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It was almost a given that Obama would be better in the second debate than he was in the first one because it was hard to see how he could get any worse. You had to expect improvement. Moreover, after Obama’s crushing loss, Biden’s crazed performance in his debate, and a movement in the race […]
The Hollywood Women for Obama Club wants you to vote with your “lady parts.” I want the women of America to vote with their lady : smarts. The latest ad from a trio of Tinsel Town actresses spreads one of the stupidest lies about Mitt Romney this election cycle. Fantasyland needs a fact check. According to […]
We take free speech for granted in America, unlike elsewhere. The furor over that anti-Muslim video is the latest reminder of that. But freedom of speech is never safe, even here. Many colleges now impose “civility codes.” Civility is nice, but enforcing a “civility rule” against offensive speech would put an end to lots of […]
Apparently, Paul Ryan and Joe Biden are both theocrats willing, nay eager, to use state power to impose their religious views on the rest of us. In last week’s vice presidential debate, moderator Martha Raddatz asked the two Roman Catholic politicians “to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views […]
Here’s a recent statement frequently suggested by leftist academics, think tank researchers and policymakers: “People were not just struggling because of their personal deficiencies. There were structural factors at play. People weren’t poor because they made bad decisions. They were poor because our society creates poverty.” Who made that statement and where it was made […]
Originally, the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama campaigns chose which swing states to focus on by comparing election results from previous years and figuring out which were most or least likely to vote for each candidate. The result was a consensus that North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada and Colorado were the most […]
The people of France have spoken on the subject of the U.S. presidential election. Naturally, you couldn’t care less about what anyone else (let alone the French) thinks about you or your electoral choices, right? The French aren’t particularly interested in appearing too keen on America, either. A Harris Interactive poll found that 66 percent […]
In recent decades politicians have increasingly followed the Keynesian prescription of economic growth through continued government borrowing and the creation of undreamt of amounts of fiat money by central banks. To facilitate this process, the larger commercial banks have acted as the central banks’ de facto distribution system, and as a result have grown ever […]
On the October 14 broadcast of Meet the Press, Jennifer Granholm, former Governor of Michigan and host of Current’s The War Room, stated that the Romney campaign is somehow not qualified to comment on the Libyan terrorist attack because they don’t know the difference between a compound and an embassy. : It’s indicative of “a lack […]
On October 11, The Federalist Society held a panel discussion at The National Press Club on Lilly Ledbetter (who lost her pay discrimination case in the Supreme Court because she failed to comply with a statutory deadline) and the media’s oversimplification of gender issues. : It featured Jennifer Braceras, a columnist and former Commissioner for the […]
In the world of journalism, no bad deed goes unrewarded. Take the case of former Washington bureau chief for Yahoo! News, David Chalian. You may recall that he was fired after he was heard saying during the Republican National Convention that Republicans were “happy to have a party with black people drowning.” He may have […]
Perhaps she should reach out to the knuckleheads who failed to follow what was going on in Libya, a country that was recently under air attack by the US military. Perhaps she should reach out to the knuckleheads who failed to bother with any security briefings and conversations with their national security team before jetting […]
The AP helpfully provides what to watch for 1. A REBOUND? After taking a drubbing in the first debate, Obama’s under big pressure to step up his game Tuesday night. He’ll try to show energy and passion. And look for him to challenge Romney’s claims more often. Obama’s comfortable taking audience questions at campaign events, […]
Akin was apparently trying to get across that percentage wise, there aren’t a lot of abortions that can be traced back to rape, which is true. He also noted that the child that’s being aborted under those circumstances isn’t responsible for the rape, which is also true. That being said, Akin’s comments were also extremely […]
From the early 1960s until the housing crash of 2008, America had GDP growth that far surpassed that of any other developed nation. India and China grew faster, but both nations were starting from such a low point that practically all they had to do was move workers from the farms to the cities to […]
One of the key indicators that people refer to when they talk about the economy is the jobless rate. The problem with that metric is that the jobless rate is an extraordinarily imprecise measure because people who’ve stopped looking for jobs are no longer counted. So theoretically, the jobless rate could be zero if every […]
25) Debate preparation, obviously. 24) Facts. 23) When he has to talk to Sasha and Malia about getting in trouble at school and his teleprompter is broken. 22) People who don’t want to “spread (their) wealth around” to pay for Obama phones, Egyptian foreign aid, and free birth control for Sandra Fluke. 21) Chris Matthews […]
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic. Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack […]
Does voter fraud actually exist? If you ask members of the Obama administration, Democratic lawmakers or the left-leaning media, they often argue it’s a myth concocted by Republicans to suppress Democratic turnout. Even U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has called voter fraud “a problem that does not really exist.” But what you won’t see in […]
As he prepares for the second debate, Obama faces a major dilemma: how to be more aggressive without jeopardizing his alleged likability, the main thing he supposedly has going for him with voters. The Barack Obama the public usually sees is not the real Barack Obama. The former is a carefully manufactured media image designed […]
In the vice presidential debate, the two candidates, both Roman Catholics, were asked about their religious beliefs, how they impact the candidates’ political positions and specifically about abortion. This was the response of Vice President Joe Biden: “My religion defines who I am. And I’ve been a practicing Catholic my whole life. And it has […]
Do Americans want to make Barack Obama a one-term president so that they can replace him with a one-term governor? My biggest beef with Mitt Romney is that he won his way into the statehouse in Boston in 2002 only to use it as a perch to run for the White House in 2008. He […]
Had Vice President Joe Biden behaved toward Sarah Palin in their 2008 debate the way he behaved toward Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan in their debate last Thursday, he might have been denounced as a patronizing misogynist. In his debate with Ryan, the vice president was merely a jerk. Interrupting while someone is trying […]
Journalists, politicians and economists all seem to agree that the biggest economic issue currently worrying voters is unemployment. It follows then that most believe that the deciding factor in the presidential race will be the ability of each candidate to convince the public that his policies will create jobs. It seems that everyone got this […]
For the pending second presidential debate, the format agreement says that after each question from the audience and a two-minute response by each candidate, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are expected to have an additional discussion facilitated by the moderator.: This year the Hofstra University town hall debate moderator will be Candy Crowley of CNN. […]
It has been said that the students and faculty of Harvard University are America’s “best and brightest.” This month they prove this axiom to be mythological as they once again launch their annual “incest-fest” party where residents of the famed Kirkland House spend the day trying to have sex with as many house members as […]
For years now, I’ve been saying that I’d like to see the Internet redesigned to put an end to anonymity. The response is always something like, “What about whistle blowers and people in repressive dictatorships?” The reality is, that’s a tiny percentage of the people who’d be impacted. In actuality, anonymity mostly serves to protect […]
The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl thinks so Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans are doing their best to portray the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and its aftermath as a signal foreign policy disaster for Barack Obama. But my bet is that when historians look back on Obama’s mistakes in the last four years, […]