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I’d expect the former Arkansas Governor’s stock to drop significantly after the word gets out about how he views the presidency. From Politico: Mike Huckabee, the former Republican governor from Arkansas who has his own Fox show told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that a 2012 presidential bid is “less than likely” and depends [...]

The release of emails and other documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has proven to be, at the very least, an embarrassment to the scientists involved. Now, there may be legal issues involved. Britain’s Freedom of Information Act (FOI) is referenced several times in the stolen emails, notably in a [...]

In the past week, Obama’s approval rating has finally slipped below the 50% mark in Gallup’s daily tracking poll. The reason why? His support among white voters has fallen from 61% to 39%. And that could be a big problem as he looks towards 2012. Or is it such a big problem? Or a completely [...]

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The administration that has initiated so much that is unprecedented in American politics, introduced an unprecedented new Thanksgiving tradition – carving up our currency for the holidays.

For all my foul feathered eaters…happy Thanks Giving! Peta commercial…

You know an issue is serious when it gets the suffix “gate” added to it. “Climategate” seems to be sticking in the media for the publication of stolen email and program documents we covered in our story Climate Email Hacked. Even more significant: parodies are popping up: Like all parodies, its probably not fair, and [...]

It’s happening… Two final holdouts, Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, announced in speeches a few hours apart on the Senate floor they would vote to clear the way for what is expected to be a bruising, full-scale health care debate after Thanksgiving. At a 10-year cost approaching $1 trillion, the [...]

It feels a little hard to believe, but we’re marking another milestone on the site today: 9,000 posts in a little over 4 years. Many, many, many thanks to my fellow contributors who have written thousands of thoughtful posts. And many, many, many thanks to all of you who read and comment everyday. Here’s to [...]

To paraphrase Julie Andrews, “The Blogs are Alive …”, but this time with stolen emails rather than “Music”. Documents and archived emails were stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climatic Research Center (CRU). The first accounts indicate that 1,072 emails and 72 documents were stolen and then posted anonymously on file servers. The [...]

A local newspaper in upstate New York’s 23rd Congressional District, scene of the hard-fought and nationally prominent special election (won — so far anyway — by the Democrat after his Conservative opponent conceded), reports that a computer virus may have “tainted’ the results:   GOUVERNEUR, NY – The computerized voting machines used by many voters in [...]

The deficit explosion under the Obama administration is a common complaint by fiscal conservatives, and is often represented with a graph such as this one, courtesy of the libertarian think-tank, Cato.org: However, as Cato points out, the fiscal year starts in October of each year, and the budget for 2009 was signed into law by [...]

As many of you know, I’ve been a fan of Dobbs. Yes, he has been leading the far right on issues like immigration and border security, but he opposed the Bush tax cuts, wanted to raise the minimum wage, is pro choice and favors gay marriage. Meanwhile, he values fiscally responsibility and has a pro [...]

And it’ll achieve 94% coverage. And it costs $849B. CNN has more about some of the key points in the new bill… Among other things, they’ve agreed to subsidize insurance for a family of four making up to roughly $88,000 annually, or 400 percent of the federal poverty level. They’ve also agreed to expand Medicaid [...]

Why oh why oh why oh why? They gave her an incredibly easy way to ignore the more substantive arguments against her legitimacy as a candidate and focus on their dumb decision to run with the above nonsense. And this isn’t just coming from her corner. It’s coming from Media Matters and other voices in [...]

Michael Boskin is a professor of economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Today, in the Wall Street Journal, he proposes a temporary payroll tax reduction as a second try at a stimulus. He starts his argument with consideration of what would have happened with a temporary payroll tax reduction [...]

The administration’s claim of nearly 640,000 jobs created or “saved” by the $787 billion stimulus bill continues to be savaged by traditional media outlets for inaccuracies. From the Washington Examiner: More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were “created or saved” by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or [...]

Journalist Ezra Klein has come out in favor of the proposition that a federal health insurance mandate is constitutional, but the question remains a thorny legal problem. If a reform bill is passed with an individual mandate, will it pass constitutional muster? The answer isn’t quite as clear as Klein would have us believe. PENNumbra, [...]