You may have heard that last week 24 Nobel economists wrote that Vice President Kamala Harris' economic plan would be better for America than the Trump agenda. The joint letter was spearheaded by the hyperpolitical Joseph ...
The latest from Ramesh Ponnuru on the National Review blog: “Paleos make highly charged attacks on their enemies on the Right and then expect to be treated like wounded puppies whenever anyone else responds in kind. ...
I see that Manuel Noriega is due for release soon, at least that’s what the Federal Bureau of Prisons web site says. It’s always so hard for prisoners to make the transition from prison life to ...
The most appalling thing to come out of the Florida primary this week was not John McCain’s victory over Mitt Romney. Instead, it came in the days immediately before the vote, when McCain attacked Romney for his ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), on the prospect of John McCain occupying the White House: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
“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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Barney Frank, the 14-term congressman from Massachusetts's Fourth, might be the most well-connected and secure Democrat in Washington. Ideologically speaking, however, for the past decade or so he's seemed like one of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
