The political retirement of Evan Bayh, at age 54, is being portrayed by various sages as a result of too much partisanship, or the Senate's dysfunction, or even the systemic breakdown of American governance. Most of this is rationalization. The real story, of which Mr. Bayh's frustration is merely the latest sign, is the failure [...]
Black Opportunity Destruction
February 15, 2010 By 38 Comments
How political correctness is holding black students back.
The New Attack on Palin? Associate Her with John Edwards
February 8, 2010 By 74 Comments
The obsessive attacks on Palin take yet another morbid turn.
Gerard Alexander: Why are liberals so condescending? – Washington Post
February 5, 2010 By 7 Comments
Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but [...]
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Marc A. Thiessen: A Tale of Two Terrorists – WSJ.com
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Obama administration’s decision to read the Christmas Day bomber his Miranda rights has rightly come under withering criticism. Instead of a lengthy interrogation by officials with al Qaeda expertise, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was questioned for 50 minutes by local FBI agents and then later advised of his “right to remain silent.”It’s well understood that [...]
Walter Russell Mead: The Death of Global Warming – The American Interest
February 1, 2010 By 4 Comments
The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at the Copenhagen Summit faded away. By the time that summit opened, campaigners were reduced to hoping [...]
Obama’s Destructive Course
January 28, 2010 By 47 Comments
A disappointing speech from a disappointing president.
Abdulmutallab Stops Talking After Being Read Miranda Rights – WSJ.com
January 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
The attempted Christmas Day destruction over Detroit of Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is fading from public memory as a fortunate near-miss. This incident should not fade from view. As more information emerges, the picture it paints about the antiterror mindset of the current U.S. government is—there is no other word—scary. Last week [...]
Global Warming as Segregation?
January 21, 2010 By 12 Comments
The religious Left likens climate change activism with the civil rights protests of yesteryear.
‘A Failure to Connect the Dots’ – WSJ.com
January 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
The antiterror education of President Obama continued yesterday, with his release of a White House report blaming the “counterterrorism community” as a whole for “a failure to connect the dots of intelligence” that would have prevented Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding a plane to Detroit on Christmas Day. Mr. Obama blamed no one in particular [...]
