Surprising developments in Great Britain: although many expected the conservative Tories to win the upcoming elections for Parliament, the traditional third party of the country, the Liberal Democrats, are now leading in the polls. The party’s leader Nick Clegg did a wonderful job during the first ever nationally televised debate in England; it gave him [...]
LAST CALL: Pubescent Politics, Liberal Cannibals and Rachel’s Rejection
February 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A DAILY WRAP-UP OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE BLOG POSTS OF THE DAY
You can debate tax reform after you clean your room!
Calvin Freiburger explores the hubris of youth in his post about the considerable buzz surrounding 14-year-old conservative author Jonathan Krohn, offering a healthy perspective on the ambitious, pubescent teen. A grain of salt…
Brains and [...]
Democrats: The Buck Stops…uh, Somewhere…
February 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
…clearly, anywhere but with the big guy himself.
That’s the conclusion Sean Hannity and Mark Steyn drew the other night, in reaction to Virginia’s former Democrat Governor, L. Douglas Wilder, who recently wrote that President Barack Obama “must overhaul his own team, replacing the admittedly brilliant advisers who helped elect him with others more capable of [...]
Three Reasons Why The Dems Are in Big, Big Trouble. And One Reason Why They’re Not. – Reason Magazine
January 21, 2010 By 1 Comment
Martha Coakley’s resounding defeat in the Massachusetts Senate race is hardly the sort of anniversary gift President Barack Obama could have predicted. Yet there it was, wrapped in a bow and plopped on his doorstep like a flaming bag of dog poo to mark the end of his first year in office. Among other things, [...]
Dems Too High on Their Own Stuff, Couldn’t Read the Writing on the Walls
January 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Everyone knows the rules of breaking the rules. Little ditties like “Don’t get high on your own supply” and “Don’t believe your own press” remind crooks and cons how to stay off the path of destruction.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, like the drug dealer that got strung out on his own wares, congress was so hooked [...]
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Ramesh Ponnuru: Why the GOP Shouldn’t Get Too Confident – Time.com
January 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Republicans can hardly believe their good fortune. First, Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota announced that he would not run for re-election, giving Republicans a good shot at taking his seat. Then the Democratic governor of Colorado, Bill Ritter, said he was bowing out. Ditto the Democrats’ top candidate for governor in Michigan. And [...]
Dems against Dems in health care vote struggle – AP
December 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON – The end game in sight, Senate Democrats coped with stubborn internal differences as well as implacable Republican opposition on Monday in a struggle to pass health care legislation by Christmas.A liberal-backed call to expand Medicare as part of the legislation drew strong opposition from Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. and quieter concerns from a [...]
News Flash: The Recession Is Over!
December 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Larry Summers, the top White House economic adviser appeared Sunday on ABC’s ”This Week” and informed the nation that,
“Everybody agrees the recession is over.”
Injecting a cautionary note, he intoned, it will take “substantial time” before the economy recovers entirely. But Summers says that,
“…what we can take satisfaction from is we’ve walked back from the brink.”
Whew! Obama [...]
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