Michael Baron is attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual event that “is a conversation-packed exploration of some of the most important ideas and pressing issues we face”. I’m sure the event if full of serious people making serious faces at serious topics. And probably a bore-fest. But Baron is surprised by what he...
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Of all the modern plagues, the “Forward” button is one of the most vexing. It combines the worst attributes of chain letters and small town gossip with advanced technology, allowing dissemination of nonsense and lies at a speed heretofore unknown. The creators of the email standard added the function reluctantly, but they tried to...
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Those principles in America’s founding document did not seem revolutionary to Americans. Indeed, the words rang with the peal...
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President Obama appears to be able to suffer any insult to his country, with the limitless ability to respond to sharp criticism of America with quick apologies for the faults of his countrymen. But as Robert Gibbs tells us, he is “furious” when personally criticized by a general or his staff. Hot Air reports...
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Dana the Magnificent, aka Dana Loesch, is one of the new faces on the political scene, and a leader in the nascent Tea Party movement. Prior to the demonization of dissent by the left, Dana was best known as a “mommie blogger” with wit, wisdom and a realistic outlook. She suffered the slings and...
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