Year: 2012

“I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. …” —Barack Obama “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs […]

There was a moment in the last debate that really stood out because both candidates embraced a rather significant shift in American foreign policy and that shift was driven not by what’s in the best interests of the United States, but by raw politics. Here it is… MR. SCHIEFFER: A lot to cover. I’d like […]

It’s hard to know whether to be more amused at the disillusionment or baffled that: John Cook at Gawker: claims that he can’t figure out why Barack Obama’s campaign has changed so much since 2008. One of the many little thrills of being a part of the Obama campaign four years ago was a deep and abiding […]

Talk about wearing your politics on your sleeve. An elitist clique of fashion designers has banded together to raise money for celebrity-in-chief Barack Obama and browbeat their customers into supporting him. Even worse, the Beautiful People who dress the Powerful People are putting increased pressure on conservatives to stay out of the business altogether. Out: […]

On TV, my Fox colleague Bill O’Reilly says, “The recession was brought on largely by greedy Wall Street corporations.” Give me a break. Bill’s smart. If he believes such things, we who care about freedom have done a poor job communicating economics. Blaming problems on “greed” is a mindless cliche. Yes, Wall Street was greedy […]

Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled “Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative.” Among its statements for which Hubbard has been criticized and disavowed by the Republican Party is, “The institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination […]

I suspect most voters watching Monday night’s debate found it pretty boring. President Obama wanted to force Mitt Romney into saying something stupid. Romney didn’t take the bait. So pretty much nothing changed the dynamics of the race. But what if something did? What if Obama announced in a fit of pique that “America doesn’t […]

PARIS — There’s a good chance that American voters will screw up the presidential election. “How could you say such a thing when in a democracy the people are, by definition, correct?” you ask. Because there’s no such thing as collective intelligence, that’s why. Sure, there are individuals within a given society who happen to […]

As incredible as it sounds, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) — an arm of the United Nations — is sending more than 44 election monitors to observe the U.S. election and report on voter suppression activities at the polls. The OSCE observers will come from Europe and Central Asia and will […]

President Barack Obama won the final presidential debate because it was on foreign policy, and the president’s foreign policy — unlike his domestic spending — is popular with the American people. Mitt Romney didn’t win the debate, but he did undercut Team Obama. Obamaland spent the day hitting Romney for being too warlike, too much […]

President Obama was on the ropes in the polls after the first presidential debate. After the second presidential debate, he hit the mat in the polls. And after the third presidential debate, he looks to be down for the count. The question, of course, is why. Looking at the debates alone doesn’t tell the full […]

Former South Dakota Democratic Senator George McGovern, who died Sunday, had all manner of evil said about him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was called unpatriotic, disloyal, an appeaser and an enabler of communism. Those were the printable slanders. Many conservatives at the time believed in the “domino theory,” that if […]

Ze’ev Jabotinsky: was a Zionist prophet whose words should still be remembered: “A great commotion is currently afoot in Zionism, caused by the community of the seekers of peace, whose intention is to achieve (by way, of course, of preaching to the Jews alone) agreement with the Arabs. Frankly, it is difficult to avoid a feeling […]

7) Attacking me is not an agenda. 6) Unfortunately, nowhere in the world is America’s influence greater today than it was four years ago. 5) Well, (China) sells us about this much stuff every year (Big). And we sell them about this much stuff every year (Small). So it’s pretty clear who doesn’t want a […]