President ’08
Charles Krauthammer on the Bush doctrine: …The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong. There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration — and the one Charlie Gibson cited is…
What a wonderful thing is the Internet, on which a few minutes of catch-up browsing can bring both smear and counterpoint. RIFuture has the smear: Do you really think we will grow our IT and ET economies with a president [McCain] who doesn’t even understand how to use a computer? And Jonah Goldberg has the…
Monique took the Anchor Rising slot with Matt Allen on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO last night to talk about painted pigs. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Barack Obama, September, 2007: I think that both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are capable people who have been given an impossible assignment,” Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday in a telephone interview. “George Bush has given a mission to General Petraeus, and he has done his best to try to figure out how to put…
Here’s a theory — attractive more for the likely reaction than the likelihood that it’s correct: America’s liberals are preparing themselves for the possibility that McCain will win the presidency. That would explain why they’re salvaging the emotionally satisfying, if self destructive, Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) that they’ve enjoyed for at least the past four…
In addition to the areas that Marc mentioned, members of the Projo editorial board (and some other organs of the MSM) are playing fast-and-loose also with their description of Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s position on stem cell research. Here’s the the unsigned editorial from Saturday… Governor Palin didn’t mention…that she opposes stem-cell research.…and the…
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…
UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 8 & 9 Incentives drive human behavior but, especially in government where there are no market forces, rarely does anybody pay attention to the impact of the incentives created by laws, regulations or government actions. Which is why government actions will always create “unintended” consequences and less than efficient solutions. There is…
Put aside, for a moment, the very interesting fact that the article is one of an increasing number that place Obama in parallel with Palin and compare and contrast the pair’s responses to the question of government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama: “These entities are so big and they are so tied…
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…