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Bradley Smith: Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, “open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s [...]

And MTT played a concerto with a broken wrist. Now you know why the San Francisco Symphony regularly sells out MTT performances. Always a treat, and always a learning experience.

That is, we are broke: After building a true budget baseline, the sobering result shows ten-year deficits of $13 trillion. The annual budget deficit never falls below $1 trillion. By 2019, the debt is projected at $22 trillion, or 98 percent of GDP. . . . The numbers are truly staggering. Between 2009 and 2020, [...]

I agree with Power Line: Earlier this month, we posted this video, called America Rising. As I noted then, it doesn’t exactly represent our point of view, since we never fell for Obama’s “hope and change” shtick, but it’s powerful nonetheless. Since then, it has become a phenomenon–not so much on the web as via [...]

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For all: None of these cases, of course, involved corporations. But they do show that “liberty of the press” was seen as a right to publish to the world at large using the technology of the “press” (including by using others’ presses, whether for pay or because they liked what you wrote), not as a [...]

Seismic seems to be the appropriate adjective. One of the more interesting paragraphs I have seen written now that the dust has settled a bit: And then one reads that Mr. Brown helped raise $5.5 million for the Cistercian nuns of Wrentham, who pray for him daily. (Brown himself is quoted: “When you have nuns [...]

There are events in life that bring you up short. I remember attending church services in Capetown, South Africa in 2000. Poor children, by worldly standards, who loved our Lord and worshipped with a fervor of Joy that perhaps even Christians in these comfortable United States cannot experience because our lives are filled with such [...]

And Jon Stewart is not laughing. Man up, Jon!