Michael D. Brown

According to the New York Post, our ambassador to the United Nations is AWOL again.  While Libya collapses into a civil war, and oil supplies to Europe and the United States are threatened, this Administration’s priorities are all screwed up.  Consider: The UN Security Council convened an emergency session yesterday to draft sanctions against Libyan [...]

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting editorial about the status of manufacturing in the United States. Most of us, me included, have come to the belief that the days of America producing things reached its peak and has been in decline.  This professor puts that assumption to the test. Mark Perry of the University [...]

Read it and weep.  As I’ve said, the full body scanners that Chertoff and others have advocated are not the answer, just another attempt to lull the public into thinking that they’re safe.  The best defense against terrorism on airplanes is the passenger.  According to NBC DFW: An undercover TSA agent was able to get [...]

Every group has a bad apple in it.  But this is over the top.  Goon.  A CWA protestor decides he’s had enough conversation with someone simply asking questions (in a polite way). I don’t know Tabitha Hale, but from the looks of her photograph I doubt she did anything to incite this kind of boorish [...]

ESPN New York is reporting today that Hank Steinbrenner has compared MLB’s revenue sharing and luxury tax programs to socialism and communism, a comment that apparently drew a rebuke from Commissioner Bud Selig: TAMPA, Fla. — Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner says baseball’s revenue sharing and luxury tax programs need changes, and that commissioner Bud Selig [...]

While protestors in Madison, Wisconsin, have doctors probably violating their Hippocratic Oath and probably violating Wisconsin Board of Medical Examiners Code of Ethics by writing medical excuses for patients they don’t know, haven’t examined, union guys claim it’s time to clone Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and bring them to Madison, Wisconsin. Of course!  After [...]

Dick Morris has an excellent chart showing the economic damage that President Obama and the Congressional Democrats have done to this country over the period of his Administration to-date.  These numbers will only get worse unless/until the Republicans in the House and the Senate start to make serious cuts to our spending addiction.   The [...]

Here are the legislators in Wisconsin, who, instead of staying and doing the job voters elected them to do, run and hide in Rockford, Illinois.  They’re either afraid to stand up for what they believe in; or, they’re afraid of the striking government workers filling the halls of the state capitol in Madison.  You ought [...]

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Those working men and women who are struggling to survive in this economy are the ones paying the benefits of these teachers, firefighters and cops.  The day of reckoning is here, and when these public sector employees’ benefits, even with the increased contribution Governor Walker is asking them to [...]

  A new report says only 15 percent of the southern border is air tight and Paul Bedard over at Washington Whispers has a good summary of the GAO report outlining the lax border control: While they’ve made strides in arresting illegals and building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico line, the Border Patrol only has “operational [...]