Year: 2012

Is it time to start talking about the inevitable demise of the Democratic Party? Since the 1990s there’s been a thriving cottage industry of doomsaying about the Republican Party. The gold standard of the genre is undoubtedly 2002’s “The Emerging Democratic Majority” by Ruy Teixeira and John Judis, which argued that the Democrats were destined […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The smell of singed air here is inescapable. Less than 50 miles west of my neighborhood, the latest wildfire has spread across 1,100 acres. It’s the fifth active blaze to erupt in our state over the past month. But ashes aren’t the only things smoldering. The Obama administration’s neglect of the […]

It’s presidential season, so again pundits are indignant that money: is spent on politics. Spent by corporations! And rich people! Because the Supreme Court allowed that, “2012 will be a miserable year,” says The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne 2012 may be miserable — but if it is, it won’t be because corporations spend on politics. And […]

Back in 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said we were “a nation of cowards” on matters of race. Permit me to be brave and run a few assertions by you just to see whether we’re on the same page. There should be two standards for civilized conduct: one for whites, which is higher, and […]

The battle of Barak Obama is ending in his defeat. A sagging economy, a likely setback on Obamacare, and sliding job approval are foreclosing the possibility that the president can be re-elected on his record in office. So the battle of Mitt Romney is beginning. It is evident to Obama’s people that only through a […]

Team Barack Obama knows they are in a heap of re-election trouble when pundits look at his shambles of an economic record. So what to do? Easy. The most shameless of our Obama-loving journalists are painting Obama as an action-movie superhero in the war on terror. Just open up Newsweek Magazine to an advertisement for […]

Remember when President Obama inspired Americans with such tired bromides as, “There are no red states or blue states, just the United States”? Remember when Obama declared that Americans had to pull together, because what united us was stronger than what divided us? Yeah, not so much. President Obama’s re-election campaign has been an exercise […]

Hey, did you hear the joke about the world leader who had the answer to the global economic crisis? Well, there you go — now you have. Remember the old days when leaders of developed nations would hold summits to decide how to solve the plight of the world’s poor? Now they ARE the world’s […]

President Obama’s latest political ploy — granting new “rights” out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children — is all too typical of his short-run approach to the country’s long-run problems. Whatever the merits or demerits of the Obama immigration […]