Free Republic

Close your eyes and guess real, real hard. We all know who he is, he knows damn well we know, at some level he actually agrees. Self-pity is the only thing he still has going for him. He’s managed to deprive the U.S. even of this last bit of suspense. His one expressed hope is that we will honor precedent and defer our call until after the 2014 elections, as if that would change anything. As he sees it, if he repeats as Enemy of the Year a year from now, it at least won’t be recorded as a twofer....

<p>More Americans are buying homes in all-cash deals, according to several recent studies. But real- estate experts say this increase may not be a good sign for the health of the housing market.</p> <p>All-cash purchases accounted for 40% of all sales of residential property in July 2013, up from 35% during the previous month and 31% in July 2012, according to data from real-estate data firm RealtyTrac released Thursday. That’s the second highest rate since the survey began in January 2011 – second only to 53% in March 2012.</p>

Time to Bust the Filibusters by Gary Schneeberger, editor The blockade of President Bush's judicial nominations is wrong — and the Democrats know it. The way liberal senators like Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy have talked of late, you'd think the Constitution guaranteed them the right to twist Senate rules to block President Bush's judicial nominees. The reality, though, is that no article, section, amendment — or stray sentence — in our nation's founding document authorizes the Senate's Democratic minority to abuse filibusters as they have for the past four years: as a means of keeping those with whom they...