Obama’s America
One of the things worth noting about Senator Obama’s comments about the “bitter” working class voters who “cling” to guns, religion, and nativist sentiments because of their “frustrations” is this:...
View ArticleTeacher And Apprentice Revisited
In the December 2007 issue of the Atlantic, Mark Ambinder wrote a piece on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s relationship in the Senate. It was a dramatic read then, and in light of last night, it’s...
View ArticleThe Bow Is Par for the Course
Jake Tapper finds an academic with some expertise on Japan who relates this on the cringe-inducing bow: “Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of...
View ArticleNot as Planned
Obama and the Left more generally expected the financial meltdown of 2008 and the resulting recession to undermine the public’s faith in the private sector. As they pushed the Great Depression...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
What would 1.5 million pennies look like? “It’s a school project spearheaded by seventh-grade Spotlight students currently studying World War II — with a significant focus on the Holocaust. Each penny...
View ArticleElecting a Nanny
One 2012 Republican contender described Obama like this: The messages are not being received by Barack Obama. So I think instead of lecturing, he needs to stop and he needs to listen on health care...
View ArticleJumping When Unions Holler
Obama’s promise of a better, cleaner, and more transparent brand of politics has not been fulfilled. Not by a long shot. The president appoints the SEIU boss to the deficit commission. Congress behind...
View ArticleCrist Crumbles
Charlie Crist is apparently throwing in the towel on the Republican primary — and what remains of his political future. Politico reports: Florida GOP Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a Republican-supported...
View ArticleA Most Disturbing Moment of Clarity
Following David Horowitz’s talk earlier this month at the University of California, San Diego, was one of the most chilling brief conversations I’ve heard in a while. A semi-polite yet coldly hostile...
View ArticleChristie Breaks Out
Chris Christie is making waves and headlines in New Jersey. He didn’t reappoint an activist supreme court judge. He’s slashing the budget and going after the teacher’s union. He’s refusing to raise...
View ArticleA Sea Change on Spending
One of the reasons I’m sanguine about the elections this year is that I sense a sea change in the political climate against spending. I’m hardly the only one. Just for instance, there’s E. Thomas...
View ArticleIt’s the Islamic Radicalism, Mr. Holder
For those still befuddled about the motivation (yeah, we’re talking about you, Mr. Attorney General) for Faisal Shahzad’s bombing plot, his e-mails should put to rest the notion that it was financial...
View ArticleZuckerman vs. Cohen: What Does Obama Intend?
Even when critiquing, indeed indicting, Obama’s serial foreign-policy debacles, many critics feel compelled to attribute fine motives to the president. Mort Zuckerman recently wrote: Obama clearly...
View ArticleThe Real Victims of Unions’ Anti-Israel Boycotts
There is a direct and disturbing link between the growing anti-Israel radicalism of American unions that J.E. Dyer detailed yesterday and the horrific treatment of union activists in Iran described by...
View ArticleBrilliant No More
How many times has a pundit or Democrat gushed over Obama’s “brilliant” mind? As conservatives pointed out to the swooners on the left, there was very little evidence of it — no inventive Third Wave...
View ArticleRE: Israelis Are Racists, and Besides, Some of My Best Political Hacks Are Jews
Jen, I wanted to weigh in on the story in Haaretz as well, the one that reports: During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that...
View ArticleWho Will Get Michelle Rhee?
Michelle Rhee is expected to leave her post as chancellor of the Washington D.C. schools following the defeat of Mayor Adrian Fenty in the Democratic primary. Fenty had supported her aggressive reform...
View ArticleA Novel Idea: Pay-as-You-Go Government
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is still acting as if he means what he says about controlling the costs of government. By canceling the long-planned construction of a second commuter tunnel under...
View ArticleDiversity Disappoints
Yesterday the Washington Post ran a front-page story on Thomas Jefferson High School (known commonly as “TJ”), a Fairfax County high school for select, über–academic achievers (i.e., Virginia’s Bronx...
View ArticleThe Magic Bullet
Chris Van Hollen, who will be the ranking member of the House Budget Committee in the new Congress, was on Fox News Sunday this morning (transcript not yet available). To no one’s surprise, I’m sure,...
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