By Andrew Breitbart | Monday, August 17, 2009
There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.
His birth into a wealthy and politically connected family is where a lot of the animus starts. His rejection of [...]

“Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be…”
 
– John Adams
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Conflict is inevitable unless the West moves quickly to stop a nuclear Tehran.
Aug 30, 2009

The International Atomic Energy Agency has produced another alarming report on Iran’s nuclear programs, though it hasn’t released it publicly, only to governments that would also rather not disclose more details of Iran’s progress toward becoming a nuclear theocracy. Meanwhile, Iran [...]

The Obama administration is using its brass knuckles to support Latin American thugs.
Aug 30, 2009
By Mary Anistasia O’Grady
If the Obama administration were a flotilla of ships, it might be sending out an SOS right about now. ObamaCare has hit the political equivalent of an iceberg. And last week the president’s international prestige was broadsided by [...]

Current congressional proposals would significantly change your relationship with your doctor.
Aug 30, 2009

By JEROME GROOPMAN AND PAMELA HARTZBAND
In recent town-hall meetings, President Barack Obama has called for a national debate on health-care reform based on facts. It is fact that more than 40 million Americans lack coverage and spiraling costs are a burden on [...]

Compact fluorescents don’t produce good quality light.
Aug 30, 2009

By HOWARD M. BRANDSTON
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will effectively phase out incandescent light bulbs by 2012-2014 in favor of compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs. Other countries around the world have passed similar legislation to ban most incandescents.
Will some energy be saved? Probably. The [...]

Demand in the developing world trumps new technology.
Aug 30, 2009

By DANIEL YERGIN
On Aug. 28, 1859, in the backwoods of northwest Pennsylvania, the first successful oil well went into production in the United States, ushering in an energy revolution that would make whale oil obsolete and eventually transform the industrial world. Yet 150 years later, even [...]

But does the new crowd have better ideas?
Aug 30, 2009

By MARY KISSEL
It was inevitable that even the Japanese would eventually get fed up with patronage politics, governance gaffes and decades of economic drift.
Yesterday’s election victory of the Democratic Party of Japan and party leader Yukio Hatoyama is no small thing. It undermines nearly 54 years [...]

August 31, 2009

 
by Jim Martin
When the White House and Congress wanted to take old cars off the road and replace them with newer models, they passed “Cash for Clunkers.” 
However, when it comes to the clunkers in America’s military aircraft, things are quite a bit different. For more than a decade, Congress has wrangled with how [...]