Daniel Henninger on the coming electoral disaster for Democrats

The Washington Journal’s Daniel Henninger explains why Democrats are likely to lose the elections for Congress in November:

Henninger explains that “the American people have issued a no-competence vote in their government.” A recent poll shows that confidence in Congress has dropped to a mere 22%. “This report isn’t just bad news for the Democrats, it’s [...]

Don’t Run, Sarah! Newsweek Assesses Palin’s Electoral Prospects (Again)

Two parts predictable, one part probable: Newsweek’s Daniel Stone takes a look at Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Nation convention speech and determines her unable to win a national election.  Shock!
However, aside from his own unambiguous sentiment and Newsweek’s penchant for Palin mockery, is he necessarily wrong?

The basis of her speech, as she put it, was [...]

Charles Krauthammer: The Electorate vs. Obama’s Agenda – RealClearPolitics

WASHINGTON — “I am not an ideologue,” protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions. Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. The consistency is remarkable. In 2009, [...]

From the Writings of David Horowitz: February 3, 2010

A specter is haunting America – the specter of a people rising. From one coast to the other and across the great plains, Americans are waking up to the threat from a leftist elite that is determined to fundamentally change the American system, push through a socialist agenda, and make every citizen dependent on the [...]

Was Sarah Palin Snookered Into Endorsing a Stealth Anti-Israel Candidate?

Rand Paul let the truth of his positions slip to the execrable Truther nutjob Alex Jones.
Previously today NewsReal ran a Point/Counterpoint between Janet Levy and myself regarding Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Rand Paul for Senate.
Janet expressed strong concerns regarding Paul’s foreign policy views and argued that “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” [...]

Big government: Stop! – The Economist

IN THE aftermath of the Senate election in Massachusetts, the focus of attention is inevitably on what it means for Barack Obama. The impact on the Democratic president of the loss of the late Ted Kennedy’s seat to the Republicans will, no doubt, be significant (see article). Yet the result could be remembered as a [...]

Brown’s National Security Victory

Massachusetts voters reject treating our terrorist enemies like common criminals.

Today, Brown is Golden

A stern rebuke of the Democrats’ national agenda.

How the Democrats Lost Massachusetts

Political excess and an unpopular agenda paved the way for Scott’s Brown’s improbable Senate victory.

Steyn: Dutch court “is explicitly attempting to criminalize the political opinions of a large swath of the Dutch electorate”

Mark Steyn on the imminent prosecution of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands (thanks to the peerless Kathy Shaidle): …in the Netherlands and other European countries, the political elite understands that there are frictions between an ever more assertive Muslim population and an ever more resentful “native” working class, but that,…