Obamateurism of the Day
Oh, no they didn't. Allahpundit already hit this one once, but when even Jake Tapper has to lead an article with “Huh?”, it’s worth a second look. It’s one thing to thank one’s supporters for all...
View ArticleHillary: I Will Run No More, Forever.
Up to something? Now why would you think that? In certain Democratic hearts, there lives a dream barely spoken aloud, a dream of a champion who will run against Barack Obama in the 2012 primaries and...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s really getting up there
Biden and Obama prepare to doubleteam Kokomo. This weekend Joe Biden officially turned 19 years older than the president again. Having a near-senior citizen as vice presidential partner was helpful...
View ArticleBombshell evidence may make Waters an ethics nightmare for Dems
The reason it got postponed. Apparently, the Charlie Rangel ethics trial was just the warm-up act. The New York Times reported over the weekend that the House Ethics Committee suddenly postponed the...
View ArticleBobby Jindal: How about protecting the rights of Americans and not terrorists?
Profiling. I thought after reading some of the horror stories coming from people who dealt with TSA pat-downs hit its climax last week. But TSA keeps proving me wrong. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal...
View ArticleGore: On second thought, I was just pandering to the farm vote on ethanol
Credibility. Too often, Americans punish politicians for reversing their previous and sometimes obviously wrong positions on policy. They label such politicians as flip-floppers, and even when these...
View ArticleTSA Uproar: That’s The Power of Drudge
Siren song. As I recently noted at Politics Daily, the TSA showdown is healthy for America. Here’s why: The TSA passenger rebellion is merely the latest example of American exceptionalism and is...
View ArticleIs Obama stuck in the 80s?
Hitting 88 MPH ... in reverse. “I personally came of age during the Reagan presidency,” Barack Obama wrote in his first book The Audacity of Hope, and Washington Post columnist Jackson Diehl wonders...
View ArticleQuinnipiac poll shows Americans skeptical of second Obama term
For now. Wasn’t that the message of the midterms, especially after Barack Obama went out of his way to defend Democrats by warning voters that his agenda was at risk? In this case, it was the same as...
View ArticleThe Ed Morrissey Show: Marilyn Musgrave
3 pm ET! Today on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we will talk with Marilyn Musgrave of the Susan B. Anthony List about the future of the pro-life agenda now that the GOP has taken control of the...
View ArticleGiving Thanks a Bit Early
Remember in November I’ve been hearing a lot of complaining lately in the blogs, on television and all through my Twitter feed. It’s nothing unusual, mind you. Mostly just the normal litany of gripes...
View ArticleJindal: Obama told us not to criticize him on TV
Looking out for number one. In an interview this morning on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Bobby Jindal said that at a meeting with the President during the gulf oil spill, that he and the President of...
View ArticleNevada Epilogue: Amateur Candidates Often Run Amateur Campaigns
I propose an alliance from which we all can benefit. Politico has an article today on the inner workings of Sharron Angle’s losing campaign that should provide instructive to the right as we look...
View ArticleRush ridicules John Lewis over “He went to Selma” defense of Rangel
Double standard for the goose and the gander. We’ve already heard Allen West call John Lewis a hypocrite over his defense of Charlie Rangel. Now Rush takes a moment to point out the absurdity of John...
View ArticleTMZ: Bristol Palin getting death threats, DWTS ramps up security
It's come to this. This is now the national equivalent of a brawl breaking out in the stands at a Little League T-ball game because Joey’s dad thinks he was safe and Billy’s dad says he was out. Except...
View ArticleVideo: The final speech by FARC’s #2 guy
Theirs is not to reason why... Colombian authorities have released a video of the military commander and No. 2 man of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Mono Jojoy (h/t Shane). He was...
View ArticleOh my: 64% support new TSA scanners but public split on patdowns; Update: Why...
This won't hurt a bit. Something for everyone here. For TSA skeptics, evidence that relentless media scrutiny over the past week is turning the public against the new protocol. That widely linked CBS...
View ArticleBarbara Bush Hitting Palin to Help Jeb?
Dynasty. … That’s what Jonathan Alter argued during our panel on MSNBC’s ‘Dylan Ratigan Show’ today. Personally, I think Barbara Bush’s Palin-bashing (assuming saying she hopes Palin stays in Alaska...
View ArticleMoronic new video: Iran, North Korea, Cuba indict U.S. for human rights abuses
Nuance. Via Powerline, a case study in degenerate autocracies using the UN for cheap propaganda in the name of “human rights.” The occasion here is the U.S. having submitted its first-ever universal...
View ArticleGround Zero mosque applies for $5 million grant from 9/11 redevelopment fund
Hubris. Read this in full or you’ll miss the enjoyable tone of befuddlement and dismay from professional centrist John Avlon, who clearly wants to defend Park51 from those darned wingnuts who object to...
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