Marc Comtois
PETA’s latest crusade is aimed at those paragon’s of ultra-conservative, right-wing, free-market capitalists….Ben and Jerry. What did they do wrong? Well, milk does come from cows and, in the eyes of PETA, Ben and Jerry just aren’t towing the ideological line close enough, I suppose. But PETA has a solution! People for the Ethical Treatment…
I see Matt and Ian have both posted about how the most recent Brown poll shows an “approval” rating of only 39% for Governor Carcieri. The actual question/answers are as follows: How would you rate the job Don Carcieri is doing as governor? Excellent 13.0%; Good 26.3%; Only fair 24.9%; Poor 32.8%; Don’t know/No answer…
“How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis” by Kevin Hassett is getting heavy play in conservative circles (talk radio, the blogosphere), mostly because it is both an accurate piece of the story and attractively partisan. However, Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that, while there is plenty of blame to put on Wall Street and Washington,…
Sen. Joseph Biden, September 18, 2008: “We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle class people. Anyone making over $250,000….Is going to pay more. You got it. It’s time to be patriotic, Kate. It’s time to jump in, it’s time to be part of the deal, it’s time to…
John McCain today (via The Corner): The financial crisis we’re living through today started with the corruption and manipulation of our home mortgage system. At the center of the problem were the lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats who succeeded in persuading Congress and the administration to ignore the festering problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.…
Senator Obama is accusing Senator McCain (via this ad, for instance) of not being for equal pay for equal work (specifically as it concerns woman and men). This is based on John McCain’s opposition to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Legislation is fine, Senator Obama, but what about putting your policy position into practice?…
We simple-minded humans often like to boil things down to a simple cause/effect (ie; reductionism). It makes it easier for us to understand complex issues. The recent financial crisis is a case in point. Liberals and Democrats are predisposed to blame greedy Wall Street and are calling for more regulation. (And some have added this…
The ProJo editors and From Harrop (perhaps one and the same–and Harrop’s piece is particularly nasty) are quite exorcised over GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin’s social stances. As Steven Hayward writes, “The left and the media are trying to force Palin into a rigid social-con box…” But C-Span ran video of Palin in the 2006…
Catching up on the “to do” list and I thought I’d mention a couple interviews Dan Yorke had with some authors of “anti-Obama” books. The first was with Jerome Corsi, author of Obama Nation (podcast). Corsi is a lightning rod right out of the box thanks to his co-authoring of the book about John Kerry…
The old Warrior still has some fight left in him. No one can doubt John McCain’s commitment to his country or his belief in his ideals. He speaks with conviction, a conviction fostered and formed throughout a life of service to his country and that was strengthened–even as his body weakened–in a dank cell in…