Oh, joy! House Majority Leader-designate Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that Republicans will not be seeking to completely scrap the healthcare reform law. Cantor said there are certain elements of current law that will be included in the GOP plan, which he said will move simultaneously with a repeal measure through the House. Provisions that Republicans will seek to retain include the barring of insurance companies from refusing coverage to

Soon after 911 I argued that should jihadis bring their fight inside the US on any kind of regular basis — say, a series of mall bombings, or attacks on schools and day care centers — this would be a tremendous strategic blunder on their part: Americans will quite quickly forget years of PC conditioning and turn back into the kinds of commonsense problem solvers they’ve long been, and the

Climate alarmism as the impetus and justification for global wealth redistribution. I believe I first made the argument that this was the “environmentalist” end game way back in 2002. At which point I was promptly labeled a denier, a paranoiac, and a danger to the Earth by the “concerned” class — be they staunch environmentalists, well-meaning “liberals,” or the “crunchy cons” who wished to show that they, too, took such

Philip Klein, American Spectator: Earlier this morning, I noted that President Obama’s proposal to freeze the pay of federal employees (excluding the military) for two years wouldn’t have much impact on the debt. Now we have more specifics. In his press conference, Obama claimed that the move would save the government $28 billion over five years. Taking that number at face value, that would represent a sixth-tenths of one percent

For your convenience! “GE Appliances Creates Home Energy Management Business”: GE Appliances & Lighting plans to be the first major appliance company to provide a whole-home solution for energy management by going beyond the kitchen to provide insight into energy usage in the family room, the basement, the home office, and all other rooms of the house. From the GeoSpring™ hybrid hot water heater, Nucleus™ energy manager and programmable thermostats,

Not surprisingly, the “alternative” plan is to raise salaries. Because there’s no better way to cut government spending than by spending more, particularly when that additional spending would go toward increasing the pay of government employees, who would then turn around and spend more money, allowing the government to tax them more and recoup more “revenue” [CODE WORD ALERT] in order to cut the deficit. It’s a kind of trickle

First, let me remind you all that there is nobody more unapologetically multicultural and non-racist than me: I mean, I was letting Asian teens snort ketamine off my waxed grundle back when anime was nothing more than Super Robots and old “Speed Racer” re-runs, for Chrissakes. — That being said, I seriously do have to take issue with the Arabs who’ve been buying up property around here lately and forming

And no, I’m not talking about racist code words like, say, “basketball” or “shuffle” or “street tacos”. I’m talking about the left’s own code words. To wit: As the European economy grapples with yet another bailout of a bankrupt sovereign state, a storyline is emerging that seeks to frame this latest instance of government interventionism along deliberately disingenuous lines. According to this misleading narrative, Ireland’s abysmal fiscal condition did not

Uh oh: One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements. The fund is administered by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Union officials said the state

The Morning Bell, “Just Another WikiLeak On An Already Sinking Ship”: The President should […] make it a publicly top priority to hunt down any American connected with these leaks and prosecute them. This is not the first WikiLeak. This is, in fact, the third time that WikiLeaks has undermined our nation’s national security, and the Obama Department of Justice has been silent each time. Nobody gets more cooperation than