This is about as complicated and legalistic as it gets. But it’s a rather startling decision. The Senate has increased its use of the filibuster (which ordinarily is not technically a filibuster any more; see this) in order to block … Continue reading →
Ace nails it, completely and totally, here. The press is the key to the whole shebang. So I’ve got a question for you all: by which mechanism does this happen to the MSM? It’s a serious question, not a sarcastic … Continue reading →
The more I think about Hillary Clinton’s question yesterday—“what difference does it make?”—the more important it becomes; a sort of leitmotif, not only for this administration, but for our times in general. For the moment, let’s not talk about Benghazi … Continue reading →
Well, we do, of course. But we cared about Benghazi and this administration’s role in it even before Hillary Clinton testified, which finally happened today. I submit that most people care in certain ways. Those who like Clinton probably see … Continue reading →
I still haven’t listened to Obama’s inaugural speech; don’t plan to. I’ve mentioned several times before that I don’t like speeches in general, unless they’re by Churchill or Lincoln (I guess Patrick Henry could sneak in there, too). And Obama’s … Continue reading →
Or is he just pretending to be, and assuming we are? Perhaps it’s a meaningless question, because it actually doesn’t matter in practical terms. But since I’m interested in what makes people tick, I still ask it. What am I … Continue reading →
I didn’t. Yesterday a friend asked me about it and I said, “Why punish myself?” Then I realized that was rather combative, because after all she’s a big Obama fan, so I softened it by adding that I almost never … Continue reading →
I bet a lot of you will disagree, but I think that, on the whole, the GOP is right not to choose this particular hill to die on. Kicking the can down the road may not usually be such a … Continue reading →
It’s fairly apparent that Obama’s recent push for post-Newtown gun control is not reasonably related to the facts of the case, but exploits it instead as an opportunity to use the public’s emotional reaction to it (and some children, in … Continue reading →
You may be heartily sick of the topic by now, but I thought this article was a very good treatment of it (although I don’t agree with the next-to-last paragraph). Read the whole thing, but here’s an excerpt: It’s simply … Continue reading →
Simple: they’re not. After a mass shooting, gun controllers push the policies they’ve always supported as if they were a logical response to that particular example of senseless violence. When skeptics say it is hard to see how the proposed … Continue reading →
…that his previous positions on the Middle East had no meaning, earning Schumer’s vote for his confirmation. Was there ever any doubt that this would happen?: Schumer said that his support was sown up after Hagel ”” whom Obama formally … Continue reading →