I just got finished watching the Santorum/Casey debate on this morning's "Meet the Press" on NBC. Yes, I'm biased, but I think Santorum won this one in a rout. The part of the debate that really got my blood boiling was Casey's willful obfuscation on Social Security reform. Casey repeated the Paul Krugman/John Kerry lines […]
Christopher Hitchens has a great article in Slate on the fallout from the Valerie Plame leak investigation. As most of us have long suspected, the man who told Novak about Valerie Plame was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's deputy at the State Department and, with his boss, an assiduous underminer of the president's war policy. (His […]
The Senate race in Pennsylvania may be the first indication that a change is in store for American politics. Bob Casey Jr., the state's treasurer and son of one of the few prominent pro-life Democrats in recent decades, is running against conservative GOP firebrand Rick Santorum. When the race started, Casey held a comfortable lead […]
I've written repeatedly that the Democratic Party is at best a little antagonistic toward religious believers. At worst, the Democrats are too often seen as downright hostile and unserious. During the 2004 election, presidential hopeful Howard Dean tried to reach out to religious believers by sharing the fact that his favorite New Testament book was […]
I finished reading Prof. Stephen D. Cooper's book "Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers as the Fifth Estate." The book isn't written for popular appeal. At its core, the book is a college textbook on media criticism -- a very good college textbook. However, good textbooks don't necessarily make for something that's going to fly off the […]
The coverage of Colorado's redistricting pales in comparison to the attention given to the mid-decade redistricting that occurred in Texas. Unlike in the Texas case, Democrats didn't flee the state in order to deny a quorum in the legislature. Also, because Colorado is a smaller state, fewer House seats were at issue. Keeping those facts […]
After several years of attempting to keep the fact that they're a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party under wraps, the American Bar Association has decided to cast off its non-partisan cloak and reveal themselves as just another bunch of loony leftists. Most recently is the ABA's House of Delegate's "Diversity" accreditation standard that requires […]
With yesterday's defeat of Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Democrat primary and Cynthia "Cop Popper" McKinney's loss in the Georgia runoff, the Democrat Party shows what kinds of insanity it will tolerate. From National Review Online: I guess tonight's lesson is that you can be politically and ideologically insane and be a Dem candidate (Lamont) […]
Kathleen Parker had an informative column in Sunday's Union-Tribune Insight section -- the headline says it all: "Christians have differing world views." Among paranoiacs who see a Jerry Falwell or a John Hagee in every burning bush, U.S. support for Israel isn't about protecting the only healthy democracy in the Middle East, but about advancing […]
Local congressman Darrell Issa (R-Vista) and Tom Davis (R) raised a ruckus last week over the possibility that the Interior Department may have covered-up some incompetence (or something more serious?) that resulted in billions of dollars in profits for oil companies. Here's the AP article. A Bloomberg version is here. From the Bloomberg version: The […]