I neither watched nor listened to Obama’s speech last night. Fortunately I was out with friends, so I didn’t even have to ponder whether or not to subject myself to it. I did read about it (and the transcript) when … Continue reading →
This observation by Robert Frost has long been one of my favorite descriptions of a liberal: A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Of course, that’s only true when the quarrel is … Continue reading →
The “Republicans are racist” propaganda program continues apace, along with other revisions of history. The Soviets would be so proud! Mona Charen writes: The latest entry appears to be “The Butler,” which misrepresents President Reagan…as, at best, insensitive to blacks, … Continue reading →
…and therefore has set out to destroy him. Cruz is their worst nightmare: a brainy and fearless conservative with impeccable intellectual Ivy League credentials and minority ethnicity to boot. But they feel fully up to the task of turning him … Continue reading →
…if the candidate in question is on the right. No surprise there. [NOTE: I wrote about this issue long ago (although not of course in relation to Cruz), pointing out that similar questions were raised about John McCain when he … Continue reading →
…does the DC Circuit have? In an opinion released today involving the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Executive Branch has no authority to disregard congressional mandates merely on policy … Continue reading →
……to articles like this one is: what about political changers like me? How do you explain us? Political preferences seem to come packaged with a whole set of other kinds of tastes, with liberals and conservatives having separate preferences when … Continue reading →
I found the following comment to my post on Tamerlane Tsarnaev and the BBC (cross-posted at Legal Insurrection) to be a good reminder of the difference between our own left/right divide vs. those of Europe: Some concepts don’t translate well … Continue reading →
This. Excerpt: Barack Obama is the first president of the democracy that John Adams warned us about. Democracy never lasts long,” Adams famously said. “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself…” …[T]he United States is not going to fall for … Continue reading →
No, the BBC doesn’t actually say “Tea Party member.” Here’s what it does say: One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Panorama … Continue reading →
On Saturday Robert Mugabe won the election in Zimbabwe handily against challenger Morgan Tsvangirai. Republicans: take note, and don’t make the mistakes Tsvangirai made. As for Obama and his fellow leftists: they’ve been taking notes all along. And here’s how … Continue reading →
Quite a few commenters questioned my decision in this post to assume that a certain liberal named Steven Rattner, former counsel to Obama’s Treasury Department, has good intentions. Here’s what I wrote in that post: If you believe Rattner to … Continue reading →