Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry was in San Diego yesterday railing against high gas prices. Taking a page from his former opponent Howard Dean, Kerry has taken to referring to the higher gas prices as the "Bush Gas Tax Hike." The "logic" of this phraseology seems to be that if the price of some item […]
Bestselling liar Richard Clarke appeared Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Most of host Tim Russert's questioning wasn't much different than what Clarke faced before the 9/11 commission. Russert's questioning was largely disappointing. He was much tougher on former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean when he appeared on the program. Setting that aside, when Clarke left […]
National Review's Rich Lowry has an excellent piece the former counterterrorism czar's "self-immolation." Along the same lines, Time magazine has an atypical article taking on Clark over his dishonesty and what it does to the debate regarding the important issue of dealing with terrorism.
Democrat presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, skiing on the Utah slopes, fell after he ran into a member of his Secret Service detail when the agent inadvertantly strayed into his path. Kerry's defender-of-the-common-man response: When asked a moment later about the incident by a reporter on the ski run, Kerry said sharply, "I don't fall […]
According to a blurb on the Drudge Report Sen. John Kerry doesn't want foreign leaders to endorse him. KERRY: NO FOREIGN ENDORSEMENTS, PLEASE... Kerry Foreign Policy Advisor Rand Beers issued the following statement today: '...It is simply not appropriate for any foreign leader to endorse a candidate in America's presidential election. John Kerry does not […]
Former Vice President Al Gore made a name for himself in the 2000 election as a teller of tall tales. It looks like Sen. John Kerry is following in his footsteps.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard "Yaaaargh!" Dean says that last Friday's Madrid bombings are President Bush's fault. No, Dean is not (quite) blaming Bush for actually planting the bombs -- Bush was in the United States at the time -- but that the war to topple Saddam Hussein (and Spain's support of that war) was the […]
A pro-lifer goes to a campaign event for Sen. John Kerry with a sign reading simply: "My abortion hurt me." In response, a Kerry staffer grabs the sign and tears it to pieces.
The New York Times' lone conservative columnist, David Brooks, has an excellent column today on "The Boston Fog Machine." A taste: [T]he 1990's were a confusing decade. The certainties of the cold war were gone and new threats appeared. It fell to one man, John Kerry, the Human Nebula, to bring fog out of the […]
From the Chicago Sun-Times on kids covering John "Flipper" Kerry: Politics 101 As part of a nationwide team covering the presidential race for kid-oriented Scholastic News, 11-year-old Mitchel Hochberg of Northbrook queried John Kerry at an Evanston senior center this week. Hochberg, a fifth-grader, noted that President Bush and Kerry have exchanged unusually aggressive barbs […]