The announcement today that the unemployment rate declined slightly to 9.4 percent in July while only 247,000 additional jobs were lost has been greeted as good news. The change in the unemployment rate puts the rate at what it was in May.Yet, even a rough look at the numbers indicates …

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:59:53 +0000 – By Bill SammonDeputy Managing Editor, Washington Bureau, FOX News Channel He seated a left-wing radio host in the coveted front row. He called on a liberal blogger from the Huffington Post. He even brought far-left columnist Helen Thomas out of the wilderness and …

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:10:31 +0000 – By Phil KerpenDirector of Policy, Americans for Prosperity The new Obama-Geithner plan to buy up bad bank assets is an improvement over the original Paulson-Bush plan for the government to simply buy up toxic assets directly. That plan was abandoned shortly after the …

The Sony story is downright bizarre — and I don’t just mean the hacking. I include the decision to make the stupid movie in the first place. The plot of “The Interview” sounds like something cooked up in a third-world fantasy factory: The CIA recruits two American journalists to assassinate …

Voter discontent will soon give Republicans control of the Senate, but Americans may quickly become dissatisfied with the new cast on Capitol Hill. Paychecks are stagnant, good jobs scarce and health care remains too expensive, but Americans often won’t accept what fixing big problems requires, and pressure elected officials to …

Well, what a week. It’s tough to narrow it down to one fool this week There the Nebraska school district that wants children to be addressed as “purple penguins” so as to NOT offend Lesbian, Gay, bisexual or transgendered students. Or the Harvard student body who think America is a …

The U.S. economy created only 142,000 jobs in August, down from 212,000 in July, indicating the economy significantly slowed this summer. Job creation is well below the pace needed to reemploy all the workers displaced during the financial crisis—the economy is in crisis! Although official GDP estimates indicate the economy …

The scope of Hamas’ terrorist tunnel freeway system is shocking. Specially-trained shock troops would have launched a mega attack on Southern Israel on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, that would have left thousands murdered and maimed and scores, if not hundreds of drugged kidnapped hostages, dragged back to Gaza. …

I just came back from Africa, where the Ebola virus is at the top of the news. Comparing what my companions and I learned on the ground to what is being carried in African, European and American newspapers and television, there is a lot about this disease that the news …

Whether to rent or buy a home is one of the toughest choices for young people these days. A recent Deutsche Bank study compared renting vs. the cost of owning a home in 54 cities. The study estimated the monthly payment on an average American house, factoring in property taxes, …