Year: 2010

I do believe they have lost their minds. Has the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee just become another Media Matters? Good grief. E-mail in full below: From: “Jon Vogel, DCCC Executive Director” Date: January 27, 2010 2:08:11 PM CST To: Subject: Fact Check FOX Reply-To: dccc@dccc.org Friend — Your commitment to fighting for the President’s vision […]

Everyone has their opinion on the slow crippling disappointment Americans feel about Pres. Obama. Some say he is too cool and distant. Others say he kept too many of the Bush administration’s policies. But the truth can be found in a series of miscalculations and this boondoggle of a health care bill. When I find […]

I doubt these views are particularly representative, from the comments at my essay yesterday on Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts: Personally, I don’t give a whit about social conservatism. As far as I’m concerned, there is not much of a difference between progressives and social conservatives in that both want to tell me how to […]

At the Los Angeles Times, “Toyota Temporarily Stops Selling Eight Models Covered by Recall“: Toyota Motor Corp. has taken the unprecedented stop of halting sales and production of eight models, including the top-selling Camry and Corolla, because their accelerator pedals can stick and cause runaway acceleration. Toyota sent an email to its roughly 1,200 U.S. […]

The full story is at the New York Times, “4 Arrested in Phone Tampering at Landrieu Office.” And Michelle Malkin expresses the surprise on the conservative right, “Ugh: ACORN-Buster Busted at Sen. Landrieu’s Office in Alleged Bugging Plot; Affidavit Link Added“: The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that James O’Keefe, half of the ACORN-busting duo that […]

I don’t care much for football unless my son is playing. I usually go to Superbowl parties to eat and chat. But this year I’m looking forward to a certain commercial that will run during the game. No, not the funny ones, although I like them too. Focus on the Family is running a controversial […]

Marion Berry, Democratic Representative from Arkansas, has decided to retire from Congress voluntarily instead of chancing an involuntary retirement via the ballot box. Berry is considered a “blue dog” Democrat and is from a nominally conservative state whose voters have made it clear they don’t support the policies or agenda of this Congress or this […]

No one can put this together in such a concise manner than Victor Davis Hanson. Here he remembers how mesmerized America was with Obama right after the election last year: ” And now? On every issue – more bailouts, more stimuli, more deficits, higher taxes, statist health care, cap and trade, diplomatic apologetics, the shunning […]