In 2007 a little known hedge fund manager pulled in a personal profit $4 billion (firm profit $20 billion), with a daring bet against a real estate boom that everybody knew was going to bust ... someday.

In 2006 John Paulson (of no relation to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson...

At the end of August I had a rash.

I was visiting a relative at Southampton Hospital on Long Island and decided to stop at the Emergency Room to have it checked out.

The rash was making me itch and had lasted a few days. It really wasn't...

"I don't want some government bureaucrats giving my money to someone else."

"I don't want my Medicare cut so that poor people and illegal aliens can have health care."

"I don't want the government death panels deciding what medicines I will get."

"I want what's mine and...

Brownstone Stoops are one of New York's Oldest Treasures

The hot summer nights started late this year, but in the last few days pockets of stoop sitters have sprouted up, enjoying the theater of the street.

Oh maybe it isn't what it used to be, in the days before...

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Obama was right in the real world, (maybe not politically) the police officer certainly did act "stupidly."

But Professor Gates acted stupidly as well.

The fact that the charges were dropped proves, in and of itself, that the cop acted stupidly. Think of the tens...

The airlines are getting very desperate ... charging more and more for things that used to be free.

Qantas recently announced plans to start selling exit row seats on its trans-Pacific flights for about $130 extra per seat -- $8.70 per hour for a Sydney to Los Angeles flight.

It was a powerful story by Matt Richtel. It nabbed four out of six columns across the top left of the Sunday front page above the fold, and another two full pages inside.

It isn't often that you see a story receive such...

The US Supreme Court ruling earlier this week gives a scary look at how justice in America is routinely bought and sold.

The case -- Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal - began when Don Blankenship, chairman and CEO of Massey, lost a $76 million verdict in a fraud lawsuit...

The two year study results are in. "Bunks for Drunks" saves tax dollars.

Providing housing for chronic alcoholics, who are still drinking, can save taxpayers more than $40,000 annually, per alcoholic, according to the study released yesterday in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Nearly $4 million...

The human capital that America attracts is much more valuable than all the oil in Saudi Arabia.

But the idiots in Congress continue to squander our greatest natural resource -- our ability to attract the best and brightest from all over the world.

On April 1st, employers will...

Canada's banks are ranked first in world.

Canada's health care system works better than ours, at one third the cost.

And Canada recruits the best and brightest workers from around the world, while the U.S. turns them away.

A few years ago while skiing at Whistler, I was amazed...

Blago Should go Directly to Gitmo!

Guantanamo is not US soil and people there have a long tradition of being judged guilty without the possibilty of any kind of trial.

Granted Blago's antics -- and his expletive laced insider glimpse of the political process -- are a boom to the...

Thank you George Bush for breaking a 40-year evil spell which has gripped our country since the assassinations and chaos of 1968.

Your singular ineptitude -- starting a war that didn't need to be fought, fighting it badly, the Katrina fiasco, and neglect of the financial crisis -- finally discredited...

The price of jet fuel has dropped dramatically in the last few months and many airlines have abolished the fuel surcharges that they imposed earlier this year.

But are they refunding customers who paid this surcharge for tickets well in advance?

Nah...of course not.

Chris Elliott, a travel ombudsman (read...

John McCain continues to make a big point about his accepting public funding for the general election and, in the last debate, he attacked Barack Obama for opting out.

All this would be very praiseworthy, if it were true.

But I was reminded of how egregiously the McCain...

Following McCain's statement last week that Obama was not an Arab, "He's a good family man." I wrote a post about it and got the following email which I thought I would share.

Mr. Fleetwood-

I wanted to...

In no way am I suggesting that John McCain is qualified to be president of the United States. By temperament and policy, he is clearly not able to lead us in foreign affairs or domestic policy. He is mired in the cold war policies of the past. His aggressiveness is...

The bloodbath begins.

Troubled Italian airline Alitalia may start grounding flights today, amid growing concerns about the impact of fuel prices.

The possible collapse of Alitalia has come after thousands were left stranded by the collapse of XL Leisure Group and experts have warned that other airlines face failure because...

Hundreds have lost their lives and nearly a million people are without shelter, medical supplies, or food in the aftermath of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike (which is ravaging Cuba at this moment with a storm surge as high as a five story apartment building and winds up to 150 mph,...

1. Why haven't any citizens or government officials from the autonomous Province of South Ossetia been interviewed by the MSM?

2. Who started this war? Which army picked up its guns and tanks last Thursday and blasted a path through the Caucasus Mountains to the city of Tskhinvali, killing as...