National Politics
Mark Steyn’s Sunday NRO column is a bit uneven, but much can be forgiven of the man who turns such masterful phrases as this: Terrific. In a Huckabee administration, nothing is certain but hope and taxes. Did he poll-test the line? Was it originally “What I didn’t raise was tobacco”? Or did he misread the…
We close-minded, xenophobic, mouth-breathing christianists are used to being called racists. I wonder how our fellow New Englanders of the “progressive” variety feel when the talking heads at MSNBC lump them in with us simply because they voted for Hillary over Obama in New Hampshire? (via Michael Graham) JOE SCARBOROUGH: What the hell happened in…
New Hampshire voters just did what they do best–go against the Conventional Wisdom (or the establishment, in the case of McCain). All sorts of theories are out there about how the media misread the Democratic race. One interesting theory is that perhaps McCain pulled independents away from Obama because–to the NH independent voter–it looked like…
Iowa rewards populists. That’s how Mike Huckabee and John Edwards and, to a certain extent, Barack Obama did so well last week. According to George Will, Huckabee and Edwards are cut from the same cloth (more on Obama in a bit) and their class-warfare dependent messages are flawed: [Huckabee] and John Edwards, flaunting their histrionic…
My previous post cites the environment — global warming, specifically — as a religiously founded cause that allows believers to dismiss complications to their unrelated aversions, especially business. National Review‘s Rich Lowry argues that John Edwards is seeking to capitalize on that underlying impulse: It is rare indeed to hear a politician brag about his…
And I’ll share it with you: [Hillary] might even be shameless enough to put [Bill] on the Supreme Court, where he could ruin the law of the land, as many of his own judicial appointees are already doing in the federal courts. From an equal-opportunity take-down column by Thomas Sowell.
Some news stories, like this one below about the just-passed Omnibus bill in Congress, need no further commentary: [South Carolina Senator] DeMint’s office put a finger in Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) eye last night: Durbin: “For 46 hours and 8 minutes—the Senator from South Carolina has had an opportunity to go to the Internet and…
The Corner provides excerpts from Mitt Romney’s speech today, which suggest it will focus on the broader strategic question of what role religion should play in the American public square instead of the granularity of Mormon theology: There are some who may feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the…
Here’s the January calendar for the Presidential nomination process, which finally seems to have settled, from CBS News…The Iowa caucuses will start the nominating process on January 3.Wyoming GOP county caucuses follow on January 5……followed by New Hampshire on January 8……and Michigan on January 15.South Carolina Republicans and Nevada will vote on January 19South Carolina…
From this past weekend‘s 10 News Conference on WJAR-TV (NBC 10)…Bill Rappleye: Has patriotism been corrupted? We’ve had a controversy whether Barack Obama is going to wear a flag-lapel pin. Former Senator Lincoln Chafee: I think he gave a good answer. If it’s in your heart, you don’t need to put it on your lapel,…