Author: B. Daniel Blatt

While we on the right side of the blogosphere spent the better part of last week promoting the Tea Parties and celebrating their success, this week, many of us are (once again) considering the phenomenon of the angry left. Perhaps that’s because their hysterical outbursts reached fever pitch with the success of those parties. A […]

As President Obama returns from what some have called his second apology tour abroad, Victor Davis Hanson asks, One wonders whether President Obama, for all the soaring rhetoric, grasps why certain nations really do hate us. Does he think a Grozny, Darfur, Rwanda, Serbia, or Tibet happen in reaction to US global sinful conduct? Does […]

According to Zarathushtra, the great prophet of Zoroastrianism, “the world is divided into good and evil“, with Angra Manyu, “the spirit of darkness and lies,” ruling the forces of evil. While today’s left doesn’t have a Zarathushtra, they do have their Angra Manyu, George W. Bush. Even now, nearly three months after that good man […]

As the tea party movement gains momentum, many supports of the President (and opponents of free markets) are becoming increasingly agitated, eager to smear, slander and otherwise discredit the movement. Through e-mail (and in the comments), some of my liberal readers at GayPatriot have suggested that the anti-gay AFA’s (American Family Association) backing of some […]

As part of my graduate work in Mythology (and before that out of intellectual curiosity), I have read much Jungian psychology. Carl Jung was fascinated by pairings of opposites. He explored the psychological meanings of polarities in alchemy and the hieros gamos, the sacred marriage, a union of opposites. Earlier today, when reading a book […]

Yesterday when “climbing” the Stairmaster, they had MSNBC on at my gym. I had quite a laugh watching Chris Matthews. He was talking about the President’s European trip. And while he didn’t quite get a thrill up his leg, I was wondering if they kept drool buckets on hand at MSNBC. He reported the trip […]

It seems to be the standard Democratic practice now to blame the economic crisis on George W. Bush as if Democrats’ hands were perfectly clean and they had done everything possible to prevent this from happening. Last month, the President said he “inherited” the budget deficit at the same time he was making plans to […]

Back in 1989, shortly after I moved to Washington, D.C., news broke that Barney Frank’s housemate (lover, in some accounts) Stephen Gobie was running a prostitution ring out of the Massachusetts Congressman’s Washington, D.C. home. Not just that, Frank used his congressional privilege to fix Gobie’s parking tickets and intervened on his behalf with Virginia […]

In commenting on an editorial in the Economist wondering where President Obama went wrong, the ever insightful Jennifer Rubin summarizes how this supposedly post-partisan leader has governed. His mode of governance — denigrate the opposition, engage in ad hominem attacks, refuse to compromise on substantive policy, disguise radical policy intentions with a haze of meaningless […]

While the ideas behind this post have been kicking around in my head for some time now, it was an e-mail exchange with John (Hawkins) which prompted me to write it. I have cross-posted it at my blog, GayPatriot. I responded to John’s commentary on Andrew in this post, The MSM’s 9 Favorite Republican Hating […]

Beyond being a Saturday guest poster on this blog, I blog regularly at GayPatriot, one of the leading gay conservative blogs. Being a gay conservative blogger has afforded me a unique perspective into the changing attitudes of conservatives toward gays and the seemingly stultified ones of all too many on the left. While some of […]

One of the Gipper’s favorite jokes involves a father who took his two young sons to see a psychiatrist because he was concerned about their contrasting personalities, one had become an extreme pessimist, the other an extreme optimist: First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a […]

Back in LA from San Francisco this week, I finally had time to watch the rest of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Maybe it’s because I had just read Jim Hoft’s post on how Obama groupie Chris Matthews followed the example of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in attacking Rick Santelli, the latest individual […]

Remember how so many critics of former President George W. Bush called the Texan “divisive”? One columnist contended that the Republican used “scare tactics” to “demean politics and voters.” They faulted him for deriding his opponents. Now, I have a challenge for those who continue to berate Bush. Can you find anything in his speeches […]

It seems my friend Rick Sincere was the first in the blogosphere to wish Americans a Happy Reagan Day on this, the ninety-eighth anniversary of the birth of the greatest American president of the second half of the twentieth century, the chief executive with the most successful economic policy of that entire century. As we […]

If the Senate confirms Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services, at least two members of the president’s cabinet will be tax scofflaws, leading my friend David Boaz of the Cato Institute to remark, “It’s too bad Leona Helmsley can’t be nominated as Commerce Secretary.” Given that the president is from Chicago where […]

In his piece, “Bush Hatred and Obama Euphoria Are Two Sides of the Same Coin” in today’s Wall Street Journal, Peter Berkowitz builds on a point I made a couple weeks ago on GayPatriot, Obama Worship: Flip Side of Bush Hatred. Finding that “Bush hatred and Obama euphoria . . . tend to reveal more […]

In his campaign for the White House, Barack Obama did talk at great length about the need to fix our economy, but he did not make a multi-hundred billion dollar “stimulus” the centerpiece of his economic plan. With the federal government having just shelled out $700 billion in the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), the […]

One of the things I find most annoying about the coverage of President Obama’s inauguration was how certain Democrats compared the good will shown and national unity expressed to the previous two inaugurals, both of George W. Bush. It’s as if that Republican created the contention of those two ceremonies, But, the then-president wasn’t the […]

As the price tag for the Democrats’ stimulus packages continues to climb, even as the federal governmetn faces a record budget deficit, I ask Obama supporters, who have such hope that their man will change things in Washington, if they can provide any evidence of such hefty stimuli actually providing anything more than a short-term […]