No more slow-walking Fast and Furious probe By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, May 14, 2012 Justice has waited long enough. It’s time to pull the trigger on contempt charges against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for withholding documents from Congress in the Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. Allowing further delay [...]

By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Published May 14, 2012 FoxNews.com Did you know that the United States government is using drones to kill innocent people in Pakistan? Did you know that the Pakistani government has asked President Obama to stop it and he won’t? Did you know that Pakistan is a sovereign country that has [...]

May 15, 2012 – ByStephanie Condon (CBS News) In 1994, Mitt Romney was a political rookie and the economy was booming — a far cry from today’s political and economic conditions. Still, President Obama’s re-election campaign is turning to tactics used against Romney in 1994 to attack the Republican candidate in this year’s presidential race. [...]

May 14, 2012  On “Morning Joe” today, former Obama “car czar” Steve Rattner denounced a new campaign ad that attacks Mitt Romney for business decisions he made during his tenure at Bain Capital. Specifically, the ad targets Romney and Bain Capital for the private equity firm’s decision to acquire GST Steel and the jobs that [...]

May 14, 2912 – By Andy Grimm and Cynthia Dizikes Dozens of demonstrators dashed into the Loop building housing President Barack Obama‘s campaign headquarters this morning, slipping past security guards and running up escalators as they kicked off what they called a “Week Without Capitalism.” Eight protesters were led out in handcuffs about half an [...]

May 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER President Obama is attending a fundraiser today in New York City that will be hosted by Hamilton E. James, the chief operating officer and president of Blackstone. The financial firm Blackstone is “one of the world’s largest private equity fund businesses,” according to its website. But ironically, Obama [...]

May 14, 2012 – by Christian Browne This past Sunday morning, I took to my blog, The New York Conservative, to opine on the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (“KSM”) and his fellow terrorists. The full text of the post is available further below. The New York Conservative was a blog hosted by Google Blogger. [...]

J.P. Morgan’s failed trades may well have passed the Volcker rule. May 13, 2012 – WSJ Employees at J.P. Morgan may think that CEO Jamie Dimon’s primary rule is to minimize risk. But Washington politicians now have their own Dimon Principle: Use mistakes at a bank run by an admired CEO to expand government control [...]

Next year’s scheduled increases on dividends and capital gains will retard investment and derail the recovery. May 15, 2012 – WSJ By JOHN SNOW Nine years ago this month Congress passed President George W. Bush’s Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. That bill’s lower rates on capital, as well as the continuity in tax [...]

May 13, 2012 – WSJ By ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN Last month, NATO conducted a historic exercise: the first comprehensive test of the alliance’s new missile-defense capability. A U.S. ship, radar and satellite, as well as interceptor batteries from Germany and the Netherlands, conducted a series of simulated engagements to test the alliance’s ability to defend [...]