Current events

Can I get an "amen" forRobert J. Samuelson's timely economic sermon?

It's not exactly a shock that Americans' confidence in television news has dropped to a new low:

Americans' confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. This marks a decline from 27% last year and from 46% when Gallup started tracking confidence in television news in 1993.

Wishful thinking, I'd say:

When a buffoon like Thomas Friedman prattles on with China envy, it's up-to-a-point amusing. When when it comes from a Cabinet secretary, it's just a little bit scary:

Rich Lowry says we should just get over our silly panic about drones spying on us all the time:

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman:

Be afraid, be very afraid:

With the Supreme Court giving President Obama’s new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages, but already costing money and expanding the government.

Amen:

You haven’t seen the country until you’ve driven across it. And you won’t really grasp the fallacy of the Left’s bogus argument that we’re running out of space and resources until you do.

I hate being in my "It's a sick, twisted world" mood, but living in a sick, twisted world will do that to you:

A Colorado couple says they are the victims of a hate crime because someone stole a “VOTE SATAN” sign from their front porch, but police say the incident sounds more like simple theft.

Awww, Ange:

Actor Andy Griffith, who won the hearts of 1960s TV viewers with his role as gentle Sheriff Andy Taylor in “The Andy Griffith Show,” then returned as a 1980s country lawyer in “Matlock,” died Tuesday at 86, according to WITN-TV.