When Venezuela’s dictator, Hugo Chavez, moved his country away from market-based capitalism to socialism, it was only a matter of time before Venezuela’s economy would tank. Reuters story: Food shortages are now a part of life [for Hugo’s subjects]. Workers leave jobs for hours at a time searching for milk, cooking oil — even beef. […]

Take all the pork-barrel spending from the beginning of the war and compare it with war costs, and I think it would be very interesting. Pork barrel, earmarks and so forth. Here we have a war that is being fought in the interests of US national security. This is one of the legitimate responsibilities of […]

This is from the Financial Times by Michael Franc, who is the vice president of government relations at the Heritage Foundation. The headline says it all here: “‘Democrats Wake Up to Being the Party of the Rich.‘ — A legislative proposal that was once on the fast track is suddenly dead. The Senate will not […]

We have great economic news out there. “Employers added about twice as many new employees last month than expected.” It’s always a surprise when the economy does well. This is Reuters. “Factory orders edged up. The government reports on Friday implied the economy was strong enough to avoid a recession.” Who’s talking about a recession? […]

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday blasted Hillary Rodham Clinton for talking about what she would do on the diplomatic front between her possible election and inauguration. Clinton has told crowds she would send ‘distinguished Americans of both political parties to travel around the world on my behalf with a very simple message to […]