Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger raised a little bit of a ruckus yesterday when he had the gall to suggest the obvious -- that it's easier to learn a language if you immerse yourself in it. “You've got to turn off the Spanish television set,” the Republican governor said Wednesday night at the annual convention of the […]
Rep. John Boehner has an op-ed in the Washington Examiner outlining the Democrats' bald-faced lies on earmark reform. Then came a decision by Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-WI, to not only make all earmarks secret, but to replace them in Democratic spending bills with multi-billion dollar slush funds – blank spots to be filled […]
The New York Sun calls attention to a little-noticed fact in a recent column by David Ignatius of The Washington Post. "There may be an unlimited supply of explosives in Iraq, but there is not an unlimited supply of people who know how to wire the detonators," Mr. Ignatius reported. "In 2004, CIA operatives in […]
This post has been updated No, that's not a typo. The senate majority leader with the vast military background, labeled Marine Gen. Peter Pace "incompetent" and reportedly made "similar disparaging remarks" about Army Gen. David Petraeus -- the man that the Senate, including Reid, unanimously confirmed less than six months ago. Though the fifth and […]
And I thought Dianne Feinstein was the smart California senator. Today during a press conference advocating an increase of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to 35 miles per gallon Feinstein wanted to know why Americans weren't like the Chinese. [The following quote is verbatim from video shown on Fox News, I couldn't find […]
Sorry, but the first thing that came to my mind when I read this story was: "Candygram for Mongo."
He's preyed on our fears. His name's Al Gore and 15 years ago he was tough on Saddam. The only consistency is that Gore's delivery hasn't changed a whole lot.
That's really the big question. That's the divide that we have in the nation's political and legal landscape. It's the difference between Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards. It's the difference between the bases of the GOP and Democrat parties. And it's an issue that's dividing the judiciary. You've got judges who say President Bush can't […]
Washington Post metro columnist Mark Fisher covered today's trial in the case of the famous $65 million pants lawsuit. After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the […]
Twenty years ago today, President Ronald Reagan gave one of his most famous speeches. Over at Powerline, they've got a short piece on the backstory behind the famous speech.