America’s #1 police chief recently spoke at Brown, and Ray Kelly faced a sea of boos. What kind of college leadership and faculty would allow such a disgrace? Here Mona Charon outlines the Brown fiasco. When New York City’s strikingly successful police commissioner arrived to address students at Brown University, he was harassed, booed, and […]
The Largest Transfer of Wealth in Recent American History
Charles Krauthammer labels Barack Obama “The Bystander President.” What kind of president favors insurance policies that force a couple in their sixties to buy maternity coverage or teetotalers to buy substance abuse insurance? A bystander president that’s who. Are Americans paying any attention here? So a law designed to cover the uninsured is now throwing […]
BattleHawk – The Flying 40mm Grenade Drone
Textron Defense Systems’ BattleHawkTM is a direct fire aerial precision guided munition system for use by small tactical units to engage non-line-of-sight targets. Among its key advantages is the system’s ability to take on an enemy from an advantageous position without exposing the operator to detection or small arms fire. BattleHawk is tube launched from […]
The Failure of Progressive Government
Daniel Henninger explains the meltdown in detail. A reader remarked last week that Barack Obama is running out of human shields. With the father of ObamaCare unavailable to explain the greatest fiasco of his presidency to Congress, the American people had to settle Wednesday for his surrogate, Kathleen Sebelius. Let us try to understand clearly what is happening now with […]
Obamacare Operation!
Thanks to Obamacare, President Obama’s Job Approval poll chart looks like the tweezers in the game of Operation.
HealthCare.gov’s Inherent Security Risks Known in Advance!
Yes, the Obama administration knew your personal security might be at risk from the start. Obama launched his wretched health care monstrosity anyway. The heck with your privacy. Elise Hu explains this debacle at NPR. To the long list of problems plaguing HealthCare.gov, add data security. The enrollment site for the new health insurance exchanges […]
Hundreds of Thousands of Policies Already Cancelled
Holman Jenkins explains that you can keep your healthcare policy as long as Obama likes it. If not well…. The White House has issued a clarification. When the president said if you like your insurance plan you can keep it, what he meant was you can keep it if he likes it. Hundreds of thousands of Americans […]
Boo! Brown University
After the way they treated New York’s police commissioner Ray Kelly why would any sensible person ever again choose to speak to the baby Boo birds at Brown University? The Wall Street Journal explains: In 2001, the year before Ray Kelly began his second tour as New York’s police commissioner, the city suffered 649 murders. In 2012, […]
You Can Keep Your Doctor-One Big Lie!
Jonah Goldberg lays bare one of the biggest presidential lies in history. Seems to me liars need to pay! ‘All we’ve been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it. . . . I’m infuriated because I was lied to,” one woman told the Los Angeles Times, as part of a story on […]
Big-City Pension Cookers
The pressure on big cities continues to build thanks to overzealous promises by politicians in places like Springfield, IL. The Wall Street Journal continues its in depth review of the ugly mess here. It pays for veteran firefighters and police officers here to retire around the anniversary of their hiring date—but it’s costly for this […]