Author: Gina Cobb

John Stephenson has already done an excellent and comprehensive job of addressing Barack Obama’s elitist comments on small town voters, but I think one aspect of those remarks deserves a little extra examination. In Obama’s remarks, this portion stuck out for me: Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial […]

From Political Punch, via Hot Air: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., launches a biography tour next week, which looks to tell the American people about his days as a POW in Vietnam, at least based on his new TV ad (watch HERE) introduced today in New Mexico. In response, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean issued […]

They’re lining up for hours to vote in Zimbabwe today. The question is whether the votes will count. There have already been widespread irregularities. Zimbabwe has become a textbook example of how to destroy an economy through heavy-handed governmental intervention in the free market, including forced redistribution of wealth (farms were taken from white farmers […]

In news of the karmic, the fuss made by Barack Obama over State Department contractors peeking into passport files of presidential candidates boomeranged back on him, when it turned out that the snoopers included an employee of a Virginia firm headed by an adviser to Barack Obama’s campaign: The State Department investigation into how and […]

After all the talk this week about Barack Obama’s major speech on race and Obama referring to his grandmother as a “typical white person,” perhaps it’s time to take a peek inside the Diary of a Typical White Person. Update: Along similar lines, here’s the latest from Mark Steyn: Post ‘Post-Racial Candidate.’ Here’s an excerpt: […]

Terry Trippany, writing at NewsBusters, notes that the AP is bending over backwards to clean up the mess of Barack Obama’s long-time close association with Jeremiah Wright, Jr.: The AP Style Guide on Defending Barack Obama For one of many excellent pieces providing some much-needed balance in the coverage, try this: Deconstructing Obama’s Lawyerly Evasions […]

I have to applaud the opening to Peggy Noonan’s latest column — and shudder with recognition at her conclusion. Let’s start with Noonan’s opening: From the first voting in Iowa on Jan. 3 she had to prove that Clintons Are Magic. She wound up losing 11 in a row. Meaning Clintons aren’t magic. He had […]

David Ignatius at the Washington Post as whether Barack Obama is really a “bridge builder” who can reach across party lines and heal divisions. Not unless a bridge only has one end. Obama had the most liberal voting record of any Senator in 2007. (Gina Cobb’s website is here.)

At the rate Barack Obama is going, his lack of qualification to serve as commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces will be painfully obvious long before November. The man has far too few carefully considered opinions and far too many shoot-from-the-hip-and-hope-it-sounds-good opinions. Unfortunately, that weakness seems to be shared by the advisors with […]

You’ll find Peggy Noonan’s latest column linked at Conservative Grapevine. She articulates well the trouble with Obama’s candidacy that is beginning to percolate: Mr. Obama did not really have a good week, in spite of winning a primary and a caucus, and both resoundingly. . . . . His problem was, is, his wife’s words, […]

Why did Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman waste Congressional time and resources investigating Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens this week? And how did Henry Waxman strike out? Why the Investigation at All? First things first. Why the investigation at all? It’s not as if there aren’t more important and relevant world issues for attention from […]

David Sparks, a member of the 1980 and 1988 Bush for President campaigns, has some advice for Mitt Romney: It isn’t over after Super Tuesday. Since this sounds a lot like something I wrote just two days ago (“Patience, People, There’s Still Time for a Romney Surge“), I’m all ears. Here’s David Sparks’ take: THERE’S […]

Christian Brando is dead at 49, of pneumonia. There’s no report of why pneumonia took Brando’s life — whether he had a weakened immune system, for example, or was just a victim of circumstance. It’s an early end for an incredibly troubled life. If you need any further evidence of the destruction that is regularly […]

Democrats who apparently support Barack Obama are becoming angrier and more vocal by the day in their condemnation of Bill and Hillary Clinton. First up for your reading pleasure is Jonathan Chait at the Los Angeles Times, with Is the Right Right on the Clintons? Something strange happened the other day. All these different people […]

Norman Podhoretz has a thoughtful, original and detailed piece at Commentary Magazine online: Stopping Iran: Why the Case for Military Action Still Stands. Here’s an excerpt from the middle. Regardlesss of where you stand on the Iranian nuclear situation, do read it all: As we have seen, Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, had […]

The AP is reporting that Mitt Romney has won the Nevada caucuses (via Gateway Pundit): Republican Mitt Romney won Nevada’s caucuses Saturday while John McCain and Mike Huckabee dueled in the South Carolina primary, a campaign doubleheader likely to winnow the crowded field of presidential rivals. Democrats shared the stage in Nevada, where Hillary Rodham […]

Daily Kos is urging Democrats to ignore the Michigan Democratic primary and

I see that John Hawkins has already covered this with a list of the top 20 stories of 2007 (so I’ve made some quick adjustments to this blog entry to reflect that), but hot off the “presses” is Don Surber’s list of the top 10 stories of 2007. Here is his list. (Go to his […]

With an opening like this, Michael Coren’s column in the Toronto Sun catches your attention: It’s the episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie that I missed. The one where the father is so angry with his teenage daughter for not wearing the hijab that he strangles her to death. Perhaps it will be in […]

Sorry to bring you more bad news, but the environmentalist war on children continues. Mark Steyn writes: But here’s something new that took hold in the year 2007: A radical antihumanism, long present just below the surface, bobbed up and became explicit and respectable. In Britain, the Optimum Population Trust said that “the biggest cause […]

So now Christmas trees are just . . . holiday trees. What is the point of a “holiday tree,” again, other than to decorate the living room for a few weeks? And why, exactly, do we bother to hang sock laundry by the fireplace? Sometimes I can feel the heart and soul of Christmas slipping […]

Will the growth in households with no landlines and only a cell phone begin to skew poll results in the near future? Some pollsters are concerned: With more American households giving up their old-fashioned land lines and using cellphones for all calls, public opinion researchers are facing a challenge of how to make sure they […]

This expands on an earlier post at GINA COBB Why do leaders in the modern Democratic Party want children, felons, noncitizens, and the mentally ill to vote? If you’re a conservative, the question almost answers itself, doesn’t it? All these groups have major, objectively demonstrable weaknesses in judgment or in their loyalties to America’s constitution […]

Linda Boyd writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Impeachment: If Not Now, When? — complete with fake mug shots of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. How about never?  Does never work for you, Linda? I’m looking forward to hearing from Linda Boyd an her ilk again in about three years.  I’m guessing she’ll be calling […]

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been denied a fifth term by Austrlian voters. Howard, who has been in office for 11 1/2 years, conceded to Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd. What does the election mean? The general consensus seems to be that it is about specific political changes Australian voters want: Former diplomat Mr […]

A shocking report on hate crimes from the FBI, via LGF and JihadWatch. As it turns out, Jews suffer over five times more attacks than Muslims: Anti-Black 3,136 Anti-Jewish 1,027 Anti-White 1,008 Anti-Male Homosexual 881 Anti-Hispanic 770 Anti-Female Homosexual 192 Anti-Islamic 191 I’m also stunned that the total nationwide hate crime numbers are so low. […]

Peter Baker at the Washington Post writes today that President Bush has been achieving some of his important objectives lately, but still has low approval ratings: The war in Iraq seems to have taken a turn for the better and the opposition at home has failed in all efforts to impose its own strategy. North […]

Have you heard Rudy Giuliani’s 200 reasons why he’d be a better president than any of the Democratic candidates? It’s all about federal judges, baby. WASHINGTON – Rudy Giuliani Friday came up with “200 reasons” why he is better than Hillary Clinton or any other Democrat – the 200 judges he would name as President. […]

Many conservatives believe that human life begins at conception, and that destruction of human embryos in scientific research, such as cloning research, is wrong. Meanwhile, the left often claims that those who object to research using human embryos are standing in the way of scientific progress and saving lives. That claim was presented rather dramatically, […]