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"I'm not a terrorist: I'm eight years old, and that's my science project"

salon.com

by Jesse Walker

August 20, 2013

We're looking for truthers, terrorists and conspiracies everywhere. Our paranoia says more about us than reality

October 7, 2001: less than a month after 9/11. Police in Maryland decide that two trucks on Interstate 270 might be carrying explosives. The alert cops block traffic for an hour, searching the vehicles for tools of terror. The cargo turns out to be stage equipment headed to a memorial service for the firefighters killed in the attack. A forgivable mistake, given the circumstances? Perhaps. In Tyler, Texas, a few days earlier, federal agents, city police, and bomb experts from far-flung cities had descended on a family's mailbox to grapple with a gadget jerryrigged from wires, batteries, and green duct tape. The streets were blocked; the neighbors were evacuated. The device turned out to be an eight-year-old's homemade flashlight, built as a school project and left in the mailbox for safekeeping.

"If I wanted America to fail" video goes viral, but Twitter suspends group's account; Update: Account restored

Michelle Malkin

by Michelle Malkin

April 23, 2012

This weekend, a video produced by Free Market America went live on YouTube - and it is racking up nationwide hits. Deservedly so.

The Earth Day-timed message is compelling and extremely relevant this campaign season. As the group writes: "The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism - it's become an economic suicide pact. And we're here to challenge it."

"Independent" watchdog on energy loans turns into big Obama donor

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

August 23, 2012

Well, well, well ... what a coinky-dink.

The man who got picked to review more than $23 billion in Department of Energy loans and gave them a clean bill of health - without reviewing loans to already-defunct Solyndra and Beacon Power - waited a whole two weeks to start donating to Barack Obama's re-election effort...

"Intellectual authorities" coast to coast agree: stimulus flopped

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

July 6, 2011

Yesterday, David Brooks scolded Republicans for not listening to "intellectual authorities" on fiscal policy.

Fair enough; I figured I'd devote some time today to the opinion of intellectual authorities on economics and public policy, and decided to focus on Harvard and Stanford for my research. Fortunately, economics professors at both top-notch bastions of intellectual authority have quite a lot to say about Obamanomics. Let's start with Harvard's Robert Barro, quoted in the London Telegraph as saying that government stimulus wastes money, has negative rather than positive multipliers for national economies, and only should be undertaken for specific purposes under narrow conditions...

"Libertarian Kids" Succeeding with Rep. Party Insurgency - Sen. Paul at Forefront

spreadlibertynews.com

by Ezra Van Auken

March 8, 2013

It would be naive to say that what Senator Rand Paul did four twelve hours, fifty-two minutes and eleven seconds from Wednesday into the first hour of Thursday morning did nothing to resonate with leftist groups and once mainstream Republicans.

From the time Sen. Paul took the floor until the time he finished his statements and yielded his time, old-school Republicans were itching to fire back. One major feature to Sen. Paul's filibuster delivery was the drive by social media, which turned the Kentucky Senator into a household name for nearly forty-eight hours. The Twitter trends echoed "#StandWithRand" and "#Filibuster" for over a day, bringing in thousands of discouraged Americans, those who believe the direction of this country is in need of a U-turn. Sen. Paul's actions also prompted those disengaged with the Republican Party to rekindle new hopes.

"Libertarians Flex Their Muscle in the GOP"

reason.com

by Nick Gillespie

August 1, 2013

From a story in today's Wash Post titled, "Libertarians Flex Their Muscle in the GOP"...

Libertarianism once again appears to be on the rise, particularly among the young. But its alliance with the Republican establishment is fraying, as demonstrated by the increasingly personal war of words between two leading potential 2016 presidential contenders.... The "once again" is appreciated, though any honest appraisal of partisan politics would acknowledge that libertarianism has been the next big thing for going on 45 years, when the future editor of Wired magazine, Louis Rossetto and his college pal Stan Lehr published "The New Right Credo: Libertarianism" in the January 10, 1971 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

"Man of the People" Embarks on Asian Tour

bigjournalism.com

November 7, 2010

Welcome to India, President Obama - do you have anything to say about the epic loss the Democrats just experienced in America?

"May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor"

The American Spectator

by Yogi Love

March 19, 2012

Welcome, welcome to the fourth annual hunger games!

Many private business owners will attempt to compete...one of you MIGHT survive.

"Mr. President, why have you given up on the country and decided to campaign full-time?"

Hot Air

by Tina Korbe

October 6, 2011

John Boehner, calling it like it is.

At the same time that the president took to the podium to chastise members of Congress for purportedly putting politics before country, the House Speaker expressed his own frustration with the president's unwillingness to actually negotiate...

"No Drama Obama" again "can't wait" to pass a payroll tax cut extension

Hot Air

by Tina Korbe

February 14, 2012

Payroll tax extension, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.

Why do politicians continue to debate this patently poor policy as though it represents the pinnacle of politically savvy middle-class tax cuts? It's not even technically a tax cut - just a premature borrowing from our own retirement safety net, which happens to be in dire straits anyway.

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