Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
 
– Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
 
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
 
– J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
 
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
 
– Stephen Jay Gould [...]

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At GM and Chrysler, politics is now Job One.
March 31, 2009
Responding to their plea for $21.6 billion more in taxpayer cash, President Obama yesterday declared “the end of that road” for GM and Chrysler. In the next breath, he seemed to put Washington and Detroit on a new road of politicized industrial policy. So pick [...]

March 30, 2009
By William McGurn
Our Beltway sans-culottes are tasting blood.
First the people’s representatives took their tar and torches to American International Group’s bonus payments. Now the president has dropped the guillotine on the chairman and CEO of General Motors. The irony, of course, is that far from signaling an end to federal dollars for a [...]

Obama’s budget quietly resurrects it in 2010.
March 31, 2009
Lawrence Summers, President Obama’s chief economic adviser, declared recently that “Let’s be very clear: There are no, no tax increases this year. There are no, no tax increases next year.” Oh yes, yes, there are. The President’s budget calls for the largest increase in the death tax [...]

Israel’s new government is an ‘obstacle’ only to unrealistic goals.
March 31, 2009
By YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI
Enemies of the American-Israeli alliance could not have conjured a scenario more fraught with potential for misunderstanding. In Washington, a new president is reaching out to the Muslim world, including Iran. In Jerusalem, the government about to take office represents the [...]

Now is no time to abandon the mission.
March 31, 2009
By ABDULLAH GüL
International efforts to stabilize Afghanistan and improve the lives of the Afghan people have fallen short of their targets. There is daily violence in the country and expectations continue to outpace achieved results. It is time for a policy shift. It is time for [...]

March 31, 2009

 
by John Hawkins
Liberals spend much of their time trying to hide what they believe from the public while conservatives are perpetually frustrated by the fact that the American people don’t seem to understand what we really believe. Both problems spring from a single source: liberals lie incessantly. That’s not to say that there [...]

March 31, 2009

 
by Chuck Norris

Smoke screening is an effective military maneuver used to mask the locations or movements of units, such as infantry, aircraft, tanks and ships. But those who have mastered that art of deception are not only those on the battlefield but also those in the halls of Washington.
Back on Nov. 9, 2008, [...]

March 31, 2009

 
by Marvin Olasky

Barack Obama last month enlisted Theodore Roosevelt in his campaign for increased governmental control of health care, arguing that TR “first called for reform nearly a century ago.” Google “Theodore Roosevelt, universal health care,” and you’ll find The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, DailyKos, and many other stalwarts of the left [...]