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Remember, this is the same guy who torpedoed prosecuting members of the New Black Panthers, a slam dunk case, for standing around at Philly polling sites with batons, intimidating voters. (Washington Post) The Obama administration on Tuesday will wade into the increasingly divisive national debate over new voting laws in several states that could depress […]
Isn’t it racist to argue that black Americans are too dumb and incompetent to handle getting ID like everyone else in America? Isn’t that the sort of argument that the KKK would make? That everybody in society is smart enough to handle getting photo ID EXCEPT black people?
As we learned last week at The Huffington Post, Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan for 2012, “Change Is.” Since Obama is one of the worst Presidents in American history, if not the worst President in American history, that sounds more like a phrase his opponent would use. Given that Obama is completely and […]
Washington gridlock may turn out to be the salvation of the Obama administration. Not only does gridlock allow the president to blame Republicans for not solving the financial crisis that his own runaway spending created, the inability to carry out as much government intervention in the economy as when the Democrats controlled both Houses of […]
Casey Stengel, a baseball legend who played on five teams and managed four, said: “It’s easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that’s the hard part.” What’s true in sports is definitely true in politics — even more so. Many say that ’tis the season for GOP rivalry, but when does inference […]
Almost all political commentators agree on one thing. The Republican presidential campaign is unlike any we have experienced. It is not a campaign of steady trends and continuities, but rather of emotional reversals and discontinuities. Perhaps this is so because the last 3 to 4 years have been a shocking time of discontinuities and reversals […]
The most disturbing aspect of President Obama’s “60 Minutes” interview is how sincere he sounded when misrepresenting his record. I’m not sure whether I would prefer that he be lying or self-deluded, but there’s plenty of each to go around. Obama is a left-wing ideologue, a true believer, who is convinced that his agenda is […]
Because the issue is so important, I have decided to respond to critics of my last column on adultery, politics and character. As any reader of my columns or books knows, I am a religious conservative, and my primary concern is morality. By morality, I mean issues of good and evil. I am also concerned […]
For weeks the media has complained that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been shielded from probing interviews. The criticism is valid. With the exception of a recent Bret Baier interview on Fox News Channel, Romney’s staffers have tried to preserve what they believe to be his inevitable nomination by allowing other GOP candidates to […]
The Bambino stands in the center of the stage, untouchable, uncatchable, unbeatable. He is Newt Gingrich, and he has become the Sultan of Swat. It is Saturday night at yet another Republican debate, and — wham! wham! wham! — Gingrich keeps blasting them out of the park. Mitt Romney claims he should be president, because, […]
It’s that time of year again, time for newspapers and magazines to start floating their “top stories of the year” lists and Time Magazine has a whole “Top of Everything” list with which to thrill us. But it is Time’s Top U.S. News Stories list that deserves some closer scrutiny because on it Time has […]
Apparently, a video I made in Denver is at the heart of a controversy in a race for the House of Representatives in Florida. While at Blogcon 2011 I had the opportunity to interview Karen Harrington, a Republican candidate for the 20th District House seat now held by Debbie Wasserman Schultz — who is also […]
His Divine Eminence gave an interview to 60 Minutes: In the interview, [interviewer Steve] Kroft points out that in his speech in Kansas, [President Obama] mentioned income inequality, a phrase that suggests a need to redistribute wealth. The president quickly responded: President Obama: Look, everybody’s concerned about inequality. Those folks in there, who were listening […]
Because you can’t see polar bears starving to death right in front of your face. It’s the whole frog in a boiling pot thing, according to the alarmists at Grist The frog and the polar bear: The real reasons Americans aren’t buying climate change In the fall of 2008, Leiserowitz conducted a poll gauging Americans’ […]
It’s time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 4th quarter of 2011. Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them, how much I like what I see when I get there, how […]
Alternate title: “man who said his ascendency stopped the rise of the seas and healed the earth says he didn’t overpromise” (The Politico) Barack Obama offered a spirited defense of his presidency in an interview that aired Sunday on “60 Minutes,” framing the 2012 election as a “contrast in visions.” Stressing that the views that […]
It’s fair to take what I say about Newt Gingrich with a grain of salt since I’ve endorsed him, but that being said, let me just note that I find the “Newt’s really erratic/undisciplined” attack coming from establishment Republicans/Mitt’s surrogates to be an extraordinarily unconvincing line-of-attack. First off, keep in mind that Newt created the […]
Being positive, motivated, goal oriented, and focused is a lot of hard work. That’s why ever so often you have to stop, smell the roses, and kvetch about all the stupidity in the world like… 1) Avatar: It’s the highest grossing movie of all time and there’s absolutely nothing good to be said about it […]
It was a week of risk-taking in the 2012 presidential race. Barack Obama, his job approval languishing in the low 40s, delivered a much heralded speech in Osawatomie, Kan., framing the choice between the parties in class-warfare terms. That’s a risky strategy. Democrats haven’t won a presidential election on class warfare since 1948, when Obama’s […]
The National Labor Relations Board, which once targeted a dead CEO for union infractions, has dropped its frivolous challenge against Boeing’s plan to open a plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state. All’s well that ends well, right? Unfortunately, no. Despite the withdrawn complaint, the damage has been done. The NLRB only dropped its case […]
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So, the official part of COP17 in Durban, S.A., is over, and the delegates are taking fossil fueled flights (in lots of private planes) home. What did they accomplish? Basically, they kicked the can down the road (AP) A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a […]
In which we learn that there was always a touch of darkness lurking in the Beach Boys’ music: In truth, if you’d been listening closely, you might have realised something was up with Brian Wilson long before the events of 1967. Behind all the bragging and bravado of the Beach Boys’ biggest hits — “We […]
Levy on the current status, and the future of,: tunes.
I’ve flat-out had it with this ongoing useless charade to “save Europe.”: It’s time to get serious and consider jailing and impeaching some of these member leaders for added incentive. This week’s EU show was pathetic.: It made me empty a pack of gummy bears at my television screen.: You’d think these European leaders were […]
You know a government project is headed for disaster when even the New York Times becomes skeptical about it. In a recent article, the “newspaper of record” interviewed several public officials, transportation experts and historians who raise “serious objections” about the viability of California’s High-Speed Rail project — a project created by a ballot initiative. […]
Hey, even Obama said he shouldn’t be re-elected if the economy wasn’t fixed (CBS News) Less than one year out from Election Day 2012, voters remain overwhelmingly pessimistic about the economy, and their concerns are taking a toll on President Obama’s re-election chances. Just 41 percent of Americans think Mr. Obama has performed his job […]
Warmists who kill lots of trees to publish a newspaper just can’t help themselves (Washington Post) Each side offers what it considers compelling evidence. Real fir – along with pine and spruce – has benefits beyond a fresh smell that says Christmas, supporters say. The trees’ purchase encourages farmers to keep planting acres that absorb […]
So very true. People who should know better bemoan the economic means possessed by the 1 percent, but rarely do they consider the gargantuan efforts required by those at the top to get there in the first place.