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As Professor Jacobson's recent pictorial essay noted, there is something for both the left and right to hate about the Obama Administration's use of drones. As the co-founder of San Diego's first Tea Party group, I love the grassroots initiative displayed by the citizens of one...

Just when I thought the anti-religious, anti-First Amendment left couldn't get any more base, any more insulting, I read this: The Freedom from Religion Foundation wants the proposed Statehouse Holocaust memorial changed by removing what it sees as the Jewish religious symbolism of the Star of David. In...

This is turning out to be a case of one TV station that just seems determined to perpetuate the Streisand Effect. KTVU, which was recently duped into reading off the very obviously fake names of several purported pilots from Asiana Flight 214, has apparently been trying...

The push for an economic boycott of Florida has ratcheted up in recent days, with some members of the Congressional Black Caucus now publicly supporting the idea of such an action.  The underlying target of their ire?  Stand Your Ground laws, of course. From The Hill: A...

As opposed to what should be considered a bombshell? I refer you to this column by Peggy Noonan entitled "A Bombshell in the IRS Scandal": The IRS scandal was connected this week not just to the Washington office—that had been established—but to the office of the chief...

By its very name, you know that any lawsuit sponsored by Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) will do three things: Target some successful, American corporate entity. Be based on anything other than science. Go counter to any interest that I, as an informed American consumer,...

Those of us who have been following Andrew Branca's excellent coverage of the Zimmerman trial here on LI weren't at all surprised by the verdict.  Indeed, we'd have been surprised by anything else; however, leftists are busy little bees, working their race-baiting denial-of-facts-and-law nonsense with...

Either President Obama identifies pretty strongly with Trayvon Martin, or he's pretending to do so for political purposes. First we had Obama's statement that, if he'd had a son, he'd have looked like Martin. That was fairly early in the game. But now, post-verdict, we have...

NSA head General Keith Alexander said at a forum earlier this week that the agency is taking steps to insure that a breach of its systems like the one committed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor employed through Booz Allen Hamilton, cannot occur again. ...

Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace in 2008 after a prostitution scandal, is now running for the position of NYC Comptroller.  As Business Insider points out, he's since begun a huge national media tour and Thursday wasn't an especially good day for...