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,