In the early 80s, erstwhile Cuban refugee and future drug lord Tony Montana planned to set up shop in Herman Cain’s city but changed his mind suddenly when, purely by happenstance, he watched a shirtless Cain hoist a railroad tie and use it as a makeshift pry bar to move a stalled school bus full of orphans off the tracks and out of the way of an onrushing train. Full

Washington Examiner: Republicans seem to understand that repeal of President Obama’s health care law is necessary. Unfortunately, many of them seem to think repeal is sufficient as well. It isn’t. This is why it’s so important that a GOP leader like House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., began presenting a viable plan to replace it with his speech Tuesday at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. The big problem afflicting our

“Communist Party Chief Backs Obama’s Jobs Bill” Finally, some sanity. Because let’s face it, if the Communist Party can’t back a $1.5 Trillion dollar tax bill designed to give a centralized authority the power to collect wealth from the productive class / private sector and then re-distribute it to those they’ve decided need it more or will use it in a way they’ve determined is better for the common weal,

The Raleigh News & Observer’s original reporting suggested that Governor Beverly Perdue’s call for postponing elections was “a joke” — and even someone as suspicious of leftwing desires for authoritarianism as Mark Levin, in reacting to the initial reporting of the story, was willing to give the North Carolina Governor the benefit of the doubt. But here’s the audio. Listen for yourself, ignore attempts by both the media and Perdue’s

Thanks to some savvy legal line jumping by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). The Foundry: The Department of Justice (DOJ) had announced on Monday that it was not going to ask all 11 judges of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to review en banc the August 12 decision of a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit that found the individual mandate unconstitutional. This opened up a path

Is a Nanny State progressive who once wore an R on his voter registration card. Allow me to answer your assertion that pushing healthy foods is the government’s highest duty, Mayor Bloomberg: if you wouldn’t dare try to take my snack cakes away from me on the street — knowing, as you must, that I’d likely knock you down and take your lunch money — you shouldn’t be able to

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FOXNews: Today, the Obama administration officially published the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) so-called net neutrality rules in the Federal Register. These rules would undo a decade of free-market, hands-off Internet policy that has made the Internet the greatest engine of economic growth, creativity, and innovation the world has ever seen. They would set us down a path to reducing the Internet into a government-regulated, government-controlled public utility. The effective date

Andrew Malcolm, LAT: In a detailed story posted overnight, The Times’ Tom Hamburg, Kim Geiger and Matea Gold outline the danger signals set off in October 2010 when secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner and chief economic advisor Lawrence Summers warned the president that Energy’s vetting process was not stringent enough to weed out troubled applicants in advance. Energy Secy. Steven Chu, who like Obama holds a Nobel Prize, was