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Uh oh: Miller 50, McAdams 44 in new Rasmussen poll
Close. Yeah, Rasmussen. Not PPP or Carville’s firm or some other left-leaning outfit. This is hot off the presses from the right’s very favorite pollster — and, to make matters worse, it’s of course a...
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Video: Boxer discusses conversation with Condoleezza Rice that, er, never...
Legend in her own mind. Have you ever known people who pass the time of day by arguing with themselves? Barbara Boxer almost gets to that level in this video clip from the San Francisco Chronicle and...
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Coulter: Obama’s not a Muslim, he’s an atheist
Dude? If so, he’d better keep it covered up. As I reminded you recently, there’s only one thing worse poll-wise for a politician to be than Muslim. Alternate headline: “Good news: Obama finally right...
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Good news: Illegal immigration declines to only several hundred thousand per...
Enforcement. It really is good news, but I’m seeing people linking/tweeting it as evidence that the great wingnut noise machine has once again hyped an issue that practically doesn’t. even. exist....
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Matthews: Will the Beck/Palin religious right revival derail GOP support for...
Nuance. Beck fans (and Hot Air readers) will see the punchline coming, but it’s the rep from the Log Cabin Republicans who has the fun of actually delivering it. In his rush to indict Beck as some sort...
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Open thread: Fiorina and Boxer debate
Bellwether. 10 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT. Via Gabe Malor, you can watch below or at C-SPAN. Remember, the race is basically a dead heat at this point and, according to lefty pollster PPP, the big red wave is...
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Quotes of the day
Consequences. Detailing the close professional and personal relationship which developed between the two leaders in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S. and during the build-up to the Iraq...
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Obamateurism of the Day
The I's have it. Who won the Iraq war? If Barack Obama’s weekend address is any indication, he did it almost singlehandedly — even though he opposed the eventually successful strategy that tamped down...
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Time wonders how Obama lost his mojo
Did he ever really have it? Some of us might answer that question with “the media was finally forced to cover him properly,” but let’s not get too picky about that now. At least the media has begun to...
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The Ed Morrissey Show, live from the Minnesota State Fair!
Deep-fried radio and fudge puppies, 10-noon ET! The Ed Morrissey Show continues its special Minnesota State Fair editions today, going two hours from 10-noon ET/9-11 CT live from Dan Patch Avenue at...
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Video: Beware the Political Insidersaurus
Not endangered. Are Beltway insiders dinosaurs? Lots of Tea Party activists think so, and so does Eric Wargotz, running for the GOP nomination in Maryland to run against Barbara Mikulski for the US...
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Romer: We had no clue … and still don’t
No kidding. Christina Romer exits the administration this month, and perhaps she felt compelled to engage in a little truth telling. If so, that may have been a little more truth than the people at...
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Matthews: Say, perhaps Obama relies on the teleprompter a tad too much
"I think it's his menace." Can we say that a consensus has been reached that Barack Obama’s Oval Office speech was a disappointment? If Chris Matthews is busy blaming the teleprompter for an Obama...
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FCC extends comment time on Net Neutrality
Question the timing. The FCC has champed at the bit to find ways to regulate the Internet under chair Julius Genachowski, garnering rebukes from both the courts and from Congress for overstepping its...
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Chuck Norris fact: Chuck Norris will destroy you if you don’t register to vote
Do it, wimp. Fun fun fun from the NRA. I assume most of our readers (gun owners especially) don’t need any encouragement on this point. But in case you do, know this: Failure to comply will result in...
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Uh oh: Another oil platform explodes in gulf
Not the actual rig, but a close-ish approximation! Three big differences from the Deepwater explosion, right off the bat: (a) This one isn’t owned by BP (and apparently never was, contrary to what one...
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Manufacturing dissent
Establishment reactionaries. I usually treat the establishment’s media bias like the weather in Forks, WA — sought by vampires, simply endured by normal people. Nevertheless, I was recently tickled by...
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WH reporter wonders why Obama has been AWOL while Dem numbers “nosedive”
"You sound like a radio guy." Say, where has Barack Obama been while polling numbers for Democrats have nosedived this summer? One member of the White House press corps asked Robert Gibbs this...
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The case for voting for the RINO in the Delaware primary
RINO-mania! In which Ace swipes the blogospheric crown of “Supreme RINO Candy-Ass” right off my head. Seriously, it’s a great post. Read it all or you’ll miss the critique of “true conservative”...
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Scott picks running mate in FL gubernatorial contest
Game changer? Rick Scott stunned Florida AG Bill McCollum to win the Republican nomination for governor in the race to replace Charlie Crist, who chose poorly in decided to run for the Senate rather...
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