The purpose of the $700 billion bailout bill was not to prop up the stock market, but to thaw credit markets. The health of these are measured typically by the LIBOR,...
"Katie's Restaurant closed years ago. It was on Scott Street in Little Italy."The people who fill up at his neighborhood gas station can't pay for a full tank of gas,...
Few Americans remember that earlier "Black Monday," because the crash had little impact on the overall economy, and the stock market recovered fairly soon afterwards.We...
"Obama's Department of Energy will enter into public-private partnerships to develop five 'first of a kind' commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture...
"In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae's chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal, Franklin D. Raines has been quietly...
And there was a very practical reason why this option never was considered. Sen. George McGovern was going to lose in 1972 no matter what, but the final nail in his...
The sewer that is the left-wing blogosphere pumps its bilge directly into the "mainstream" media. "People say yes, she looks good in a bikini clutching an AK-47, but is...
No friend of Barack Obama -- and the last week has demonstrated he has no better, nor more unscrupulous, friends than those in the news media -- can be happy about...
Mr. Ayers was never prosecuted because of FBI misconduct. He became a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago."I don't regret setting bombs," Mr....
"The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted in that context, because what they are putting out privately is that McCain may not...
Chamberlain had told his Cabinet Hitler "would not deliberately deceive a man whom he respected and with whom he had been in negotiation." But now Hitler had marched...
Barack Obama has the thinnest resume of any major party candidate for president in history, and this isn't the first time he's tried to pad it. But his false claim in...
In his speech at Constitution Hall, Mr. Gore called for a crash program to convert the entire U.S. electric grid to carbon-free sources of energy within ten years. ...
That bill faltered after a massive outburst of indignation from the American people. Joining the roughly one third of Americans who oppose any form of amnesty were...
I'm surprised Sen. Obama wasn't somewhere else giving a speech on hope and change on the day of the FISA vote. If there were ever a vote for him to duck, it was this...
Al Qaida was making its "last stand" in Mosul, and now is done, finished, kaput, said Ms. Colvin, who was embedded with the 2nd Iraqi Division for Operation Lion's...
Gen. Clark's larger point -- that being a war hero is an insufficient qualification to be president -- is reasonable enough, but was lost in his boorish dismissal of...