Is This a Joke? Obama Off to Hawaii for Seventeen Day Vacation

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Allen West: Naive to Say We Are at War With "Terror"

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Cain Train May Be Coming to a Halt

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Bill O'Reilly: Is It Over for Lady Gaga? A few months ago in this space, I wrote a column about the cultural phenom Lady Gaga that ended with my politely telling her to save her money. That's because the treacherous world of popular culture is not usually a long-term proposition.

John Ransom: Jail Cells for Corzine, Soros, Waters, Paulson, Frank, Pelosi, No One Now that the government is firmly in the business of business, expect the graft to multiply. Our government subsidizes not just government guaranteed loans, as seen in the green graft Solyndra scheme, but government guaranteed profits to prominent campaign contributors. For Congress, things are going great.

John C. Goodman: Free Our Veterans Now Don't you think our military veterans deserve decent health care? I certainly do. That's why I like Mitt Romney's idea of setting the veterans free. Give them the opportunity to choose private health care alternatives to the Veterans Health Administration (V.H.A.), a system that too often fails them.

Caroline Glick: The real war in Iran Something is happening in Iran. Forces are in motion. But what is happening? And who are the forces that are on the move? Since this week's bombing in Isfahan, the world media is rife with speculation that the war with Iran over its nuclear weapons program has begun. But if the war has begun, who is fighting it? What are their aims? And what are their methods and means of attack?

Kathryn Lopez: Romney Has The Right Stuff Mitt Romney did something oddly appropriate during a post-Thanksgiving interview with Fox News host Bret Baier: He got peeved.

Rich Galen: Newt: I Will be the Nominee We can say this about our friend Newt Gingrich: He has never suffered from public self-doubt.

Paul Tracy: The Most Hated Company on Earth Is Making Investors Rich In a year marked by credit downgrades, the European debt crisis and stagnating growth, the most hated company on the planet is still making investors rich. And that comes when the broader market has been a roller coaster ride.

Mike Shedlock: Real Unemployment 11 Percent; Total Unemployment 15.6 Percent Were it not for people dropping out of the labor force, the unemployment rate would be well over 11%.

Jeff Carter: An Occupy Wall Street Rant Occupy Wall Street wants to dictate. They aren’t interested in competing and listening.

Bob Beauprez: Unemployment Nothing to Crow About 315,000 people gave up looking for a job and left the work force, and that reduced the Labor Participation Rate to just 64 percent. Less people working doesn’t bode well for economic growth in the months ahead.

Political Calculations: The Effect of QEs on Stock Prices are the key milestones with respect to the Fed's quantitative easing programs, along with some other notable events. Our chart below shows the overall timeline over the past three years.

Crista Huff: Disney Just Increased Your Kid's Allowance Broke and suffering corporations do not give away money like Disney has. As I’ve discussed all year, many American companies are in sound financial shape, despite the economy.

Floyd and Mary Beth Brown: You Have No Privacy If you are like us, every day you pick up a smartphone and you send email, visit with friends on Facebook, send a text message or even log into your bank's website and pay a bill. These modern day conveniences have become routine.

Steve Deace: We Won't Get Fooled Again...or Will We? For the past three years I have worked on a book project dealing with the 30-year failure of the Religious Right to win on a single policy issue despite all of the elections its won, the money its raised, and the headlines its generated.

Gil Morales and Chris Kacher: Looking for Shorts in Choppy Market One of our favorite formations is the “head & shoulders” formation, a pattern that investors should be aware of during environments where former leading stocks have begun to falter. Historically, leading stocks have often formed such a pattern before rolling over for good and plumbing to new lows.

Carl Horowitz: Immigration: An Artificial Stimulus For Homeownership The phrase “jobs Americans won’t do” all too often serves as a rationale for maintaining high levels of immigration. Get set for an equally dubious idea to justify mass immigration: “housing Americans can’t buy.” Senators Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, among others, are believers. And they’re offering a sweet deal.

Bill Tatro: Liars Figure and Figures Lie It’s pure magic. As people continue to be discounted, the base will diminish and the unemployment rate will decline. Hooray! By Election Day, nobody will be working, but the unemployment rate will be an acceptable 6%.

Ralph Benko: Memo to GOP: Rich is Better Memo to the GOP presidential hopefuls: It is more fun to be rich. Just get with it. End of memo.

Bob Goldman: Your Money or Your Facebook I don't think the framers put it in the constitution, but if Thomas Jefferson ever laid his eyes on an iPhone 4S, I'm sure he would have stuck it in there well before the right to bear arms and the right to free speech.

Daniel J. Mitchell: Great Moments in Government Incompetence There are several levels of jaw-dropping incompetence in this story, including the fact that the job at the Agriculture Ministry was offered to the wrong person and the supposed right person was recommended for a different job at the Infrastructure Ministry.

David Malcolm: Beyond the Beltway – Barney Frank, Billy Crystal & the Occupy Movement In the aftermath of the nation’s favorite fall pastimes -- overeating and over shopping -- comes a tumultuous week of new news about old topics: Barney Frank, Billy Crystal and the Occupy movement.

Steven Aden: My iPhone won't help me kill my baby Perhaps one of the most novel aspects of the recently released iPhone 4S is the Siri app, which allows you to ask your phone questions and then hear your phone answer them – a nascent form of artificial intelligence. However, as great as this technology is, the ACLU is quite upset over the fact that the app doesn’t appear to be abortion friendly.

Karen Lugo: Calling All Moderate Muslims Having participated in numerous community events aimed at combating Islamists trying to limit free speech, I am convinced we will only protect speech rights in this country if we have the help of patriotic American Muslims.

Amy Oliver: Disasters Keep Hitting Clean Energy Scam The “myth” of “renewable” energy recycled by politicians and crony capitalists, driven by climate change alarmists and environmental fearmongers, withers in the face of the reality of markets and consumer preferences.

Michelle Malkin: Miley Cyrus, Occupier Poster Girl She's perfect. Miley Cyrus, Hollywood's perpetually half-dressed wild child with an insatiable appetite for attention, jumped in front of the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon this week. The young Disney mogul unveiled a YouTube anthem hailing the aimless, anti-capitalist protesters. Smells like opportunistic teen queen spirit.

Jonah Goldberg: The Problem With China Envy In 2008, I wrote a book called "Liberal Fascism." That title came from H.G. Wells, one of the most important socialist writers in the English language. He believed, as did his fellow Fabian socialists, that Western democratic capitalism had outlived its usefulness.

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