Category: Column

Romney Buoyed by Good Luck — and Hard Experience

Posted on by Michael Barone

Napoleon is supposed to have said that the quality he most valued in his generals was luck. In the current race for the Republican presidential nomination, Napoleon’s favorite would clearly be Mitt Romney. One lucky break after another has helped Romney maintain front-runner status or something close to it in polls of Republican primary voters […]

 

Why Every American Should Care About the French Presidential Race

Posted on by Rachel Marsden

Being a geopolitical analyst and forecaster often means having to explain to people sitting in America how and why a single event in Africa, Russia or China will directly impact them either personally or professionally. One such event is the French presidential election set for May 2012, for which the opposition Socialists are selecting their […]

 

Slouching Towards Wall Street

Posted on by Kristen Walker

Occupy Wall Street is occupying every pundit’s commentary right now. I’d love to ignore it and focus on something else, but I’m too fascinated by watching the wreckage of civil society mewl and puke in the streets of Manhattan. The Tea Party, a grassroots movement of Americans concerned that the Constitution is being abandoned (and […]

 

The Best Quotes From ‘Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength’

Posted on by John Hawkins

I just finished reading Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, and it is an absolutely OUTSTANDING book. Admittedly, I was looking forward to reading it and even asked the publisher for a media copy, but the product was even better than I expected. This book is going to be one that I anticipate still recommending […]

 

The Diminishing Returns of Reasonableness

Posted on by Jonah Goldberg

Should we bomb Iran for plotting to blow up a Washington, D.C., restaurant in order to assassinate the Saudi ambassador? Probably not. Should Iran be worried that we might? Absolutely. And yet, within hours of the Justice Department charging elements within the Iranian government (the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard) of scheming to […]

 

Obama Will Not Be Deterred

Posted on by David Limbaugh

If it’s not narcissism, what explains President Obama’s habit of demanding something against the people’s will, being rejected, refusing to take no for an answer and berating the public he is pretending to represent? We saw it over and over with Obamacare. By now, it’s part of our national lore that he delivered some 54 […]

 

President O’Carter? Nah

Posted on by Roger Simon

The Republicans claim that Barack Obama started it. He was the one, they say, who first compared himself to Jimmy Carter. Carter has distinguished himself since leaving the presidency, performing notable acts of charity, writing and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But politically he has one word emblazoned on his forehead: Loser. Carter was the […]

 

The 10 Greatest Moments From The Occupy Wall Street Protests So Far

Posted on by John Hawkins

Aren’t the Occupy Wall Street protests wonderful? They’re sort of like the Tea Party — well, if the Tea Party were largely made up of jobless hippies and anarchists who don’t bathe. Although they’ve only been around since last month, Occupy Wall Street has already provided us with so many memorable moments that they deserve […]

 

Predator in Chief

Posted on by Victor Davis Hanson

We are in a long war against radical Islamic terrorism. The struggle seems almost similar to the on-again/off-again ordeals of the past — like the French-English Hundred Years War of the 14th and 15th centuries, or the Thirty Years War between Catholics and Protestants in the 17th century. In these kinds of drawn-out conflicts, victory […]

 

Herman Cain to Blacks: Divorce the Democratic Party

Posted on by Larry Elder

What to do about Herman Cain? This question goes not to the Republican Party, where “establishment” candidates like Mitt Romney privately dismiss Cain as lacking the experience, gravitas and resources to beat President Barack Obama and then to soundly govern the country. Herman Cain is not going to be the GOP nominee. Without a serious […]

 

Politics and Religion 2012 Version

Posted on by Cal Thomas

It was said of Al Smith, a Roman Catholic, that if he won the 1928 presidential election he would take orders from the Vatican and not uphold the Constitution. John F. Kennedy famously confronted that anti-Catholic prejudice in a 1960 speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. Kennedy said in part, “I believe in an […]

 

Congress, Governors Nix Obama’s High-speed Trains

Posted on by Michael Barone

Dead. Kaput. Through. Finished. Washed up. Gone-zo. That, I think, is a fair description of the Obama administration’s attempt to build high-speed rail lines across America. It hasn’t failed because of a lack of willingness to pony up money. The Obama Democrats’ February 2009 stimulus package included $8 billion for high-speed rail projects. The Democratic […]

 

Wingless, Bloodsucking and Parasitic: Meet the Flea Party!

Posted on by Ann Coulter

So far, the only major accomplishment of the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters is that it has finally put an end to their previous initiative, “Occupy Our Mothers’ Basements.” Oddly enough for such a respectable-looking group — a mixture of adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug dealers, criminals, teenage runaways, people who […]

 

The 7 Most Annoying People on Social Networking Sites

Posted on by John Hawkins

7) The Fan Boys. I have no idea why some guys think they can show up on Facebook, find some attractive woman they’ve never met, talk about how pretty she is in every photo, compliment her excessively, and somehow turn that into a relationship. Does this work for anyone, ever? You never hear any woman […]

 

Obama’s Teachable Truthiness Moment

Posted on by Michelle Malkin

President Obama blames Republicans for the collapse of his latest government jobs bill. But in the end, he has only his tall tale-telling tongue to blame. After hyping the TARP, Obamacare, Stimulus I and EduJobs spending behemoths as economic saviors, Obama just couldn’t help overselling his half-trillion-dollar American Jobs Act. The teachable moment of “truthiness” […]

 

How Players Unions Are Killing Sports

Posted on by Ben Shapiro

This year, we may not get to see Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers play. The people of Italy probably will. While the National Basketball Association lockout continues, Bryant is considering a deal worth $5 million for one year from the Virtus Bologna. He’s not the only NBA player who might appear overseas. Deron […]

 

Occupy Wall Street Is Peril to Obama

Posted on by Dick Morris

As the early ’70s repeat themselves with the chaotic Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in lower Manhattan, we need to grasp what a peril this movement is to President Obama and the entire Democratic Party. It is like the Obama campaign running wild without Obama in it. It is as if the bandwagon has taken off […]

 

You Can Make a Difference

Posted on by Zig Ziglar

In March of 1993, a 14-year-old student from Haltom City, Texas, killed a policeman and seriously wounded three of his neighbors. In the exchange of gunfire, he was killed. There has been much speculation about this tragedy. Outwardly, things seemed normal. His father was on the police force. They were a middle-class, law-abiding family. The […]

 

Protesters Occupy the Liberal Media

Posted on by Brent Bozell

When the Tea Party movement erupted in the spring of 2009, the media elites dismissed them as corporate-generated “Astroturf” noise. They found them barely worth covering, even to besmirch them. But when the Occupy Wall Street protests began on Sept. 17, the liberal media was quickly bombarded with complaints from the left that the media […]

 

It’s Not Romneycult; It’s Romneycare

Posted on by David Harsanyi

At the Values Voter Summit, Republican primary candidate Rick Perry was introduced by a megachurch pastor, named Robert Jeffress, who offered the audience an extraordinary false choice: “Do we want a candidate who is a good, moral person or one who is a born-again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ?” Answer: We want a candidate […]

 

10 Thoughts About Occupy Wall Street

Posted on by John Hawkins

1) If you’re serious about going after Wall Street, it’s hard to see how you could vote for Barack Obama who ladled out billions in taxpayer dollars to Wall Street corporations. “Wall Street (also) donated twice as much money to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 as it did to John McCain’s.” How much sense […]

 

Euro-Debt Danger

Posted on by Tony Blankley

How dangerous is the European financial condition? On Monday, while stock markets from the DAX and FTSE to the New York Stock Exchange were up sharply on report of French and German cooperative murmurs regarding sovereign debt negotiations (and on temporary easing of U.S. double-dip recession fears), the financial and political European press were warning […]