By Phillip Matier & Andrew Ross
Where else but San Francisco City Hall could a 10-foot-long wheelchair ramp wind up costing $1 million?
Thanks to a maze of bureaucratic indecision and historic restrictions, taxpayers may shell out $100,000 per foot to make the Board of Supervisors president's perch in the historic chambers accessible to the disabled.
By Michael Goodwin
You don't have to love Hillary Clinton to feel her pain. By the end of Tuesday night's debate, she knew she had failed to change the dynamics of a race slipping away from her. The deflated look on her face telegraphed acceptance, even resignation.
Is this what liberals in the movie industry think about people in West Virginia? From Pittsburg Live:
A movie about to be filmed in Pittsburgh is casting Gothic characters — including an albino-like girl and deformed people — to depict West Virginia mountain people.
"'Regular-looking" children need not apply.
By David Forsmark, FrontPageMagazine.com
That "thwack" you hear from coast to coast is conservative book-writing pundits smacking themselves on the forehead and exclaiming, "Why didn't I think of that?"
The reason is National Review editor Jonah Goldberg's new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, as it [...]
By Thomas Sowell
The front page of the New York Times has increasingly become the home of editorials disguised as “news” stories. Too often it has become the home of hoaxes.
Going back some years, it was the Tawana Brawley hoax that she had been gang-raped by a bunch of white men. Just a couple of years [...]
A pair of Albany teenagers suspended for "gang-related behavior" because they were wearing crucifixes say they were only wearing gifts from their mothers.
Jaime Salazar, 14, his friend Marco Castro, 16, were suspended from South Albany High School recently after they refused to put away the crucifixes they were wearing around their necks.
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean announced Sunday that his organization will file a complaint on Monday with the Federal Election Commission, asking them to investigate whether Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain is breaking the law by reversing his decision to use public funding for his presidential campaign.
"John McCain cannot unilaterally withdraw from his spending [...]
By Damien Schiff
With the federal government's decision on whether to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act expected at any moment, it seems appropriate to step back and assess what the larger consequences of a listing would be for the American people.
Most folks are at least vaguely in favor of protecting the polar [...]
Whitewater. The word symbolizes years of legal troubles for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her husband's presidency. The scandal stoked a $52 million criminal investigation and offered moments of extraordinary spectacle, including the unprecedented grand jury appearance by a first lady.
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Clinton's 11-percentage-point lead in Ohio in the Quinnipiac University poll has fallen since a Feb. 14 survey by the same organization showed her ahead by 21 points. Clinton led among college-educated voters by 5 points two weeks ago, but Obama is now ahead with that group by 25 points. She still has substantial leads among [...]
