National Politics

Swap Out Hillary C. for Joe B. in 2012??

By Monique Chartier | August 8, 2010 |

That’s the idea that “Tingles” Matthews has been exploring. From NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard. The panel of the syndicated “Chris Matthews Show” this weekend campaigned for Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden as Vice President in order to assist Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012 and set her up for a successful presidential bid in 2016. As…

The Trouble with Obama (and Don’t Forget His Legislative Enabler)

By Monique Chartier | August 8, 2010 |

Joe Bernstein articulates it under Justin’s post. My objection to him is simple-he’s a left wing ideologue who’s made bad appointments and seems to not be competent and experienced enough for the job. I would not argue, only amplify: President Obama is leading the charge on some really bad policies. Government take-over of our healthcare…

Topics Local and International

By Justin Katz | August 5, 2010 |

Last night Monique and Tony Cornetta talked, on the Matt Allen Show, about Iran, teachers’ unions, and partisan ethics. Stream by clicking here, or download it.

On Ethics: Maxine Now, Maxine Then

By Monique Chartier | August 3, 2010 |

When, last October, the House Ethics Committee placed Congressman Charles Rangel in exactly the same spot that Speaker Gingrich found himself fourteen years earlier, Congresswoman Maxine Waters observed “What happens is, unfortunately with the requirements for disclosure that we all have, mistakes are made,” she said. “And you do get a chance to correct them.…

Issues Big and Small

By Justin Katz | July 30, 2010 |

I’ve been preoccupied, today, with the sorts of thoughts that are hugely important to the individual, but quotidian details on a larger scale… and there’s been so much on that larger scale that might otherwise have merited consideration. The economy, obviously: The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent…

Obama in Two Acts… or Not

By Justin Katz | July 20, 2010 |

Anchor Rising readers who share my reading habits have surely come across Charles Krauthammer’s warning to opponents of President Obama not to underestimate him: The net effect of 18 months of Obamaism will be to undo much of Reaganism. Both presidencies were highly ideological, grandly ambitious, and often underappreciated by their own side. In his…

The Nation’s Boom Town

By Marc Comtois | July 19, 2010 |

In his post earlier today, Justin wondered if there was a link between the Washington, D.C. suburbs’ educational success and talk of a ruling class that I brought up yesterday. Heh, well… America is struggling with a sputtering economy and high unemployment — but times are booming for Washington’s governing class. The massive expansion of…

Taking on the Ruling Class

By Marc Comtois | July 18, 2010 |

Glenn Reynolds and his readers are commenting on Angelo Codevilla’s piece about the “Ruling Class“. Who are they? Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a…

Silence About the All-Important Felon Vote

By Justin Katz | July 17, 2010 |

If you get your news from a mainstream media source, you might not have heard — as Dan Gifford notes — about the apparent likelihood that Senator Al Franken (D., MN) was elected based on the illegal votes of felons: A conservative watchdog group Minnesota Majority has gone through voting records reportedly finding that at…

A Juxtaposition of Eras

By Justin Katz | July 16, 2010 |

You probably won’t get through a bag of popcorn during this Friday night film — indeed, you could almost watch the whole thing while your popcorn pops — but Andrew Klavan’s humorous and cutting comparison of the dark days of the Bush Era with Obama’s Recovery Summer is worth a watch: