Jack Bauer Is Not Dead by Rick Moran Greg Gutfeld wonders (parenthetically) if Jack Bauer is dead because the Obama Administration released the memos concocted by Bush era lawyers to justify the use of torture. Earlier today President Obama said charges might be brought against those evil Bush lawyers behind the just-released memos justifying the harsh interrogation techniques used against folks who wanted...

Insurance Is The Problem by Jim Bell Many of us have this dream that we could have less government in our lives and a better quality of life at the same time. Seems silly doesn’t it? When you look at it objectively, we give the government a lot of money with our taxes. The only thing we need in life from government is a good, safe life and the ability to exercise our freedom. To have this we need a proper...

The Confrontation Con-Game by Barry Rubin There are many people eager to see President Barack Obama and his administration bash Israel, or predict that has already happened. But the administration has yet to make any significant direct anti-Israel actions or statements. I expect this widely predicted conflict isn’t going to take place. Let me repeat the word “direct.” Inasmuch as the U.S. government...

Life and Death in the Google Age — Interview With Jeff Jarvis b Bill Steigerwald Q: What does Google do and what’s so revolutionary about it? A: The idea behind the book was not so much to write a book about Google as about the changes in our world – and trying to figure them out by viewing them through the lens of Google’s success. I believe the changes in our world are huge and profound right...

Why Obama is right to draw a line under the Bush torture era by Dalitso Njolinjo As a follower of American politics I found this week to be a very strange one. The liberal news network MSNBC seemed to have morphed into what they mock almost on a daily basis, Fox News. I saw them revert to childish jokes to undermine what even I could see was a legitimate political protest at its core by the Libertarians which...

Resurrection of Intolerance by Walter Brasch The fanatic right-wing, after taking a few days off to catch their breath, is back again with vengeance. Name anything that President Obama is doing, and this broken wing will try to slap it down, unmindful that more than two-thirds of Americans support the President, with his popularity rising each week, according to several independent polls. ...

Pirates: The Shipping News by Michael Winship If you’re looking for signs of the Apocalypse – and who isn’t? – here’s a good one. There’s an uptick in ark building. You heard me. According to The Wall Street Journal, that Bible of the Financially Bilious, Hong Kong’s billionaire Kwok brothers are in the final stages of constructing the world’s first full-size replica...

Islamists of the World Unite; You Have Nothing to Lose Except Any Pretext of Being Moderate By Barry Rubin It’s a development of tremendous importance and you probably won’t be hearing about it from anywhere but here. Mahdi Akef, supreme guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, has defied his own country’s government to ally himself with Hizballah. What makes this such a remarkable and high-risk step?...

What Do Political Cartoons and McDonalds Have in Common? By Daryl Cagle Every time I open a newspaper I read another story about the decline of newspapers. Political cartoonists were the canaries in the newspaper-decline-coal-mine; our ranks have been shrinking for the past 30 years — but now the pace has quickened as only a few dozen editorial cartoonists are left, and they seem to be losing their jobs...

Reality Britain by Dalitso Njolinjo It is said that more people in Britain vote for their favorite participant of reality shows such as X-Factor (Britain’s version of American Idol) and Big Brother than they do for their local representative or party in the general elections. The usual piffle flows out of the mouths of most politicians to explain such disengagement (“People vote numerous times”, “We...

By SHAUN MULLEN GUEST VOICE The Nazis kept talking about a thousand-year Reich but they couldn’t think ahead for five minutes! — A TRANSLATOR FOR HITLER While thousands of books have been written about virtually every aspect of the Third Reich from anshluss to zionism, comparatively little ink has been spilled on how Adolph Hitler governed his empire of conquered European states. And so it comes...

The reviews are still coming on President Barack Obama’s trip to Europe. A lot of them are positive. Here’s a less positive one from radio talk show host Michael Reagan. Mr. Obama’s Traveling Circus by Michael Reagan While the United States writhes in the agony of seeking a way out of the current financial mess, President Obama, his wife and a cast of 500 aides and hangers-on took the show on the...

Editor’s Note: This has been a huge week for gay rights. Vermont and Iowa gave the green-light, joining Massachusetts and Connecticut — with more states seemingly on the way and conservative GOPers’ once-potent power not quite as potent. Both sides are digging in their heels for a long — accelerating battle. In this Guest Voice post, Dalitso Njolinjo gives his perspective from England...

Don’t Blame The Republicans For Having Principles by Dalitso Njolinjo I’ve just been debating with my friends about the big evil in American politics, the Republican Party. To simplify the two hour debate, the argument against the Republicans boils down to this: they are sour losers. They can’t take it that they lost the last election that badly and now they are obstructing the Democratic agenda....

Obama is a Fascist? by Dalitso Njolinjo Watching Glen Beck emotionally tell his Fox News audience that he believes Obama is leading America on the road to fascism quite frankly baffles me. No, really it does. I don’t understand where he is coming from. Maybe it because I do not live in America and the news I get here in the UK is restricted to CNN and Fox on satellite cable, and MSNBC and CBS online. I...

66 for 44 by Dalitso Njolinjo I am going to start of by stating that Barack Obama is the smartest American politician since Ronald Reagan. Democrats searched years to find their own Gipper, the go to guy for pressing home their liberal message, Obama is it. Since his inauguration you have seen the Republican machine try their very best to undermine and smear the President. Whether it was producing no votes...

RIP General Motors By Martha Randolph Carr Rick Wagoner has been laid off. The newly-former CEO of General Motors was forced out by the Obama administration after failing to present a workable strategy in exchange for a request of $16.6 billion in additional taxpayer dollars on top of the $14.4 billion the company already received. The unemployed CEO was tasked with reducing the debt over the past three months...

Grand Old Contradictions: Obama and the GOP by Dalitso Njolinjo I have always been fascinated with American popular culture from an early age. The mythical promise of the American dream found me at an early age, while I still roamed my birth place of Blantyre, Malawi. Whether it was the dream of drinking an ice cold bottle of Coca Cola while watching Jordon fly to dunk a basket, or the thought of replacing my...

That’s No Angry Mob, It’s a Movement by Michael Winship A college friend of mine, after much quaffing from the keg, so to speak, would start singing a faux hymn that began, “We are sliding into sin – whee!” I’ve thought of his bleary tune from time to time as we all watched our financial institutions slide from thoughtless, wretched excess into calamity, aided and abetted by deregulation and bailouts,...

Obama’s Enforcer By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown In Obama’s entire circle of advisers, one man rises above the pack, gaining the reputation as the most ruthless political figure in America today. This man is Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff. Instead of being an impassioned ideologue, he instead enjoys utilizing Machiavellian tactics to achieve more traditional political ends. A classic Chicago-style machine...

Gordon Brown: A Lack Of British Leadership by Dalitso Njolinjo Rarely does a politician display his disdain for the people his serves quiet like Mr Gordon Brown. If you want to know what is wrong with British politics and why Britain is the country that is worst placed to deal with this financial crisis, look no further then our unelected Prime Minister. The man believes that every single British citizen...

Beware of Flawed Polling by Dheeraj Chand The contrast in quality between the news and opinion divisions of The Wall St. Journal never ceases to amaze me. While the news reporting has won award after award, and has become the definitive source of news for the American business and financial communities, the opinion pages are characterized by what some would consider mendacity and methodological sloppiness...

Defending Bush by Dalitso Njolinjo How do you defend the indefensible? How do you defend the modern day villain? How do you defend someone that is seen in the mind of the public (UK) as a caricature of evil itself? Is he a diabolical evil mastermind? Well no, he is just a man who was thrown into an impossibly difficult position. America seems to mythologize the occupant of the Oval office so much that they...

The Real Significance of The CBS Poll About Obama And AIG by Dheeraj Chand A CBS News poll fielded over the weekend shows a surprising finding: while a majority of Americans disapprove of AIG handing out bonuses, believe that the government should do more to recover them and specifically give Obama low marks for handling this issue, there is no appreciable change in his overall job performance and there is...