Grab some history.

I’m sure no one has forgotten that it’s time to pick the Obamateurism of the Week! Pay close attention to the historical record from this week, especially if you’re not sure which you support now. You might even want to bump your first choice in favor something else that grabs you. What was the Obamateurism [...

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Debt.

What hath the “hoagie summit” wrought? A Sunday morning full of debt chatter, apparently. Paul Ryan will hit both NBC and Fox News to sound the alarm yet again, but the one to watch is Boehner vs. Pelosi on ABC. Lots of media panic circulating already about his warning to O that he won’t raise [...

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"... the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress."

Sometimes a candidate can plan on certain calendar events to help them make their case, but often fortune and their opponents can lend a hand as well. That’s the case today, which happens to be Cuban Independence Day, which gives politicians at all levels a chance to connect to the Cuban-American community, especially in Florida. [...

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Mayhem

Those darned Tea Party hoodlums are at it again. After all, who else would run around protesting Obama and Rahm Emanuel? Oh… these guys. Three men Brian Church, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Jared Chase, 27, of Keene, N.H.

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Protected by all sides in Libya.

The strange and murderous journey of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has finally come to a destination, at least according to his brother. The Lockerbie bomber died in his bed this weekend of cancer almost three years after a sleazy deal with the British government sent him back to Libya: The formerLibyan intelligence officerconvicted of the 1988Lockerbie [...

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Where money goes to die

It’s been a while since we checked in on one of Ed’s favorite subjects, that being California’s high speed rail project. The proposed service hopes to whisk commuters from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a matter of hours without all that bother of using the existing regional air service to do the same thing [...

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"We see no reason to remove Walker from office."

Same two candidates. Same newspaper. Same outcome. In the 2010 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel endorsed Scott Walker over the mayor of the city the newspaper serves, Tom Barrett. Yesterday, the paper praised and scolded both candidates, but wrote that nothing over the last two years gives the editors any reason to [...

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Getting the job done

In the past, we’ve talked about a lot of the hysteria and hype among environmentalists when it comes to regulation of natural gas drilling in general and fracking in particular. Many of the scientific studies we have cited in response to their claims were commissioned by people with an interest in the industry, such as [...

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