The White House initially conceived of Thursday’s six-hour summit as a way to force Republicans to submit to its plan for a national health care system. In the words of one unnamed Democratic officeholder, the expectation was that the summit would “give a face to gridlock, in the form of …

This year’s first big summer movie, “Iron Man 2,” reprises the adventures of Tony Stark, the iron suit-wearing industrialist who fights off evil-doers. The media have had fun outing the fictional billionaire as a rarity in Hollywood movies – a capitalist hero. Actually, Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., is …

They are crossing the border illegally and violently displacing the indigenous population whose homes and possessions they either destroy or occupy. They are attacking the young, the elderly, and especially the girls and women, whom they kidnap, forcibly convert, or traffic into brothels. The locals are terrified of them. The …

While Congress considers sweeping new legislation to permanently institutionalize the bailouts and federal control of our financial system (right on the heels of their health care takeover, of course) several other sweeping power grabs are going on outside the spotlight of legislative debate. Indeed President Obama seems to believe that …

Since last September the federal government has been spending money like a drunken greenhorn cowboy on a Saturday night. Bank bailouts, stimulus spending that ain’t done much stimulatin’, and taking over automobile companies all have added up to a federal deficit soaring to a record $1.42 trillion — the highest …

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:00:29 +0000 – By Dan GainorVice President, Business Media Institute, Media Research Center My 2009 Wish List * Hollywood gives up on movies based on “graphic novels” and decides to embrace something radical — plot. * To quote George Bush the elder, “no new taxes.” * …

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:07:48 +0000 – By LaToya FosterPolitical Commentator/Host, “In The Know” As the country continues to ride the momentum wave of hope and new beginnings, I can’t help but find myself thinking about the historic nature of what I witnessed this week. I can still see so …

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:16:18 +0000 – By Ken Klukowski and Ken Blackwell “He who defines the words is the master.” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Recent events reveal how far to the left President Obama really is. When the president’s Cairo speech, taken with his reactions to …

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:43:27 +0000 – By Dan GainorVice President, Business Media Institute Apparently, lying has a cost — a financial one. I’m referring to Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, who famously lied about protecting the AIG bonuses. As the New York Post put …

President Obama is sick and tired of the way his health care initiative has been twisted and misrepresented. He is especially annoyed that anyone…anyone… would suggest that he wants to euthanize poor old Granny. The problem is there are a lot of people, including some of his supporters, who want …