Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.
In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today's anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don't own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.
In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in...
Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, John Stossel, Thomas Sowell, and Larry Kudlow are among 17 new conservative columnists coming to The Washington Examiner in coming weeks as a result of a new agreement between the paper and Creators Syndicate.
Last week, it was announced that Cal Thomas, American's most widely syndicated opinion columnist, has joined the Examiner's stable of top conservative opinion commentators and analysts. Thomas is syndicated by Tribune Media and read in more than 500 daily papers.
In addition to Malkin, O'Reilly, Stossel, Sowell, and Kudlow, the new columnists coming to the Examiner include Linda Chavez, Mona Charen, Pat Buchanan, David Limbaugh, Diane Dimond, Austin Bay, David Harsanyi, Stephen Chapman, R. Emmett Tyrell, Walter Williams, Dennis Prager, Oliver...
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After a torrent of constituent outrage and with a potential lawsuit from 13 state attorney generals brewing over the sale of his vote on health care reform, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson is waffling again:
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said he's not yet "100 percent certain" he can vote for health reform legislation.
Nelson, who gave Democrats a crucial 60th vote to end debate on its healthcare bill and pass it, said he's hopeful he can support whatever final legislation comes before the Senate, but can't be sure.
“I hope so, but I’m not 100 percent certain of it," Nelson told The Chadron Record in an interview last Friday.
Nelson had been the last Democrat to hold out support for Democrats' health bill, having raised concern over the bill's inclusion of a public option, and...
With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for President Obama's health-care bill. In response, an army of lobbyists for drug companies, health insurance companies, and hospitals has teamed up to throw a high-dollar Capitol Hill fundraiser for Coakley next Tuesday night. The invitation is here.
Of the 22 names on the host committee--meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley--17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there's also the political action commitee for Boston...
As I write this, only 35 people have viewed this highly interesting slide-show that was posted three weeks ago by someone from the American Campaign Management School. It originates from a presentation given by the director of the abortion advocacy group EMILY's List and the founder of the Democracy Alliance.
What it offers is a rare look at how left-wing organizations are working together and plotting a progressive future....
As much as $9.5 million in federal stimulus dollars went to 14 zip codes in Virginia that don’t exist or are in other states, Old Dominion Watchdog (http://virginia.watchdog.org) reports. The fake zip codes were listed on Recovery.gov, the federal Web site that is supposed to track how the stimulus money is being used.
The phony zip codes are a new wrinkle in Recovery.gov’s increasingly tattered credibility. In November, Ed Pound, director of communications for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, said a rash of phantom congressional districts found on the website were the result of confusion by fund recipients, who apparently didn’t know who their congressman was.
But who would give millions of dollars to somebody who doesn’t even know their own...
Tiger Woods and Nike founder Phil Knight have been friends and business partners from the day he turned pro. The company was so committed to Woods that Knight started an entire golf line dedicated to the Tiger brand.
While some feel Nike might pull away from Woods there is no chance that Knight is giving up even a little on his friend.
Here is an interview between Knight and the Sports Business Journal's fine reporter Tripp Mickle done after Knight was given The National Football Foundation’s 2009 Gold Medal honor at a dinner in New York.
How would you characterize the state of athlete endorsements right now?
Knight: It’s a market like other things and the market like other markets has gone down. When the economy comes back up, they’ll go back...
Our front-page local story today by Bill Myers about D.C.'s local government reinforces the message of today's editorial -- namely, that government bureaucrats are feasting in the midst of a national famine:
City officials have doled out nearly $15 million in bonuses and awards since Mayor Adrian Fenty took office in January 2007, records obtained by The Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act show...
AIG's scandalous bonuses were more than ten times that amount, but bear in mind that revenues of the pre-crash AIG of 2007 were more than ten times as large as the D.C. government's $9.5 billion annual budget. (The insurer has obviously been humbled since then -- it's now only twice as large.)
There is a sub-plot here involving Schools' Chancellor Michelle Rhee, whose department...
The Congressional Budget Office predicts up to 10 million people would lose employer-sponsored health care coverage under Senate Democratic health care reform plan.
The CBO released the data last night.
"Firms that would choose not to offer coverage as a result of the proposal would tend to be smaller employers and employers that predominantly employ lower-wage workers‚"people who would be eligible for subsidies through the exchange," The CBO reports, "although some workers who would not have employment-based coverage because of the proposal would not be eligible for such subsidies."
Senate Republicans are touting the new figures to counter claims by President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,that people will be able to keep...
Based on the House vote on health care, which seats are possible pick-ups for Republicans? One place to look would be seats in districts where Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., received more than 50 percent of the vote in the 2008 presidential election. Thirty-one Democrats came from such districts, feeling enough pressure from constituents to vote against the bill.
Sixteen Democrats, however, come from McCain districts, and still voted for the bill. They are listed below by district and last name as well as the percentage of their voters that went for McCain:
WV-01 Mollohan 57
WV-03 Rahall 56
AR-02 Snyder 54
AZ-01 Kirkpatrick 54
PA-10 Carney 54
ND-AL Pomeroy 53
SC-05 Spratt 53
AZ-05 Mitchell 52
AZ-08 Giffords 52
OH-18 Space...
