"We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party." Alan Simpson, former Republican Senator from Wyoming
'The end' as a weapon
Some environmentalists have their own fixation with the apocalypse, just not the biblical one. This involves the wrath of nature and the ecological end times. But fear is an ineffective tool for any cause.
Tom Krattenmaker, USA Today, December 15, 2008
Corruptocrat alert: Blagojevich taken into custody by FBI; conspired to sell/trade Senate seat, HHS position, stifle newspaper
Michelle Malkin, December 9, 2008
BREITBART: I believe Hillary's cardboard cutout
"At the exact moment Jon Favreau is receiving high praise in pre-inaugural media puff pieces, the 27-year-old chief speechwriter for President-elect Barack Obama (not Jon Favreau, the Hollywood actor/ director) finds himself in a minor mess over a photo from a recent private party showing him groping the breast of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Rodham Clinton as an unnamed pal wearing an "Obama staff" T-shirt kisses and feeds her beer."
"If the photo had exposed a Republican offender, there'd already be a full-bore media scandal and cascading resignations."
Andrew Breitbart, The Washington Times, Monday, December 8, 2008
Civics Might As Well Be Rocket Science
"Name the three branches of government. If you answered the executive, legislative and judicial, you are more informed than 50% of Americans."
Walter E. Williams, Investor's Business Daily, Friday, December 05, 2008
Parallel Lives
In politics today, intention, symbolism, and rhetoric are everything; facts, nothing.
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online, Friday, December 5, 2008
Chambliss thwarts Dems
Shannon McCaffrey, Associated Press, The Athens Banner-Herald, 11:54 pm on 12/2/2008
The Shagged Sheep
This Is A Long Piece But It Does Have Underage Sex And Bestiality In It. So Enjoy!
Mark Steyn, Sunday, 30 November 2008
Dems Target Private Retirement Accounts
Democratic leaders in the U.S. House discuss confiscating 401(k)s, IRAs
Karen McMahan, Carolina Journal Online, November 04, 2008
For those who are actually curious, an elegant, non-partisan, explanation of the economic crisis Three Trends and a Train Wreck
Tyler Cowen, The New York Times
Posted by David Horowitz, Frontpagemag.com, October 19, 2008
Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages
"Police were called to the Obama campaign office on North Meridian Street downtown to control the crowd."
WTHR Eyewitness News,Indianapolis, Nov 5, 2008, Updated: Nov 6, 2008
The End of Journalism
Sometime in 2008, journalism as we knew it died, and advocacy media took its place.
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online, October 31, 2008
Stealing An Election?
Obama's Dubious Allies
"This election has really served to demonstrate the importance of a free, independent and honest press and how unfortunate it is that we don't have one."
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, The New York Post, November 3, 2008
Will Obama Gut Defense?
Capitol Hill Democrats want to target the Pentagon.
Bret Stephens, The Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2008
Dubious Donations
Bam's Web Site Invites Fraud
Scott W. Johnson, The New York Post, October 27, 2008
Obama's Fishy $200 Million
"An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations"
The Prowler, American Spectator, October 2, 2008
Who Is John Galt?
"'As the Powerline reader has noted, if "John Galt" of "Ayn Rand Lane" attempts a contribution at the McCain campaign, it gets rejected. Which is just as well. If the Republican candidate's website were intentionally set up to facilitate fraudulent donations, it would be on the front page of The New York Times. But, as it's King Barack the Spreader, we can rest assured the crack investigative units will be too preoccupied with Governor Palin's shoes over the next two weeks.'"
Scott Johnson, Powerline, October 23, 2008
Della's street
"...in order to permit fraud as easy as that which the Obama campaign is facilitating, you have to uncheck every single box on the AVS system, each one of which makes it very explicit just what you're doing - ie, accepting transactions with no "billing address", no "street address" match, no "zip code" match, with a bank "of non-US origin"...When you've disabled the whole lot one step at a time, then you've got a system tailor-made for fake names and bogus addresses."
Mark Steyn, National Review Online, October 23, 2008
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
"These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party."
Orson Scott Card, Meridian, Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Boasting Weakness
Election '08: The latest in the endless series of gaffes from Obama running mate Joseph Biden is his warning that our enemies would test a President Obama early on. We need a president they would fear to test.
Investor's Business Daily, Tuesday, October 21, 2008
David Limbaugh: New Column: Still Time for Voters To Wake Up
"The campaign's efforts to steal the election, if necessary, and suppress the constitutionally protected expression of its opponents aligns with its plans for government to subsume the health care industry and to use the tax code to punish success and further erode private property, the backbone of liberty."
Monday, October 13, 2008
Investors' Real Fear: A Socialist Tsunami
The Crash: "Why has the market dropped so much?" everyone asks. What is it about the specter of our first socialist president and the end of capitalism as we know it that they don't understand?
Investor's Business Daily, Posted Friday, October 10, 2008
Spreading The Virus
"FOR years, ACORN had combined manipulation of the CRA with intimidation- protest tactics to force banks to lower credit standards. Its crusade, with help from Democrats in Congress, to push these high-risk "subprime" loans on banks is at the root of today's economic meltdown."
"As a presidential candidate, Obama promises a massive national-service program closely allied with the nonprofit sector. He wants to remove 'barriers for smaller nonprofits to participate in government programs.'
In other words, he plans a massive effort to funnel America's youth into volunteer work alongside the likes of ACORN. So Obama's favorite community organizers may soon be training your child."
Stanley Kurtz, New York Post, Maonday, October 13, 2008
Crush the Obamedia narrative: Look who's gripped by insane rage
"The Obamedia is attempting to set yet another false narrative: The narrative of the McCain mob. McCain-Palin rallies are out of control, they wheedle. Conservatives are mad! They're yelling mean things about Obama and calling him names! It's scaaaaary!"
Michelle Malkin, October 12, 2008
The Coming Obama Thugocracy
The end of free speech in America.
Michael Barone, Townhall.com, Saturday, October 11, 2008
Is ACORN Stealing The Election?
Election Fraud: A radical group Barack Obama used to work for is committing voter-registration fraud in several states, ahead of the election. What does Obama know about this scam? Investor's Business Daily, Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Planting Seeds of Disaster
ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party.
Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online, October 07, 2008
We're Not Headed for a Depression
No, this isn't the crisis that kills global capitalism.
Gary S. Becker, The Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2008
Biden's Fantasy World
Sarah Palin may not know as much about the world, but at least most of what she knows is true. The Wall Street Journal, Monday, October 6, 2008
The Lies Biden Told
"For all the focus on Sarah Palin's graceful performance in Thursday's vice presidential showdown, a more significant spectacle was taking place behind the other rostrum.
That's where Joe Biden, speaking with the pompus self-importance befitting his 36 years in the Senate, told one baffling fib after another." The New York Post, October 4, 2008
Obamas Assault on the First Amendment
Stifling political debate with threats of prosecution is not the rule of law its tyranny.
Andrew C. McCarthy, Natinal Review Online, October 1, 2008
O's Dangerous Pals
Barack's 'Organizer' Buds Pushed For Bad Mortgages
"...community organizers help to undermine the US economy by pushing the banking system into a sinkhole of bad loans. And Obama has spent years training and funding the organizers who do it."
Chutzpah: ACORN's drive to lower mortgage standards paved the way for the meltdown - yet last week, it was holding protests like this one in Florida, trying to get a cut of the financial-market-rescue bill.
Stanley Kurtz, New York Post, September 29, 2008
Rescuing ACORN
"Democrats want to use profits from the bailout as a slush fund for liberal activist groups, even those involved in vote fraud to help elect Barack Obama." Investor's Business Daily, Friday, September 26, 2008
How Obama Applies Alinsky's Rules
"Rule: "Rub raw the resentments of the people; search out controversy and issues."
Investor's Business Daily, Monday, September 22, 2008
Deep Secrets Of Campaign 2008
"...important stories illuminating Obama's character, judgment and lack of seriousness have been thrown down the memory hole..."
Scott Johnson, Power Line, September 22, 2008
The Palin Effect
Her enemies are bellowing like a wounded moose.
"So they lied all along when they said they wanted to help and empower all women. Who knew?"
Noemie Emery, The Weekly Standard, 09/29/2008
Community Organizer In Chief
Election '08: Barack Obama claims he worked for a "small group of churches" as a community organizer. In fact, he was hired by a radical Alinskyite group, and Saul Alinsky's own son has outed him Investor's Business Daily, Tuesday, September 16, 2008
When in touble, cheat
"The Democrats are sinking in the polls, but, as always, they have an ace in the hole: voter fraud."
John Hineraker, Power Line, September 15, 2008
Former Sen. Mike Gravel(D) on Palin
Among the Paultards
Even they are ashamed of their candidate's supporters.
Matt Labash The Weekly Standard, September 15, 2008
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL The Hunt for Sarah October
City slickers invade Wasilla The Wall Street Journal, September 9, 2008
The Best Man Turned Out To Be A Woman
"After drawing "Keith + Obama" hearts on their denim notebooks, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews stayed up all night last Thursday, writing jokes about Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the presumed vice presidential pick. Now they can't use any of them."
Ann Coulter, RedStatesUSA.com, September 3, 2008
Obama's Motion To Suppress
Free Speech: It appears Team Obama will stop at nothing to intimidate and harass those who would expose his long and cozy relationship with terrorist William Ayers. As in the '60s, lefties think freedom of speech applies only to them. Investor's Business Daily,Tuesday, September 02, 2008
The Face Of Evil
"The Communist/anarchist/truther/pro-Obama protesters were out in force, committing various crimes and attempting to disrupt the proceedings."
Powerline, September 1, 2008
Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
Election '08: The Obama camp tries to suppress a campaign ad and university archives linking the candidate to a '60s terrorist who hosted his first campaign fundraiser. Investor's Business Daily, Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Is the grass greener with socialized medicine?
"According to an August 2008 study published in Lancet Oncology, the renowned British medical journal, Americans have a better than five-year survival rate for 13 of the 16 most prominent cancers when compared with their European and Canadian counterparts."
Sally C. Pipes, The Examiner, August 23, 2008
The answer, my friend, isn't blowing in the wind, after all
"All in all, wind power will substantially increase our power costs and increase the frequency of power blackouts. What absolute madness."
Robert M. Sykes, The Columbus Dispatch, Saturday, August 16, 2008
Professor emeritus Civil and environmental engineering Ohio State University Mount Vernon
Obama's Radical Roots And Rules
Election '08: Most Americans revile socialism, yet Barack Obama's poll numbers remain competitive. One explanation: He's a longtime disciple of a man whose mission was to teach radicals to disguise their ideology.
Investor's Business Daily, Thursday, August 14, 2008
Young Obama's Red Mentor
Election '08: The mainstream media have finally gotten around to revealing Barack Obama's early mentor. But they've downplayed the mystery man's communist background. Investor's Business Daily, Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Can he talk without a teleprompter? (And you thought Bush sounded dumb.)
Fix this medical ethics glitch
Government health care in Oregon--your treatment will be too expensive, kill yourself. The Oregonian,Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism
"Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code socialist code." Investor's Business Daily, Monday, July 28, 2008
He ventured forth to bring light to the world
The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers
Gerard Baker, TimesOnline (UK), July 25, 2008
Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1
"The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money."
William Tate, Investors Business Daily, Wednesday, July 23, 2008
No smoking hot spot
"There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None."
David Evans, The Australian, July 18, 2008
Dr David Evans was a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005.
Undercover city detective finds hints of danger among mosques
"The detective reported that some youths became extremists after they traveled to their home countries; others went on the hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca - and came back fired up by imams who encouraged violence as a religious obligation."
Patrice O'Shaughnessy, (New York) Daily News, Sat, July 5, 2008
Why We Went to War in Iraq
Douglas J. Feith, The Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2008
Mr. Feith, under secretary of defense for policy from 2001 to 2005, is author of "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism" (HarperCollins, 2008), the author's proceeds of which are being donated to charities for veterans and their families.
The Truth About Big Oil's Windfall Profits
"The reason Big Oil is making a lot of money is that oil is scarce -- and that's probably the worst time you should give the oil companies less incentive to find more oil."
Morgan Housel, The Motley Fool, June 30, 2008
The Farce Continues
"It is clear, however, that some, at least, of the Democrats who engage in these witch-hunts now identify with members of al Qaeda and unapologetically represent their interests."
John Hinderaker, Powerline, June 26, 2008
Obama: The Early Years
Urgent: follow the links in this post.
John Hinderaker, Powerline Blog, June 22, 2008
Islams War Doctrines Ignored
"...though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine such as Clausewitzs On War, Sun Tzus The Art of War, even the exploits of Alexander the Great as recorded in Arrian and Plutarch Islamic war doctrine, which is just as, if not more, textually grounded, is totally ignored."
Raymond Ibrahim, MESH (Middle East Strategy at Harvard), June 19, 2008
Obama and McCain
"Iran's nuclear bomb will be the terrorists' nuclear bomb-- and they can make 9/11 look like child's play."
Thomas Sowell, Townhall, June 05, 2008
Obama, Political Viagra
Now is when you get worried.
Mark Steyn, National Review Online, June 7, 2008
A few guys performing somewhere in Italy
Iraq and the Election
"The good news in Iraq is increasingly undeniable, even to the media." Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2008
First Wave at Omaha Beach
Unlike what happens to other great battles, the passing of the years and the retelling of the story have softened the horror of Omaha Beach on D Day.
S. L. A. Marshall, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1960, The Atlantic.com, June 6, 2008
Obama the naive
His views on world affairs ignore history and imperil the U.S. and our allies.
John R. Bolton, The Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2008
Blame Congress for High Oil Prices
"...15% of the cost of gasoline at the pump goes for taxes, while only 4% represents oil company profits."
Mackubin Thomas Owens, The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2008
REVIEW & OUTLOOK Change You'll Have to Pay For
"Here's one "change" presidential candidate Barack Obama apparently believes in: higher prices. " Wall Street Journal Asia,May 28, 2008
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE She lay 5 days on stretcher in ER
"I'm angry we pay such high taxes and the more money we throw at the health care system the worse it gets. People shouldn't be lined up on stretchers in the emergency department. If you are sick you should get a room."
Clinton and Obama want this for you.
Kevin Connor, The Toronto Sun, May 23, 2008
Are We Safer?
"On the stump, Barack Obama usually concludes his comments on Iraq by saying, 'and it hasn't made us safer.'"
John H. Hinderaker, Power Line, MAY 25, 2008
The Fall of Lebanon
"May 21, 2008, is a date--like December 7 (1941) and September 11 (2001)--that should now live in infamy. Yet who will notice, mourn, or act the wiser for it?
On that day, the Beirut spring was buried under the reign of Hizballah."
Barry Rubin, GLORIA, Gobal research in International Affairs, May 24, 2008
Beneath the Hope . . .
Obama and the politics of grievance
Victor Davis Hanson, May 23, 2008
Obama's Growing Gaffe
"...a presidential candidate makes a gaffe, then, realizing it is too egregious to take back without suffering humiliation, decides to make it a centerpiece of his foreign policy."
Charles Krauthammer, Real Clear Politics, May 23, 2008
Poisonous "Authenticity"
Jeremiah Wright draws on a long line of Afrocentric charlatans.
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, 29 April 2008
REVIEW & OUTLOOK Medicaid Money Laundering
"The right word for this is fraud." The Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2008
DECLARATIONS Pity Party
"The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are."
"Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years."
Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2008
McCain's Letter To Obama
Text Of Republican Senator's Letter On Lobbying Reform
CBS News, Feb. 7, 2006
Democrats' Hybrid Pickup Trucks
"It is beyond outrageous for liberals to complain about the practice of linking Democrats to the national party when their calculated strategy in race after race in the red states has been to run Democratic candidates who appear to be Americans."
Ann Coulter, RedState.USA, May 14, 2008
Michelle Obama's Gospel Of Bitterness
"The burden of paying for her undergraduate education at Princeton and her law school education at Harvard has scarred her. It remains a motif of her stump speech. No one is accorded a chance to ask her if she thought about attending the University of Illinois, or if she's grateful for any of the financial assistance that facilitated her and her husband's attendance at the finest institutions of higher learning in the United States."
Scott Johnson, PowerLine Blog, MAY 6, 2008
The reincarnation of Dan Quayle
THE END OF FREEDOM AS WE KNOW IT Democrats Platform for Revolution
"Though Alinsky died in 1972, his legacy has lived on as a staple of leftist method, a veritable blueprint for revolution -- to which both Democratic presidential candidates, who are his disciples and protégés, refer euphemistically as 'change.'"
John Perazzo, FrontPageMagazine.com, Monday, May 05, 2008
The 'Race' Speech Revisited
"I can no more disown him [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother."
-- Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18
Charles Krauthammer, RedStateUSA.com, May 02, 2008
Hillary vs. coffemaker
WONDER LAND Where Were Obama's Friends?
"At Barack Obama's darkest hour, not one prominent ally came forward to support him."
Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2008
EXTRA
Political Diary Hoosier Daddy?
"...and that critics of the law 'have produced not a single piece of evidence of any identifiable registered voter who would be prevented from voting.'"
John Fund, The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2008
The Myth of the Walk Aways
Abandoned homes are a questionable symbol of the housing crisis.
Zubin Jelveh, Condé Nast Portfolio, Apr 29 2008
You Don't Need A Weatherman to Know Which Candidate Blows
"The key problem for Hillary's campaign is that normal people reel back in horror at her association with the Clinton administration."
Ann Coulter, RedStateUSA.com, April 23, 2008
OPINION Our Climate Numbers Are a Big Old Mess
"The earth's paltry warming trend, 0.31 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since the mid-1970s, isn't enough to scare people into poverty. And even that 0.31 degree figure is suspect."
Patrick Michaels, The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2008
The Leningrad Cowboys do it their way.
They Really Do Plan to Surrender
Don't put your hope in Democratic statesmanship.
"What matters is that both Obama and Clinton promise to end the war regardless of conditions on the ground."
Matthew Continetti, The Weekly Standard, April 21, 2008
So That's Why His Pro Football Career Tanked:
Herschel Walker Claims He's the New "Sybil," Even Has "White" Personality
"I used to think the reason Herschel Walker's NFL career didn't work out was the Heisman curse. "
Debbie Schlussel,April 14, 2008
Red Skelton--Pledge of Allegiance
REVIEW & OUTLOOK Campaign-Finance Meltdown
"Their [Democrats] behavior suggests what they really want is the politicized breakdown of the campaign-finance system." The Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2008
OPINION Obama's Flaws Multiply
"Speaking to small-town voters in Iowa last year, he asked, 'Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?'"
John Fund, The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2008
Our European Candidate
The Real Obama?
"...his inability to simply apologize for the stupid remarks and move on suggests that he may well think he has said nothing wrong."
Victor Davis Hanson, April 14, 2008
OPINION The Health Insurance Mafia
"You don't need to be an economist to understand that any middleman interposed between seller and buyer raises the price of a given service or product."
Jonathan Kellerman, The Wall Street Journal,April 14, 2008
CROSS COUNTRY Pennsylvania Divided
"As a Pennsylvania voter, I'm disheartened by the identity politics now playing out as both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battle for votes among Democratic Party factions."
Jerry Bowyer, The Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2008
Is there a pattern here?
Here we go again with Wright Redux.
"Now any hate-monger, it seems, can go on a public racist rant, with the expectation that there will be no credible and absolute public condemnation."
Victor Davis Hanson,April 10, 2008
Obama's Minister Problem
"I am a strong supporter of and a substantial fundraiser for Hillary Clinton for president (though in this column I speak only for myself)."
Lanny J. Davis, The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2008
Mr. Davis, a Washington, D.C. attorney, is former special counsel to President Clinton.
The Trouble With Brand Hillary
"Recently the Clinton campaign released a portion Sen. Clinton's White House daily activity logs. A preliminary analysis of these logs has begun to reveal Mrs. Clinton's claims of experience to be overstated."
Michael Zeldin, The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2008
Mr. Zeldin is the former independent counsel who investigated the tampering with Bill Clinton's passport. He is a part-time volunteer for the Obama campaign in the primary cycle.
Dreams From My Father, Lame Excuses From My Grandfather
"Since a Chinese graduate student at Columbia University, Minghui Yu, was killed last Friday when black youths violently set upon him, sending him running into traffic to escape, I think B. Hussein Obama ought to start referring to the mind-set of the 'typical Asian person.'"
Ann Coulter, RedStateUSA, April 09, 2008
Obama's speech
Thomas Sowell, Jewish World Review, 12 Adar II 5768
Tell us what you really think, Ann Obama's Dimestore "Mein Kampf"
"Forget Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- Wright is Booker T. Washington compared to this guy."
Ann Coulter, RedStateUSA, April 02, 2008
Leningrad Cowboys cover Sweet Home Alabama
What Rev. Wright Has Wrought
"While it was not Obamas intent to unleash racial animosity, the net effect of rationalizing Wright will be precisely that."
Victor Davis Hanson, Sun, March 30, 2008
CRACKPOTTERY
Global warming? The world is coming to an end, don't sweat the small stuff. Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More
The possibility that a black hole eats up the Earth is too serious a threat to leave it as a matter of argument among crackpots.
Dennis Overbye,The New York Times, March 29, 2008
Hillary: Swiftboated!
"She claimed that she came under sniper fire when she visited in Bosnia in 1996, but was contradicted by videotape showing her sauntering off the plane and stopping on the tarmac to listen to a little girl read her a poem."
"So in the speech the media are telling us is on a par with the Gettysburg Address, B. Hussein Obama casually informed us that even blacks who seem to like white people actually hate our guts."
Ann Coulter, Human Events, 03/26/2008 Updated 03/27/2008
The edge of the precipice
Hillary in combat
Fantasies on Iraq
Political speeches on the war's anniversary have in common the promise of the impossible. The Washington Post, Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Obamastrophe
The Me-Campaign
"The Democrats flocked to this Pied Piper and now hes going to lead them over the proverbial cliff."
Victor Davis Hanson, March 20, 2008
The Obama Bargain
"...Mr. Obama's run at the presidency is based more on the manipulation of white guilt than on substance."
Shelby Steele, The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2008
Our New Nixon
"Almost everything Barack Obama has said about his relationship with Wright is untrue."
Victor Davis Hanson, Monday, March 17, 2008
An Endless Campaign
Clinton vs. McCain vs. Obama
"I still maintain that Obama is the easier candidate for McCain for a variety of reasons that remain unchanged. He has no experience in adversarial politics..."
Victor Davis Hansen, Wednesday, March 3, 2008
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Obama and Chicago Mores
"On Tuesday, Barack Obama may well wrap up the Democratic nomination. Yet how he rose so quickly in Chicago's famously suspect politics -- and who his associates were there -- has received little scrutiny."
John Fund, The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2008
Clinton, Obama and a Difference That Matters
"Sen. Obama views himself as a citizen of the world, thanks to his background as the son of an African father and American mother, and as one who spent formative years living in Indonesia." The Walll Street Journal, February 26, 2008
Barack Obama embarrassed by billionaire link to home deal
"A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses." The Times, February 25, 2008
Follow Hillary Clintons Money!
"...Clintons wealth is of very recent origin and much of it may represent the fruits of influence seeking by wealthy foreigners like the Emir of Dubai."
Dick Morris, Feb 11 2008
Clinton v. Obama: The Lawsuit
"Imagine that as the convention approaches, Sen. Clinton is leading in the popular vote, but Sen. Obama has the delegate lead."
Theodore B. Olson, The Wall StreetJournal, February 11, 2008
The Right Is Wrong on McCain
"As President Reagan once told me, 'Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff.'"
Robert Mcfarlane, The Wall StreetJournal, February 9, 2008
McCain May Win, Romney Can't
"And, if a failure to win means the election of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the stakes are too high to ignore the issue of political practicality in making a choice."
Dick Morris, TheHill.com, Wed, January 30, 2008
Straight Talk About The Straight-Talker
"[McCain] is "a man of integrity without integrity"meaning that the senator is reputed to have great integrity, but in fact has little, given the definition of that word: "the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards" (Encarta Dictionary)."
Henry Mark Holzer, The New Media Journal.us, January 23, 2008
The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates
Black anger grows as illegal immigrants transform urban neighborhoods.
Steven Malanga, City Journal, Winter 2008
Waiting for Straight Talk
It won't come from McCain
George Will, Real Clear Politics, Sunday, January 20, 2008
The Clintons and History
"...the most dangerous place to be ...is between the Clintons and an elected office."
Matt Bai, The New York Times, Monday, January 14, 2008
Not a viable heroine
"If George Eliot were reporting on the election cycle, she might produce a piece rather like the one Camille Paglia has recently published on Hillary Clinton."
Erin O'Connor, Critical Mass, Friday, January 11, 2008
The New Deal Jobs Myth
The candidates keep touting Depression-style public works programs. Why?
Amity Shlaes, WSJ OpinionJournal, Mon, Dec 31, 2007
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL What's the Matter With Iowa?
The caucuses are anything but a Norman Rockwell exercise in small-town democracy.
John Fund, WSJ OpinionJournal, Mon, Dec 31, 2007
The Old Ba' Game
Residents of a Scottish Town Feel the Pull (and Push) of a Chaotic, Centuries-Old Holiday Event
In the ba' game, a writhing mass of humanity attempts to push a ball to a designated location, the Doonies team to the sea and the Uppies to a wall across town.
Eli Saslow, The Washington Post, Sun, Dec 30, 2007
The Résumé Factor: Those 8 Years as First Lady
"But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a copy of the presidents daily intelligence briefing."
Patrick Healy, The New York Times, December 26, 2007
GLOBAL VIEW The NIE Fantasy
The intelligence community failed to anticipate the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Bret Stephens, WSJ OpinionJournal, Tue, Dec 11, 2007
The Flaws In the Iran Report
"...the headline finding -- that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 -- is written in a way that guarantees the totality of the conclusions will be misread."
John R. Bolton, The Washington Post, Thursday, December 6, 2007
Income Mobility
"Listening to people like Lou Dobbs, John Edwards and Mike Huckabee lamenting the plight of America's middle class and poor, you'd have to conclude that things are going to hell in a handbasket."
Walter E. Williams, Townhall.com, Wed, Dec 5, 2007
Income Confusion
"The top one percent -- "the rich" who are supposed to be monopolizing the money, according to the left -- saw their incomes decline by a whopping 26 percent."
Thomas Sowell, Real Clear Politics, Tue, Nov 20, 2007
Movin' On Up
A Treasury study refutes populist hokum about "income inequality." WSJ OpinionJournal, Tue, Nov 13, 2007
The Reclamation of Skid Row
The LAPDs efforts are reviving Americas most squalid neighborhoodand the homeless industry is hopping mad.
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Autumn, 2007
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL 'This Will Make Voter Fraud Easier'
Why does Mrs. Clinton want driver's licenses for illegal aliens?
John Fund, WSJ OpinionJournal, Fri, Nov 2, 2007
AT WAR The Realignment of Iraq
We're winning because the Iraqis want us to--Moqtada al-Sadr included.
Bartle Bull, WSJ OpinionJournal, Wed, Oct 3, 2007
AT WAR The Long Arm of Iran
The top mullahs have been complicit in terror attacks.
Dan Senor, WSJ OpinionJournal, Sat, Sep 29, 2007
A Quiet Triumph May be Brewing
"There are signs that the global Islamic jihad movement is splitting apart, in what would be a tremendous achievement for American strategy."
Ray Robison, The American Thinker, Fri, Sep 28, 2007
Pork Barrel Stonewall
The Democrats refuse to allow public scrutiny of all earmarks.
John Boehner, WSJ OpinionJournal,Thu, Sep 27, 2007
Global Warming Hysteria
'Despite increasing evidence that man-made CO2 is not a significant greenhouse gas and contributor to climate change, politicians and others who wish to control our lives must maintain that it is.'
Walter E. Williams,Townhall.com, Wed, Sep 26, 2007
"Never go to a public lavatory in London," warned Professor Jackson. "I always pee in the street. You may be fined a few pounds for committing a nuisance, but in a public lavatory you risk two years in prison because a policeman in plain clothes says you smiled at him." Orange County Register, Sat, Sep 1, 2007
The great but politically incorrect Ernie Kovacs [with cigar]:
Uh-oh, Canada
If Canada's national health-care system is so dang wonderful, why are so many Canadians coming to America to pay for their own medical care?
Bill Steigerwald, Saturday, Townhall.com, Sep 1, 2007
Tragic Implications
"Money supposedly set aside for repairing potholes and maintaining bridges is diverted to the building of bicycle paths or subsidizing ferries or buses. These other things have more of a political pay-off."
Thomas Sowell, Townhall.com,Tue, Aug 14, 2007
Fighting the "Real" Fight
Foolish myths about al-Qaida in Mesopotamia.
Christopher Hitchens, Slate, Mon, Aug 13, 2007
$100,000 will be awarded to the first person to prove, in a scientific manner, that humans are causing harmful global warming.
And now for something completely different:
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Whose Ox Is Gored
After Bush's victory, liberals shouted "Voter fraud!" Why have they changed their tune?
John Fund, WSJ OpinionJournal, Mon, Jul 30, 2007
VIEW FROM MOSCOW Don Putin
To understand today's Russia, read "The Godfather."
Garry Kasparov, WSJ OpinionJournal, Sun, Jul 29, 2007
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Dr. Broun Goes to Washington
A conservative Republican wins a stunning upset in a Georgia House race.
John Fund, WSJ OpinionJournal, Mon, Jul 23, 2007
Delusions of Honesty
Tony Blair's domestic legacy: corruption and the erosion of liberty.
Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, Wed, Jul 18, 2007
Farewell, Antioch
One down, hundreds to go
George Will, Townhall.com, Sun, Jul 15, 2007
Live Earth: Dead on Arrival
"One could say Live Earth is proof that global warming has jumped the shark, except for the fact that the phrase "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark."
Jonah Goldberg, Townhall.com, Wed, Jul 11, 2007
Whitehead engaging in petty politics
Another thought
"In case Jim Whitehead doesn't know it - and his Monday comments to the Kiwanis Club of Augusta suggest strongly that he does not - the 10th Congressional District seat he's seeking includes both the Athens and Augusta areas." Athens Banner-Herald, Thu, Jul 5, 2007
GOD BLESS AMERICA 'Wonderfully Spared'
Our Founders were talented men--and lucky ones too.
Joyce Lee Malcolm, WSJ OpinionJournal, Wed, Jul 4, 2007
OLD TIMES The Summer of Drugs
Forty years ago, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in and drop out."
Ted Nugent, WSJ OpinionJournal, Wed, Jul 4, 2007
PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP The Real Deal
Reconsidering our reverence for FDR.
Amity Shlaes, WSJ OpinionJournal, Sun, Jul 1, 2007
THE WAR What I Saw in Iraq
Iran remains a problem, but Anbar has joined the fight against terror.
Joseph Lieberman, WSJ OpinionJournal, Fri, Jun 15, 2007
AT WAR Realists on Iraq
Democratic presidential candidates should listen to the "experts" they so often cite.
Dan Senor, WSJ OpinionJournal, Tue, Jun 5, 2007
The Case for Bombing Iran
I hope and pray that President Bush will do it.
Norman Podhoretz, Commentary, June, 2007
When Porn Stars Get Offended
Mike S. Adams, Townhall.com, Tue, May 29, 2007
Vagina Monologues in the chapel? UGA is falling behind on the cultural diversity front.
The Many Myths of Ethanol
"If you're not willing to sacrifice children to the corn god, you will not get out of the Iowa primary with more than one percent of the vote."
John Stossel, Townhall.com,Wed, May 23, 2007
AT WAR The Left's Iraq Muddle
Yes, it is central to the fight against Islamic radicalism.
Bob Kerrey, WSJ OpinionJournal. Tue, May 22, 2007
Mr. Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska and member of the 9/11 Commission, is president of The New School.
HYPOCRISY WATCH Pride of the Caymans
John Edwards's part-time job. WSJ OpinionJournal, Sun, May 20, 2007
POTOMAC WATCH Ethanol's Bitter Taste
Congress is choking on corn-based fuel.
"It was a scant two years ago that Georgia's Saxby Chambliss voted with 73 other giddy senators for an energy bill that required the nation to use 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol. Georgia's farmers loved corn-based ethanol; Georgia's agri-businesses loved corn-based ethanol; and all that meant that then-Agriculture Committee Chairman Chambliss loved corn-based ethanol, too."
"Turns out Georgia's chicken farmers hate corn-based ethanol; Georgia's pork producers hate corn-based ethanol; Georgia's dairy industry hates corn-based ethanol; Georgia's food producers hate corn-based ethanol; Georgia's hunters hate corn-based ethanol. And all that means Mr. Chambliss has had to find a new biofuels religion."
Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ OpinionJournal, Fri, May 18, 2007
AT WAR Was Osama Right?
Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak. Recent political trends won't change their view.
Bernard Lewis, WSJ OpinionJournal, Wed, May 16, 2007
AT WAR Surging Ahead in Iraq
The new strategy can work. But Washington has to give it time.
Max Boot, WSJ OpinionJournal, Tue, May 15, 2007
The Anger Of The Left
"...nothing is more of a threat to their desire to run other people's lives than the free market and its defenders."
Thomas Sowell, Townhall.com, Tue, May 15, 2007
Multitude of Sins
"Most terrorists seem like bumbling losers if they're caught before the act..."
Mark Steyn, The New York Sun, Mon, May 14, 2007
DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY The Realignment of America
The native-born are leaving "hip" cities for the heartland.
Michael Barone, WSJ OpinionJournal, Tue, May 8, 2007
True Unbelievers
A sectarian split among atheists.
Christopher Orlet, WSJ OpinionJournal, Tue, May 1, 2007
Dutch Rub-Out
Wolfowitz and the World Bank's Euro-cabal. WSJ OpinionJournal, Mon, Apr 30, 2007
Certified Madness
America might not have beaten the Japanese if Jack Murtha had been around.
Bruce Berkowitz,WSJ OpinionJournal, Sun, Apr 29, 2007
The CFL mercury nightmare
What if you break a fluorescent bulb?
Steven Milloy, Financial Post, Sat, Apr 28, 2007
The NFL Backdraft
"Why do these teams keep drafting players with character defects you can see at 100 yards in the dark with your back turned?"
Fred Thompson, Townhall.com, Sat, Apr 28, 2007
Evian Criminals
The new snob appeal of tap water.
Daniel Gross, Slate, Thu, Apr 26, 2007
Harry's War
Democrats are taking ownership of a defeat in Iraq.
"We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war. Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding."
--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, April 12. WSJ OpinionJournal, Wed, Apr 25, 2007
A DANGER TO SOCIETY Bedlam Revisited
Why the Virginia Tech shooter was not committed.
Jonathan Kellerman, WSJ OpinionJournal, Mon, Apr 23, 2007
'I found Saddam's WMD bunkers'
Interview with Dave Gaubatz, a former US special agent
Melanie Phillips, The Spectator (london), Sat, Apr 21, 2007
I'm All Right, Jack
Many have found the behavior of the British sailors and marines captured
by the Iranians to be questionable. "General Sir Michael Rose...has claimed
the incident has shown that the Royal Navy is no longer fit for modern warfare."
G.P. Colebatch, The American Spectator, Tue, Apr 17, 2007
THE LOW POST: The Imus Sanction
In a media shitstorm, everyone ducks for the cover of easy moral outrage
Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com, Wed, Apr 18, 2007
Caught in the (Legal) Crossfire
Virginia Tech could have been sued no matter what it did. WSJ OpinionJournal, Fri, Apr 20, 2007
Suffering in Silence
Rachel Carson's ideas are still popular, with deadly effect.
"DDT remains the cheapest and most powerful tool for stopping malaria. When sprayed on interior walls, it has virtually zero interaction with wild ecosystems. Yet when the topic of relaxing restrictions in order to save millions of lives comes up, someone inevitably brandishes a copy of "Silent Spring" and opposition is silenced so completely that you could hear a mosquito buzzing in the next room."
Katherine Mangu-Ward, WSJ OpinionJournal, Fri, Apr 20, 2007
The Media Cornucopia
It's a Golden Age of media—but not for long, if the Left has its way.
Adam D. Thierer, City Journal, Spring 2007
WONDER LAND The Democrats' Surge
Will they thwart a military success, or will success thwart them?
Daniel Henninger, WSJ OpinionJournal, Thu, Apr 5, 2007
ANBAR DISPATCH Iraq's Real 'Civil War'
Sunni tribes battle al Qaeda terrorists in the insurgency's stronghold.
Bing West And Owen West, WSJ OpinionJournal, Thu, Apr 5, 2007
How to Win in Iraq-and How to Lose
Campaigns like the current "surge" in Baghdad have a record
of battlefield success-when they are not undermined at home.
Arthur Herman, Commentary, March, 2007
Year of the Donkey
Are the Democrats rising, or just listing to the left?
Pete Du Pont, WSJ OpinionJournal,Wed, Mar 28, 2007
Tehran's Hostages
Iran's act of war against our British allies. WSJ OpinionJournal,Mon, Mar 26, 2007
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Earmark Cover-Up
The Congressional Research Service is helping its masters hide wasteful spending. WSJ OpinionJournal,Mon, Mar 26, 2007
