Nov 30, 2010 AP Congress’ independent budget agency says the cost to taxpayers of the contentious $700 billion financial rescue has dwindled down to $25 billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that as of this month the government will recoup most of the money spent. The $25 billion represents unrecovered money spent to bail out [...]

Nov 30, 2010 By Chuck Norris With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas before us, we are reminded once again of the integrated ways in which our Creator has had a role in our culture from the beginning. But will it stay that way? As far back as the Declaration of Independence, our Founders affirmed together, [...]

By William Murchison (Archive) · Tuesday, November 30, 2010 As life in the 21st century gets loopier and loopier, the truly deranged come out of the woodwork, passing themselves off as benefactors of mankind, candidates for sainthood, etc. Maybe — who knows — candidates for another Pulitzer Prize: something The New York Times hardly needs, [...]

By Debra Saunders (Archive) · Tuesday, November 30, 2010 In Greece earlier this month, Al Gore made a startling admission: “First-generation ethanol, I think, was a mistake.” Unfortunately, Americans have Gore to thank for ethanol subsidies. In 1994, then-Vice President Gore ended a 50-50 tie in the Senate by voting in favor of an ethanol [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Tuesday, November 30, 2010 With the advent of the tea party movement and President Obama’s recent “shellacking,” the left’s long-established effort to marginalize mainstream conservative Americans as fringe extremists has reached a new stage of desperation. For at least the past half-century, the dominant media culture has portrayed minority liberalism [...]

By Mona Charen (Archive) · Tuesday, November 30, 2010 A couple of weeks ago, on the occasion of the annual hajj, in which 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims fulfill their obligation to travel to Mecca, prominent Muslim clerics from Asia, Africa, and Europe, along with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Afghanistan, and [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Tuesday, November 30, 2010 “I wanted the music to play on forever. Have I stayed too long at the fair?” –Barbra Streisand lyric The finding by the bipartisan House Ethics Committee that Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) is guilty of financial misconduct and the conviction of former Texas Republican Rep. Tom [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Tuesday, November 30, 2010 The biggest battle in the lame duck session of Congress may well be over whether or not to extend the Bush administration’s tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire in January. The fact that this decision has been left until late in the eleventh hour, even [...]

By Dennis Prager (Archive) · Tuesday, November 30, 2010 By now, most people (with the exception of many psychotherapists) recognize that the self-esteem movement officially launched by California in 1986 has been at best silly and at worst injurious to society, despite whatever small benefit it may have had to some individuals. The movement was [...]

Nov 30, 2010 By Vasko Kohlmayer America’s governing regime is trying to make us believe that the greatest threat to this country is a man by the name of Julian Assange. If you did not know, Julian Assange is not a spy or an agent of an enemy government. He is the founder of WikiLeaks, [...]