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The Bush administration refused to be part of the United Nations’ human rights commission because it was a joke. Members include China, Cuba, Libya, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Obama administration insisted that it could be a force for good. Bolshevik Storytelling. The U.S. delegation earlier this year submitted its report on human rights in […]

Before Tuesday, humorist and political commentator P.J. O’Rourke described the the election not as a political event, but aptly, as a restraining order. In the day-after press conference and then again in today’s “60 Minutes” interview, the President Obama bitterly clings to the idea that the 60+ loss of House seats along with another 5 […]

Maybe it’s because some of them appear on so many TV shows for far too many minutes. But lots of pundits just can’t stop the stupid.   She [Sarah Palin] did have a pretty good night, and I certainly defend her, and anybody, endorsing a candidate not on the pragmatic grounds that they are going […]

First, the obligatory Monty Python video. Second, a word problem. In 1994 the GOP gained 54 seats to take control of the House for the first time in decades. In 2010, Fox News is reporting that it appears Republicans will gain up to 65 seats. What’s the difference between 65 and 54? Answer below the […]

As expected, Republicans will take control of the House and likely by 60+ seats. Surprisingly, it looks like the GOP will underperform in the Senate races. Many believed if the GOP were in the 60+ area, that gaining control of the Senate was within reach. Instead it appears that the Republicans will fall 3-4 seats […]

Morons at Saturday’s “Rally for Sanity”.

Late Saturday night a story broke in the Alaska Senate race about some reporters at the Alaska CBS affiliate KTVA suggesting that there would be a child molester at a rally for Republican nominee Joe Miller or maybe a fight. The audio was obtained after a KTVA staffer failed to successfully hang up the phone […]

If you turned in this article in Professor Hoy’s journalism 101 class, you’d get an F. Single-payer coverage sought by doctors The government is the only insurance provider in such a system, touted by some local physicians By Bob Cuddy | [email protected] These are gloomy days for those who believe President Barack Obama’s health care […]

How’s that working out? President Obama's post-partisan America has disappeared, replaced by the politics of polarization, resentment and division. In a Univision interview on Monday, the president, who campaigned in 2008 by referring not to a "Red America" or a "Blue America" but a United States of America, urged Hispanic listeners to vote in this […]

It took President George W. Bush a heck of a lot longer to get this unpopular. Says [Democrat pollster Doug] Schoen: "Despite voters feelings toward Obama personally, 56 percent say he does not deserve to be re-elected, while 38 percent say he does deserve to be re-elected president." Worse, Schoen adds, "43 percent say that […]