From the "If Bush had done it, the media and the left (but I repeat myself) would've gone ape" file: ABC News' Jake Tapper reports that the Obama administration will ignore that constitution-thing and implement a treaty without going to the senate for approval. Now, that's not really a fair characterization of what's going on. […]
I think that's a little nicer than the Exurban League's characterization of retired Gen. Colin Powell's sudden realization that President Obama is a tax-and-spend liberal. Colin Powell, one of President Obama's most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president's ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the […]
Today is the United States' Independence Day. This is ofttimes referred to as America's birthday. The "birth" occurred on July 4, 1776. Debate: Is this America's 233rd birthday or its 232nd?
The big news Friday afternoon was that there would be a lottery for Michael Jackson memorial tickets. On a serious note, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced that she would be resigning in a few weeks. The left wing fever swamps are convinced that this is a pre-emptive move because a big embezzlement scandal is coming […]
California is starting to issue IOUs and what is the state legislature hard at work on? It's impossible to make things like this up.
If the President Bush had attempted to illegally fire an inspector general who was raising a ruckus over a deal cut with a campaign supporter who had spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on his personal whims, the press would be going ape. It's not, but that's exactly what the mainstream media has been […]
Octavio Sanchez, a Honduran lawyer who has served as a presidential adviser and minister of culture for that Central American nation, gives Americans a primer on that nation's constitution -- one President Barack Obama would do well to read. These are the facts: On June 26, President Zelaya issued a decree ordering all government employees […]
Former Copley Newspapers Editor-in-Chief Herb Klein died today at the age of 91. Klein was also notable as the first-ever White House communications director, serving President Richard Nixon. I met Klein several years ago when I had the audacity to apply for a job opening for an editorial writer at the Union-Tribune. The only reason […]
Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Mary Katherine Ham has done a little Lexis/Nexis research and discovered -- surprise! -- the New York Times has different standards when it comes to expressing skepticism for presidential town halls. When does a "town hall" become a town hall, without need of scare-quote qualification, one might wonder? (When […]