Squatter’s rights. Liberating foreclosed homes from those who own them. This is quite the plan for home ownership the left has given us: keep interest rates artificially low, require banks to give loans to those who can’t pay them back, put in place economic plans that destroy the economy and lead to large scale job loss, crash the housing market, destroy the middle class, evict people from the homes, then

Behold! That’s about 100% of GDP! But things aren’t all dire: yes, we have this debt; and yes, we have built $1.5 Trillion or so of new deficit spending into each budget going forward; and yes, we have anywhere between $60 and $140 Trillion in unfunded liabilities — to be paid with money that doesn’t exist in the world, as of now. Still, in about a week’s time, there’s an

When the Supercommittee fails next week — and it’s meant to, and always has been, I’m convinced — Democrats will get significant and automatic cuts to military spending, no real cuts to entitlements (there will be some cuts that don’t affect patients, which will nevertheless be demagogued as cuts that affect patients), and the President will be able to continue pushing his reelection campaign message: Congress is broken and won’t

Yeah. Right. I like Alan West (though he disappointed me on several of his votes during the debt-ceiling debates). But if you think Herman Cain is naive, imagine a Republican politician who actually believes that the reason Obama is able to avoid serious criticism is that the press is afraid of him rather than completely ideologically wedded to man. Hell, Obama started his political career in the home of a

Both Stacy McCain and Tina Korbe raise the question. To which the answer is suprisingly simple: we’ve been told since early on that Santorum isn’t first tier; and consequently, he’s never been treated as more than a foil in debates — often to Ron Paul, sometimes to the newly-minted fiscal conservatives who’d previously backed bailouts — even though his performance on substance has been routinely solid, from a conservative point

Andrew Malcolm, IBD: Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced today a new military cooperation agreement that will see up to 2,500 U.S. Marines based and training there. There will also be U.S. Air Force units flying in and out and training for six months at a time with Aussie counterparts in the north. Oh, and you might notice U.S. warships making more regular calls at Australian ports, perhaps including some

Newsmax: The Obama administration said Tuesday that a balanced-budget amendment heading for a House vote this week could impose serious risks on the economy and force cuts to essential programs such as Medicare and Social Security. The White House, in a statement, said it strongly opposed the balanced budget amendment being considered by the House. Instead, it said members of Congress should “move beyond politics as usual and find bipartisan

“Egyptian women fret as ‘modesty’ becomes election issue”. Gee. Who could have ever seen this coming? Over to you, Bill Kristol! — or are you too busy these days telling us rubes how to vote in the GOP primaries to revisit this last very public whiff of yours…? (h/t Allah)