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 […]

New Yorkers, New York liberal Democrats, are livid. They are outraged over the decision by Governor Spitzer to pull his driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants plan. Charlie Rangel at the Spitzer press conference. RANGEL: There is no question that nobody’s thinking about identifying, deporting, jailing these people. They are part of our economy; they are […]

When a person — usually a liberal, or a member of the Media — says that the 2006 November election was about withdrawing from Iraq, is that person a liar? Is that person a manipulator? Let me ask it this way. When a journalist accepts that the 2006 election was all about Iraq, is he […]

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 […]