Sen. Kit Bond (R-Missouri) announced he will not be seeking reelection, a Washington Post blog reports. As far as conservatives are concerned, this could be a good thing. Bond…
If ever there was an industry that benefitted from fairly inelastic demand for its products, it’s the pornography industry. Yet even America’s pornographers are demanding a cut of the federal bailout…
Just days after Venezuelan-owned CITGO suspended its fuel oil assistance program in the U.S., that nation’s Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez has reinstated it, according to…
“It’s fair to say that the money is not in the foundation now. I don’t know where it is,” said trustee Bruce H. Hooper, a donor to Philadelphia-area charities as…
They entertain ideas about how philanthropy might change (e.g., change investment policies to reduce risk to assets; change giving philosophy from social change-making to helping people directly; increase the percentage…
President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Thomas J. Perrelli to be associate attorney general, according to reports. You may remember Perrelli, managing partner in the DC office of Jenner & Block, from a…
The racist “Akaka Bill,” which is certain to resurface in the 111th Congress that convened today, would inflict serious harm on the economy of Hawaii if enacted, according to…
The EPA, last year, published its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act. One of the suggestions the EPA made…
Add another one to the ACORN elections crime file. Deidra Humphrey of St. Louis was indicted Dec. 31 by a federal grand jury for filing forged and false voter…
One happy side effect of falling oil prices is the fact that Venezuela’s leftist strongman Hugo Chavez can’t afford to maintain his “public diplomacy” program in the U.S. Citizens Energy…