Hillary Clinton, announced that she wants a poverty czar. What does that mean? We need a poverty czar. It means that she and those like her are admitting defeat in the war on poverty, are they not? They are admitting the failure of the welfare state. They are admitting in their own programs haven’t worked, […]

hearings — Day 1 I watched Carl Levin give his speech, his opening statement, he’s talking to General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, and he’s going on and on and on about how the Maliki government in Iraq has not met its benchmarks and has not found a way to pay its own way on anything, […]

I’ve heard stories of people speculating in the housing market. You know, not everybody’s who’s got caught up in this mortgage crisis is poor, and not everybody was lent money that had no business being lent money. A lot of these people were speculators. They were buying houses and flipping them, never living in them, […]

The Republican Party, doesn’t want to work with Democrats to get anything done. Is that true? No, not quite. I’ll be happy to work with as many Democrats as possible, when they join us, not when we join them. I’ll give you a great example. This Al Gore initiative, $300 million initiative, global warming. Newt […]

Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park; he has this little passage: “A hundred years ago, we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines.” A hundred years. He’s right. We didn’t have those things, and I mention this because here we are in a so-called recession or on the verge of a so-called recession. We have the most […]