Author: B. Daniel Blatt

Reading a Canadian Press article this morning that a friend had forwarded to me, I was struck yet again at how fawning the media have been toward this President, certain that because of his presences, his coolness, his rhetorical gifts and the singular nature of his election (the first black man elected president in a […]

As yet another piece of evidence to show just how biased the MSM have become against outgoing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, take a look at the first sentence of an article which Yahoo! featured earlier in the day as one of its news headlines, Investigator rules against Palin in ethics probe:* An independent investigator has […]

While my Congressman has, to his credit, never taken an earmark to benefit our district, he has also never held a job in the sector he so delights in regulating. He doesn’t understand how money is made, innovation fostered and jobs created. For over forty years, Henry Waxman has served in government, six years in […]

It is incredible how prescient was the nineteenth century novelist George Eliot (née Mary Anne Evans), who died approximately one century before Iran’s Islamic “Revolution, was about the driving force of this tyranny. As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashes out at President Obama for interfering in Iranian affairs, it becomes increasingly clear to all but […]

No Democrat has ever won the White House running against Ronald Wilson Reagan. Walter Mondale tried, but barely won his own state. Michael Dukakis tried to make the 1988 election about competency instead of ideology, but George H.W. Bush made it about Ronald Reagan and Michael Dukakis. The Gipper’s Vice President won forty states that […]

In 1992, the New Republic ran a piece, I believe it was by Jacob Weisberg (check spelling) on then-presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, reporting something the candidate’s mother (as I recall) had said about her son. If Bill Clinton entered a room with one hundred people, ninety-nine of them loving him, but one opposed to him, […]

The contrast between the incumbent President of the United States and the immediate past Vice President was not just in their near simultaneous speeches on Thursday, but in their reasons for giving them. The President had to react to the former Vice President’s; the Vice President merely wanted to set the record straight. Whereas Obama […]

There was something about Barack Obama I liked in the first part of last year’s presidential campaign. Perhaps it was just the contrast between him and Hillary Clinton, his chief rival for the Democratic nomination. He spoke well, he looked good. For a while, it seemed that this charismatic (relatively) young man could really unite […]

Nancy Pelosi’s readiness to blame the Bush Administration, the “all-purpose political punching bag” of liberal imagination, for her own imperfections, indicates that President Obama has yet broken the “pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame.” If the President truly wishes to change the tone in our nation’s capital, he’s […]

There is a a certain poetic justice in the travails of the Democratic Speaker of the House. She joined her partisan colleagues in the zeal to prosecute Bush Administration officials for what the MSM has labeled “torture memos.” And now it seems her grandstanding may cost her her job, possibly hurting her party’s standing with […]

When I posted on my visit last month to the Reagan Ranch, one of my readers at GayPatriot offered recalled his own visit to that beautiful but simple place: When I visited a couple years back I was impressed by the ordinariness of the place. Clearly just where Ron and Nancy Reagan liked to go […]

Commenting on a link Glenn Reynolds provided to an Examiner post requesting that the President and Speaker Pelosi apologize for smearing the Tea Party movement, his reader Marc Greendorfer offered: I can’t recall a single instance during his eight years where President Bush derided American citizens who took to the streets to protest his administration. […]

Last night on FoxNews’s O’Reilly Factor with Laura Ingraham substituting for the show’s eponymous host, feminist Gloria Feldt said Miss California, Carrie Prejean, needed a “heart transplant.” So, since that young woman has offered a position on gay marriage nearly identical to that of the President of the United States, does this feminist believe that […]

Since John asked me to post at RightWingNews on Saturdays, I have tended to pick my posts geared toward a broader conservatives audience rather than those which address gay issues. Today, I’m changing that policy and posting a piece on gay marriage. Of late, I have been impressed by the number of conservative bloggers discussing […]

For a great refutation of the various left-wing attempts to discredit the Tea Parties protesting ever-increasing government spending and tax hikes which are concomitants of such spending, just take a gander at Frank Cagle’s piece, Wallace, Perot demonstrated anger’s impact on political process. In fact, I recommend you do as I’ve done and print it […]