Yep, it's the middle of the night here on the West Coast, and Sen. Rick Santorum is on the Senate floor and boy is he good. Santorum is warning the Democrats that the day will come where the tables will be turned and they aren't going to like it. We have let the Richard Paez's […]
GOP Rep. Deborah Pryce was quoted on Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume making the following statement while visiting a hospital in Iraq yesterday. The effects of the embargo are widespread. There are fewer nurses trained, there are fewer doctors trained, and the medical equipment shortages obviously a problem in his eyes. So we […]
There was little mention of it on the news last night and only relatively short and buried articles in major newspapers on yesterday's confirmation hearing for D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Janice Rogers Brown. Brown is a liberal Democrat's worst nightmare: a conservative African-American woman. As usual, the best source of information on the […]
At 8 p.m. the polls here in California closed. The networks took a deep breath, and they all immediately made their calls. Gray Davis out. Arnold Schwarzenegger in. Prop. 54 down. The first set of absentee ballot returns has Davis being recalled 63.4 percent to 36.6 percent and Schwarzenegger with a majority of the tally. […]
I was flipping through some of the excerpts from former President Ronald Reagan's letters in TIme magazine, and this one made me laugh out loud: Andy Smith, a seventh-grader in Irmo, S.C., wrote the President in 1984, "Today my mother declared my bedroom a disaster area. I would like to request federal funds to hire […]
Secretary of State Colin Powell made appearances on both "Meet the Press" and "This Week." On both shows, Powell dismissed the fact that the last prime minister, and likely the next prime minister, of the Palestinian Authority was handpicked by Yasser Arafat -- a man Powell said had repeatedly demonstrated that he was not interested […]
I've written before about the brouhaha over redistricting in Texas. Democrats complain that the move is a power grab -- which it is. But it's also the way politics work. From my previous post on the subject: Texas was redistricted by a court after the Democrats managed to halt a redistricting plan in 2000. Texas […]
The New York Times' Bob Herbert blames California's extraordinary fiscal woes not on the state's free-spending legislature and governor, but (surprise!) on President George W. Bush. First, an issue with the newspeak of the American left. Economist and Nobel laureate Herbert said the Bush tax cuts are "redistributive in intent and redistributive in effect." Only […]
Well, you're not going to find it in the latest column by alleged economist Paul Krugman. On a day when there is a bonanza of good economic news, (stocks up; economic growth up; inventories down, jobless claims down) Krugman decides to focus on the financial mess in California. First Krugman puts in his two cents […]
The New York Times had a front page story earlier this week on a change at the White House. No longer can you simply send a message to: [email protected] -- now you've got to go through as many as 9 different screens to send your message through. Pain in the butt? Yeah. Evidence that the […]