Live-blogging the GOP Debate
The opening shot on CNN saw Ron Paul getting friendly with Mitt Romney and John McCain, who gave his principal ideological opponent a patronizing pat on the back. Are Americans better off now than they were 8 years ...
The opening shot on CNN saw Ron Paul getting friendly with Mitt Romney and John McCain, who gave his principal ideological opponent a patronizing pat on the back. Are Americans better off now than they were 8 years ...
I am writing this blog for two reasons, first, to second the webmaster's exhortation to our readers to shower Ron Paul with additional campaign funding (I am now doing my part); and second, to express my utter contempt for ...
Neocon Matthew Continetti, an associate editor of The Weakly Standard, is asked if he’s capable of holding a gun. I say he isn’t. I’m not the first one to notice that the War Party’s intellectual ...
Before 85,00 adoring fans, the man of "Hope" and "Change" finally got down to specifics and told us who he really is and what he really plans to do as president. Well, sort of... Energy Independence in ...
There once was a time when presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani led the Republican field as "Mr. 9/11""the symbol of America standing tall against terrorism. How Rudy's steadfastness (however admirable) ...
A neo-Nazi cell in ... Israel? To which one can only add: Oy vey! Actually, this is not all that surprising. After all, Israeli nationalist ideology has evolved into a form of national socialism—albeit without the ...
With the recent observation of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, it might be worth looking at what the last two centuries have wrought. George Washington's vision of a humble constitutional republic, decentralized and debt ...
Here’s a slightly seedy confession to start off Lent: The very notion of self-denial and penance has always left me cold, tempted me to follow the Protestant poet Milton, who scorned such papist practices as the folly ...
This week, in a speech before the London School of Economics, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke offered a perverse economic theory in his quest to gather support for never-ending Wall Street bailouts: “This disparate ...
The talk-radio and "conservative movement" Right hates the New York Times much more than it hates John McCain, and the paper's recent dubious reporting on the senator's alleged shenanigans with an attractive young ...
In response to Ron Paul’s showing of 3 percent in Florida, one can only propose that we give the place back to its rightful owner: Spain. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish governor of Florida, founder ...
No response to my TTD piece so far from Jamie Kirchick, author of The New Republic‘s failed attempt to smear Ron Paul, but one of his “libertarian” enablers at the Cato Institute has responded. Or, rather, ...
Sunday’s NY Times story talks about the divergences between one-time running mates (and popular vote winners) Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman. Noting that Lieberman has moved to the “right” by becoming ...
From one of my favorite liberal Democratic bloggers: “The most pathetic thing about Barack Obama’s efforts to bow and scrape for AIPAC are that the AIPAC crowd has been suspicious of him from Day One and his ...
Having read Patrick Foy's comments about Israel in his "Sack of Annapolis,"and having just spent the better part of a month living in the Holy Land, I feel compelled to respond to his wholesale criticism of the ...
That Bill Kristol, neocon bellwether and house intellectual of the McCain-led GOP, would have nice things to say about Sarah Palin, would even have floated her selection as VP two months ago (!), should furrow the ...
“Just because you didn’t find every Easter egg doesn’t mean that it wasn’t planted.” So said Mike Huckabee about the lack of WMDs in Iraq at the Thursday night Republican debate in ...
They Can"t Even Wait! Although I consider myself second to none in loathing the Democratic Party, as an ingathering of bureaucratic parasites and self-described victim groups (yelping for set-asides and public funding), ...
Jim, let me just make a point. I’ve got a bracelet, too... ~Barack Obama This statement, better than anything else said, sums up Barack Obama's performance at the presidential debate last night. Coming in a close ...
Hmmmm…. This story about the fire-sprinkler system not working at the $597 million US embassy in Iraq is getting some circulation, but the headline buries the real news. Well, yes, the electrical system doesn’t ...
In electing Barack Obama, many liberals thought we might be closer to an America where race wouldn’t matter. But for California progressives, the same election proved that race mattered more than ever. ...
Mickey Kaus beat me to the punch. For that matter, so did Richard. One of the reasons that I have frequently noted the obsession Obama supporters have with his appearance, his heritage and the symbolism of his ...
Well, he beat Benito in Michigan—and the Second Coming of Reagan, too. Even the Los Angeles Times is forced to sit up and take notice. Even if the Paul campaign winds up as a blip on the electoral screen, a mere ...
If Faustus was willing to sell his soul to the Devil for sex, wealth and power, Eliot Spitzer, governor of New York, has settled for power— sensing full well that the other two follow naturally. Mind you, money ...
