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. […]

It’s pretty much agreed now: The American military is winning the war in Iraq — they’ve all but driven Al-Qaeda out of Baghdad and some other provinces. The troop surge that Democrat leaders gleefully predicted would fail — worked. It’s worked so well — without much coverage — some of our troops are beginning to […]

Last week, Nancy Pelosi’s House Democrats passed legislation requiring President Bush to effectively surrender in Iraq in order to get the funding our troops need to continue fighting and winning. These Democrats are holding our military hostage — unless they lose. Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid, also promises that our troops will be funded […]

Eventually, I think, Bush is one of few presidents who has actually sought to transform America’s place in the world — and out of necessity, what with the 9/11 attacks. He is a president that is attempting to establish a democratic-oriented beachhead in a part of the world where nobody thinks it’s possible. Now, we’ve […]

Now, there’s so much media conventional wisdom that’s wrong, and one of the things that was forever wrong during the amnesty bill debate was, from the Republican side, they said, “We have got to show these people that we care about them and they’re the backbone of America because we’ve gotta get these votes. We’re […]