Or, “Carter Country:  The Return.”  IBD: Food and energy prices are rising, wages are flat and the top concern among Americans is unemployment. What was that word coined in the ’70s to describe a stagnant economy suffering inflationary pressures? Since the Obama “recovery” started 4-1/2 years ago, inflation appears to have been relatively tame, with core prices climbing just 7% from June 2009 to December 2013. But as CBS News

But so what?  According to sources like the NYTimes, this loss of employment represents a mixed bag, because it will supposedly pull 1 million people out of poverty — which, not to make light of that, is not too difficult to do when you keep changing the definition of relative poverty so that it constantly jibes with your policy preferences. The truth is, many of those who are now in

Which shouldn’t be too big a surprise, as it is most famously being displayed by our current President.  [DOG WHISTLE ALERT!]  To that end, here’s what White House Economic Adviser Gene Sperling had to say about the glories of raising the minimum wage (courtesy CNS News): Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 will help “people who just want to work hard,” but it also will help those who

So long as we allow the left to write our history — and by “write” I mean “create, shape, contextualize, and, in many cases, fictionalize” — our history will be an amalgamation of leftist lies meant to propagandize. The long march through the institutions is not some abstract theoretical plan by hard leftists to shape in our citizens from an early age onward a particular cognitive frame and in so

Or, “Draft a potential bust or risk the wrath of a sanctimonious, superficial, 2-minute Bob Costas diatribe.” Jim Geraghty explains, using the case of Michael Sam, an openly gay defensive lineman / rush linebacker who is eligible for this year’s NFL Draft: Those of us who are sports fans are going to have a fascinating couple weeks ahead, as the national political and cultural media insists upon interpreting the events

— Often — and for reasons I can’t fathom — from out of state Democrat Congresspeople. For instance, this one arrived this morning from North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District Representative Jason Thigpen, who wants me to help him help America by insisting that Congress have a say on what employers are required to pay workers, given the horrific gap between the rich and poor. Writes (whomever wrote this for) Thigpen:

Honestly.  The projection involved in asserting that it’s conservatives who are anti-science is astounding in its audacity.  But then, it’s supposed to be that way, because the true audacity at the source of it all is the refiguration of science as something driven by politicized consensus and a simple repetition of inconvenient untruths. For instance, John Kerry spent time in Jakarta, fresh from calling the threat of global warming a

Human exhalation is not a pollutant. Neither is water vapor.  If both were so, then we would be cancers on a host planet, and as such, be in need of eradication.  The only moral measure to be taken, if you anthropomorphize the planet — or worse yet, turn it into a vulnerable God troubled by its creations (and how can this not be what you’re doing, given your strict adherence