Scott Brown’s stunning Senate victory proves that the people are not powerless against bad policies.
Supreme Court Overturns Limits on Election Spending – WSJ.com
January 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Freedom has had its best week in many years. On Tuesday, Massachusetts put a Senate check on a reckless Congress, and yesterday the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision supporting free political speech by overturning some of Congress’s more intrusive limits on election spending. In a season of marauding government, the Constitution rides to the [...]
Victory for the First Amendment
January 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
An update on yesterday’s post regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on campaign finance reform:
UPDATE: Victory for the First Amendment!
The Supreme Court has today removed the spending limitations on corporations who wish to spend on federal campaigns, so long as it is done independently of candidate organizations’ control.
“The censorship we now confront is vast in [...]
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Drop in Polls Threatens Obama Agenda – Pollster.com
January 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This week, President Obama finds himself facing his first public opinion crisis as several different national surveys showed his job approval below 50% over the past 10 days. The Marist and Quinnipiac surveys both put his job approval at 46%. CNN had it at 48% while Ipsos/McClatchy had it at 49%. But it was the [...]
Obama Gives Himself a B+ – by Joseph Klein
December 16, 2009 By 31 Comments
Here’s the grade he deserves and why.
President Obama Gives Himself a B+
December 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In response to a softball question from his adoring fan Oprah Winfrey , who declared him “The One”, President Obama gave himself a “B+” for his first year in office. Winfrey then nearly did her own version of the Obama bow when she asked him why he was being so hard on himself!
Karl Rove, appearing on “The [...]
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The Truth Behind Climategate and Hopenhagen
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The December 7th edition of PBS’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook is devoted t0 Climategate, public opinion on global warming, and the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen. Ashbrook’s guests included Juliet Eilperin, an environmental reporter at The Washington Post.
Ashbrook skewed the entire segment at the very beginning of the broadcast by musing
“Will Climategate derail Copenhagen? [...]
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Steven F. Hayward: Scientists Behaving Badly, Weekly Standard
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.’s upcoming Copenhagen conference–which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor [...]
Robert Kagan: Obama’s Lonely Decision, Washington Post
December 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
So now two presidents in the space of less than three years have bucked overwhelming conventional wisdom, as well as public opinion, and decided that they did not want to lose a war. And what lonely decisions these have been. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the last few years has been the stunningly large [...]
David M. Phillips: The Illegal-Settlements Myth, Commentary
December 2, 2009 By 4 Comments
The conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal is now so commonly accepted, it hardly seems as though the matter is even open for discussion. But it is. Decades of argument about the issue have obscured the complex nature of the specific legal question about which a supposedly overwhelming verdict of guilty [...]
