Flotsam and Jetsam
Even Max Baucus is criticizing Obama’s latest recess appointment, Donald Berwick, who is to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Baucus said he was “‘troubled’ that Obama chose to...
View ArticleWas It the Lavish Vacation?
Politicians of both parties fall prey to gaffes of the “lives of the rich and famous” variety. But liberals, very rich ones, are especially susceptible to flaunting their wealth because they can’t...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Obama’s baddest critic warns him about flip-floppery on the Ground Zero mosque: “Mr. Obama, you are not the mayor of Podunk arguing with the City Council over sewer versus septic; you are the president...
View ArticleLiberals Surprised Again
Liberals continually expect that conservatives will match the cartoonish image that the left has concocted. They were shocked that Christian conservatives didn’t run Sarah Palin out of town on a rail...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Immoderate. Imam Abdul Rauf’s partner is a 9/11 ”truther.” Unhinged. The left is convinced that the entire country is nuts. (Coming from the blogger who spent countless hours researching Sarah Palin’s...
View ArticleLeave Us Alone
Andrew Malcolm, one of the few reasons to read the Los Angeles Times, has an amusing photo display of Obama’s decidedly un-Michelle eating habits. Malcolm writes: First Lady Michelle Obama, who has...
View ArticleMan of the Left vs. America
Shelby Steele’s must-read column in the Wall Street Journal correctly notes that there is more going on in the country than a rejection of Obama’s “grandiose, thoughtless, and bullying” policymaking....
View ArticlePalin’s Counterproductive Complaint
The Wall Street Journal has an intelligent editorial, “Palin’s Food Fight,” which begins this way: President Obama’s indiscriminate expansion of federal power has inspired a healthy populist rebellion,...
View ArticleRE: Palin’s Counterproductive Complaint
I agree with Pete that Sarah Palin is dead wrong on this one. Encouraging parents to monitor their children’s weight and to give them a healthy diet is one thing, mandating it is quite another. That’s...
View ArticleRE: RE: Palin’s Counterproductive Complaint
I wholeheartedly agree with Peter Wehner’s point from last week about the need to make the moral case for conservative economics. The case is strong, and it has not been made well or often in general...
View ArticleBush and Palin In Strong Year-End Showing
Some very interesting things have emerged in Gallup’s 2010 “Most Admired” survey. That America’s most admired man is Barack Obama is not one of them. He is the president, you know. And even when his...
View Article“iCarly” and the Obamas’ Camelot Treatment
If you don’t have a pre-teen female in your household, the significance of Michelle Obama’s recent appearance on “iCarly” may have been lost on you. The show, a situation comedy that depicts the antics...
View ArticleStudies Find No Evidence of “Food Deserts”
“Food deserts” is a term that’s become associated with Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign, and the theory holds that children in poorer neighborhoods are more likely to be overweight because their...
View ArticlePersonal Attacks and Political Wives
The heated debate about whether Ann Romney said “you people” during an interview yesterday (she didn’t) was an example of the sillier controversies that tend to engulf candidates’ wives. (For another...
View ArticleCan Dems Rekindle Obama Worship?
The Democrats’ biggest problem this year is the failed economy that Barack Obama gives himself an “incomplete” on after four years in power. Their only way to overcome this is to somehow recapture the...
View ArticleRise From Poverty, Don’t Glorify It
The motto of the Republican Convention in Tampa last week was “We Built It.” Speakers repeated the line (sometimes to excess), videos were played on the theme, signs and banners lined the convention...
View ArticleLeft Turns Voting Rights Into a Farce
Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama sounded a battle cry at a Congressional Black Caucus awards dinner when she said protecting the right to vote is the nation’s most important civil rights issue. If...
View ArticleThe Oscars, the Obamas and Camelot
No one who decided to go to bed or just switched the channel sometime before the end of a spectacularly boring Oscars show last night should be blamed. But if you did, you missed more than the identity...
View ArticleKerry’s “Courage” Award Debacle
Yesterday, Samuel Tadros reported in the Weekly Standard that John Kerry was handling his transition to running the State Department about as adroitly as one would imagine. He had an idea, and Foggy...
View ArticleWest Wing Throws Holder Under the Bus
Liberals and Democrats have been doing their best to stonewall calls for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation, but apparently some of those serving in the office of his boss aren’t as much in...
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