The Bush administration got caught using ideological criteria for the hiring of career (not political) lawyers in the Justice Department in the years 2002 and 2006. Justice Department officials illegally used “political or ideological” factors in elite recruiting programs in recent years, tapping law school graduates with Federalist Society membership or other conservative credentials over […]
After so many years of touting public financing of elections, Barack Obama last week decided that the system he supported was for other people. He said that he needed a lot of money to counter the "smears" that the right would level at him. Like this one: Now that's funny.
Proof that the far left, embodied by historian Howard Zinn, and the far right, embodied by Pat Buchanan, are practically the same. Several months ago, Howard Zinn was on Dennis Prager's radio show and claimed that World War II was unnecessary. Now Buchanan has come out with a book with the same theory, and gets […]
It's a result that few would've guessed when this race for the nomination began far too long ago -- Sen. Barack Obama, a candidate with just over two years of experience in the Senate, has won the Democrat Party nod. The victory is as much testament to Obama's campaign as it is to Sen. Hillary […]
First it was his white grandmother. Then it was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Tonight, Sen. Barack Obama held a press converence and the threw Trinity United Church of Christ under the bus too. (As an aside, if you played the "uhhh" = 1 drink game, you'd be sauced in less than 2 minutes.) The straw […]
I concur with this editorial in the New York Times. The farm bill is an abomination -- proof that no matter what party is in power, the impulse to throw around the public's money for political advantage is universal. I did chuckle, however, when the editorial writer referred to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a "reformer." […]
The newspaper of record, The New York Times does some alleged fact-checking that needs some serious fact-checking of its own. First, the facts that both sides agree on: Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas spokesman, said that the terrorist group preferred Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain. Obama's top campaign adviser said he was "flattered" by […]
John McCain is mad about this ad. The ad is pretty tame, and it's targeted at two North Carolina gubernatorial hopefuls, but the use of Barack Obama and his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is too much for McCain. "They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. […]
Karl Rove wrote a letter to MSNBC's Dan Abrams which contained a number of questions regarding Abrams' personal journalistic standards (or lack thereof). Unsure of what to do, Abrams sent the letter, with his answers interspersed [reproduced here in bold] to his mentor, Keith Olbermann. Dear Mr. Abrams: Karl Rove called me "mister." On April […]
Color me confused. For the second time this presidential primary season, Democrats gathered Sunday night at a forum where they each spent better than 30 minutes talking about their faith. John McCain was invited to take part, but declined. The so-called "Compassion Forum" had both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama giving their testimonies and calling […]