was rejected Tuesday morning by an Iowa judge. An appeal is expected. Pippen v. State of Iowa was a closely watched ca...

  • April 18, 2012

    Dem official rebukes Apple for pursuing its 'economic interests'

    Apple Inc. apparently gave a cold shoulder to Democratic officials in Austin, Texas, who had demanded the hi-tech giant hire "economically disadvantaged" residents - or forgo hefty tax breaks Apple wanted before developing new facilities in the city....

  • April 17, 2012

    Justice for Cisco

    Michael Paxton's backyard Frisbee session with his 7-year-old Blue Heeler ended tragically when a police officer -- while answering a 911 call at the wrong address -- fatally shot the barking dog when he felt threatened by it.   P...

  • April 15, 2012

    Why the Left Loves the Titanic Disaster

    The Titanic sank exactly 100 years ago today - a disaster exploited over the years by Hollywood and the ideological left. Their narrative bears little resemblance to what in fact happened in the early-morning darkness of April 15, 1912. The Titanic s...

  • April 10, 2012

    Uproar over student newspaper's politically incorrect Trayvon Martin cartoon

    Tensions are simmering between liberal and conservative students at the University of Texas, Austin. At issue is a politically incorrect editorial cartoon in the student newspaper, The Daily Texan, lampooning the media's coverage of the Trayvon Marti...

  • April 8, 2012

    Walmart heroes

    Wal-Mart employees -- often the butt of jokes and derided by the left -- were heroes in a very dangerous and tragic situation in Austin the other night. They disarmed a man who had just struggled with and shot to death a police officer. See exce...

  • April 4, 2012

    Dems to Apple: Hire the 'economically disadvantaged'

    Apple Inc. is getting a lesson in liberal social engineering in Austin, Texas. The hi-tech giant is considering a new facility there, but haggling over various tax breaks has taken a strange turn. Some Democratic officials are demanding that Apple --...

  • April 2, 2012

    The U.N.'s bloody hands in Haiti's cholera epidemic

    Cholera once was unheard of Haiti. That changed when  hundreds of United Nation's peacekeeping troops from Nepal arrived, following  Haiti's deadly earthquake on January 12, 2010.   Since then, a deadly cholera epidemic has ...

  • March 30, 2012

    Obama's Ship of Fools at U.S. Embassy in Jamaica

    In a ceremony befitting President Obama's vision of a repentant postmodern America, a section of the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica has been named after a propagandist for Stalinist Russia and darling of the international left -- the controversial...

  • March 23, 2012

    Outgoing McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner credits Midwestern values for success

    McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner, 67, recently announced his retirement from a 41-year career with the all-American fast-food purveyor -- a fantastically successful company that, besides providing entry-level jobs to millions of young Americans, is a po...

  • March 19, 2012

    The Bloody Hands of Syria's First Lady

    A year ago, Syria's First Lady Asma al-Assad was the darling of New York's trend-setting editors at Vogue magazine who described her in a fawning profile as a  "rose in the desert." Now, according to hacked e-mails published by the London Telegr...

  • March 17, 2012

    A slur upon the Irish on St. Patrick's Day?

    St. Patrick's Day has collided with America's grievance-mongering movement -- and in Iowa of all places. Now, besides looking forward to another beer-addled St. Patrick's Day, many Iowans are debating whether a pub and eatery in Davenport insult...

  • March 7, 2012

    Government versus private efforts in rebuilding after disaster

    Remember all those horrific wildfires in Central Texas last summer that destroyed thousands of homes?  There's an interesting article in today's Austin American-Statesman -- "Homes rise in Bastrop with the help of more than $4.4 million in donat...

  • February 19, 2012

    Outrage in California over Republican official's mountain lion hunt

    Hunting mountain lions is illegal in California - thanks to animal-rights groups and liberal voters. So when the president of the California Fish and Game Commission wanted to go on a mountain lion hunt, he recently headed to Idaho where it's lega...

  • February 16, 2012

    White grandfather with black granddaughter provokes 911 calls

    Some of the uglier features of the Jim Crow South are alive in Austin, Texas. Just ask Scott Henson, an Austin resident who describes himself as "an almost stereotypical looking Texas redneck." In his popular "Grits for Breakfast" blog dealing wit...

  • January 18, 2012

    'Habits of the Heart' and a rescued cat in Iowa

    A cat stuck up a tree in Iowa City captivated residents during its miserable four-day ordeal -- clinging to a 30-foot-high branch over a residential street. On Monday, the cat was rescued -- but not by city employees. It was two civic-mi...

  • January 12, 2012

    Pepsi suffers $3.1 million shakedown for 'discriminatory' hiring policies

    Pepsi Beverages Co. has agreed to a $3.1 million settlement to end federal charges of racial discrimination over its hiring practices - but this wasn't the sort of discrimination that once existed in the Jim Crow South. Pepsi was guilty of r...

  • January 3, 2012

    Lost dog -- not political race -- is talk of Davenport, Iowa

    Republican presidential hopefuls in Iowa undertook a flurry of campaigning on Monday before today's caucuses -- yet many Iowans appeared bored by the campaign or distracted by local issues. Consider what the most read story has been in rece...

  • December 28, 2011

    Guess what irks some liberals about Kim Kardashian?

    No, it's not her behavior -- including her graphic sex tape with R&B singer Ray J or 72-day marriage with NBA player Kris Humphries, which now has the smell of a money-making publicity stunt. No, Kardashian provokes the ire of some liberals becau...

  • December 22, 2011

    British court orders baby adopted to prevent 'honor killing'

    A British court on Wednesday apparently made legal history -- ordering an out-of-wedlock Muslim baby adopted out to prevent it from suffering an "honor killing." Britain is abuzz over the bizarre and unprecedented court ruling. As the London Dai...

  • December 19, 2011

    NY Times' Public Editor rebukes paper for outing alleged Sandusky rape victim

    The New York Times outraged many readers by outing one of Jerry Sandusky's alleged rape victims in an article that -- while not actually naming the alleged victim -- nevertheless revealed so much about him that his identify could be determined with a...

  • December 18, 2011

    An American's nightmare in a Mexican hospital

    A recent vacation in Mexico turned into a nightmare for a 79-year-old Illinois man. But it wasn't a devastating bus crash that almost killed U.S.-born Alfonso Acosta. It was his stay in one of Mexico's government-run hospitals. According to a harrowi...

  • December 7, 2011

    White House mum on Senate bill allowing military personnel to engage in bestiality

    The White House is dodging questions about why a Senate defense authorization bill not only quietly overturned sanctions on sodomy between consenting adults (so as to allow gays to serve openly) but also dropped another provision in the U.S. military...

  • November 20, 2011

    The last Navajo 'code talker' from famed USMC unit

    The "greatest generation" won the Second World War and on returning home built America into a super power -- a beacon of freedom. Now those Americans are in their 80s and 90s. One of them is former Navajo "code talker" Chester Nez --　the subject of a...

  • November 18, 2011

    In Texas, a Tragic Miscarriage of Justice Fails to Excite the Liberal Media

    A tragic and Kafkaesque miscarriage of justice in central Texas grows more intriguing by the day, with one stunning development after another generating new headlines.  Yet, strangely, the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton in 1987 for murder...

  • November 14, 2011

    James O'Keefe video targets biased Pulitzer winner, Columbia J-School

    The myth of journalistic objectivity is the subject of James O'Keefe's latest video project -- and the YouTube clip he has produced is as amusing as earlier efforts that brought down ACORN and top NPR executives. "Should journalists disclose their jo...

  • November 5, 2011

    At Occupy Denver, a testy Michael Moore waves off questions about his wealth

    Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore got a warm welcome at Occupy Denver on Thursday when speaking to some 1,000 leftist protesters and signing autographs. But Moore's upbeat mood turned ugly when a local TV reporter dared to ask him whether -- with ...

  • November 3, 2011

    Obama's food-stamp dole at record levels

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  • October 20, 2011

    In Havana, Hugo and Fidel talk politics

    In between cancer treatments, Hugo Chávez is talking up a storm with Fidel Castro on some favorite subjects - the impending collapse of the United States and Venezuela's role as a  "revolutionary model" for the world.   T...

  • October 19, 2011

    Hugo Chávez: Sick in Mind and Body

    In a Havana cancer ward, as Hugo Chávez contemplates his final days, the truth about his medical condition -- mental and physical -- is coming out.   His face grotesquely bloated, Hugo Chávez has been fighting the biggest battle of his life....

  • October 10, 2011

    Boston Globe outs Whitey Bulger's FBI tipster

      In a case of journalistic malpractice aided by big-mouth federal law-enforcement officials, The Boston Globe has outed the tipster who told the FBI where to find James "Whitey" Bulger, the former South Boston crime boss.   The Globe, ...

  • October 9, 2011

    In socialist Venezuela, air travel becomes a white-knuckle affair

    "Socialism or death" is taking on a new meaning for Venezuelan air travelers. Recently, a spate of incidents and emergency landings by some of Venezuela's domestic air carriers -- including two emergency landings occurring hours apart -- prompted Hug...

  • October 5, 2011

    Rick Perry's 'N-Head' Problem and the Fourth Estate's Hypocrisy

    "N****r go home." So read the ugly note.  It was left in the mid-'70s on the desk of a young black woman -- a college intern. Where did this happen?  Not, to be sure, in the Deep South, nor in the part of West Texas where Gov. Rick Perry gr...

  • October 2, 2011

    Grievance-Mongering Leaders Demand Slave Reparations at the United Nations

    In another case of anti-Western grievance-mongering at the United Nations, the leaders of two Caribbean nations are calling for slave reparations from Western nations that profited from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Recently, the U.N. General Ass...

  • September 21, 2011

    Shadow of Europe's communist past haunts Greek/euro-zone debt crisis

    It's an overlooked aspect of the euro-zone debt crisis and Greece's probable default -- the hand that former European communists (now top members of the European Parliament) had in creating the euro-zone's command-and-control economic system...

  • September 13, 2011

    Euroskeptics on Greece: 'We told you so!'

    Will Greece default? The question is roiling financial markets in Europe -- and spreading financial jitters around the world. It's also energizing Britain's Euroskeptics and renewing pointed questions about the wisdom of European unifica...

  • September 9, 2011

    Clinton, Bush, and Osama bin Laden: The WikiLeaks Cables

    Whatever you think of WikiLeaks, the recently released tranche of diplomatic cables reveal naiveté and illusion in America's pre-9/11 attempts to deal with the Taliban. In the months leading up to the September 11 terror attacks, the Bush administrat...

  • August 31, 2011

    Riot at amusement park over 'no hijab' rule

    Playland, a historic amusement  park in Westchester County, N.Y, just outside New York City, is known for its good clean fun. It's perfect for a family outing. Or a date.   You won't find any carnival-style freak shows at the county-owned p...

  • August 28, 2011

    Anti-poverty program in Illinois used sex offenders to baby sit kids

    A scandal has engulfed an anti-poverty program in Illinois. Sunday's Chicago Tribune features a long and engrossing article about how a 14-year-old state-Federal program started out with the best of intentions. Costing $750-million-a-year, it was sup...

  • August 25, 2011

    Texas fears Obama administration will hinder deportation of foreign convicts

    Texas wants to save hundreds of millions of dollars by deporting thousands of foreign inmates from its prisons who are up for parole. However, state officials have a major concern - that federal officials won't deport paroled convicts, but w...

  • August 24, 2011

    On Obama's orders, White House chef to prepare pork chops

    President Obama is no doubt enjoying lots of delicious sea food in Martha's Vineyard -- lobster, scallops, that sort of thing. But when he's back in Washington, he'll be chowing down a favorite new meal prepared by the White House chef: gourmet-...

  • August 23, 2011

    Iowa Fires 3 Civil Rights Investigators

    So much for tolerant and good-hearted lefties: "Three Iowa civil rights investigators have been fired after sending hundreds of gossipy emails calling co-workers derogatory nicknames like "Psycho," "Monster," and "Roid Rage," and forwarding pictures...

  • August 4, 2011

    Church bombers sentenced to death in Iraq

    Iraq achieved another milestone this week: the three masterminds of last year's bloody church siege, involving al Qaeda suicide bombers, were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court. Sixty-eight people died in one of the worst attacks ever against Iraq'...

  • July 31, 2011

    First McDonald's in Bosnia Drawing Huge Crowds

    Whatever happened to the Ugly American? He exists in President Obama's mind, and in those of anti-American elites at home and abroad -- but he's nowhere to be found on Marshal Tito street in Sarajevo, Bosnia. That's where Bosnia's first McDonald's ju...

  • July 29, 2011

    Learning the Work Ethic Young

    In America's rural Midwest, an annual ritual is underway in the vast cornfields that stretch to the horizon.  Thousands of American teenagers, in a rite of passage, are doing the kinds of farm work more commonly performed by visitors from South ...

  • July 20, 2011

    Obama Redefining 'Poverty'

    What does it mean to be poor in America today?  For typical "poor" households -- as defined by the government -- it means cable television, two color television sets, and two or more cars. As for housing, it means living in air-conditioned comfo...

  • July 6, 2011

    In a Death Penalty Case, Texas Battles Mexico, Washington (and the World)

    Humberto Leal Garcia Jr., a 38-year-old Mexican national, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, July 7, in the Texas death chamber.  He was convicted for the 1994 rape and murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda in San Antonio, Texas ...

  • July 5, 2011

    Hugo Chavez returns home amid reports of 'botched' surgery in Cuba

    Hugo Chavez made a surprise return to Venezuela on Monday, helping to ease political uncertainty that he will be unable to govern as he battles cancer. El Presidente, as Reuters reported, was his theatrical old self: "Here I ...

  • July 4, 2011

    Hugo Chavez's get-well messages

    Hugo Chavez, who is undergoing cancer treatment in a Cuban hospital, has gotten a number of get-well messages from world leaders and officials, ever since announcing details of his cancer and two surgeries. According to a statement from the Emba...

  • July 2, 2011

    How bad is Hugo Chavez's cancer? Very bad, say physicians

    Hugo Chavez probably has colon cancer. He is clearly a sick man -- very sick. And he could be facing treatment for eight to nine months. That's the consensus of physicians who watched a video that Chavez made in Cuba, and that was broadcast to s...

  • July 1, 2011

    Congratulations to Rick Moran!

    ...for his prescient blog post after Strauss-Kahn's arrest -- a post that's now borne out by stunning revelations that the prosecution no longer has a case, due to the maid's total lack of credibility.  "Label me a cynic, but there may be more ...

  • June 30, 2011

    Latino lawmakers hinder immigration enforcement: Truth-O-Meter

      Earlier this month, Rebecca Forest, co-founder and past president of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, was portrayed as a bigot by liberal Texas Democrats. She was savaged in a YouTube clip and in a newspaper editorial in the Austi...

  • June 27, 2011

    In Rose Bowl, Mexico is 'home' team as U.S. soccer team is booed (updated)

      ...for the sake of those who will say this is just a sporting contest, and nothing is to be inferred or learned from it, here are a couple thoughts:  In soccer, as in no other sport, team allegiance mirrors national allegiance.  So...

  • June 26, 2011

    Hugo Chavez in 'Critical' Condition in Havana Hospital - Socialism or Death?

    Hugo Chavez is in "critical condition" in a Havana hospital. That's according to unnamed U.S. "intelligence officials" whom Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald, sister newspaper of The Miami Herald, quoted on Saturday in an article being picked up by my...

  • June 24, 2011

    Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger's Arrest and the Mitt Romney Connection

    Notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, now 81, got away with murder - at least 19 alleged killings during his years in the 'Irish' mob in South Boston in the 1970s to mid-1980s. And one of the Bay State's most prominent Democrats almost certai...

  • June 22, 2011

    Federal Appeals Court's Decision Could Expand Affirmative Action, says Chief Judge

    A Federal appeals court has rejected a challenge made by two white students against a controversial affirmative action program at the University of Texas in Austin  -- a decision that could expand race-based admissions nationwide, according...

  • June 19, 2011

    Obama's Homeland Security SNAFU

    In Miami, a major embarrassment for President Obama's Homeland Security Administration is being revealed. An illegal immigrant from Guyana is in jail -- accused of committing forgery and identify theft to land a flight attendant job with American ...

  • June 17, 2011

    Obama Wants Engineering Students and 'Diversity'

    President Obama wants America's universities to graduate 10,000 more engineers annually than they're now turning out.  He wants more college students to major in math and science.  But as universities embrace affirmative action and "diversi...

  • June 16, 2011

    In Texas, lawmakers lectured by open-borders activist...in SPANISH!

    In Texas, a Republican lawmaker has run afoul of the political correctness police. They're calling him ignorant and intolerant, after he bluntly criticized an open-border's activist opposed to legislation outlawing sanctuary cities. Te...

  • June 13, 2011

    'Miracle on Hudson' survivors united (and saved) by shared values

    The crew and passengers of the "Miracle on the Hudson" flight have a lot in common. It's not just that they survived a harrowing near-death experience together -- the ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River after the jet hit geese on t...

  • June 12, 2011

    Woman not charged in accident that killed guitarist

    She may well be an illegal Mexican immigrant, has driven without a license for years, and has gotten numerous traffic citations -- yet police dare not inquire about her immigration status. Now, she's gotten away with vehicular homocide.   Jeremy...

  • June 8, 2011

    A Texas Town Honors a Soldier Killed in Afghanistan on Memorial Day

    Pfc. Anthony M. Nunn, 19, died on Memorial Day in Afghanistan - killed by an improvised explosive devise while on patrol in Paktika Province, a mountainous region along Pakistan's border. On Tuesday, his body was returned home to Burnet, Texas, ...

  • June 7, 2011

    Anti-gun physicians in Florida claim right to ask patients about gun ownership

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  • May 26, 2011

    In a Sanctuary City, An Illegal Immigrant Gets the Death Penalty

    Areli Carbajal Escobar, a violent 32-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, had a long rap sheet.  Over the years in the sanctuary city of Austin, Texas, police and prosecutors had many contacts with him. Yet Escobar was never deported. Now,...

  • May 26, 2011

    At Texas Statehouse, Raucous Protesters Blast Lawmakers for Backing Down on TSA Anti-Groping Bill

    A bill in the Texas legislature challenging the Transportation Security Administration's intrusive, crotch-groping pat downs went down in flames on Wednesday, amid raucous protests by states' rights advocates who supported the bill.  Protes...

  • May 20, 2011

    'Racial Incident' in Texas School Plunges City into Turmoil

    It's being called an ugly "racial incident."  As a consequence, Bastrop, Texas, a city of about 8,000 near the capital of Austin, is in turmoil.  And a school principal's career is in jeopardy. There were no racial epithets used i...

  • May 17, 2011

    'Perp Walk' of IMF Big Shot Outrages French Lefties

    Many in France are embarrassed and  ashamed at the arrest of IMF big shot Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a prominent French socialist seen as the most likely candidate to defeat center-right President Nicolas Sarkozy. But what's got some French lefties...

  • May 15, 2011

    Police Raid Florida Mosque in Politically Correct Fashion

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  • May 14, 2011

    Outraged Texas Lawmakers Seeking to Stop TSA Abuses

    Little girls, grandmothers, beauty queens – all are unlikely terrorists. Yet all have been victims in recent months of invasive Transportation Security Administration pat-downs at the nation's airports. The searches have sparked public outra...

  • May 6, 2011

    Jay Leno Does Osama: 'The Pakistani Hillbillies'

    Americans have a sense of humor, even when confronting abject evil. The "Tonight Show's" Jay Leno, for instance, has been finding lots of humor this week in the death of terror master Osama bin Laden. One gem f...

  • April 27, 2011

    Members of Society of Professional Journalists Seeking to Rehabilitate Helen Thomas

    You can't say journalists don't take care of their own.Members of America's most hallowed journalism organization -- the Society of Professional Journalists -- are embroiled in a nasty food fight over disgraced journalist Helen Thomas and efforts by ...

  • March 23, 2011

    'Therapy-Dog' Sessions For Yale's Liberal Law Students

    A "therapy dog" named "Monty" will be offered next week to students at Yale Law School, part of a pilot program to help them relieve their "stress." All of which raises a question: What kinds of horrific stress do stude...

  • March 13, 2011

    Second Amendment Culture Wars: Eastern Elites vs. Gun-Friendly Red States

    America's gun-rights debate has moved into some new territory that highlights the ideological divide separating gun-hating Eastern elites from Americans in fly-over country.  Recent events in New York City, Washington D.C., and in gun-friendly f...

  • March 2, 2011

    Crazy in 'socialist' Seattle: Bending the Law for 'Social Justice'

    Forget about equal protection under the law in hip Seattle. One of America's most liberal cities is turning a blind eye to some crimes committed by minorities. In addition, legal and illegal immigrants are getting off for offenses for which American ...

  • February 23, 2011

    Alaska Lawmaker Victim of Latest TSA Outrage

    An Alaska lawmaker is the latest victim of an absurd TSA outrage. State Rep. Sharon Cissna, a 68-year-old Democrat, refused at Seattle's airport on Sunday to submit to the TSA's full-treatment -   a hard-core pat down. She refused, she late...

  • February 16, 2011

    Jimmy Carter not concerned about Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

    Former President Jimmy Carter, whose foreign policy naivety and weakness facilitated the rise of Islamofacism in Iran, is confident Egypt has a promising future: The Muslim Brotherhood will be overwhelmed by Jeffersonian Democrats -- and the formerly...

  • February 8, 2011

    Male Cartoonist Poses as Woman to Get Work

    It's not only in America that political correctness and affirmative action have run amok. From Europe comes a wacky story that calls up the amusing cross-dressing and role reversals in the Hollywood movie "Tootsie." In this case, it's not a...

  • February 1, 2011

    Gun-hating NYT Writer Visits City's Gun Stores

    New York City may be a hotbed of liberals and gun haters, but a few gun stores actually do exist there. However, buying a handgun can be a frustrating experience -- thanks to burdensome regulations and lousy customer service, according an amusing art...

  • December 27, 2010

    Tibet's 'charms' in a Westerner's eyes

    Liberals hold out Tibet and the Dalai Lama as paragons of virtue and spirituality. But how accurate are those characterizations? They're obviously accurate when Tibet and the Dalai Lama are compared to China and Mao, whose horrific human rights abuse...

  • December 20, 2010

    Count the errors

    Once upon a time, the New York Times was called "the paper of record." Clearly that is no longer the case for reasons that go beyond political bias. Below find  a correction to an article concerning Texas Democrats. CORRECTION:U.S. A c...

  • December 17, 2010

    Democrat lawmaker and felon

    Ismael "Kino" Floresis, that sleazy Democratic lawmaker and shake-down artist AT mentioned earlier this week in a piece on Tom Delay, is still regarded as a state representative in good standing -- although as a convicted felon "Mr. Te...

  • December 16, 2010

    WikiLeaks: U.S. Officials Praise Cuba but fault Jamaica in Anti-Drug Operations

    Cuba may be a tropical gulag and troublemaker in the hemisphere. But when it comes to the war on drug, the communist island is a reliable U.S. alley – with Cuban authorities even complaining to U.S. officials that neighboring Jamaica is...

  • December 15, 2010

    The Hypocrisy of Anti-Israel 'Feminists'

    An ugly anti-Israel spectacle has been taking place in Philadelphia. A group of feminist women called the “Philly BDS Coalition” has been staging “flash dances” at grocery stores to force them to stop carrying Sabra and Tri...

  • December 15, 2010

    It's official: 2 Tex Dems join Republican Party

    It's official: Two Texas Democratic lawmakers have switched parties and are now Republicans. One is Hispanic. As the Austin American-Statesman reports:Both represent House districts that just a few years ago were considered Democratic Party stro...

  • December 14, 2010

    Tom DeLay and moral equivalence in Travis County, Texas

    Many Republicans regarded the prosecution of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a politically motivated witch hunt. After all, the prosecution took place in Austin, Texas, located in the heart of Travis County: It's a liberal bastion ...

  • December 11, 2010

    Wikileaks cable: Insult to Chavez lands flight crew in hot water

    Two years ago in Caracas, the U.S. Embassy got an urgent call one evening. Venezuela's manager for American Airlines was on the phone, and he had a serious problem: The crew of Flight 903 was being detained at the airport. A crew member had allegedly...

  • December 9, 2010

    Hugo Chávez's ex-wife gives Washington insights into strongman's psyche: WikiLeaks

    The Clinton and Bush administrations were flummoxed by Hugo Chávez's anti-Americanism. Rabid and inexplicable, it started soon after Chávez was elected Venezuela's president in 1998. During his presidential campaign, on the other hand, ...

  • December 7, 2010

    Kuwait's Gitmo solution: 'Kill them!'

    What to do with the Gitmo prisoners? The Obama administration frets and dithers. Kuwait's interior minister has a simple solution: Drop them into a combat zone in Afghanistan -- and kill them! That's according to a secret diplomatic cable from th...

  • December 2, 2010

    WikiLeaks Embassy Cables Reveal Venezuela's Health-Care System Collapsing

    Some of Venezuela's public hospitals are closing. Others are ridden with crime. Many physicians are quitting medicine -- starting new careers in Venezuela or emigrating, upset at being paid a pittance or not at all. Medical supplies are in short supp...

  • November 28, 2010

    Ignoring Obama edict, FBI says Portland plot inspired by 'jihad'

    Has the FBI jumped off the Obama administration's political correctness bandwagon? Well, the FBI's Portland office apparently has. Under the Obama administration, certain words that help us describe our enemies are verboten. For instance, the St...

  • November 23, 2010

    The Liberal Obsession: Spread the Wealth Around

    Liberal Democrats have a singular obsession: the gap between rich and poor. Close it with Robin Hood-style soak-the-rich policies, and America will be a better place, they believe. "Spread the wealth around," presidential candidate Barac...

  • November 17, 2010

    TSA 'groping' procedure a result of administration blindness to terror threat

    At long last, a newspaper editorial hits the nail on the head regarding the TSA's new groping polices: Stop humiliating innocent airline passengers and do what Israel's security-conscious El Al does -- profiling.The Washington Times makes this point ...

  • October 30, 2010

    Queensbury rules in the war on terror?

    John Sawers, head of Britain's legendary MI6, appears to be ready to trade the welfare of terror attack victims for purity when it comes to methods. In the first speech ever given by a head of the secret agency, as reported in the WSJ:"Torture i...

  • October 27, 2010

    Venezuelan workers protest Chavez's nationalization of U.S. company

    As part of ongoing efforts to introduce "21st century socialism" to Venezuela, Hugo Chávez plans to nationalize yet another foreign company -- this time the local subsidiary of U.S. glass-making giant Owens-Illinois, Inc. Ch...

  • October 21, 2010

    Connecticut Sees 'Red' After Horrific Home-Invasion Murders

    Blue-state Connecticut has undergone a jolting metamorphosis over the past three years, with potential ramifications for the Senate contest between Linda McMahon and Richard Blumenthal. Many residents have become a lot more like red-state Texans than...

  • October 16, 2010

    Obama using a 'back door' amnesty for illegals?

    In a secretive process, immigration judges are dismissing large numbers of deportation complaints against illegal immigrants, lending credence to claims that the Obama administration is using immigration courts to achieve a "back door ...

  • October 15, 2010

    America's Food Stamp Culture

    Many Americans can remember a time when a Coca-Cola was a treat: You had one now and then. But most middle-class Americans didn't drink Coca-Cola and similar carbonated drinks all the time, as if they were water. For one thing, it was too expensive t...

  • October 12, 2010

    Rachel Corrie's parents demand 'justice' from Israel

    You remember Rachel Corrie, the left-wing terror advocate who suffered a major deficit of common sense? On March 16, 2003, the 24-year-old American got herself killed when she stood in front of an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer conducting anti-terro...

  • October 9, 2010

    Obama fails as 'pack leader' says dog expert

    President Obama's approval rating is at a record-low among Americans - yet he remains popular abroad and at the United Nations. What accounts for this perception gap? Obama is popular abroad because he is weak -- and so is America under his leadershi...

  • October 8, 2010

    Diversity, the Enlightenment, and American Medicine

    The story of America (the one Obama won't tell you) starts with British settlers and their vision of a new country. Next came European immigrants who assimilated into the culture created by those settlers. And despite speaking differen...

  • September 29, 2010

    Concealed carry laws and a shooting at the U. Of Texas

    Yesterday was a sad and harrowing morning at the University of Texas in Austin. A young man with an AK-47 assault rifle fired a number of rounds into the air as he ran past frightened onlookers at 8 a.m. He then dashed into the school's lib...

  • September 25, 2010

    Reagan 'responds' to Obama and his supporters

    Here is a must-see Youtube clip in which Ronald Reagan serves up a civics lesson -- talking about American exceptionalism, patriotism, and the importance of teaching these things to our children. And as the title of this...

  • September 22, 2010

    Hypocritical newspaper editors (updated)

    The American Society of News Editors, one of the core organizations of the journalistic establishment,  has been exposed as a gaggle of cowardly hypocrites. The Washington Examiner queried the ASNE on their reaction to the mortal threat faced by...

  • September 12, 2010

    Saudi diplomat seeking asylum: 'My life is in danger'

    A Saudi diplomat says he could face political persecution - or worse - after Saudi officials discovered he was gay and was close friends with a Jewish woman. Thomas Lifson adds:This incident will pose a real problem for the Obama administration, whic...

  • June 25, 2010

    An illegal immigrant -- doing a job Americans won't do!

    You've heard of trailer-park trash, right?  This is a new twist on that -- a trailer park dentist!  In this case, Eli Sandoval-Roda, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was practicing dentistry in a large "double-wide" trailer wi...

  • June 24, 2010

    Actor Val Kilmer apologizes for insulting Vets, New Mexico residents

    Hollywood actor Val Kilmer on Wednesday gave a partial apology to New Mexico residents who were outraged that he'd reportedly called them drunks and also disparaged Vietnam veterans. Among the magazines that allegedly misquote...

  • June 23, 2010

    Jamaican drug lord captured

    Christopher "Dudus" Coke [profiled Sunday on AT] was captured late yesterday in Jamaica, in what was described as a dragnet operation. According to one news account, he had a "pink wig" in his possession, so I guess that explains ...

  • June 22, 2010

    Netherlands may use "decoy Jews" to fight anti-Semitism

    Anti-Semitism has gotten so ugly in The Netherlands that Jews walking along Amsterdam's street are being harassed by young Muslims who yell insults or give Nazi salutes. Last Sunday, a Dutch TV channel aired a secretly recorded vid...

  • June 21, 2010

    New Mexico residents fed up with big-mouth actor Val Kilmer

    What goes around comes around -- even for Hollywood snobs and elitists. Big-mouth Hollywood actor Val Kilmer is finding that out in New Mexico, where a number of residents are upset over incendiary remarks the Hollywood pretty boy has made over the y...

  • June 20, 2010

    Portrait of a Jamaican Drug Lord

    Reputed Jamaican drug lord Christopher Michael Coke -- now the Caribbean nation's most wanted man -- was a "math whiz" in high school who startled teachers with his dazzling test scores.After math, Coke had a second favorite subject: religi...

  • June 15, 2010

    An execution in Texas stirs debate

    The counter-culture and anti-war movement of the 1960s and 70s had a destructive influence on millions of young Americans who rebelled against authority, experimented with drugs, and "dropped out." One of them was David Lee Powell...

  • June 15, 2010

    Animal-rights activist forces pharmacy out of Texas shopping mall

    A family-run pharmacy in Texas, which opened the day before Pearl Harbor was bombed, is the latest victim of a tyrannical mall owner -- an animal-rights zealot who has reportedly driven away a number of business from the mall she inherited, due ...

  • June 2, 2010

    Texas lobbyists getting concealed handgun permits to speed access to Capitol building

    In Texas, veteran lobbyists in Austin, the capital, are scrambling to get concealed handgun permits -- all so they can speed around security lines at the Capitol Building.It could only happen in Texas: People with concealed handgun permits recently h...

  • May 29, 2010

    Jamaica's violence part of American plot to kill black people, says Jamaican columnist

    What was the real cause of Jamaica's recent violence -- the firebombing of police stations by drug thugs and pitched battles with security forces attempting to serve a U.S. extradition warrant on alleged drug lord Christopher "Dud...

  • May 26, 2010

    The 'Gringo Mask' and Political Correctness

    Get a load of this story from the Palm Beach Post on the "gringo mask," with one of the most interesting graphs being this one, below, with its subtle racism toward Arizonans:"So, you don't look the way you should in Bre...

  • May 21, 2010

    Obama's Lesson in Realpolitik

    Obama's foreign policy bumblers are getting a lesson in realpolitik in an extradition standoff with Jamaica -- which may not be the best place for a Caribbean vacation right now. Kingston, the capital, is on a "knife's edge" of te...

  • May 21, 2010

    In Texas, guns OK in 'express line' at State Capitol

    It's a sign of the times. Due to security concerns prompted by the occasional knife-wielding wacko and other nutcases, airport-style security checkpoints have gone up at the entrances of the Texas Capitol building in Austin. But n...

  • May 6, 2010

    It's the jihad, dummy.

    What motivated Faisal Shahzad to attempt to explode a car bomb in Times Square? Might it have anything to do with radial Islam, jihad, and anti-Western hatred?   Nope. Not according many media outlets. Consider a story in today's Con...

  • May 4, 2010

    Look who got a scholarship!

    Look who got a scholarship! From the Connecticut Post:Included were transcripts of his grades from Southeastern University in Washington, D.C. which he attended in the late 1990s and where he took mostly business classes. He was at best a mediocre st...

  • March 7, 2010

    Obama's Fruitless Quest to Extradite Drug Thug

    The Obama administration is vexed that "mutual respect" and "honest engagement" have failed to persuade Jamaica to extradite an alleged drug kingpin.It should have been a routine extradition request between countries with friendly...

  • February 22, 2010

    A classy statement from one of Joseph Stack's victims

    Was Joseph Stack a deranged left-winger or a deranged member of the Tea Party movement? Many on the left and right buzzed with such speculation -- and thought of little else -- after Stack posted an angry anti-tax manifesto on his website, burned do...

  • February 7, 2010

    Standing up to the Klan in 1920's Texas

    Race-hustling liberals, and in particular, self-appointed black leaders such as Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, love to showcase every terrible white-on-black racist outrage from America's past. But a museum exhibit that just opened in central Texas ...

  • February 2, 2010

    James O'Keefe and the Fourth Estate's Double Standards

    Lying, cheating, stealing -- all have been employed by gung-ho members of the Fourth Estate for the sake of the public's right to know. Indeed, reporters for top media outlets have masqueraded over the years as workmen, students, and even bartenders ...

  • January 27, 2010

    Texas town honors a fallen soldier

    President Obama dithered for months about the future of the U.S.-led missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But no such second-guessing is evident in small towns and cities in America's red states. From Daytona Beach, Florida, to Spokane, Washingt...

  • January 21, 2010

    NY Times to charge online users for access to content

    Struggling to turn a profit and stop a hemorrhage of buyouts and layoffs, the New York Times just announced that it will be charging readers to access some of its content next year. The details have yet to be worked out. However, i...

  • January 20, 2010

    Illegals and the Second Amendment

    To keep 'undocumented immigrants' from buying guns, Texas cops allegedly violated local and federal gun laws.Gun enthusiasts in central Texas are upset over what they say is a heavy-handed effort by police in Austin, the capital, to restrict the...

  • November 22, 2009

    Whose responsibility is the health care of illegal immigrants?

    Fifty-one people -- nearly all illegal immigrants -- are facing a "life-or-death limbo" after a cash-strapped Atlanta charity hospital decided it must stop providing them free kidney dialysis treatments that were costing t...

  • November 18, 2009

    Jimmy Carter still spinning his incompetent response to hostage crisis

    Jimmy Carter, during a humanitarian visit to China on Monday, defended his handling of the hostage crisis in Iran 30 years ago this month. That's when Islamist militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, and held 52 Americans ho...

  • November 14, 2009

    McDonald's and the Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago, and among those credited with paving the way for that spellbinding event are Ronald Reagan and, to a lesser extent, Soviet reformer Mikhail Gorbachev. Yet recent media accounts largely overlook the role that ano...

  • November 1, 2009

    ACLU defends Boulder's 'nude pumpkin run' as constitutional right

    Police in Boulder, Colorado, were reportedly successful last night in stopping  yet another annual "nude pumpkin run" -- in which men and woman run down a pedestrian mall naked with carved out pumpkins over their heads. The l...

  • October 28, 2009

    Guantanamo torture songs

    Get ready for more details about the horrors allegedly inflected upon hapless Guantanamo prisoners during the Bush years. As the Washington Post recently reported, the National Security Archive, a Washington-based independent research institute, has ...

  • October 27, 2009

    Michael Moore called cowardly liar and racist by Hugo Chavez supporters

    Filmmaker Michael Moore will probably want to steer clear of one of his favorite leftist countries -- Hugo Chavez's Venezuela -- after he inadvertently insulted El Presidente and enraged the strongman's rabid supporters. Chavez's devoted fo...

  • October 15, 2009

    Zogby poll of Mexicans raises concerns over Mexican immigration

    Why do many Mexican immigrants -- legal and illegal -- have trouble assimilating into American culture? Most of the 10 to 12 million Hispanics estimated to be here illegally are from Mexico. How would granting them amnesty affect future illegal immig...

  • September 23, 2009

    Media coverage of Palin's Hong Kong speech

    It's interesting to see how the MSM covered the Palin speech in Hong Kong. First, consider this negative AP story. It makes Palin look like a rank amateur, and it bashes her with paragraphs like this -- the second in the story:Two US delegates left e...

  • September 16, 2009

    Uproar over illegal charged with vehicular homicide in Texas

    Earlier this month, residents in Austin, Texas, where outraged to learn that a drunken illegal immigrant from Honduras -- a 23-year-old with three previous DWI arrests -- was charged with murder after ramming his SUV into a car driven by a busin...

  • August 9, 2009

    An Obama style educational experiment fails to deliver

    How do you motivate failing students at a troubled high school, one plagued by abysmal test scores and soaring dropout rates? Leave it to guilty white liberals to throw money at the problem -- all while failing to understand or admit why ma...

  • July 25, 2009

    When is a hate crime not a hate crime?

    Crimes motivated by racism are classified as "hate crimes" under federal statutes. Consider one hate crime that occurred not long ago in a mid-sized city in Texas.Late one night, a black woman living in a predominately white neighborhood wa...

  • July 22, 2009

    Obama's New Surgeon General: 'Fat with Hunger'?

    President Obama's pick of Alabama physician Regina Benjamin as surgeon general -- a woman whose ample figure has raised eyebrows -- comes amid news reports that obesity among black Americans is at an all time high -- and is far more problematic ...

  • July 21, 2009

    Ethnic lobbies handed victory in Austin, TX (updated)

    A radio station in Austin, Texas, has canceled a talk show after local ethnic lobbies expressed outrage over politically incorrect banter on the show concerning illegal immigration.KLBJ-AM  announced on Monday that it had canceled the "Todd...

  • July 19, 2009

    Giant squid and global warming

    I just knew that some jokers in the MSM would make a connection between global warming and all those giant, monster squid swarming off San Diego. Sort of reminds me of one of those 1950's sci-fi movies on atomic monsters. Here's a...

  • July 17, 2009

    Venezuela newspapers under siege

    Hugo Chavez has apparently found a new way to crack down on Venezuela's press -- by denying newspapers the chance to buy U.S. dollars needed to import news print. In one sense, this is business as usual in Venezuela -- albeit with much more...

  • July 17, 2009

    Green dreams prove costly for utility customers

    In ultra-liberal Austin, Texas, liberal elites in city government have for years promoted "Green energy" -- including wind-generated and solar power -- to fight global warming.  And no matter if "Green energy" was more expens...

  • July 16, 2009

    Texas radio hosts suspended for 'ethnic slur' (updated)

    Responding to outrage from the city's ethnic lobbies, a local radio station in ultra-liberal Austin, Tex., has suspended the two hosts of a local radio show. The men, during some morning banter on illegal immigration, uttered what's being called a ha...

  • July 15, 2009

    How Obama is good for business

    Who says the Obama administration is not good for business? Here's an article that refutes that claim: "States awash in stimulus money to weatherize homes." No doubt about it, weatherizing homes  would be a good racket to get into...

  • July 12, 2009

    Out of the Past: Ordeal by Newspaper

    Americans were shocked by the story of a petite 72-year-old grandmother getting "Tased" during a routine traffic stop in Texas last month. Dash-cam video of the screaming grandmother and strapping, Taser-wielding deputy were a YouTube hit. ...

  • June 9, 2009

    Reporters and their mindset

    A group of "Concerned Reporters at The Boston Globe" has written a naive letter to Pinch Sulzberger pleading for his help in keeping the paper alive and their bills paid. It's  what you'd expect, I guess, from politically liberal and i...

  • June 8, 2009

    The roots of Sotomayor's ethnic chauvinism

    Sonia Sotomayor, a self-described “wise Latina woman,” is an ethnic chauvinist if her own words are anything to go by. What are the roots of her chauvinism? Was it her upbringing by parents who immigrated from Puerto Rico? Or her supposed...

  • June 4, 2009

    The OAS sham vote on Cuba

    "OAS lifts ban on Cuba after 47 years," trumpets an Associated Press story. "Imposing Conditions, O.A.S. Lifts Its Suspension of Cuba," declares the New York Times. And so it goes...Two examples of the news media's breathless and ...

  • June 2, 2009

    Human Rights Watch on Cuba

    Well, I've never seen anything quite like this before -- Human Rights Watch, a well-known Soros-funded human rights organization, calling for the OAS to keep Cuba at arm's length, rather than carrying out Obama-style engagement with the communist nat...

  • May 16, 2009

    When is 'brutal' not 'brutal'?

    Hint: when Nancy Pelosi must be protected. It's amusing that the NYT recently used the word "brutal" to describe alleged "torture" techniques within the context of the Bush administration. Yet when the NYT was talking ab...

  • May 12, 2009

    MSM ramps up anti-military bias

    The deaths of five American soldiers in Iraq, shot by a fellow soldier, has caused Greg Mitchell to write a gloating I-told-you-so piece at Editor & Publisher, the popular trade magazine he edits for left-wing newspaper editors and reporters...

  • May 3, 2009

    Illegal immigration, Liberal Elites, and Obama

    Millions of Hispanics, mostly poor and uneducated, have immigrated to America illegally since the early 1990s. Most are Mexicans and most of them are high school dropouts.  Compared to what they might have had in a slum or impoverished rura...

  • April 4, 2009

    Somali immigrants remake Minneapolis

    In case you missed it, the New York Times has been running an in-depth series examining the impact on the country of massive levels of immigration, which is unprecedented both in numbers and fact that many of the newcomers are from the Third World, n...

  • April 3, 2009

    Obama flummoxed in press conference

    Don't look for any of this video on the American broadcast nets. The US press corps is too busy applauding Obama to notice that a question from the lefty UK Guardian's John Crace left the teleprompter president unable to fashion a coherent answer. If...

  • April 2, 2009

    New York's art world meets Cuba's communism

    At the heart and soul of being an artist is freedom of expression. So how to explain all those upscale American artists, gallery owners, critics, and buyers, who are having a jolly good time at an art festival underway in Havana? How, in short, can t...

  • March 26, 2009

    Hillary blames America first

    Hillary Clinton was in a blame-America-first mode when visiting Mexico, laying most of the blame for Mexico's violent drug trade on America's appetite for illegal drugs. In fact, Mexico also is a big consumer of illegal drugs, as two reports not...

  • March 10, 2009

    'Buying black'

    Fascinating piece here about a black Chicago couple living in an upper-class white suburb who are going out of their way to "buy black." Going out of their way in the extreme, I might add. Nowhere in the Chicago Tribune article does it impl...

  • March 4, 2009

    Obama's 'New Deal' and a Texas hick town

    The era of New Deal-style big government may have arrived with the Obama administration. However, you'd never know it by the way folks in Bastrop, Tex., are reacting to a local tragedy – a devastating wildfire that destroyed scores of businesse...

  • February 25, 2009

    Obama and the Clash of Civilizations

    The administration of Hope and Change faces some tough challenges in the Muslim world. According to a survey from WorldPublicOpinion.org, which is associated with the University of Maryland:"A study of public opinion in predominantly Muslim coun...

  • February 21, 2009

    Paper: British Muslims aiding Taliban

    British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to detonate roadside bombs in Afghanistan. So reports an article in today's London Telegraph, which notes:The disclosure is the latest in a string of suggestions from British comm...

  • February 19, 2009

    US Airways Accidents - Then and Now

    It will be months before the NTSB releases its accident report on US Airways Flight 1549, the "Hudson Miracle" flight, captained by America's newest hero, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger. Until then, one thing can be safely inferred about the Ja...

  • January 25, 2009

    'The greatest thing in the world'?

    I happened to be watching Bill Moyer's show the night, and I was struck by this phrase from Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas? and a liberal columnist for (if you can believe it) the Wall Street Journal:THOMAS FRANK: ...I love Oba...

  • January 20, 2009

    BBC human shields for Hamas

    Prof. Richard Landes has some interesting commentary at his Augean Stables blog about the less-than-impartial Gaza coverage coming from the BBC. Without a bit of protest, BBC correspondents have allowed themselves to be used as human shields by ...

  • January 19, 2009

    BBC human shields in Gaza

    Prof. Richard Landes has some interesting commentary at his Augean Stables blog about the less-than-impartial Gaza coverage coming from the BBC. Without a bit of protest,   BBC correspondents have allowed themselves to be used as human shie...

  • January 17, 2009

    The Dutch national identity

    The canals in Holland have frozen over -- for the first time in years -- and the Dutch were out skating on them. The NYT and IHT have a big piece on it. I'm sure you've already seen it, but maybe not.  Here's a graph that really stuck out for me...

  • December 3, 2008

    AP's terror photographer honored in NYC

    It was during Iraq's most savage violence that a former shopkeeper named Bilal Hussein  proved an invaluable asset to the Associated Press as one of its hastily trained photographers. His chummy ties to terrorists --"insurgents" as the...

  • November 23, 2008

    What works in France

    Today, the NYT has a big piece about how traditional cafes all over France are going by the wayside -- all, according to the NYT, because of  "changing attitudes, habits and now a poor economic climate." France's poor economic climate ...

  • November 17, 2008

    Immigration agents releasing violent criminals, says paper

    The Houston Chronicle continues an investigative series today describing an immigration system so broken that Federal officials allowed thousands of illegal immigrants held in jail – including violent criminals -- to return to the streets....

  • November 9, 2008

    Hit-and-Run: Death in a 'Sanctuary City'

    It was one of the strangest hit-and-runs police had ever seen in Austin, Texas. Early last September, officers answering a call at 4:19 a.m. found a young man dead along a highway. They surmised he was a motorcyclist. He was, after all, wearing motor...

  • October 1, 2008

    Caracas: Murder capital of the world

    Caracas now ranks as the world's No. 1 murder capital, according to Foreign Policy magazine. It's an assessment that will surprise few credible Venezuela watchers. During President Hugo Chávez tumultuous ten-year rule, Venezuela's quality-of-l...

  • September 19, 2008

    More liberal thuggishness

    In ultra-liberal Austin, TX, McCain supporters have a problem with their lawn signs being vandalized. News Channel 8 reports:The gate to Hili Geck's house was once flanked by three big John McCain signs.Most others in her neighborhood have Obama sign...

  • September 16, 2008

    The latest Sarah Palin 'scandal'

    Can you  believe the latest scandal over Sarah Palin? She installed a tanning bed in the governor's mansion and -- what's worse -- she paid for the contraption with her own money! The latest scandal over Sarah Palin was first...

  • September 13, 2008

    Now set for publication, 'The Jewel of Medina'

    A new book may enrage conservative and liberals alikeRandom House's cancellation of "The Jewel of Medina" ignited a furor last month - all when a Op-Ed article in the Wall Street Journal detailed how cowed publishing executives had pulled t...

  • September 4, 2008

    Obama-style program pays failing students to get free tutoring

    In ultra-liberal Austin, Texas, an Obama-style high school program has been unveiled: It pays poorly performing students $6-a-hour to get free after-school tutoring! Interestingly, Austin's school district already provides free tutoring to under-perf...

  • August 29, 2008

    BBC to produce dramas in Hollywood

    Looks like the BBC is going to set up shop in America, producing dramas. Could they be attracted by the prospect of an Obama presidency? Or maybe it is the high pound and low dollar? Given what a scary place we seem to Brits, they must be very b...

  • August 28, 2008

    Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia says birthdays anti-Islamic

    Forget about sending  birthday cards to your friends in Saudi Arabia. Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz al-Shaikh of Saudi Arabia says birthday celebrations are not righteous.  Mother's Day too. The UK Daily Mail reports: Shaikh said celebrating such ...

  • August 20, 2008

    Texas state legislators challenging 'sanctuary cities' for illegal immigrants

    In Texas, two Republican legislators are taking up the “forgotten” issue in the presidential election – illegal immigration. Specifically, they're seeking to challenge municipalities that declare themselves “sanctuary cities...

  • August 20, 2008

    Layoffs at Chicago Tribune anger 'journalist of color'

    Some "journalists of color" are livid over the Chicago Tribune's recent layoffs, claiming members of their racial and ethnic group were disproportionately targeted. Altogether, the Tribune laid off 40-plus people last Friday. According to o...

  • August 16, 2008

    Hollywood screenwriter fired for being a conservative

    “There's no creature as intolerant as a Hollywood liberal,” contends Emmy Award winning screenwriter Robert J. Avrech. He was fired from two screenwriting jobs because of his conservative political views, he says. "Both were pay or p...

  • August 14, 2008

    Pravda does Georgia

    "Russia: Again Savior of Peace and Life." So stated a recent headline from Pravda regarding the impending war with Georgia. Yes, the trademark Russian publication famous for its Cold War propaganda is still around.In the Cold War's bad old ...

  • August 14, 2008

    Our British allies in Iraq

    Three years ago this month, American freelance journalist Steven Vincent was kidnapped and murdered in Basra, Iraq, a port city then under British military control. His murder occurred as Britain's military -- as Vincent had earlier reported -- was t...

  • August 13, 2008

    Russia complains of media bias

    "When war is declared, truth is the first casualty." So goes the old saw about how problematic it can be to discern the truth when a war starts. Now, predictably, Russia is complaining that its invasion of Georgia is being unfairly por...

  • August 11, 2008

    Edwards sex scandal enrages Huffington Post's female pundits

    Over at the lefty Huffington Post, John Edwards' confession of being a cheat has, interestingly, provoked fury among some of the gal pundits. They're mercilessly trashing the pretty boy populist -- spitting a toxic venom that even their like-minded m...

  • August 9, 2008

    Fearing Muslim backlash, Random House scraps novel

    Nearly three years ago, Iraq held historic parliamentary elections. Millions of Iraqi voters shrugged off the threat of Al-Qaida suicide bombers and pro-Saddam reactionaries. They headed to the polls in heavy number, proving their courage and co...

  • August 8, 2008

    Texas executes illegal alien

    Well, last night they executed an illegal immigrant here, as Matt Drudge noted. Boy, the nerve of those Texans!According to the Houston Chronicle, "Lawyers for Chi had claimed in appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court that he should have been told he...

  • August 8, 2008

    'Dramatic snub' for Bush Admin in Gitmo trial?

    According to the BBC  (online article): "The BBC's Kim Ghattas at the trial says the sentence is a dramatic snub to the Bush administration and came after just one-and-a-half hours of deliberation."I don't get it. How is it a "dra...

  • August 6, 2008

    Texas defies UN's World Court (updated)

    That Mexico's violence and dysfunction is increasingly becoming part of America's social fabric was highlighted by two recent events in Texas -- a kidnapping in Austin, and an execution last night in the state's death chamber.Kidnappings-for-profit a...

  • August 4, 2008

    The NYT's selective squeamishness

    At an upmarket newspaper like the Time York Times, no self-respecting editor would ever consider publishing grisly close-up photos showing victims of horrific car wrecks and violent crimes. Yet that's exactly what it ought to being doing -- at least ...

  • August 1, 2008

    U.S. Military detains Reuters 'Haditha' reporter for security concerns

    Western media outlets have reported on the Iraq war by relying heavily on Iraqis -- young men quickly trained to be photojournalists and reporters. Yet their motives and loyalties have not always been beyond dispute. Yesterday, this was evident once ...

  • July 29, 2008

    Gun sales up in Texas

    Well, it seems like some Texans -- anticipating the prospect of an Obama presidency -- are stocking up on firearms. According to the Austin American-Statesman:This summer, sales at McBride's Guns in Austin are 10 percent higher, compared with the sam...

  • July 28, 2008

    Minority journalists give Obama a standing O

    Despite their worries about unseemly displays of affection for a politician whose campaign they must cover, the minority journalists assembled at the "Unity" convention in Chicago managed to confine themselves to a discreet leap to their fe...

  • July 27, 2008

    The Case of Expelled Embed

    In the latest instance of the military's uneasy relationship in Iraq with the news media, U.S. Marine commanders expelled an embedded photojournalist for doing something they considered unforgivable -- snapping grisly photos of dead Marines, and post...

  • July 21, 2008

    The AP's New Man on the 'Race and Ethnicity' Beat

    The Associated Press just announced an important change in a high-profile news beat that's overseen by its national desk -- a beat called "race and ethnicity." AP's editors, perhaps sensing a racially charged presidential election at h...

  • July 17, 2008

    The Orwellian logic of Israel's 'swap' with Hezb'allah

    Israel's uneven "swap" with terror group Hezbollah --  five imprisoned  terrorists for two dead Israeli solidiers -- provoked gloating and celebrations among Hezbollah yesterday. The return of the slain soldiers, Ehud Goldwas...

  • July 13, 2008

    America sizzles under heat wave - 72 years ago today!

    A heat wave is now scorching California and Texas -- giving global warming advocates yet more ammunition to support their contention of impending climatic catastrophe. Yet 72 years ago today -- on July 13, 1936 -- America also was swooning under a he...

  • July 11, 2008

    Newspaper find ready supply of cheap labor - J-school students!

    How do journalism schools manage to keep training youngsters for an industry where employment is collapsing?Over the last few decades, newspapers and wire services have fewer Americans as foreign correspondents. Many foreign bureaus have closed. Incr...

  • July 8, 2008

    Politically correct sex on the beach

    It's amusing to see how politically correct newspapers invariably tiptoe around certain aspects of certain gay lifestyles. Consider, for example, an article in Monday's Boston Herald about how angry officials with the Cape Cod National Seashore are c...

  • July 4, 2008

    Leander (TX) school named after graduate killed in Iraq

    This is a fascinating story when you consider that it probably would never happen in most Blue states, at least I don't think it would. Here's what the school board president said: "He was the first of our graduates to die in the war on terror. ...

  • March 29, 2008

    Cubans to get cell phones

    Raul Castro is going to allow ordinary Cubans to have cell phones! Well, I guess he was a reformer after all.Or not....

  • March 8, 2008

    What I learned in Havana talking to ordinary Cubans

    The secret love affair between left-leaning elites and Cuba goes on no matter what. No sooner had Cuba's aging Fidel Castro resigned, tha a common narrative emerged in liberal papers like the New York Times: positive changes could be coming to the he...

  • February 17, 2008

    The Wacko Journalist Narrative

    Are the hard economic times facing the newspaper industry stressing newsroom denizens beyond the breaking point?  While willing to entertain stories of wacko-vets , newspapers seem singularly uninterested in exploring the human cost of their own...

  • February 8, 2008

    The New York Times fesses-up to conflict

    Caught using an adocate as co-author of an article on Gitmo. Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher writes: The co-author of a recent front page story in The New York Times about the death of a detainee at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo sh...

  • February 2, 2008

    The Return of the Wacko Vet Media Narrative

    As the troop build-up in Iraq produces positive results, many media outlets have seized upon a new anti-war narrative. It's right out of the Vietnam War-era: wacko and self-destructive vets running amok on the home front. "Soldier Suicides ...

  • December 30, 2007

    50 Years Later: Bravery Outshines Public Humiliation

    Fifty years ago this month, President Eisenhower and Sputnik were in the news -- and so were the marital travails of an Air Force pilot named David Steeves. The 23-year-old lieutenant -- once a national hero -- was now under a cloud of innuendo and s...

  • November 1, 2007

    When is Juror Doubt Reasonable?

    The worldview embraced by the O.J. Simpson jurors has run amuck. A riveting murder trial in Michigan ended last week in a mistrial demonstrating that some jurors are capable of ignoring serious evidence of horrific crimes.Orange Amir Taylor III, a 21...