Taking advantage of the crisis: House Democrats and other immigration reformers are calling on President Obama to go big when it comes to administrative changes in deportation policy. For months, liberal reform advocates on and off Capitol Hill have urged … Continue reading →
Opportunity for what? I usually take Sunday off, and I plan to take Sunday off, so this post will be much briefer than the situation warrants. I offer for your perusal this: Saturday at a press conference from the Rio … Continue reading →
Bruce Carroll at Legal Insurrection quotes the Daily Mail (another example of British papers doing the work American ones won’t) as having uncovered this: The article also ties a progressive activist to the payment of the radio ads. Carol Stern, … Continue reading →
And they’ll be laughing all the way. Be on the lookout for it. That’s the main reason I’ve written so much about those flyers and robocalls in Mississippi. My primary (pun intended) motivation is not to defend the Cochran campaign. … Continue reading →
[NOTE: For those of you who don’t know who FredHJr was, please see this and this, as well as these.] Unbelievable that it’s been five years since commenter FredHJr died suddenly and tragically. It was very tragic for his family. … Continue reading →
Unanimously. That unanimity is highly unusual, and it shows how very egregious Obama’s actions were when he made appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in what’s known as pro forma sessions, and tried to treat … Continue reading →
I want to clarify something about my reaction to the Mississippi primary campaign, and about my reaction to people’s reactions to it. I agree with those of you who say that the Cochran campaign acted badly, whether it put that … Continue reading →
Those of you who’ve followed the Republican primary in Mississippi are upset about Cochran’s outreach to Democrats. I agree it was a bad move. A great deal of the more intense anger about his campaign focuses on this abominable flyer … Continue reading →
I hadn’t closely followed the Mississippi Republican primary, even though I certainly had been aware that it involved a Tea Party candidate, McDaniel, challenging the incumbent Cochran. I tend to follow the old Buckley adage to support the most conservative … Continue reading →
Edward Klein has written Blood Feud, a book that purports to give the inside info on the Clintons and the Obamas and the fact that there’s no love lost between the two couples. Klein is a curious figure. A former … Continue reading →
…if you think he still cares about public opinion. I, for one, think he has o’erleaped public opinion. His vaulting ambition is to fundamentally change America, and that means a lot of people—maybe even a majority—will be expected to whine … Continue reading →
Words seem exceedingly inadequate right now. And yet as a blogger, that’s what I do. Just in the last few days I’ve written drafts or short notes for about 50 new posts that I haven’t even gotten around to finishing … Continue reading →