The ‘students’ were the basij militia. Nov 30, 2011 WSJ The scenes outside the British embassy in Iran yesterday evoked Tehran, 1979. Young, bearded men forced their way in and briefly held six British employees. The attack was no impromptu happening. Police stood by, and Iranian state television broadcast events live. By some strange reflex, [...]

Obama has a “path to 270.” Republicans hope he makes it even farther. Nov 29, 2011 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO Back in 2002, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira published a book titled “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” in which they argued that demographic trends were the Democrats’ friends–specifically, that the donks were fated to benefit from [...]

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa reportedly offered the occupiers a 10,000-square-foot office space, a patch of farmland to garden and housing for the homeless if the protesters vacated the City Hall lawn but the protesters rejected the offer. Nov 29, 2011 WSJ By ALLYSIA FINLEY Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa thought he could control City [...]

Nov 30, 2011 AP One trip, two money pitches. President Barack Obama wants more money in the pockets of U.S. workers _ and in his campaign treasury. With both goals in mind, the president was to travel Wednesday to swing-state Pennsylvania to press his case for a bigger temporary payroll tax cut that will boost [...]

Nov 30, 2011 How dependent has the United States government under President Barack Obama become upon borrowing money from foreign sources to support its spending? Would you believe the answer is: “enough to exclude a long-time U.S. manufacturer from consideration for a defense contract in favor of a foreign-based manufacturer, despite the U.S. manufacturer having [...]

By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Mary Archer’s death in 1981 was horrific. Gary Haugen, her daughter’s former boyfriend, broke into her home in Portland, Ore., where he raped the 39-year-old, then beat her to a lifeless pulp using his fists, a hammer, and a baseball bat. He pleaded guilty to her [...]

By Michael Reagan (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 To listen to the “elite” media you’d think that a renowned statesman was regrettably planning to leave the political scene. As Jason Mattera of Human Events has noted, “After his announcement that he won’t seek reelection, the Washington Post heralded the disheveled congressman Barney Frank as [...]

By Ben Shapiro (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 This week, in Oakland, Calif., America saw yet another stellar example of the glories of diversity. At a taping of a rap music video in that fair city, eight people, including a one-year-old child, were shot. When a classical music video goes wrong, somebody busts a [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: “A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.” Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. For three years, White House officials have rolled out countless [...]

By Tony Blankley (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Sunday on “Meet the Press” Colin Powell blamed divisive, poisonous Washington politics on the media and the Tea Party. The essence of Powell’s argument was: “Republicans and Democrats are focusing more and more on their extreme left and extreme right. And we have to come back [...]