Yesterday I wrote about the wide disparity in poll results for next week’s special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat. I wanted to add this link, which attempts to explain some of the differences between the polls, as … Continue reading →
So, which Brown/Coakley poll is closer to reality? This one, which says the Massachusetts Senate race is a dead heat? Or this one, which has Coakley up by 15? Dunno. However, the all-important details of the demographics of the second … Continue reading →
Most people now recognize that Obama has been lying about a lot of things. But it’s often said that’s just business as usual for politicians, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is being naive. Blogger Richard Fernandez of Belmont Club, … Continue reading →
Is this what’s behind the Democrats’ boldness in defying the American public? Do they believe that, once Universal Voter Registration is rammed firmly in place, they’ll be unbeatable?
Continue reading →[Every now and then I may post an excerpt from Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free. The book, first published in 1955, is an exploration of Germans’ attitudes in the period leading up to WWII and including the war … Continue reading →
The Big Lie at work: C-SPAN wrote a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday asking that TV cameras be allowed to film negotiations to reconcile the House and Senate versions of healthcare reform legislation. But Pelosi said Congress has already been … Continue reading →
None. Good old Andrew Sullivan is on the case of those who saw this official White House photo of Obama as condescending and arrogant: Obama’s supporters see the pose as James Bondish—although I can’t see how that would eliminate arrogance; … Continue reading →
And a fascinating one it is. Ever since I’ve heard of this race, I’d been searching and searching for a poll, but nada so far until today. Rasmussen says that the results are 50% Coakley to 41% Brown, which doesn’t … Continue reading →
Scott Brown, you ask? Who’s that? Or maybe you already know who Brown is, because you’re such a bunch of political junkies. Right now he’s the best (although perhaps least-known) hope of throwing a wrench into the Obamacare works. Brown … Continue reading →
President Obama has often been compared to Jimmy Carter. But lately it occurs to me that there’s a lot of resemblance to presidential candidate Mike Dukakis, who failed a basic emotional test in his response to a hypothetical asked during … Continue reading →
…it’s in some big kind of trouble. Herbert is ordinarily one of the most stalwart supporters of whatever the left might be dishing up at the moment. But his relatively clear-minded and well-reasoned opposition to the Cadillac health insurance tax … Continue reading →
Now that it’s nearly a year into Obama’s presidency, I find myself having a recurrent experience: I’ll go back and read something from the past, but now with the perspective provided by the passage of time I experience an “aha!” … Continue reading →