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Unaccountable White House aides are a product of a broken cabinet-nomination process. This is not the form of government the Founders intended.A pattern of governance has emerged in Washington that departs substantially from that envisaged in our Constitution. Under our basic concept of governance: (1) a president and vice president are elected; and (2) the departments of government are staffed by constitutional officers including secretaries, undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and others who are nominated by the president and confirmed for service by the consent of the Senate. They are publicly accountable and may be called to testify under oath about their...

Since the announcement that Glenn Beck is leaving Fox News, conspiracy theories abound. We may never know the whole story or the details behind the split but what we can do is wildly speculate who is going to take his place. The most important thing Fox News president Roger Ailes should keep in mind is whoever takes Beck’s time slot has to be someone who makes the Left put their full-blown moonbattery on display. It must be someone who pushes all the right buttons and enrages leftists, causing them to picket and boycott and all the other fun and hilarious...

The Constitution Doesn't Mention Czars Unaccountable White House aides are a product of a broken cabinet-nomination process. This is not the form of government the Founders intended. By GEORGE P. SHULTZ A pattern of governance has emerged in Washington that departs substantially from that envisaged in our Constitution. Under our basic concept of governance: (1) a president and vice president are elected; and (2) the departments of government are staffed by constitutional officers including secretaries, undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and others who are nominated by the president and confirmed for service by the consent of the Senate. They are publicly accountable...

MINSK, Belarus — An explosion has ripped through a subway station in the center of the Belarusian capital, severely wounding at least a dozen people and sending clouds of smoke pouring into the street. An Associated Press reporter at the scene Monday evening saw several inert people being carried out of the station, some with heavy injuries including at least one with missing legs.

A group of African students whose college tuitions are being paid by the U.S. government yesterday received a boost of additional funds to continue their educations – and an executive from the private contractor coordinating the program just happens to be the wife of a senior Obama administration official...the U.S. Agency for International Development under the current initiative has already spent nearly $2.1 million to send 16 students from the southeast African nation of Malawi to colleges in their homeland as well as in the U.S. and Kenya... World Learning's senior vice president for international development and exchange programs is...

A few years ago, my husband bought a Walther P22 for me. I like the idea of having a .22 handgun, but this gun hasn't been a good fit. I've shot a couple thousand rounds, at least. With all that practice, you would think I'd be getting tight clusters, right on target, every time, but no. I know how to shoot, which makes this even more frustrating. I do much better with heavier guns and calibers (.40 and .357) but want a .22 in the family arsenal, such as it is. The Walther sometimes stovepipes and even my husband, who...

Joel Richardson believes the Bible teaches “that the biblical Antichrist is one and the same as the Quran’s Muslim Mahdi.”[1] As I mentioned in a previous article, there’s nothing new about making Islam the end-time bad guy when it comes to prophetic speculation. It has a long history, something Mr. Richardson seems not to be aware of or, if he does know about it, he’s not telling his readers. Francis X. Gumerlock makes this historical observation about Islam and end-time conjecture: In A.D. 637, the Moslems captured Jerusalem, and soon afterward built a mosque on the Temple Mount. One chronicler...

Last week, a Quinnipiac poll showed Barack Obama’s job approval rating in the Sunshine State at 42%, with 52% disapproving. A new Mason-Dixon poll shows that the Q-poll was no outlier. The survey conducted for the St. Petersburg Times gives Obama a 43/56 approval rating, with a surprisingly bad result among independents: President Barack Obama is in trouble in Florida as he begins his re-election campaign. A new Sachs/Mason-Dixon poll found that only 34 percent of independent voters in Florida — always the key to winning — approve of Obama’s performance, and that either former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or...

BOSTON - Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, says Donald Trump disrespected her family by questioning the president's birthplace. Trump quoted Obama's grandmother when she claimed to have witnessed Barack Obama's birth in Kenya, and Onyango says that is not true.....

Featured Term (selected at random):MARIAN ART The Blessed Virgin in Christian art or architecture. The most ancient image of the Blessed Virgin still extant is a painting in the Roman catacomb of Priscilla on the Via Salaria. Dating from the early second or late first century, the fresco pictures Mary seated with the Child Jesus in her arms and what appears to be a prophet standing next to her, volume in hand and pointing to a star above the Virgin. Three other Marian paintings in the same catacomb date from the second and third centuries. One image on the tomb...

Okay, here's the deal: Local radio legend Bob Rivers has returned to the air after a 6-month absence. He's known for his "Twisted Tunes" that skewer everything from sports to politics to local issues. On the opening day of his new show (Apr. 1st), he premiered a new 'Twisted Tune' called "I Am Palin", done to the tune of Helen Reddy's 1970's feminist anthem "I Am Woman". In it, he makes fun of Sarah's intelligence, claiming she's nothing more than a "big time media whore". You can listen to the song at the link...http://www.bobrivers.com/#v11592 On the page, click on the...

Some people use cosmetic procedures to forestall aging. Others do it to hold a powerful vicegrip over their people. According to a world-famous Brazilian plastic surgeon, that’s why Libyan president Muammar Gadaffi went under the knife in 1995. Dr. Liacyr Ribeiro told the Associated Press that he supervised a facial fat injection and hair transplants for the dictator during a clandestine four-hour operation held in a private bunker in Tripoli. Ribeiro, now 70, had at that point traveled all over the world talking about plastic surgery. It was after one of those talks, at a conference in Tripoli, that he...

Last month bond giant PIMCO officially abandoned Treasuries completely.

Son just got back from the Atlanta police job fair. He was rejected immediately for some nautical tattoos he has on his arm. He got his artwork over the 10 years he has spent as a merchant marine and they are easily hidden. Funnily enough, he was able to eavesdrop long enough to hear a black man, covered in what looked like "gang tats" that HIS wouldn't be a problem. My son is a good, honest family man and a hard worker. Atlanta turned its back on a guy who worked hard to obtain a captain's license and certificates for...

Obama takes cues from Clinton? The end of big government (again) Neil Munro - The Daily Caller 57 mins ago President Barack Obama is mimicking Bill Clinton as he downplays many progressive priorities in his run towards the 2012 election. Obama’s new budget-cutting rhetoric is causing heartburn for progressives, even though there’s little evidence that he will reduce his efforts to win greater government control of the nation’s health, education and energy sectors. On Friday, Obama appeared before waiting cameras to laud the budget deal, which he described as “a budget that invests in our future while making the largest...

I know, I know. You’re not feeling that chipper over the last-minute aversion of a government shutdown. Perceived “caves” on key defunding issues like Planned Parenthood, NPR, and the budget in general have a lot of us feeling a bit down, although there may be room for some guarded optimism – my colleague Joseph Klein lays out the case here. And although all right-thinking people are relieved that the Left will not hold our soldiers hostage during a government shutdown, many of us think that shutting down so-called nonessential federal functions is EXACTLY what we need to do long term....

Michelle Obama's America: Chicago School Bans Bag Lunches to Protect Kids from Themselves By Tim Graham Created 04/11/2011 - 10:32am The Chicago Tribune reported Monday that one Chicago public school -- the Little Village Academy -- has banned bag lunches...to protect the kids from their own "unhealthful" food choices: Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices. "Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school," Carmona said. "It's about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It's milk...

Bacteria that cause pneumonia and meningitis are only able to spread when individuals are infected with flu, says a scientist reporting at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Harrogate. The work could have implications for the management of influenza pandemics and could help reduce incidence of pneumococcal infections in very young children, who are more susceptible to disease. Streptococcus pneumoniae normally lives harmlessly in the nasal passage. Up to 80% of young children carry the bacterium in their nose. It is already known that if a colonized individual is infected with influenza virus, the bacterium is more likely...

The New Watergate By Anne Walker Where I stand depends on where I sit . . . . or in this case . . . . where I used to sit. It is so true. Those of us who lived through the days of what came to be known as “Watergate”, the days of reading about our pals in the Washington Post every day, seeing them accused and vilified, hauled in front of a grand jury for countless hours while their legal bills sky rocketed, go to trial, and be convicted of perjury, not wrongdoing, and end up in...

Real estate developer Donald Trump blames President Obama for the rising price of oil, warning, "this country can never, ever recover" if oil prices continue to go up. "That's really the life's blood of the country," Trump told CNBC in a phone interview on Monday. The Trump Organization chairman, who says he's considering running for president, plans to decide "before June" on the matter. He contended that Obama is not a leader and is "in bed with these (OPEC) people. He doesn't speak the way you have to speak to them." Although he blames China for "ripping off our country,"...