December 22, 2024

Trump and Musk Demolish the Obama Hallucinatory Permission Structure

The big story this week is how X (formerly Twitter) worked to dramatically change the American legislative process.  As Chamath Palihapitiya said, "People are underestimating what happened here [The Continuing Resolution]. Th...

December 15, 2024

Of Drones, Druze, and Pardons

There’s been a lot of buzz this week about the appearance of SUV-sized drones over the Atlantic Coast states, particularly New Jersey. They exhibit some characteristics not previously observed, and speculation is rampant. The most commonly voic...

December 8, 2024

A Tale of Two Parties

Eighty-three years after the disastrous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor which galvanized our nation to prepare for a long fight and ultimate victory, we have a clearer picture of how Barack Obama (and through him, President Biden) destroyed his party an...

December 1, 2024

Criminal Law Should Be Inelastic

Criminal law should be clear so that those covered by it can understand what is permitted and what is prohibited. It’s not the place for creative interpretations by the judiciary or partisan prosecutors. Jack Smith has now dropped his cases aga...

November 24, 2024

It’s a Mad Mad Mad World

After Hamas raped, tortured, burned, kidnapped, and murdered innocent Israelis on October 7, the worst genocidal act against Jews since the Holocaust, it is astonishing to see how so much of the world has turned to blame the victims and reignite...

November 17, 2024

May the Force Be With Us

There have been thousands of words written about the 2024 presidential election, but I think Jeffrey Tucker’s article at Brownstone best summarized the sea change in votes cast , and Victor Davis Hanson best describes the cabinet nomi...

November 10, 2024

How Badly Harris Lost and Why

Donald Trump appears to have been the first Republican in 20 years to win the popular vote. Scouring the internet, the only Democrat figure who seems to be smiling is President Joe Biden. For the others it seems to be a time of mourning. A look at...

November 3, 2024

Will it Really be a Cliffhanger?

I think it wise to just vote and ignore the polls and pundits, many of whom are dealing from the bottom of the deck and bluffing. I’d also ignore those doomsters who claim on the basis of the 2020 election that it will be stolen. Sure, as I not...

October 27, 2024

No Ring of Fire and No Endorsements

Friday and Saturday, the Israeli air force gelded Iran, diminishing the Mullahcracy’s sway and putting paid to the Russian-supplied defense systems. At the same time, the refusal of the owners of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post t...

October 20, 2024

Beginning of the end of the Obama-Biden Democratic Party

Harris and Walz have made a thing of “turning the page,” but the page that must be turned is the one they are on. In recent years, beginning with Obama, the Democratic party has become unmoored from its basic center-left policies and e...

October 13, 2024

Harris-Walz Burlesque

I’m so old I remember when we learned about advertising fakery by ordering stuff like sea horses and x-ray vision glasses from the back of comic books. Younger generations caught on when they compared what they’d seen in the TV ads with t...

October 6, 2024

Heroes and Zeroes

The week began with what is absurdly called a “debate” and ended with a clear example of the grit, decency, and inventiveness of ordinary people and the sloth, idiocy, and incompetence of our government in the face of a devastating hurric...

September 29, 2024

Israel Stops Taking Counsel from the Angel of Death

The message in Lee Smith’s brilliant article in Tablet Magazine this week is that the U.S. must stop losing wars. We create and fund and staff our military to protect us and it’s time to do that: Only a fool could be blind to the fac...

September 22, 2024

A Week to Remember

Some weeks, there’s not much of great importance. Others, like this week, there is almost too much to absorb, but in my view, the key items are the destruction of the terrorist Hezb’allah organization, the vacuity of Kamala Harris, and th...

September 15, 2024

An Unserious Debate in Which Trump got the Strongest Play

If life were more serious, we’d be paying attention to the administration and the UK’s latest efforts to start World War III which strikes me as the best overriding reason to vote for Trump.  There is no other way to interpret i...

September 8, 2024

Guess Who’s Not Going to Jail Before the Election?

For some time now the Left has been salivating over the prospect that New York judge Juan Merchan would jail Donald Trump on September 18, before the election. Reports were that a cell in Riker’s was being readied for him and even that he...

September 1, 2024

CNN, Washington Post: A Modern Press Gang

Press-gang is a term used to describe the use of troops working to round up and press free men into military service. Looking at the work of Dana Bash at CNN and the entire Washington Post staff, I think we need another definition: People p...

August 25, 2024

Fear and Trembling in the Deep State

On Friday, we faced yet another black swan event. We’ve had an attempted Trump assassination, the surprise coup against President Biden, and now Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s, defection and joining up with Donald Trump. Before getting into...

August 18, 2024

Two Heroes and a Marxist Airhead

Stifling of free speech remains in full force in Great Britain and attempts continue by the worst power-hungry leaders in Europe to extend their self-serving censorship here. Last Monday, Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the EU internal marke...

August 11, 2024

Calling Your Tongue Your Own

Very scary things are happening in the United Kingdom. Sir Mark Rowley, Met Police Commissioner, has threatened to jail U.S. citizens over online posts he deems hateful or disinformation. At the same time, the UK is openly enforcing a two-tier system...

August 4, 2024

The Etch A Sketch Nominee and the Mullahs’ Nightmare

The Democrats think they will pitch a fast one, less than 100 days before the election, coronating a radical, not very smart candidate as a substitute for a clearly demented president. They plan to avoid any unscripted remarks by her and any intervie...

July 28, 2024

Media’s Version of Harris is Unburdened by History

Once again, the Democrats are offering up a woman candidate for president. And once again, it is an unlikeable candidate who owes her career to a far more skillful male politician. In Hillary’s case, it is her husband, Bill, a charismatic perso...

July 21, 2024

What a Week!

The three top stories of the week are the Crowdstrike failure that interrupted internet service to millions; the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump, and the ongoing Democratic coup against President Biden. You may recall that Crowdstrike was ...

July 14, 2024

DC Back Stories: Seth Rich and George Clooney

I’ve long been fascinated by the mystery of the murder of Seth Rich on July 10, 2016, and on the anniversary of his death, it’s time to update what we’ve learned about it. As to George Clooney and his decision to withdraw his suppor...

July 7, 2024

Joe: Take the Damn Cognitive Test

Poll analyst Nate Silver lists the signs that a party is getting rid of a president under the 25th Amendment. He says we’re about halfway up the ladder, which has these as the starting rungs: Back-channel conversatio...

June 30, 2024

What Now that the Gaslighting is Over?

In the famous psychological drama, Gaslight, it took a Scotland Yard detective to prove the heroine had been driven half-mad by a gaslighting husband. All it took for us to see how we had been deceived was a CNN debate. Who was the villain? How much ...

June 23, 2024

Will the Supreme Court Affect the Debate?

The Supreme Court announced that it was adding another opinion day to its schedule -- Wednesday, June 26th. Among the pending cases is United States v. Trump, in which the court must decide to what extent presidential immunity shields ...

June 16, 2024

Be Prepared for Chaos

I suggest you start preparing for a great deal of left-wing civic violence, supply disruptions (including food shortages) and widespread urban chaos. I say this because it is my sense that the Democrats, deep state, and their media enablers are all i...

June 9, 2024

A Daring Rescue and a Surprise from the Ninth Circuit

In a daring feat masterfully executed, the Israeli Defense Force rescued four of the hostages in Gaza. Most touching of all was the rescue of Noa Argamani, whose mother is dying of brain cancer, who had prayed she’d be reunited with her daughte...

June 2, 2024

The Trumped Up Conviction and its Consequences

Some years ago, I was trying a denaturalization case of someone who aided the Nazis. As an aside, the judge mentioned that his dad had been distraught upon hearing of the Hitler-Stalin pact because he knew it meant there would be a world war. I ...

May 26, 2024

Punked

This week, a lot of people and institutions got “punked,” that is, humiliated, by their own actions. Of course, the eternal punkees, as Hussein Aboubakar so brilliantly notes, are those who bought the Nakba myth by which Arab rulers ...

May 19, 2024

Camp of the Dumbbells

In 1975 a Frenchman, Jean Raspail, wrote a fictional account of how western civilization was destroyed by unrestricted immigration from the Third World. His work, The Camp of the Saints, has been out of print for some time, but it again became p...

May 12, 2024

Biden and His ‘Ironclad’ Support of Israel

I always thought “ironclad” meant binding, but to President Biden it apparently means a pledge that’s good until it becomes politically inconvenient to stick to it. On at least two occasions he asserted his (and our) commitment to I...

May 5, 2024

Camp Intifada: Students for Theocratic Authoritarianism

I’m old. So old that I still believe that classic Western liberalism is the best system for assuring prosperity and peace, and authoritarianism, particularly of a theocratic nature, is a disastrous governance style. Watching the encampments and...

April 28, 2024

Was it all that Baby Proofing?

Watching the idiocy on college campuses this week and seeing all the explanations for protests in favor of murderous Hamas, two tweets seem particularly on point. There’s the great David Burge (Iowahawk), who calls these outbursts “Hamas ...

April 21, 2024

Chicago is the DNC’s Kind of Town?

I’m old enough to remember the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago, and smart enough to see that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is no Richard J. Daley. So, as food prices rise with no end in sight, I advise you to stock up on popcorn before the Augus...

April 14, 2024

Autophagia at Berkeley

Berkeley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky has never been a favorite of mine, but I love irony, and this week he’s my avatar of people whose actions have come back to bite them. He has publicly bragged, for example, how much easier it is to avoid anti...

April 7, 2024

Moral Midgets Cook Up a War Crime

Just days ago, NSC spokesman John Kirby assured the world of the administration’s “unwavering support” for Israel in its fight for survival. President Biden authorized an arms transfer to Israel, including 1,800 MK-84 2,000-pou...

March 31, 2024

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

For those of you who celebrate this sacred day, Happy Easter. For those who don’t, most Americans appreciate that it is the holiest day of the year for you and treat it with civilized respect. To the President who claims he is...

March 24, 2024

Domination Through Chaos and Fear

In the decade I served on a school board, I learned a great deal about group dynamics. The most important lesson, I suppose, is that there are people -- most often highly neurotic people -- who deliberately create chaos. They undermine every effort t...

March 17, 2024

Mendacity and Corruption in the Judiciary

Something is seriously wrong with American law schools and the disciplinary outfits that are supposed to monitor corrupt conduct of practitioners. You can see the effects of this degradation in the outrageous behavior of government prosecutors and in...

March 10, 2024

We Could Use a Man like Calvin Coolidge Again

A day after his pumped-up divisive State of the Union address, unsurprisingly headlined “fiery” by the copycat media lackeys, President Biden, speaking in Pennsylvania, reverted to his old befuddled self. "Pennsyl...

March 3, 2024

Checkmating DoJ and Jack Smith

This week, all eyes were on the Willis-Wade fiasco in Fulton County, Georgia, but three less smuttily scintillating cases seem at last to be limiting the overreach of the Department of Justice respecting the J6 defendants and Jack Smit...

February 25, 2024

Russian Follies: The Sequel

Just days ago, on February 14 to be precise, Vladimir Putin said he prefers Biden in the 2024 presidential race. Nevertheless, the media, often with the intelligence community’s aid, seems to be trying again in the indictment of Vladimir Smirno...

February 18, 2024

Has Our Government Erased the First Amendment?

The most important thing you will see this week is this interview of Mike Benz by Tucker Carlson: Benz is with the Foundation for Freedom, which tracks government censorship. In this interview he explains how our government rigged elections abro...

February 11, 2024

Double Exposure

Every day the Israeli Defense Forces find more proof of the perfidy of the UN and UNRWA. Did you guess that the UN’s demand for a quick ceasefire was intended to conceal this? If so, you guessed right. This week, among other things, the IDF dis...

February 4, 2024

The Democrats Create an Alice in the Looking Glass World

Like Alice dropped into an illogical world, I’m looking at the past week and seeing a chaotic, topsy-turvy, irrational series of policies, events, and outcomes. There are many possible examples to choose from. I’ve chosen four: The open b...

January 28, 2024

Biden, the Border, and Tik Tok Too

President Biden is in a pickle of his own making, and his efforts to deal with it are as idiotic and destructive as his open borders policy has been. Last month alone over 300,000 mostly military age men illegally crossed our border, with the...

January 21, 2024

Our Weird Passivity Toward Iran’s Aggression

Watching our response to Iranian aggression against us and our allies, I’m reminded of Sherlock Holmes mystery, “The Curious Case of the Dog That Didn’t Bark.”  Turns out the watchdog didn’t bark because it kne...

January 14, 2024

Past Time to Undo Obama’s 'Fundamental Transformation'

In 2008 the media lapped up the master of Shuck and Jive, Barack Obama and his high-falutin' promise: Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days. Five days. After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eig...

January 7, 2024

Higher Education: DEI and Cargo Cultism

“Cargo cult” is the term used to explain how primitives imitate technological symbols in the belief that doing so will allow them to reap the benefits not otherwise available to them. The most famous examples are the balsa wood airplanes ...

December 31, 2023

Happy New Year, Anyway

I wish you all a happy and healthy New Year even though, as 2023 draws to a close, it seems that “the whole world is festering in unhappy souls,” to quote Sheldon M. Harnick. I know at times it seems unlikely that 2024 will be b...

December 24, 2023

Jack (Smith) Not So Nimble

It seems clear to me that Jack Smith was appointed for the purpose of besetting Donald J. Trump and finding a means to keep him from running for president again. If I’m right, Smith's many strategies have come to naught this week and i...

December 17, 2023

Farhi -- A Flicker of Light in the Post’s Darkness

We get the largely unreadable Washington Post because my husband must have a hard-copy paper with a sports section to read with his morning coffee. To say its reporting stinks is to overpraise it. Still, Saturday morning I saw the first glimmer of ac...

December 10, 2023

Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest

Watching Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s questioning of the presidents of MIT, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania may have been eye-opening for many, but for those of us who have been paying attention, it wasn’t. Their answers wer...

December 3, 2023

Winkin', Blinken, and Nod

This week’s column on the ongoing fight between civilization and barbarity focuses on the role of the United Nations and its various agencies in keeping jihadism alive and well; the outrageous efforts by the incompetent Anthony Blinken to hamst...

November 26, 2023

Manipulating with Lies and Manufactured Sob Stories

As has been the case since the barbarous attack on Israel by Hamas aided by Palestinian civilians, international organizations have chosen by their silence to ally themselves with the butchers instead of condemning the 10/7 attack. Canary Missio...

November 19, 2023

So -- It Wasn’t the Sidewalk After All

Murder and Mayhem This week the Ventura County Sheriff arrested Professor Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji in the death of Paul Kessler, a 69 year-old man who had been standing on the sidewalk peacefully supporting Israel. Alnaji, who bashed Kessler w...

November 12, 2023

The West Gelds Itself

From the halls of Ivy to the Fourth Estate, once-respected institutions are revealing themselves to be at the forefront of efforts to upend the mores and conduct which make ours a civilized society worth defending against barbarism. I’ve alread...

November 5, 2023

Higher Ed: Now it’s Just Loco

Decades ago, higher education was held to a standard of legal responsibility for the welfare of its students. The Latin term in loco parentis (in place of parents) gave them the right and duty to act as parents would. In recent decades, a b...

October 22, 2023

Open Sources Demolish the Legacy Media

Islamist butchers, and their media and academic buddies, failed in their latest rerun of the war against Israel. In the days before online media, particularly Elon Musk’s X, the storyline was a familiar one. Israel would be attacked and the mai...

October 15, 2023

Time for Wokesters to Stick a Sock in It

Alternate media never gets the credit it deserves. Elon Musk has taken over Twitter (now “X”) and allowed free speech. In the process wokesters -- particularly in the intellectual and moral cesspool absurdly continued to be called “...

October 8, 2023

Hillary Drops the Veil on Her Party’s Totalitarianism

The Democrats are making no effort to hide their totalitarian impulses. Certainly, Hillary Clinton isn’t. In an interview this week with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, she suggested that Trump supporters were part of a cult and needed fo...

October 1, 2023

Biden Selling out the U.S.

The Biden impeachment investigation began this week. If your source of news is CNN,MSNBC, and the Big Four TV networks, you didn’t know about this, the fourth such inquiry in U.S. history, because they blacked it out. Here’s a handy ...

September 24, 2023

Now They’re Just Poking Their Fingers in Our Eyes

Reading this week’s news of the Biden Administration, I kept thinking of the Three Stooges poking fingers in each other’s eyes. As I started to write this, I see that Kurt Schlichter also compares this administration to the same trio, wra...

September 17, 2023

To Market, to Market

The Soviets successfully pulled off a number of dirty tricks which increased their power but impoverished their citizens. Among them was to stir up class warfare by politicizing envy. Thus, unsuccessful farmers were urged to demonize and even kill ...

September 10, 2023

If it Saves One Life and Other Meretricious Lies

It’s not unusual that power-mad politicians justify depriving us of liberty using the appeal to emotion:“If it saves one life.” Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo justified the statewide shutdown with this poppycock: “...

September 3, 2023

Law and Order: The Post-Constitutional Episode

It is undeniable that the judiciary and juries in the federal courts in the District of Columbia are almost uniformly left-wing partisans, a key part of the post-constitutional era brought into being by former president Obama. I do not know how ...

August 27, 2023

Quit Aiming for the Ankles

It may seem like small potatoes at a time of political lawfare, gross government mismanagement leading to at least 1,000 dead in Maui, the prospect of continuing war in Ukraine, and high inflation, but the government’s use of its powers to...

August 20, 2023

Green Policies and Government Incompetence Led to the Tragedy of the Maui Fire

As many as 1000 persons, many of them children, may have died as a result of the fire in Maui. The exact toll -- above the hundreds documented -- is difficult to assess right now as the bodies are charred beyond recognition and scientific equipment t...

August 13, 2023

The Weaponization of Justice

If you read nothing else this week, read Victor Davis Hanson’s article in American Greatness detailing how Obama began “the most radical revolutions” in our history. As legal matters -- the lawfare waged against former Presiden...

August 6, 2023

The Machinery of Government is Coated with Gunk

The juxtaposition of the Department of Justice’s handling of Hunter Biden with its outrageous treatment of Donald J. Trump justifies Scott Adams's view: "We can now see all of the machinery of government, from influence peddling to fak...

July 30, 2023

DOJ’s Dirty Deeds

It has been a week of scandalous doings on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s watch.   Congress seems paralyzed to intervene with more than hearings, and so far, only federal district court Judge Maryellen Noreika has tried....

July 23, 2023

‘Thorny Questions’: How the Democrats and Media Enablers Censor News

Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth. The drop came during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony about vaccines and shows how fri...

July 16, 2023

Tucker Carlson Helps Cull the Republican Presidential Field

If, like me, you find the presidential debate format a rather meaningless exercise, you will be astonished at what one-on-one interviews by a skilled interrogator can accomplish. At the Iowa Family Leader Conference, Tucker Carlson interviewed...

July 9, 2023

Judge Doughty and Biden’s Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth’

It’s hardly news that the government has long managed news reporting through a combination of leaks, favored treatment, and threats. With the growth of social media and the COVID-19 “pandemic,” the Biden administration blatantl...

July 2, 2023

Trump’s Greatest Triumph: A Court That Follows the Constitution

The Supreme Court handed down three major decisions this week, limiting an executive order that fabricated presidential authorization to forgive billions of dollars in school loans; denying governmental authority to compel people to create works that...

June 25, 2023

Wilmington: The Next Netflix Series?

This week, as accounts of the whistleblowers who blew the lid off the hampered investigations of the President’s crackhead son Hunter were made public, I imagined a writer making a pitch to producers for a dramatic program called Wilmingto...

June 18, 2023

It’s Not Just the FBI: The IRS goes into ‘Beast Mode’

We have seen for some time how off-the-rails the FBI has become, a danger to a free society. More and more evidence now shows it’s not just the FBI. Every federal employee with a badge and gun seems to think he’s a law unto himself. This ...

June 11, 2023

Same Plot, Different Actors

Just as Hollywood seems stuck on the notion of releasing new versions of once-popular films using new actors, the corrupt Department of Justice seems to be using the same tattered playbook once again in the preposterous and ill-considered indictment ...

May 21, 2023

A Cabal of Sociopaths

If we learned anything this week, we’ve learned that the continued life of this Constitutional Republic is in grave danger from the cabal of sociopaths in critical positions of power, and that it is because scaremongers and a supine press and j...

May 14, 2023

The Counterattack of Reason

For some time, optimists like me have had to work hard to keep believing that reason will prevail. I now think, as reality sets in, my faith in reason, though too long delayed, is not unwarranted. This week is, I think, the beginning of the end for s...

May 7, 2023

(Don’t) Take the F Train

Another act to subdue an aggressive mentally ill man leads to another George Floyd media-leftist whitewash of the perpetrator and this time, I think it will not work. Don Surber says it well: “Democrats turned subways into hell an...

April 30, 2023

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

The forces determined to monopolize the public square through censorship, lies, and social pressure have devastated universities and scholarship generally, allowed a corrupt public health bureaucracy to ravage our lives, and stuck us with the most in...

April 23, 2023

Erasing Women

I’m not sure why it’s happening -- perhaps it’s a backlash from the most obnoxious of the feminists and their conduct or the widespread denigration of and discrimination against white heterosexual men, but there’s no doubt in ...

April 16, 2023

Can a Discriminatory View of Legal Standing Stand?

Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian, who often has well-considered things to say,  posted an intriguing and important blog this week.  In 2009 the EPA found that CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” endanger human hea...

April 9, 2023

A Hiccup in the Prosecution of the J6 Defendants

In a 107-page split opinion, the U.S.  Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia may well have torched the outrageous overcharging of hundreds of people who peacefully walked through the Capitol, a public building, on January 6, 2021....

April 2, 2023

Yes, We Have Gone Bananas

The two big stories this week illustrate the corruption of the legal system and of the Democrat party, which controls key portions of it. As well, they illustrate the media’s continuing effort to deny us the truth we see with our own eyes. T...

March 26, 2023

The Public Health Establishment That Flew Too Near to the Sun

The public health establishment, like Icarus on wax wings (in their case, lies, power grabs, political manipulation, rich economic reward), flew too close to the sun and melted their means of staying aloft.  The New Anti-Fauci Legis...

March 19, 2023

You Can Bank on it: A Cheat Sheet on the SVB Collapse

This week, a lot of attention has been focused on the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank.  It is, in fact, a story of faulty accounting practices, poor government oversight, and the effects of government micromanaging markets at the same t...

March 12, 2023

This Great Stage of Fools

If you’ve ever wondered why the Left is so successful in fooling so many people for so long, you might consider branding expert Rob Frankel’s observation.  The average IQ score is 100, encompassing about 68% of the pop...

March 5, 2023

Trials and Tribulations

This week there was what I consider to have been extensive unwarranted attention given to the murder trial in South Carolina of Alex Murdaugh. Unwarranted because it seems to me this is at best a matter of local or regional interest.  In th...

February 26, 2023

The Duke is in the Altogether

It takes a satire site, apparently, to tell the truth and spare us some of the craziness being promoted every day. I’m talking about South Park, though others like the Babylon Bee daily skewer the imbecilic nonsense found in the mains...

February 19, 2023

Eating Their Own in the Golden State

History shows that leftists always end up eating their own, as they continually jockey for the top rung on their political ladder. This week’s target is the odious Congressman Adam Schiff. He has been a congressman for 22 years and this year ha...

February 12, 2023

‘Shaddup,’ the Government Said

If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t find common factual ground with liberal friends, the reason may be that not only have private outfits worked successfully to censor news, but that government agencies as well, from the CDC to the CIA,...

February 5, 2023

Balloons and Hot Air

There are sites which regularly publish President Biden’s verbal gaffes. When he’s not hiding in his basement these perilous days, those gaffes are one of the few things you can reliably count on.  Townhall.com published one ...

January 29, 2023

Straight Talk on the Latest Riots

Riots broke out in Memphis and are rapidly spreading through the usual urban areas. The purported rationale is the horrific beating to death in Memphis of Tyre Nichols captured on video and released by the police. As Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) obse...

January 22, 2023

The War on Competence

Decades ago, the Left played the class-war game. These days it’s a war on competence and achievement, hiding beyond claims of racial and sexual equity. In Virginia, we are to believe that on their own, high school administrators in seve...

January 15, 2023

The Corvette Files

The internet posters are making hay of the news that Joe Biden had classified documents, obtained when he was vice president and some labeled top secret, stored insecurely in his Washington office at the Penn Biden Center of the University ...

January 8, 2023

The Long Fight for the House Speakership

Much has been made of the fact that it took 15 votes until Republican Kevin McCarthy finally secured the Speakership of the House. Powerline Blog has rounded up a series of the internet cartoons and memes about the long fight. With their sa...

December 18, 2022

Deep State Suspicions

I wonder if it’s because so many of us lost faith in the federal government after its absurd overreactions, bad public health policies, and demonstrable lies respecting COVID, or is it just the passage of time and changes at the top making it h...

December 11, 2022

Raiding Arizona

A few weeks ago, Julie Kelly tweeted that FBI director Christopher Wray has scheduled a “bureau-wide call with all 36,000 FBI employees” this month. This is without recent precedent and if true, I hope it’s to announce his resignati...

December 4, 2022

The Media Undertakers Must be Getting Exhausted

The media worked hard to bury the FTX scandal. There a young (but well-connected to leftist politicos and media) tech slob Sam Bankman-Fried “lost” eight billion dollars, shelled out at least $40 million to Democrats, is suspect...

November 27, 2022

Elon Musk-eteer

In between watching the scandalous FTX crypto scam unfold and making all the Thanksgiving fixings, I’ve joined Twitter, which I’ve refused to participate in for years. One reason for my about-face on the social media site is that Elon Mus...

November 20, 2022

Congressional Hearings -- Do Them Right or Not at All

At the Federalist, Jordan Boyd offers up a proposed agenda for the new House of Representatives. The Republicans have won a majority. How great is still to be determined. Officially the count is 218, but Lauren Boebert’s opposition, Adam F...

November 13, 2022

Arizona on my Mind

Election Day is increasingly looking like election month, and frankly, unless state residents under our federal system get control of this, I see no end to it. In the worst cases, ballots are emailed to everyone who has ever been registered to v...

November 6, 2022

Red Wave on the Sunset

The internet this week is full of election projections and Elon Musk's moves to clean up Twitter. Starting with the last item – Twitter -- he’s just discharged 2700 employees, saving the company hundreds of millions of dollars in wage...

October 30, 2022

What's Behind the Seth Rich Coverup?

The Epoch Times reports on the continuing efforts by the FBI to hide the contents of Seth Rich’s computer, and while I am not sure why, the reasonable assumption is that to disclose this material would, as a number of experts have long contende...

October 23, 2022

Ol’ Man River is Not Rolling Along

If you think the price of energy and food has reached the limit, I have bad news for you: All signs are it’s going to be much worse. Hot Air described the coming supply chain wreck.. Water levels on the Mississippi are tied with an all-time low...

October 16, 2022

Score One for True the Vote

Konnech is an election software company which provides Poll Chief software for election worker management. It is used in a number of counties, including DeKalb in Georgia, Washoe County, Nevada; Fairfax County, Virginia; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angele...

October 9, 2022

The Constitution is Color-Blind

This week, President Biden suggested that the federal government has engaged in racial discrimination with respect to sentencing people for marijuana possession. “Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives.......

October 2, 2022

The Weekly Whodunnit

There’s always some mystery in the news that provides a blank page for fantasy thinking. This week’s mystery has initiated a storm of speculation: What happened to cause leaks in Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2, designed to send gas to...

September 25, 2022

Xi Whiz

Aren’t we lucky that both the mainstream and social media blocked the news about Hunter’s laptop? Aside from all the disgusting images found on it of Hunter’s drug and orgy-filled days and nights, the “Big Guy’s” t...

September 18, 2022

The FBI: Disturbing the Peace and Creating Inter-Party War

Many old-timers like me doubtless remember the old-time radio show “The FBI in Peace and War,” which touted the magnificent operations of the Bureau. These days they operate as an arm of the Democrat party, grossly exaggerating the size a...

September 11, 2022

The DoJ Argues that the Intelligence Community Overrides the Judiciary

At this point in time I have no regard for the probity or competence of the Intelligence Community and neither, apparently, does Judge Aileen Cannon, who earlier this week ordered the appointment of a Special Master to review those documents seized i...

September 4, 2022

Laboring Through Bilge on Labor Day

As is the case when we draw nearer to election time, the press is full of dubious polls and the rantings of media-designated seers and pundits. What I rely on is the evidence of my own eyes: higher inflation, ever higher taxes, higher energy costs, a...

August 28, 2022

Conventional Wisdom is an Oxymoron

Things that have become conventional wisdom are so often proven dead wrong that we are wise to put “no” in front of anything that is bruited endlessly by the media and advanced by Democrat leaders. There are so many things in whic...

August 21, 2022

D.C. Lawyer of the Year: Natasha Taylor-Smith

I have been reading with horror Julie Kelley’s day-to-day description of the treatment afforded some 850 people arrested in D.C. for conduct on January 6 and the awful legal representation and judicial treatment they have received.  M...

August 14, 2022

Panic at the Top

If the absurd raid on Mar-a-Largo has not persuaded you yet that the Deep State and their cohorts are terrified of their loss of political and cultural dominance, I urge you to read this thoughtful piece by former CIA analyst Martin Gurri. He tr...

August 7, 2022

Winners and Losers in my Constitution Bee

Every year kids from around the country enter a contest, the Spelling Bee, to test their ability to spell often difficult words better than anyone else.  If adults held a Constitution Bee, the winner this week would be Florida governor Ron DeSan...

July 31, 2022

Naming Things

In Genesis, Adam names all the creatures of the earth. “God formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called each living creatu...

July 24, 2022

Academia Neglects Its Most Important Function: A Free Marketplace of Ideas

If you have been paying any attention at all to academia in this country, you know it has entered a dark age, neglecting what my alma mater once described as its function: A place for the sifting and winnowing of ideas. Today’s academic “...

July 17, 2022

Don’t Bang on My Teakettle

There’s a Yiddish expression -- Hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik! It means “don’t bang on my teakettle.” Apparently when you went to see someone and they were in the field, workshop or barn, you banged on their teakettle to summon...

July 10, 2022

Anatomy of a Really Vile Bit of Propaganda

Last week at American Thinker, in discussing the Dobbs case, I prophesied, “and if your media sources resemble those I’ve seen, the moral angle will be played to the hilt with stories of exceptional cases being treated as the rule....

July 3, 2022

A SCOTUS Guide for the Perplexed

As is usual, the Supreme Court saved its most important decisions for the end of this term, and the three biggies were handed down within days of each other: “Bruen (gun rights), Dobbs (abortion rights) and West Virginia...

June 26, 2022

Perspectives on the Dobbs Decision Overruling Roe v. Wade

There has been much perfervid shouting and rending of garments (or these days, parading about with red splotches on the crotches of their clothing or performative displays in Handmaid's Tale costumes -- red hooded capes) to protest the ...

June 19, 2022

Russia’s Ukrainian Invasion May End the Monomaniacal Focus on Carbon Emissions

Every now and then droplets of reality splash on the noggins of the world’s big thinkers. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to have highlighted -- to all but the Biden administration -- the folly of a single-minded attempt to curb carbon...

June 12, 2022

The Democrats: 'A Criminal Organization'

More than a decade ago, Michael Walsh dubbed the Democrats, “A criminal organization masquerading as a political party.” I once thought this was overstating the matter, but I no longer do. If you can’t fully accept this characteriza...

June 5, 2022

The Structural Legal Rot Runs Deep

With the likelihood of a Republican tsunami at the midterms, some are already spinning wish lists of structural changes they hope will begin to take shape. Without wishing to rain on their -- or your -- parade, I’d like to point out how deep by...

May 29, 2022

Something About School Shootings

Every mass school shooting strikes terror in parents’ hearts and grief in the communities in which they occur. You might from press coverage have the idea that they are a regular occurrence, but, in fact, they remain rare -- 13 mass school shoo...

May 22, 2022

CNN's Eye is on the Sparrow

Jack Sparrow, that is, the movie pirate played by Johnny Depp, whose defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard is full of the kind of meaningless salacious nonsense CNN’s declining viewership is capable of focusing on. For grownups, ...

May 15, 2022

The Internal Revenue (Election Rigging) Service

Should the projections of a Republican tsunami at the midterms prove true, there are so many things that a Republican Congress must prioritize. Not the least of which is revising the civil-service laws to permit removing incompetent and corrupt burea...

May 8, 2022

The Roe Demonstrators: Where Did They Get That Idea?

Much has been written this week about the pro-abortionists’ plans to picket the homes of the six Republican-appointed justices over the egregiously leaked Alito draft overturning Roe v. Wade. Those criticisms, which I summarize below, are certa...

May 1, 2022

A Government Disinformation Board? You Don’t say!

Just as the internet has been roiled by the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter and plans to turn it into a free speech forum, the administration announced its nifty plan to stifle free speech. Of course, the creation of such an office is a tell th...

April 24, 2022

What a Week This Has Been

My quiet neighborhood in the capital, which is patrolled by the Metropolitan Police, the U.S. Park Police, and the Secret Service’s Foreign Missions Branch, has been the site of an unprecedented number of crimes. Someone -- identity unknown as ...

April 17, 2022

I’m a Proud Member of the Rebel Alliance

The war in Ukraine is a tragedy to watch. Whether or not like Sean Penn, who claims he’s thinking of taking arms to fight Russia, or like most of the corporate media you are rooting for Ukraine and demonizing Russia, you have to admire Ukrainia...

April 10, 2022

I Learn Something New Every Day

Last week I learned from a neighbor that Donald Trump deliberately allowed the Biden-Harris ticket to win the 2020 election so they could destroy the  Democrats with stupid policies. I also learned that only a biologist can define a woman f...

April 3, 2022

Trump’s Greatest Gambit?

It has been unseasonably cold in Washington D.C. this spring. The blossoms on the cherry tree on my front lawn had barely bloomed when a cold snap and heavy wind-driven rain scattered the petals all over my front lawn. I stepped out front to pick up ...

March 27, 2022

Even Republican Presidents Would Seem to Have a Right to Free Speech

It seems to me that the point of the super partisan congressional January 6 Commission is to tar former president Donald Trump with inciting a riot (“insurrection” for the hyperbolic), an issue they raised and lost in the second impeachme...

March 20, 2022

The New York Times Signals the End of Biden's Road

In October 2020, prior to the election, Hunter Biden’s laptop was left unclaimed at a repair shop and turned over to the FBI. Yaacov Apelbaum has covered at length the Biden family corruption, their crooked international dealings, pornogra...

March 13, 2022

Awash In a Sea of Stupid

It’s a weird feeling, watching the globe-wide death of reason and the herdlike behavior of virtue-signaling nincompoops. There’s so much of this it’s hard to know where to begin. This is not intended to be a complete list, which wou...

March 6, 2022

Ukraine: What do I Know?

My brother-in-law long hosted a radio show called “Whad’ya know?” The answer to which was always, “Not much.” I feel that way about the Russian attacks on Ukraine. It’s not that I haven’t tried. I’...

February 27, 2022

Ukraine to Putin: Never Again

Word from the battlegrounds in Ukraine is scattered and cannot always be confirmed, but some credible accounts give every indication that Putin may have blundered and faces a stronger defense than he (or the Biden administration) imagined possible. T...

February 20, 2022

What Rough Beast Slouches Toward Munich?

From the 18th of this month through the 25th, national leaders are meeting in Munich in an apparent effort to deescalate the situation in Ukraine. The administration has pulled together its putative allies to forestall what it claims is an imminent t...

February 13, 2022

Sometimes a Not-Great Notion

Remember the song “Goodnight Irene”? It goes: “Sometimes I lives in the country Sometimes I lives in the town Sometimes I haves a great notion To jump into the river an' drown .” The not-so-great notion in rec...

February 6, 2022

Avenatti and the Media Swindlers

If you want to feed on fake news, be bombarded by endless praise-filled coverage of scoundrels whose fame is undeserved, and listen to just plain idiocy, keep watching television news. With the latest conviction of former media star Michael Aven...

January 30, 2022

The Democrats Make Their Own Racism Explicit

This week the Democratic National Committee gave Justice Steven Breyer the hook, announcing that he was retiring before he’d firmly decided to do so. When he finally responded, he made clear his intention to remain on the bench until Biden...

January 23, 2022

The 1/6 Select Committee Witch Hunt

For quite some time, Congress has ceded its constitutional power to legislate to the unelected administrative state -- at least when Democrats are both the congressional majority and hold the White House. Now, having ignored its true function, i...

January 23, 2022

Punishing a Dem who criticizes border chaos?

Another suspicious FBI raid, this time against a moderate Democratic Congressman who has been critical of the President.  FBI raid at U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar's home related to Azerbaijan probe, source tells CBS News  This week...

January 9, 2022

The Supreme Court and Congress Humiliate Themselves

Two important cases came before the Supreme Court this week and, in Congress, the Nancy Pelosi Reichstag Fire Revisited was being played out. In both cases, these bodies deserved our disrespect for their violation of established norms and displa...

January 2, 2022

2021 is Over at Last. Thank Goodness

What an awful year this was. I sincerely hope the coming year is better. Here are a few loose ends that need clearing up as that dreadful year drops off into memory. The first priority is to hold public health authorities responsible for the mess ...

December 26, 2021

West Virginia Leads the Nation

Apart from its legislative and regulatory policies, the administration is doing everything it can to hamper the production of conventional fuels. The standard, and oft used, countermeasure is to seek judicial relief from nonsensical overreach, which ...

December 19, 2021

We Need a Political Climate Change

If you had any doubt that California’s present shortage of available water for farming in the Central Valley is a political, not a climate, problem, Anthony Watts will disabuse you of the notion. If you’ve any doubt that this admi...

December 12, 2021

They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us

As it did in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, the major media relentlessly trumpeted a false story, this time about Jussie Smollett. In both cases the tales were of white supremacists committing horrific crimes.  In both cases, when the fabulist ...

December 5, 2021

Nothing is Anybody’s Fault

Some time ago, P.J. O’Rourke was both prescient and witty when he observed: "Liberals have invented whole college majors -- psychology, sociology and women's studies -- to prove that nothing is anybody's fault." This...

November 28, 2021

Who Nu?

They’re now trying to shut down everything again and make the world safe again for private jet-flying elites to escape from voters. This time they claim there’s a super-spreading, super-scary new variant of the Wuhan (pardon me,...

November 21, 2021

Heroes and Zeros: The Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

For 85 minutes on Friday, we held our breath as America’s-not-Sweetheart Kamala Harris was acting president while Joe Biden was anesthetized for a colonoscopy. Near in time, a 12-member panel of jurors in Kenosha, Wisconsin ignored threats shou...

November 14, 2021

All He Had Was a Handgun

In medieval days, before there were secular dramas, there were roving bands of semi-professional actors performing morality plays. The plays were often short and sometimes even farcical. Plots were designed to encourage moral choices or illustra...

November 7, 2021

Hillary’s Russian Dossier and Other Legal and Media Travesties

Save for the Wall Street Journal, few big media operations have reporters with the background or editors and media producers with journalistic principles to accurately inform you about legal matters. This week, looking at John Durham’s Dan...

October 31, 2021

Something Big is Coming

Dilbert creator Scott Adams tweeted this week: ”The country’s energy is strange. Everything is amped up in every direction. Something big is coming.” He’s rarely wrong about such things. Adams said he doesn’t know wha...

October 24, 2021

The Teachers Union's Fumbled Play

I believe it was Gaylord Nelson, then governor of Wisconsin, who first recognized the right of public employees to collectively bargain, and it was another governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who decades later under state law virtually eliminated it...

October 17, 2021

School Boards and Idiots

Mark Twain famously said, “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” If you ever doubted the wisdom of this observation, the conduct of the Loudoun County School Board, the National Scho...

October 10, 2021

Green Policies Return the World to Coal

There’s scarcely a place in the modern world that will not be feeling the high cost and discomfort of a shortage of energy supplies and their increasingly soaring prices. Lebanon already is. Due to a shortage of oil, the two power plants t...

October 3, 2021

Life in Centrifugal USA

I may be more distraught than usual as I’m dealing with the illness of a beloved pet, but I think even if I were not I’d have to acknowledge that in the absence of any rational leadership things quickly are spinning apart here.  E...

September 26, 2021

Why Your Otherwise Smart Friends Think Stupid Things

So many of our friends and family live harried lives, working, keeping households, caring for family members that they have no time to question the news accounts they hear on their car radios while chauffeuring the kids to school, shopping,...

September 19, 2021

Dirty Deeds Done Not Cheap

In 2015 the law firm Perkins Coie, which also represented the Democratic National Committee, was hired by the Hillary Clinton Campaign. Early the following year it hired Fusion GPS to perform opposition research for the campaign. Fusion GPS provided ...

September 12, 2021

Joe Tries to Deflect

I have no doubt that Joe Biden set September 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst attack on American soil, for his botched bug out from Afghanistan thinking it would be a triumphant conclusion to twenty years of war in Afghanistan. Doesn’t...

September 5, 2021

Second Thoughts: Dems Have A Few

As the pollsters across the board show President Biden’s support tanking rapidly (even among those whose polls regularly overweight Democrat support), the major media are having a hard time burying the story of administrative incoherence and st...

August 29, 2021

Biden’s Botched Bug Out

This week we were treated to a bloody horror show at Kabul airport and a preposterous performance (a full day late) by a president who claimed responsibility and then quickly proceeded to shun it, blaming everyone else. As commander in chief, he...

August 22, 2021

The Drooling Class

If you ever doubted that the country was in the hands of some very stupid and corrupt people, this week should have thoroughly disabused you of that fantasy. In one fell swoop, the administration left billions of dollars of military equipment in the ...

August 15, 2021

Reality Bites Biden’s Policies

Wretchard summarizes Biden’s challenging week and notes the challenges are going to get even bigger: Joe Biden is facing simultaneous challenges. The collapse of Afghanistan in place of a “decent interval”; The resurgen...

August 11, 2021

Latest developments in the prosecution of January 6 defendants

Prosecutors in the cases against the January 6 demonstrators are starting to run into some judicial pushback: Questions about exculpatory evidence in their possession not turned over as the law demands, lower courts assessing the defendant as more da...

August 8, 2021

Maskless in Washington

After a brief respite, the Capitol and surrounding areas are playing the mask game again. Count me out. My mother is 102 and infirm and I will wear a mandated mask to visit her in her senior residence as she and those living there are aged and extrem...

August 1, 2021

The Three Horsemen of the Bidenapocalypse

In the Bible, there were four horsemen of the apocalypse -- sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague. In the Biden Administration, there are three events spelling the doom of this administration and the Democrats: open border policy, inflation, an...

July 25, 2021

Pride and the Fall of Anthony Fauci

The ancient Greeks, whose admonitions seem evergreen, warned us that excess pride and ambition would lead those guilty of it to ruin. I think that is true of Anthony Fauci. First, a confession. I thought little of his handling years ago of t...

July 18, 2021

Ten (Plus One) Signs that the Age of Biden is Upon Us

We are living in a weird world of constant deception and bizarre government policies. Sometimes the liars are easily exposed, usually the policies are facially absurd, and this week there are 10 such examples. 1. Claiming that the  U.S. is re...

July 11, 2021

You are Now in the Totalitarian Zone

Before I get to the bad news, let me start with some good news. Christopher F. Rufo tweets that the revulsion against Critical Race Theory being taught in schools is showing results. Nine states have already banned it: Arizona, Texas, ...

July 4, 2021

It’s Independence, not In Dependence, Day

Two hundred and forty-five years ago, the brave Founders of this nation declared their independence from the rule of George III, the monarch of Great Britain. In so doing they declared -- and put at risk -- their lives, liberty, and fortune...

June 27, 2021

Where in the World is Dong Jingwei?

Maybe I’ve been too engrossed in Charles McCarry’s wonderful spy novels, but this week the story of the disappearance of Chinese vice-minister of State Security (the Guoanbu) Dong Jingwei strikes me as the most fascinating report of the w...

June 20, 2021

There’s Nothing New About the Effort to Propagandize the Military

More years ago than I care to remember, I was a college intern working on Capitol Hill. As part of our experience, various members of Congress came to speak to us. One of them as I recall was Strom Thurmond, at that time the Democratic senator from S...

June 6, 2021

The End of the Wuhan Scamarama

This week much has been made of the thousands of emails to and from Dr. Anthony Fauci. These were obtained as a result of Freedom of Information Act requests. In my view, it’s not only that the emails prove what we all knew -- Dr. Fauci is...

May 30, 2021

Harry, Formerly Known as Prince

This week, I’m sorry to say, the madness of celebrities, corporate media, educational institutions, and the administration, only increased and like Victor Davis Hanson, I wonder if the madness of last year will last? Let’s start with H...

May 23, 2021

Democrat Projectionists

I’m not the first person to note that whatever Democrats accuse their opponents of doing, it is they, in fact, who are doing it. If you are puzzled why the Biden Administration scotched the Keystone Pipeline but gave a thumbs up on the Russian ...

May 16, 2021

A Legal System Corrupted

I’ve always had great respect for our legal system. It’s as good as any of which I’m aware. No, I’m not naive. I’m fully aware that every institution depends on the competence and integrity of those involved and that mea...

May 9, 2021

Grandpa Knew Best

My grandpa once told me, ”All my grandchildren were born smart. The longer they go to school, the dumber they get.” I thought he was teasing, but now that I’m his age, I see his point: You have to have spent a lot of time in school ...

May 2, 2021

The Never-ending Hunt for a Trump Crime

The news that federal investigators searched and seized electronic devices from the apartment and office of Rudy Giuliani, a Trump lawyer, raises so many questions and involves so much missing information that even someone as skilled a myst...

April 25, 2021

Chauvin Trial: The Scottsboro Case in Whiteface

If you don’t recall the long sad story of the nine black teenagers convicted for raping two white women nine decades ago in Alabama, convictions clearly handed down in an atmosphere of extreme racial prejudice, here’s the account. In...

April 18, 2021

Can’t Stand Cant

I can’t stand any more cant -- the hypocritical, sanctimonious blather so common to our public and private educational institutions, the media, politicians, interest groups and corporations. Neither can more and more people -- and thi...

April 11, 2021

Another, Clearer Take on the Chauvin Trial

I leave it to you to decide why, from the Trayvon Martin case to the George Floyd case, the media has so consistently misrepresented the facts. Whether it is that unskilled reporters are covering these matters, or that the press is simply looking to ...

April 4, 2021

What’s More American than Coke and Baseball?

Until very recently, it would have been hard to imagine anything more iconic of American life than Coca-Cola and baseball. Today both remind me of Benito Mussolini’s corporatist – aka, fascist -- game of merging of state an...

March 28, 2021

The January 6 Prosecutions Hit a Speed Bump

Two weeks ago, I wrote of the Department of Justice’s overreach respecting some of the hundreds of January 6 defendants. On Friday the D.C. Circuit clipped the department’s wings. I expect more such losses as time goes on and the Departme...

March 21, 2021

The Battle of Burbank

It’s believed the Battle of Lexington and Concord was the fight that set off the American Revolution. While a battle at Burbank, California has received less notice, to me it is inspiring -- a community’s refusal to bow to petty, irr...

March 14, 2021

Varieties of Legal Corruption

PJ Media’s Megan Fox has a very disturbing six-part series on alleged judicial corruption in St. Louis, Missouri. The first five detail how family court guardians and psychologists are misusing their positions to siphon off money from parents i...

March 7, 2021

The Rise and Fall of Andrew Cuomo

In ancient Greece, they warned that excessive pride and arrogance will without fail lead to punishment. In ancient Rome, slaves rode behind conquerors whispering in their ears “memento mori” -- you are mortal -- meaning that both fame and...

February 28, 2021

Not a Rose Garland

If you’ve a memory longer than a nanosecond you might recall that in 2016 when he was nominated by then-President Obama to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, Merrick Garland was widely touted ...

February 21, 2021

Fantastical Energy

Energy issues are boring to many people, full of the sort of things the current wizards of academia and the press consider “white privilege” and “patriarchal” thinking -- you know, the kind of thing in which correct answers ma...

February 14, 2021

The 'Insurrection Hallucination' and How We Got There

It’s no secret the media has lots of ways to gaslight you. One of those is failing to report significant happenings. Another is booking and quoting people whose views they want to advance because they target those they dislike. Yet another is s...

February 7, 2021

Rigging the Election for China and Profit

Emerald Robinson tweets:  @EmeraldRobinson The corporate media: "People who say there was a shadow campaign to rig the 2020 election are conspiracy theorists!" Time Magazine: "Read our story on the shadow campaign to ri...

January 31, 2021

You Will Be Made to Believe Implausible Things

In George Orwell’s masterpiece 1984, he said, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” To guide you along this path, I bring to your attention implausible thi...

January 24, 2021

Back to the Obama’s Failed Policies and Blinkered Personnel

Donald J. Trump has been the most consequential President in my lifetime since Ronald Reagan. Issues & Insights counts some of the ways, listing the 10 most significant. "He slashed individual and business taxes, he forged peace in t...

January 17, 2021

Pelosi’s Third Impeachment Folly

Does the President have a right to free speech? Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor writing on The Volokh Conspiracy, suggests he certainly does and that his speech on January 6 is a weak reed (as was Nancy Pelosi’s past impeachment f...

January 10, 2021

The Night of the Tech Long Knives

In 1934 Hitler executed members of his paramilitary organization (the SA – Sturmabteilung or Storm Troopers) to consolidate his power, claiming it was to prevent a planned coup. In like fashion, using the incursion into the Capitol building, th...

January 3, 2021

Biden's Wet Squib

At midnight on New Year’s Eve Joe and Jill Biden posted a message online. The finale of the greeting was to be a pop-up confetti firecracker. It failed in its mission like a wet squib.  A perfect ending to a rotten year in whi...

December 27, 2020

The Lockdown Christmas

My desk overlooks an intersection. Looking out on it, Christmas Eve was gloomy and depressing. No lights, no people, virtually no cars. Just dark and cold and rain. I have no greater expectations for New Year’s Eve. The morning after I saw a...

December 20, 2020

2020: The Year of the Big Fraud

This was a year in which a number of frauds were exposed: Election fraud, media fraud, and public health fraud, among them. Their exposure has stirred outrage and as the year ends, no relief seems in sight. Election Fraud With No Apparent Judicial...

December 13, 2020

Frauds: The Election, Media, Congressional Dems, and the FBI

The first of this week's two biggest stories was Friday evening’s action by the Supreme Court refusing to hear the lawsuit brought by Texas and other states respecting the evident fraud in the balloting in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Geor...

December 6, 2020

Election Fraud, Political Corruption, and its Consequences

Like Scott S. Powell, I think this presidential election was marked by very obvious fraud. Common sense, longstanding predictable voting behavior patterns in many specific jurisdictions, big data statistical pattern analysis and forensic analysi...

November 29, 2020

Disenfranchising the Nonexistent and Illegal Voters

A few days ago, I forwarded a note about the proposed joint resolutions of the Pennsylvania legislators to refuse to certify the results of a patently fraudulent election. I got a response which certainly anticipates the Democrats...

November 22, 2020

A Very Unsettling Thanksgiving

For the first time in recent memory we will be unable to visit our son and his family in Hawaii for Thanksgiving. The quarantine requirements have been lifted if we take and get a negative result on a COVID test. (Something like 90% of the positive r...

November 15, 2020

What’s Kraken?

A couple of nights ago on Lou Dobbs’s show, President Trump's (and General Michael Flynn’s) lawyer Sidney Powell suggested there was massive fraud in the  presidential election vote tabulations. She said she was about t...

November 8, 2020

Another Cliffhanger

A Little Civics Lesson On Saturday, when rallies were scheduled to take place in key battleground areas to demand only legal votes were counted, the major networks announced Biden-Harris were the winners. Apparently, they are under the impression ...

November 1, 2020

Will Halloween Last for Weeks?

It’s the night before Halloween and all through the District of Columbia, plywood is being placed on shop and bank windows. Not because people fear  rampaging trick or treaters but because in a few days we will have our national election a...

October 25, 2020

The Miniaturization of Media Dinosaurs

In much the same way that dinosaurs miniaturized to today’s birds, the ancient Democrat solons and media have devolved from positions of respect and power to starlings, annoyingly chirping and scattering guano from their perches. The easy ac...

October 18, 2020

Hunter Becomes the Hunted

The wonderful cartoonist Michael Ramirez has Hunter Biden  disguised as a deer with the caption “From Hunter to Hunted.” Hunter in costume says, “Here, Dad, Camouflage. I got this in China.” In his usual pithy style Ramir...

October 11, 2020

Lift up the Rocks and See the Snakes

As media polls continue to mislead about the state of the presidential race, there are many reasons to believe the Democrats are crazed with fear that they will be trounced more soundly this time -- as they should be, given their nominees. Here are s...

October 4, 2020

The Democrats' Long Temper Tantrum Will Reelect Trump

It’s quite obvious to me that the Deep State and the Democratic Party that staffs it never got over the fact that their nefarious misuse of our intelligence agencies and hoodwinking the media didn’t work any better than their constant eff...

September 27, 2020

Courting Trouble

As usual, in part because of persistent judicial overreach and in part because the Democrats’ desire to keep getting in Court what they cannot win at the ballot box, the courts are the main focus of attention this week as they are in so many we...

September 20, 2020

Cut the Chaff

In all the perfervid reporting this week (Victor Davis Hanson calls this “concocted melodramas”) there are only three big stories to my mind: The President’s stunning success in the Middle East, Secretary of Education Betsy De Vos...

September 13, 2020

A Message from Mother Earth to Nancy Pelosi

Thunder shattered the evening quiet and lightning lit up the sky outside my office. I stayed at my computer feeling secure that the surge protector would manage the extra load. Suddenly my screen lit up with a strange message: Speaker Pelosi: T...

September 6, 2020

Anatomy of A(nother) Fake Scandal

The Atlantic does it Again The Atlantic published a tale based on anonymous sources that the President referred to veterans who had lost their lives in battles as “ suckers” and losers” and refused to go to a ...

August 30, 2020

Is Feudalism Our Future?

It’s increasingly clear that one-party polities are corrupt, badly managed and serve the interests only of those at the top and their courtiers. I think that if Biden and Harris win, the entire country will devolve to a kingdom of  st...

August 23, 2020

The DNC Tsunami of Schmaltz and Mendacity

There are many things likely to change after the COVID scare nearly decimated this country with overbearing Democrat governor lockdown mandates and trillions in wasted resources. Pro sports have taken a big hit (multiplying the effect of their own le...

August 16, 2020

Some Matters Domestic and Foreign

Attorney General William Barr earlier this week signaled that there would be a development in the ongoing Durham investigation into official misconduct relating to the Russiagate confection.  Friday, that came true with news that attorney K...

August 9, 2020

A Solution for This Week’s Mystery Announcement

Some weeks there’s a plethora of important stories and this week is no exception, but I’d like to highlight something which is getting far less attention than I think it deserves: The administration is using economic sanctions and anti-mo...

August 2, 2020

It’s August: Rest, Fall will be Even Crazier

If you had any doubt that the Democrats know they have a losing candidate (who has this week pushed back the announcement of his running mate) at the head of their ticket, their conduct the past week is the tell: 1.The outrageous House Judiciary C...

July 26, 2020

Beam Me Up, Please

If you are like me, you face each day knowing that some other crazy claim will sweep up millions of uncritical people, people willing to live in a contrafactual and contralegal world. There are too many examples of these waves of lunatic hysteria to ...

July 19, 2020

As if 2020 Wasn’t Contentious Enough

As the summer rolls along with far too many of us than is necessary or wise under lockdown and travel restrictions, we deal with the failings of our infectious disease bureaucracy, the likelihood of another Supreme Court battle, and what Conrad Black...

July 12, 2020

Stay Angry, Not Dispirited

Like baboons showing their rears to zoogoers, the election of President Trump caused the rotting institutions of America to reveal their least attractive features. The press has engaged in nonstop lying without remorse. The premier educational instit...

July 5, 2020

A Night at Mt. Rushmore

Friday’s celebration at Mount Rushmore reminded me of Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” where after a wild witches’ sabbath, church bells ring, the sun comes out and the witches vanish. For weeks now we’ve watc...

June 28, 2020

March of the Credentialed Morons

1. Academic Disaster For at least the past two decades, our colleges and universities have devolved into leftist training camps where free speech is labeled hateful and induced leftist conformity is the order of the day. Even professors at ...

June 21, 2020

What My Neighborhood Needs: Fewer Virtue Signaling Lawn Signs

My Neighborhood Because of the number of diplomatic offices and residences in my neighborhood, the uniformed division of the U.S. Secret Service patrols much of this Ward (Ward 3). Because we are located near Rock Creek Park, the Park Service forc...

June 14, 2020

The Goth ISIS Utopia and Other Leftist Nonsense

The left everywhere, from college campuses and newsrooms, to corporate headquarters and city councils, has gone stark, raving mad. I’m not the first to say it, and probably not the last, but most Americans are rational and aren’t goi...

June 7, 2020

Just Like That, Gun Control Support and COVID-19 Died This Week

After watching hundreds (including Michigan Governor Whitmer and other political figures who placed the rest of us in lockdowns) marching, screaming shouting -- without social distancing and often without masks -- it’s going to be hard to persu...

May 31, 2020

Cracking Down on Misfits’ Crime Sprees and Big Tech

I don’t know how many people today still read Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer, but if you are puzzled by the breakout this week of rioting and mayhem (at last count in 17 cities) you’d do well to make yourself familiar with this inc...

May 24, 2020

Death, Politics and the Nursing Homes

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, when we honor the sacrifice of the men and women who died for our country. Too often we forget the meaning of the day and head off to sales, the beaches, and the backyard barbecues. In those states still locked down, it will...

May 17, 2020

Mitigating Tyranny: Lockdowns and Flynn

Almost 200 hundred years ago the genius Alexis De Tocqueville observed how the distribution of power and law enforcement mitigated tyranny in the United States.   The national majority does not pretend to conduct all business ...

May 10, 2020

January 5, 2017: A Day that Should Live in Infamy

This week saw two major legal developments: The government withdrew its prosecution of General Michael Flynn and the transcripts of the 2017-2018 secret basement depositions by the House Committee on Intelligence were finally made public. Altogether ...

May 3, 2020

Help, Officer... I'm Being Murdered by an Unmasked Gunman

We have rather taken for granted the constitutional guarantees of certainty, rule of law, and due process in recent years. We ignored the water drip torture of prosecutorial misconduct (the Trayvon Martin, Lewis Libby, Ted Stevens cases) and governme...

April 26, 2020

Virus Strikes Media Dumb

There’s a lot of important news this week which is getting insufficient coverage. By way of example, we have these developments: There are increasingly plausible reports that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un may be de...

April 19, 2020

Trump: What’s up, Doc?

A Facebook friend likened the President to Bugs Bunny, chomping on his carrot and making fun of his enemies. And this week it certainly seems that way as the page flips from "everybody’s–an-epidemiology expert" to "we are n...

April 12, 2020

It’s a Wuhan Virus Easter

For all who celebrate Easter, I wish you a happy one in the midst of so much social and economic disruption. There are signs that all this shall soon pass and we will get back to our regular programming, including the likelihood that those in the int...

April 5, 2020

Bet Your Life -- Vote for Democrats

I’m trying to restrain my anger and speak measuredly, but it’s damn hard to do so. (Nancy Pelosi’s latest trial balloon -- an investigation into the President’s handling of the Wuhan virus, was so preposterous it drove me into...

March 29, 2020

Numerators and Denominators in the Coronavirus Saga

To ascertain how fatal a virus is, we need an accurate picture of how many people have it (the denominator) and how many have died as a result (the numerator), we have neither, but the data is improving and with it some substantial shifts away from t...

March 22, 2020

Life in the Time of Wuhan

Crises have a way of sorting out the good people, ideas, and institutions from the bad, and as the Wuhan virus spreads throughout the world, the sorting process is made easier.  The decision to close our borders to China, criticized by the ...

March 15, 2020

Trump's Ultrasonic Whistle Exposes Vermin Infestation

My online friend Jeffrey Satinover compared the president to an ultrasonic whistle "that causes all of the vermin to rush frantically out of their hiding holes, and you suddenly realize how infested the place is."  This week's...

March 8, 2020

Playing Judge Reggie Walton (Again)

Judge Reggie Walton, the former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was played in the case of Lewis Libby by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Among other things, Fitzgerald misled Judith Miller, a key prosecution witness...

March 1, 2020

Coronavirus: When All Else Fails, Try Reason

I’m phlegmatic by nature. It gives me an edge up when mass hysteria seems to take up so much space in the news and the pronouncements of Democratic leaders. Looking at the best information available to me, I find it beyond question that the Pre...

February 23, 2020

The Democrats' Russian Roulette

Once again operating out of their well-worn playbook, the Democrats are spinning the cylinder and placing the gun to their heads in suggesting the Russians are backing the President’s re-election, and once again they missed the empty chamb...

February 16, 2020

DC Law

So many of this week’s top news stories involve legal matters in Washington, D.C. that I’m making it the focus of this week’s column. There’s the Roger Stone case, the decision to close the investigation into Andrew Mc...

February 9, 2020

The Democrats: A Corrupt, Insane Posse Masquerading as a Political Party

Eleven years ago, the writer Michael Walsh wrote (under his penname David Kahane) “Think of the Democratic Party as it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.” After the Democrats’ Russia, Kavanaugh,...

February 2, 2020

The Democrats May Have Lost...but They're Still Smarter than You

This week CNN’s Don Lemon and the odious Rick Wilson laughed about how stupid Trump supporters are to believe that the president is smarter than the elitists, in which apparently they include themselves.  Reason’s Jim Lundgren res...

January 26, 2020

The Democrats' Cognitive Disorder

I do not trust emotional reactions to events. In my experience, visceral reactions are a poor guide to action, and when I recognize that I’m responding emotionally to events, I step back and consider what facts are better brought to bear on the...

January 19, 2020

The Trump Grabbed Schrodinger's Pussy Theory

As you may recall Schrodinger’s cat is a quantum physics paradox in which hypothetically a cat may be both alive and dead at the same time. My online friend “The Infamous Ignatz” offers up, quite rightly in my opinion, there is ...

January 12, 2020

Trump Is Toto

If you remember The Wizard of Oz you will recall that Toto, Dorothy’s dog, pulled back the curtain, revealing that the wizard was just a little guy working a panel of sound and light gimmicks to fool people into thinking he was more omnipotent...

January 5, 2020

Double Exposure: The Dems Coddling of Criminals and Iranian Terrorists

This week, the Democrats have been revealed as the party that exposes us to (1) criminal mayhem (often anti-Semitic) on the streets of New York and (2) terrorism everywhere as they consistently ignored it, indeed, paid off the perpetrators with palle...

December 29, 2019

New Year Ahead: Nothing Will Help Them

Last week my online friends were happily anticipating family visits for the holidays. This week they are fixing newfangled appliances and furniture broken by visitors and enjoying quiet relaxation in their comfy chairs now that the gang has retu...

December 22, 2019

Congressional Follies: Trump Is Still Your President

When even CNN reports that the economy is booming and the President’s popularity soaring, what can a Democratic House stuck with loser candidates do? Peddle a phony impeachment. And when the President says, bring it on, I want the sam...

December 15, 2019

Ode to the Constitution and the Common Man

Like American Thinker’s Monica Showalter and Sharyl Attkisson, I think Attorney General William Barr is honest, very capable, and on his way to exposing the Deep State and its skullduggery in the 2016 election. It’s a time-...

December 8, 2019

Trumping a Low Pair

The week ended with the President trumping a low pair -- congressmen Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler -- when White House Counsel Pat Cipollone responded to Congressman Nadler’s demand that the Judiciary Committee be informed if the White House...

December 1, 2019

Waiting for Horowitz

We are told that the long awaited report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz will be made on December 9, and two days later, on December 11, he will publicly testify about it.  In the meantime, you might want to copy and study this...

November 17, 2019

Revolt of the Ukraine Desk Bureaucrats

To date the Schiff hearings -- unfairly run as they are -- show nothing less than a revolt by the Ukraine Desk Bureaucrats in which they concede they are poorly armed with any facts sufficient to overthrow the president, whose only crime was to chang...

November 10, 2019

Impeachment Mashup

Democrats have tried to impeach every elected Republican president since Dwight D. Eisenhower. They’ve never succeeded and there’s no reason to believe this time is different. As Bill Mitchell tweeted: “If China thought ther...

November 3, 2019

Schiff's Impeachment Train to Nowhere

Like the expensive California fast train to nowhere, Schiff’s funhouse impeachment hearings are a useless waste of time and money, and subject him to well-deserved ridicule. They are certain not to prevent President Trump’s reelection in ...

October 28, 2019

Was it Trump's magic wand that turned the Washington Post into a laughingstock?

I'm beginning to think that hidden somewhere in the White House or Trump Tower, there's a magic wand that the president wields which turns his detractors — old Obama hands, make-believe conservative politicians and commentators, Democra...

October 27, 2019

What Would Pierre Delecto Do?

This week Mitt Romney confessed that he was posting on Twitter under the absurd moniker Pierre Delecto and set up himself for some serious online satirizing. It’s way overdue. The #NeverTrumpers in the Republican party have exposed themselve...

October 20, 2019

Seeing Some Trees in the Forest of Babble

The hypnotic babble of the media beguiles otherwise intelligent people into believing that Russia colluded with President Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton, that Trump forced Ukraine into investigating Hunter Biden and did something, we can’t say...

October 13, 2019

Producers of the Flailing Impeachment Inquiry

Believing Adam Schiff’s lies and calling for an “impeachment inquiry” has to be one of the worst blunders of Speaker Pelosi’s career. The whistleblower tale has crumbled and the backup witnesses the Democrats are relying on on...

October 6, 2019

Mr. Trump Goes to Washington

To many, the charges and countercharges, subpoenas and congressional hearings, might look like a three-ring circus in which solons up for re-election are vying for airtime to fill their re-election coffers. To me, this is a modern-day replay of the c...

September 29, 2019

Adam Schiff's Impeachment Fun Playhouse

In tacit recognition that his party will never beat the president in 2020 with the gang of whackos vying to head their ticket and that no real impeachment will ever occur, Congressman Adam Schiff, with the acquiescence of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, called...

September 22, 2019

Schiff Shafts Biden

Congressman Adam Schiff (to experience the deep void, look into his eyes) has fallen into a trap in which he aims at the president and wounds his party’s front-runner, Joe Biden, instead. It’s not my imagination. MSN’s Chris Haye...

September 15, 2019

America's Exclusive, Math-Challenged Party

Math is apparently very hard for Democrats, judging from the apparatchiks’ comments on who can run for office on their party’s ticket or contribute to that effort. This week, men and billionaires are out: The Democratic Congressional...

September 8, 2019

The Political Consultants Assisted Suicide Center

My neighbor, E.Z. Ryder, fancies himself a farsighted entrepreneur and is always full of  imaginative ideas. He was sitting on his front porch shuffling through a stack of blueprints as I pulled into my driveway. He waved and motioned me to...

September 1, 2019

Coming Legal Attractions

In Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about his perceptions of America almost 200 years ago. Much of his observations have stood the test of time. Among them his views of Americans’ respect for the legal system: Scarcely any ...

August 25, 2019

Political Forecast: Stormy Weather Ahead

Like the Cargo Cult in the Pacific, which builds model planes in the hope that, they will bring in cargo planes full of spam and other goodies as they did in WWII, the Democrats keep hoping for airships full of votes that will never come in. All who ...

August 18, 2019

Epstein and the Public Loss of Faith

The death of Jeffrey Epstein in the MCC federal jail has touched off no end of speculation. While the medical examiner’s conclusion indicating it was suicide has been made public, the report itself has not been released. Many don’t believ...

August 11, 2019

Knives, Rifles, and a Suicide

Another bad week for Democrats. After the latest debates “No candidate received a polling bump,” according to Morning Consult analyst Anthony Patterson, and the inestimable Michael Barone analyzes the various constituencies -- often confl...

August 4, 2019

Can We Please Have Something Normal?

As is often the case, Tom Maguire speaks what many of us are thinking. This week, following the Democratic debates and a poll indicating that only 25% of Democrats want a  “bold, new agenda” he tweeted: “Per this poll...

July 28, 2019

Impeachment Dreams Die; Wall gets Built

This was a week the President could only have dreamed of. There was the highly promoted appearance of Robert Mueller before two congressional committees in which the impeachment dream of the party with no saleable agenda died in full public view. Egg...

July 21, 2019

Mogadishu Mon Amour

  The French movie Hiroshima Mon Amour is based on human memory and forgetfulness as recounted by two lovers. The tale of the congresswoman who calls herself Ilhan Omar is a tale of an anti-Semite bred-in-the-bone corruptocrat whose rise in p...

July 14, 2019

It's Not Really a Climate Thing: It's about Control

Fascism, Communism, Nazism -- all gifts to the world from Europe. Now it's nonsensical worries about climate change resulting in deliberately built-in inefficiencies in everything from household appliances to transportation methods. Compared t...

July 7, 2019

How Many Divisions Does Chief Justice Roberts Have?

When Obama didn’t like a court order, he ignored it.  In fact , he exceeded the constitutional bounds of his office at least 10 times, notes Ilya Shapiro. He did it in intervening in Libya without even notifying Congress; in subver...

June 30, 2019

Babble: The 'Debates' and the SCOTUS

Life is too short to spend it on phony debates when you can see the highlights in videos and read the text of the remarks. The word peddlers are each picking their  claims as to who won. The more critical observers suggest that I was right ...

June 23, 2019

Presidential Tweets and a SCOTUS Sneak Peek

The most amusing story of the week is the President’s announcement that he plans to live tweet the Democratic Party debates. In anticipation of this, people are already announcing Trump tweet parties, and some are hoping a creative media outlet...

June 16, 2019

When and Why Golden Geese Take Wing

My friend Lynn Chu has boiled down the basis for a just, prosperous society: “It is very easy to spend other people's money, thus eliminating all of the vital discrimination about the devils in the details which are knowable only at th...

June 9, 2019

Arrogant Conceit and Pratfalls

The Greeks used the word “hubris” to describe excessive arrogance and conceit. And they were wise to the fact that it leads to downfalls. Any doubt about that was surely erased by the week’s news where an Ohio jury and an incredibly...

June 2, 2019

A Made Man (Mueller) Unmakes Himself

In common parlance, a made man is someone whose path to success was greased by circumstances. It also refers to someone formally inducted as a full member of a criminal outfit -- the Mafia.  In the political atmosphere in which Robert Muell...

May 26, 2019

Sweet and Seemly it Still Is to Die for One's Country

Adapting the phrase from the Roman poet Horace, Wilfred Owen during World War I turned "it is was sweet and seemly to die for one’s country" into an anti-war poem. He may have had a point when it came to that war, a war that...

May 19, 2019

The College Board: Dumbing Down America

There are now 23 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination with New York’s mayor jumping in. The unveiling of the spies and tactics behind the fake collusion tale continues apace. It looks as though Mueller will testify before Congr...

May 12, 2019

Rebellion is Bursting out All Over

As Spygate proceeds to its certain conclusion -- the trials of those who engaged in this scandalous coup attempt -- we receive the details of the scheme only in dribs and drabs. Too many were involved and have too much to lose at this point by not re...

May 5, 2019

Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight

That’s the title of a great song in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and that, it occurs to me, is an appropriate song for the media and the Democrats. For two years they vigorously promoted -- for their amusement and political b...

April 28, 2019

Biden: The Democrats’ Flavor of the Week

I think there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 Democrats who have thrown their hats into the ring so far. Frankly, I’ve lost count. Each week, as a new hat comes flying, the contender is the recipient of free, often favorable, press doti...

April 21, 2019

Things the Media Ignored in the Mueller Report

Despite the oceans of pixels, buckets of ink, and hours of TV and radio coverage respecting the Mueller report, there are two important things underplayed or ignored: the ubiquitous nature of Russian interference from 2014 on, which Obama i...

April 14, 2019

Trump’s Rebel Alliance Attacks the Left’s Death Star

As in one of those old-time movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or a sci-fi film like Star Wars, where the good guys finally go on the offensive and beat the evildoers, this week the President and the rebel alliance cracked through the Demo...

April 7, 2019

Mueller Express Fails to Deliver, Democrats Head for the Abyss

As the long-running Mueller Witch Hunt pulled into the station empty, the one thing that held together the disparate factions of the Democratic Party -- the thought that Mueller would hand them grounds for impeachment -- was lost and a “Gadaren...

March 10, 2019

Democrats Working for Trump's Re-Election

I find it impossible to disagree with Ryan Saavedra’s Twitter observation:   "The Democratic Party, which has called everything under the sun a “Nazi” for the last 3 years, all of a sudden can...

March 3, 2019

The Political Suicide Hotline: Ringing Nonstop

It is a mystery to me why so many politicians and pundits are suddenly committing career and party suicide. I suppose it’s because there has been a failure to recognize that they’ve been living in and promoting a fantasy world. In th...

February 24, 2019

High Ties and Misdemeanors

Nothing offends people more than unequal justice -- disparate treatment of protected persons and classes. This week, the FBI and Department of Justice’s hash of equal justice became even clearer and the media’s fat thumb on the scales as ...

February 17, 2019

Trump as Hercules Cleaning Out the Augean Stables

Last week in Viareggio, Italy, the citizens paraded with a huge float depicting President Trump as Hercules.  Looking at his many accomplishments against countless enemies and political opponents, the depiction was not inapt.  Lik...

February 10, 2019

Virginia: When Identity Groups Collide

For decades, lacking a coherent and acceptable broad-based platform, the Democrats have cobbled together their victories by playing the identity politics game. Reaching out to different groups, playing on their sense of victimization and oppress...

February 3, 2019

Virginia Governor Northam's Samba

Absent a coherent saleable agenda, the Democratic Party has tried to cobble together every group angling for special legal and financial privileges. Now that cobbled-together collection is crumbling. Worse, as the governor of Virginia showed us this ...

January 27, 2019

No MAGA Hats in the Opinion Workers Union Hall

This week there was a rare celestial convergence: A Super Moon, a Blood Wolf Moon, and a Lunar Eclipse. On earth there were also some noteworthy events: 1000 reporters lost their jobs, Mueller jumped the shark in arresting Roger Stone in the middle o...

January 20, 2019

The Tables Turn on Pelosi and the Media

Saturday was National Popcorn Day, but I’ve been nibbling on popcorn all week as Nancy Pelosi learned a lesson about presidential power and the media was gut checked by the special prosecutor. I haven’t had this much fun since election ni...

January 13, 2019

There Is a Pony in the Mueller Heap of Dung

It is increasingly obvious that there is a pony in the heap of Mueller Trump-Russia dung, and the pony is a corrupt FBI and CIA covering up their unlawful conduct.  Even the best efforts by the wrongdoers' media mouthpieces are not suff...

January 6, 2019

Democrats Hoist with Their Own Petard

“Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase taken from Shakespeare and means someone destroyed himself with a weapon (a petard, that is, small bomb) intended for another. President Trump has hoisted the #NeverTrumpers on theirs and is about t...

December 30, 2018

Intersectionality at the Crossroads

It’s been known for a long time that revolutions eat their own, and it appears that the preposterously cobbled together coalition of leftist groups that tag their movement “intersectionality” is no exception. As the facts behind the...

December 26, 2018

Oleg Atbashian's Hotel USSR

Oleg Atbashian, creator of the fabulous satire site The Peoples Cube.com, has written an illustrated autobiographical book about his life in the USSR, before he was able to immigrate to the U.S.  It's called Hotel USSR an...

December 23, 2018

About Face... Spin!

It’s always amusing to watch the pundits and spinners turn on a dime. It used to be harder before the internet made it easy to retrieve what they said in the past. This week, with a tsunami of developments, the spinning is at full force. Spi...

December 16, 2018

Washington’s Growing Product Line: Confected Felonies

This week my news-clipping file is overflowing. There’s the hilarious Oval Office meeting between the President and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for laughs -- as Pelosi begs for no transparency and Schumer bows his head knowing that the dynam...

December 9, 2018

So Much Irony it’s Mag[a]netic

There’s a 12-part series of images circulating on the internet titled “Ink Blot Test For People with Trump Derangement Syndrome” which shows pictures of a dozen nondescript ink blots all of which those suffering from Trump Derangeme...

December 2, 2018

Another Turbulent Week with Some Big Mysteries

Still Winning This week the President signed a new trade deal with Mexico, Canada, and Argentina, a deal far more favorable to our interests than the now discarded NAFTA deal. In the same time frame, our master negotiator hosted the first trila...

November 18, 2018

Then They Came for the White Women

As the incompetent election managers in Florida finally finish counting ballots barely in time for the 2020 campaigns to begin, and Georgia’s governor candidate Stacey Abrams chooses to "acknowledge defeat" rather than concede, it...

November 11, 2018

It’s Not Quite Kristallnacht, but It’s Not The Fourth of July Either

Just days before the eightieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazis burned synagogues, looted Jewish homes and shops, and rounded up Jewish families for concentration camps, Tucker Carlson’s home was surrounded by Antifa thugs who pounded o...

November 4, 2018

Tuesday Will Tell: Blue Wave or Red Tsunami?

The polls are swinging wildly and voter enthusiasm seems higher than usual for midterms in recent memory or maybe ever. Vice President Mike Pence predicts the Republicans will hold both houses and I tend to agree with him. In fact, I have a ...

October 28, 2018

Crazy Haters and the Twisted Press

This Saturday eleven people were killed by a shooter in a Pittsburgh synagogue during morning services. The shooter appears to someone who not only hates Jews, but hates President Trump as well.  Julia Ioffe, a GQ correspondent, finds a ...

October 21, 2018

DNC: 'Top Sekret Plan for Midterms'

I was buying a gallon of kombucha tea at Whole Foods for a block party by my neighbors who fancy themselves upscale members of the "resistance."  I had hoped that this disgusting concoction would clear their heads and digesti...

October 14, 2018

Turkish Taffy

It seems to me the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, last seen in Istanbul, is Erdogan-brand Turkish taffy, a confection of sugary lies made to inflame Americans against the Saudis and aid the far more dangerous to our well-being mullahs of Iran....

October 7, 2018

Seedpods from the Garden of Stupid

Greg Gutfeld looks out on the sea of demonstrators against Brett Kavanaugh this week and characterized the display as "seedpods from the garden of stupid are blooming," and it's impossible not to agree.  The people who pl...

September 30, 2018

Life in a Gynocracy

The performance of women this week – from Senator Dianne Feinstein to Christine Blasey Ford to the howling mobs on Capitol Hill – made me seriously consider surgically altering my sex.  They are demanding special treatment ...

September 23, 2018

Is This Ford an Edsel?

There were two compelling stories this week: The Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme Court and the dueling tales respecting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The latter was brilliantly handled by this site’s owner, Thomas Lifs...

September 16, 2018

Democrats: 'Let's Do the Time Warp Again'

Looking back on the week's events, it occurs to me that the Democrats' new theme song should be "Let's Do the Time Warp Again" as they reprise the demagogic lies and smear tactics that once worked for them but are now failing fo...

September 9, 2018

Rough Beasts Slouching toward the White House

Pardon me for the reference to Yeats's poem "The Second Coming," but events this week reminded me of the poem and this line: "the worst are full of passionate intensity." On the one hand, we have the most effective pre...

September 2, 2018

Two Funerals and a Missing Cardinal

The Mueller investigation continues without hitting paydirt and further diminishing the reputation of the special counsel and Clintonite team.  I expect the president to shortly (maybe even this week) declassify the FISA (Foreign Intelligen...

August 26, 2018

Inside the Democrats' Café California

What do you do when your party has no viable policies acceptable to voters and no candidate to credibly lead them?  I wanted to find out, so I wandered over to the Café California, where Democrats never leave.  I'm old ...

August 19, 2018

The Story of Ohr and More

The two big stories this week are interrelated: the utter collapse of the Russian Collusion Fantasy and the conclusion of the Manafort case, a case of selective and apparently not very persuasive prosecution which flows from that fantasy. The Mana...

August 12, 2018

Exposed: the Deep State's Authorship and Publication of the Dossier

The Internet is full of information, some of it not well researched or considered, but every now and then a star appears on the horizon. To my mind the new star is Yaacov Apelbaum, who, using his considerable technical skills, has produced a masterpi...

August 5, 2018

Three-Card Mueller

Three-card Monte is a centuries-old con game in which the dealer and his shills trick the unsuspecting mark into betting on a rigged card game.  Only the dealer and his people know where the winning card is, though the mark believes he'...

July 29, 2018

Old Prosecutors Speaking Frankly

About once a year the Society of Old Prosecutors meets in a private libation spot the name of which I am honor bound not to disclose. We met to discuss the week’s events and, as long as I don’t name the participants, I was given permissio...

July 27, 2018

Trey Gowdy wants specifics from DOJ on the indictment of 12 Russians

In his role as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Trey Gowdy is pressing for details on an allegation made in the indictment issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against 12 Russian individuals accused of hacking the DNC and Hill...

July 22, 2018

To Democrats, the World Is Altgeld Gardens

To understand the left, you have to understand human nature. The  strategy of the left is to capitalize on unhappiness. Many, if not most people, are unhappy about something in their lives, and anything you do to better their situation will...

July 15, 2018

The Donald Does Europe

The president headed to Europe, tweeting all the way, like a modern cavalier on his way to do battle with the forces of corruption and bad governance: The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do busines...

July 8, 2018

Exalted Righteousness, Tawdry Methods Lead to Walk Away

Victor Davis Hanson, writing in American Greatness, surveys how history’s bad ideas inspire the “progressives.” He focuses on the plans for court packing, the resegregation of students in universities, the growing movement...

July 1, 2018

Is Trump the Most Fun President Ever?

If you’ve been fed up with the left’s hijacking of America, he certainly is fun -- because bit by bit he’s dismantling their power, supply train, and prestige. The shaky premises upon which they’ve controlled life in America f...

June 24, 2018

Kidtrina

The advantage of having to write a column at the end of the week is that usually within seven days, the latest leftist meme has been thoroughly debunked.  And so it is this week with such bunkum as claims that crying toddlers and children a...

June 17, 2018

Trampling Out the Vintage Where the Sour Grapes Are Stored

By any reasonable account, the historic meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, resulting in an agreement pledging to work toward a stable and enduring peace (over six decades after the Korean armistice was signed at Panmunjom) was an incred...

June 10, 2018

Secrets Travel Fast in DC

To paraphrase Napoleon's "secrets travel fast in Paris," secrets travel fast in D.C., as we learned this week with the indictment of James A. Wolfe, a 30-year veteran staffer of the Senate Intelligence Committee indicted for lying ...

June 3, 2018

Disney/ABC Should Merge with Starbucks and the NFL

Disney/ABC, Starbucks, and the NFL should merge, as they are this week’s prime example of how to drive away customers while engaged in absurd CEO virtue signaling.  ABC/Disney I never watch television. Its news is a waste of tim...

May 27, 2018

The Great Unmasking

I'm not talking about the unmasking of persons caught up in the Obama administration's illegal surveillance of everyone connected with Trump and his campaign.  For that, there's been more than sufficient evidence.  If ...

May 20, 2018

H.A.L.P.E.R. Spells Game Up for Obama's Spies

Last week I reported that Internet sleuths had winkled out the name of the spy/agent provocateur that Obama's intelligence officers had used on the Trump campaign. The New York Times and Washington Post, the Democrat...

May 15, 2018

The Office of Net Assessment paid Stefan Halper...why?

Stefan Halper, the dual U.S.-U.K. citizen who reached out to Trump campaign aides George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, is the international man of mystery when it comes to the origins of the FBI counterintelligence probe of the Trump campai...

May 13, 2018

The 'Election Collusion' Was between Our Intelligence Community and Britain

As I will explain, the widespread notion that Russia and Trump colluded to beat Hillary has long been demonstrable bunk. What seems more clear each day is that there was collusion between certain members of the U.S. and British intelligence communiti...

May 6, 2018

Judge Ellis Wants to See Mueller's Hunting License

My friend Tom Lipscomb, commenting on the newsworthy but welcome judicial challenge to the scope of the special counsel's power in the Manafort case in Virginia, says it reminds him of the Tom Lehrer song about a man and his hunting license....

April 29, 2018

Losing Patience with the Rollup of the Rogue Ruling Class

More information came to light this week about the extensive, illegal operations of Obama’s rogue bureaucratic corps. Like the Attorney General, the President, Professor Alan Dershowitz, Joe DiGenova, former Clinton pollster Mark Penn and milli...

April 22, 2018

The Discreet Charm of the First Amendment

My Facebook friend Lynn Chu, commenting on the remaindering of iconographies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as well as the nonstop and self-defeating promotion of James Comey's book: It's ironic that the more Comey talks the mo...

April 15, 2018

Trump's Red Line

A. Droogs in Blue Suits and Their Press Accomplices The Mueller Special Counsel appointment is predicated on the notion that President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to assure the defeat of Hillary Clinton -- a notion so lud...

April 8, 2018

Springing Forward

What seemed as though it was going to be a dull news week – punctuated by sometimes fanciful articles from "sources" about what Special Counsel Mueller was up to – ended with a plethora of important news late Friday.  ...

April 1, 2018

Faithless in Holy Week

While Jews and Christians celebrate Passover and Easter this week, it is increasingly obvious that large numbers of Americans are losing faith in our institutions and the people who have been running them. A bit of skepticism about government is...

March 27, 2018

Too many questionable decisions in the FBI's handling of Islamist informants

Now that it's been revealed that his father was an FBI informant, it's worth reviewing the history of the government's interactions with Omar Mateen before he shot up the Pulse nightclub.  Janet Shagam found this. From the...

March 25, 2018

Mainly McCabe

It appears on the record that Andrew McCabe, the FBI's recently fired deputy director, was a vicious man who used the power of his office to attack an FBI agent and General Michael Flynn, who rose to her defense.  He admitted under...

March 18, 2018

If You Are a Fed Official, Perjury Is 'Lacking Candor'

Friday night was a big night for news hawks.  And I'm not talking about the upset victory of the UMBC Retrievers over the they-should-have-been-50-points-ahead UVa Cavaliers.  Things like that sometimes happen when skill and determinati...

March 11, 2018

Amulets, White Noise, and Trump Reality

The left (I refuse to call regressives "progressives") is finding it hard to deal with a reality in which the markets are up, unemployment is down, household income is rising, ISIS is being crushed, and Kim Jong-un is being lassoed. Form...

March 4, 2018

Zhee Whiz

Looking for Hate in the Wrong Places Expanding on the growing institutional campaign to use gender-neutral pronouns, the University of Tennessee has confected up some new ones: Students are increasingly coming to college ill prepared to do ...

February 25, 2018

Exposing the Deep Rot in the Deep State

Once again, the president has pried behind the stucco of the Deep State's institutional edifice and shown that the pillars are termite-ridden.  Over at Instapundit, law professor Glenn Reynolds said it most succinctly: FL...

February 18, 2018

The Mueller Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Moves On

A. The Latest Indictments Shortly after Rod Rosenstein announced the latest series of indictments against Russians largely for posts on social media, the stock market rose and hit its highest weekly gain since 2013.  And for good reason ...

February 13, 2018

The Great Flynn Case Mystery

I have been wondering why, shortly after Judge Rudolph Contreras was (without explanation) recused from hearing the Michael Flynn case and Judge Emmet G. Sullivan took over, Special Counsel Robert Mueller agreed to postpone the sentencing u...

February 11, 2018

A Night at the Crying in Our Beer Salon

I couldn't take much more of the news.  The miscreants reportedly involved in the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign were fleeing the FBI; parties in the intelligence agencies were contradicting one another with s...

February 4, 2018

The 'Constitutional Crisis' the Fourth Estate Birthed

As the “Russian Collusion” story disintegrates, it takes with it any reason to rely on the Fourth Estate, which in large part assisted in Obama administration wrongdoing. It has proven to be a handmaiden of those who concocted a big lie t...

January 28, 2018

Toilets: The FBI, Department of Justice and the Guggenheim

The FBI and DOJ We’re still waiting for the release of the four-page memo prepared by Congressman Devin Nunes on the investigation into the FBI and DOJ’s skullduggery in the “collusion” investigation, which his colleagues w...

January 21, 2018

Wasting Away in Chuckschumerland

I must say I paid more attention this week to the continued unfolding of the Obama-Clinton "Russian collusion" poppycock, which seems to be coming to a certain closure with the investigative results made public and the consequent remov...

January 14, 2018

Confusing Dossier Chaff with Wheat

A hallmark of the Democrats – and the Clintons in particular – is that, with the aid of a complaisant press, they hide their wrongdoings with countless obfuscations and distractions so that the truth of consequential matters is burie...

January 7, 2018

Hellzapoppin: FBI, DOJ, and Clinton Share the Hot Seat

The new year began with a bang as the long stalled congressional investigations of the top FBI and Department of Justice officials and Fusion GPS begin to see daylight and the Clinton Foundation slush fund investigation resumed, this time with greate...

December 31, 2017

Looks like a Happy New Year for the Forces of Freedom

As I leave D.C. for a weekend in frosty New York City, thousands of people are taking to the streets of Iran to protest the corruption and mismanagement of the ruling mullahs.  The White House is not following the last pre...

December 24, 2017

The Democrats' Hard Candy Christmas

In the “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” the working girls sing that the shuttering of the brothel will mean a hard candy Christmas for them. The passage of the tax bill and the other steps taken this week by the administration which I w...

December 17, 2017

Midnight at the Democracy Dies in Darkness Café

The Democracy Dies in Darkness Café is located conveniently near the Capitol, the Hill and the FBI headquarters. It’s open all night and I stopped in for a late-night coffee with my friend, a fiction novelist who was depressed. “I ...

December 10, 2017

Trump's Decidedly Not Hitler

The ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu observed, “an army without its baggage train is lost; without provisions it is lost; without bases of supply it is lost.” The Left’s supply train -- apart from a number of ri...

December 3, 2017

Feminism, the Fake Indian, the Tragic State of the FBI, and the Flynn Flam

This has been a busy week and a sad one for the neo-feminists, the media, and #NeverTrump conservatives. It was a good one for those who believe we have for too long allowed a bunch of self-selected ninnies to drive both the news and the government. ...

November 19, 2017

A Fair Hearing by a Jury of His Pervs

There’s a lot going on in DC this week, but it seems to be overshadowed by Weinstein case creep -- the penchant for women coming out of the woodwork to accuse high profile men of sexual misbehavior, much of it from decades earlier and most of i...

November 12, 2017

You Have to Hand It to Hillary – the Girl Can Smear

With the help of the DNC (broke, but forking over millions to this end), Hillary pulled off what Kimberly Strassel rightly calls “one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. political history." She hired a smear outfit (Fusion, headed by Glenn Simp...

November 5, 2017

Why Is the Mueller Investigation like the Schleswig-Holstein Question?

I’ve been muddling through the week’s events respecting the special counsel’s activities, trying to provide a clearer road map. And even harder -- trying to do it in a way that doesn’t make it seem more complicated than need b...

October 29, 2017

Implausible Deniability

The aftermath of the 2016 election has revealed the criminality of the Democrats, the perfidy of the Deep State, the corruption of the press, and the bought and paid for motives of the scribblers in the conservative pundit class. And Trump won despit...

October 23, 2017

Rosenstein's way to bury Uranium One before the election?

Did Rod Rosenstein concoct a scheme to let Uranium One's briber, Vadim Mirkerin, off the hook?  Andrew McCarthy seems to think so: Around the time President Obama came to power, the Russian official in charge of Tenam [parent of Ro...

October 22, 2017

Secrets and Lies: Three Russian Stories

The major developing stories this week have been so scantily and poorly covered in the mainstream press that you may want an easy primer. To fully understand it you have to look at alternative media, because just as Harvey Weinstein counted on compli...

October 15, 2017

Take Back Your Diamonds, Take Back Your Pearls, What Makes You Think I Was One of Weinstein's Girls?

Jimmy Kimmel says he’s laid off the Harvey Weinstein jokes because he’s not the “moral conscience of America” (there’s also a video of him asking young women to guess what’s in his crotch. And suggesting they feel ...

October 8, 2017

Take Back Your Brains

Today, with ample evidence that young students are no longer taught critical thinking in school, and a tsunami of fake news, we have more reason than ever to take back our brains and critically analyze what we are told is happening and why. This week...

October 1, 2017

Everything (That's Not Sexism) Is Racism

For some time now, Democrats have played the identity politics game, revving up grievances -- real or imagined -- of different ethnic groups with the only commonality a dismissive prejudice against middle-class white men. This divisive disu...

September 24, 2017

It Was the Deep State that Colluded with the Russians, Not Trump

As more and more leaks about the ongoing “Russian collusion” witch hunt by Robert Mueller appear in print, it seems to me that if Russia had been trying to erode our faith in our institutions, the Deep State is accomplishing what Russia f...

September 17, 2017

Hillary, America's Miss Havisham

This week, the sorest loser since Dickens’ Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Hillary Clinton, began peddling her latest book What Happened. (No question mark at the end because it’s didactic, not really an inquiry. She knows the answer...

September 10, 2017

Hurricanes Irma and Trump

As I write this, Hurricane Irma is edging ever closer to Florida, where what was probably the largest evacuation in U.S. history has taken place. In Washington, the President has tipped over the Republican establishment’s misplayed chessbo...

September 3, 2017

Toxic Femininity Hides Jealousy and Corruption

The left has been pushing the notion that masculinity is “toxic” and must be rooted out. Classes of college students are propagandized to this point of view, often mandatorily imposed. “Feminist“ speakers and books for young g...

August 27, 2017

Crying Wolf in a Crowded Theater

This week former Speaker of the House California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi said, “The Constitution does not say that a person can yell wolf in a crowded theater.” For the first time, she said something with which I find no fault. I scour...

August 20, 2017

Terry and the (Antifa) Bandits Will Inherit the Wind

As the “Russian Collusion” excuse for Hillary’s loss fails for want of evidence (and common sense) as did her “misogyny” claim before it, Hillary’s pal, Governor Terry McAuliffe, obviously thought he had another ke...

August 13, 2017

Women's Week: Equal Opportunity (Even for Corruption)

The week started off with a bang when a Google employee dared to say there were reasons why we should have an open discussion on the goals of diversity of employment and equal hiring and promotion outcomes. It ended with a clear refutation of the arg...

August 6, 2017

A Consequential President in the Time of Pygmies

Once when my son was about 6 or 7 I took him to the circus with some of his friends. The acrobats, clowns, and lion tamer in the center ring enthralled the other kids. Not him. He turned to me and said, “How do you think they make money produci...

July 30, 2017

'Collusion' Collapses: Dem Congressional Espionage Ring Takes Center Ring

In truth, the Russians “colluded” through GPS Fusion to harm, not help, Trump and the evidence of that is coming out. It’s time to repeal the Special Counsel law which has now been used twice to hamstring two Republican Presidents, ...

July 16, 2017

The Russian Collusion Story: The Acme of Fake News

Richard Fernandez is one of the most brilliant authors on the Internet. This week he wrote: Conventional wisdom posits the chief challenges facing the post-Cold War World are Global Warming and the decline of international institutions. But mayb...

July 9, 2017

Trump Grinds the G20, the Bureaucratic Underground, and CNN into Hamburger

This was a week of startling contrasts. The President reasserted (against a decades-long leftist attack on it) the significant achievements of Western civilization and the need to vigorously defend it. His speech prefaced the G20 meeting in Hamburg, ...

July 2, 2017

Like Haman Being Hanged on the Scaffold He Built for Mordechai

An online friend watching the week’s events observes that they remind her of the villain Haman being hanged on the very scaffold he had built to hang Mordechai in the biblical Book of Esther. That sums up the week in which the federal investiga...

June 25, 2017

The DNC Scams the Suckers and Contradicts the Feds on 'Hacking'

Daniel Greenfield reveals why there’s no mystery behind the Democratic loss in Georgia, while Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and the George Washington University Profiling Project Deepen the Mystery of the “Russian Hacking” narrative...

June 18, 2017

How the Deep State Built Its Field of Dreams

This week, we learned that former FBI Director James Comey will probably be a witness in any proceeding brought by his close friend Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Rod Rosenstein, a former Mueller staffer, appointed Mueller because Attorney General J...

June 12, 2017

Comey and Mueller have a history as a Deep State tag team

In my Sunday column, I wrote of the similarity of the Comey-Mueller investigation of purported "Russian collusion" with the Trump campaign to the confected search for who leaked Valerie Plame's name.  This was a scheme ag...

June 11, 2017

Comey Unmasked

If your head is swimming with the accounts of “Russian Collusion” with the Trump campaign, a cock and bull story confected by Hillary Clinton to explain her loss and to undermine the President, allow me to simplify it now that James Comey...

June 4, 2017

Drawing Back the Curtain on the World's Political Classes

This week, President Trump showed once again that, unlike his predecessor, he reads the fine print, and is not swayed by the unscientific blather of the internationalists who use fine talk to cover power-grabbing, anti-Americanism, and corruption....

May 28, 2017

Democrats and Islamists Share the Edge of the Cliff

This has been such a newsworthy week that I will deal only briefly with a few items which normally would be column-worthy so I can concentrate on the blow to the Democrats and Jihadists by the President this week and the revelations about the Obama a...

May 21, 2017

The Democrats Do the Hokey-Pokey

Do you remember the nursery school song about the Hokey Pokey? This week, this part of the song kept running though my head: You put your left foot in, You put your left foot out, You put your left foot in and shake it all about. You do...

May 14, 2017

Russian Hacking and Collusion: Put the Cards on the Table

The  notion that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump was a John Brennan/James Clapper confection created in an unorthodox way, and defied logic, given that Hillary and her associates had far closer connections to...

May 7, 2017

Hillary: The Girl Can’t Take It

The Hillary Clinton whinefest continues. I had hoped that like the falling out of favor Kardashians and Caitlyn (aka Bruce) Jenner, she’d just start fading out of an audience, but she feels compelled to keep complaining about all those who cost...

April 30, 2017

Smashing the Patriarchy (and Asian Salad)

The Handmaiden’s Tale: The Theocratic Patriarchy is Here Deep inside the bowels of the Democratic Party there must be what an online friend “Miss Marple” calls the Department of Scary Stories. This mysterious department regularly...

April 23, 2017

So Much Marching Going On

Today is the scheduled date for the French election. Darned if I or anyone can say how it will turn out, though I think our President is right -- the attack on three policemen on the Champs-Élysées would certainly seem to boost the chan...

April 16, 2017

In Her Majesty’s Disservice

My focus this week is on the “wiretapping” (electronic interception of communications, if you insist) of President Trump and his associates during the campaign. It seems to me this story is rapidly unfolding -- if only mostly in overseas ...

April 10, 2017

She's always true to the Democrats in her fashion

It seems that everything in the Washington Post is designed to advance Democrats and deride and embarrass their opponents.  The nastiest examples of these are the work of Robin Givhan, the paper's fashion editor.  Her cruelt...

April 9, 2017

Abu Ivanka and the Democrats’ Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Week

The week began with the Democrats’ Quixotic and inexplicably stupid effort to block the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and went on to heat up the fevered brows of those who think the Russians colluded with the president. It e...

April 2, 2017

Russia? No, the Pony in the Manure Is the Corruption of our Intelligence Officials

There’s so much in print and online about the House and Senate intelligence committees and Russian “collusion” with Trump that I can’t blame people with real lives to lead who just throw their hands up and garden or go hiking....

March 26, 2017

Obama Did Wiretap Trump: It’s Like Putting Together a Russian Nesting Doll

Matryoshkas are Russian nesting dolls. Inside each doll are several others, smaller but identically shaped characters, until you get to the smallest one inside. Studying what we have learned of the timeline -- and we still don’t have the entire...

March 19, 2017

President Trump’s Week: Wiretaps, Media, and Judicial Skullduggery

While the Democrats have abandoned the counterfactual claim that the Russians interfered with the election to help President Trump into office, Trump’s claim that U.S. officials surveilled him still has legs. Eli Lake reports:  ...

March 12, 2017

DC Secrets and Lies

A quick look at Obama’s history reveals he has always had the inclination, motivation, and opportunity to snoop on and disseminate information about his political opponents. It’s how he made his political career: getting his opponents...

March 5, 2017

Trump: A Master Tactician Serves Filet After the Russian Soufflé Collapses

How many people, knowing they have their opponents caught red-handed in what now appears to be the worst political scandal of our lifetime, would wait until those people and their press cohorts fell on their faces before acting on it? Not many, I thi...

February 26, 2017

Slime and the Slimers

“There’s no Elmer’s Glue to be found anywhere on Oahu,” my eleven-year-old granddaughter announced dramatically as we got into the car at Honolulu airport last Sunday. Still groggy from the ten-hour flight across so many time ...

February 19, 2017

Moon Wars

Many less than delectable looking bare bottoms were aimed at the Trump towers in recent days. In the White House briefing room, the media tried to follow suit and got a lesson in how Trump trumps haters. For a full week, the press stories -- funny...

February 15, 2017

How Trump won the presidency

  If you want to know how a man with a lifetime of winning ways in business and media won the presidency despite 1. being outspent 2:1 2. ninety-percent negative press coverage 3. losing every debate 4. two divorces 5. fou...

February 12, 2017

Troops Await Deployment Orders from Ninth Circuit

Apart from the unremitting attacks on Republicans by paid mobs and Democratic congressmen desperate to help the base forget they lost big time and will continue to do so in 2018, the big news this week has to be the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal...

February 5, 2017

The Press Eunuchs Rattling Their Cups

In Imperial China, the palace eunuchs were given cups (paos) in which their external genitalia were preserved in alcohol. Watching the once docile and obedient to Obama press continuing their rage at the new order reminded my friend Thomas Lipscomb o...

January 29, 2017

Reaping the Whirlwind

The first full week of President Trump’s term has seen Hosea’s “They who have sown the wind, shall reap the whirlwind” made manifest to his political opponents, the federal bureaucracy and the terrorist sponsors of the Mi...

January 22, 2017

Requiem for a Lightweight

As rioters trashed streets, smashed and burned property and attacked police just blocks from the securely cordoned off National Mall, the Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump took place.  He gave a bold speech, reiterating his campaign prom...

January 15, 2017

The Trump Dossier Puts the Deep State in Deep Doo-Doo

Mr. Garfinkle of Garfinkle’s New Method Hebrew School in Milwaukee used to frequently echo King Solomon’s admonition; “There’s nothing new under the sun.” I was reminded of that this week when the rapidly unfolding ...

January 8, 2017

Making (Me and) America Sick Again

Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic party cohorts are flailing against the likelihood that Obama’s signature screw-up, ObamaCare, will be repealed. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams notes, apparently on the advice of the satire site, the Onio...

January 1, 2017

Obama: A Political Corpse

My mother’s almost ninety-eight years old. While in relatively good physical and mental health considering her advanced age, she has in recent years developed a very strong denial of death and its effects, infusing a level of irrationality to s...

December 25, 2016

Miracle on East 42nd Street

In the Jewish calendar it’s the year 5777. That’s how long we date our history. The United Nations has lasted a mere seventy-one years (arithmetic corrected) Founded to promote world peace, it has devolved into a corrupt, anti-democratic,...

December 18, 2016

All the News the Editors See Fit to Print

Decades ago while in high school I read John Dos Passos’s USA. It was published in the 1930s before television or cable news. But it presaged well the strange mixture of important and ridiculous news we receive today. News today is largely fash...

December 11, 2016

Big, Very Rich and Dangerous: Time to Rein in Private Charitable Foundations

A few years ago, Mark Steyn sagely observed, “In America today, few activities are as profitable as a ‘nonprofit.’”  Nothing warrants changing that assessment now. President-elect Trump has a lot on his plate if he plans ...

December 4, 2016

I’m Fighting the Left’s Culture War One Bagel at a Time

At first I dismissed the Democrats' subsidized street riots and vandalism, moronic election recount demands, and perfervid attacks on Trump and his supporters in the press as a demonstration of their juvenile, narcissistic refusal to accept defea...

December 4, 2016

The new age of propaganda

The video embedded below of a TED talk by Sharyl Attkisson deserves to be viewed by American Thinker readers. In it she discusses astroturf groups, the fake grass roots movements funded from above in order to influence media coverage of a political i...

November 20, 2016

Let’s Talk Turkey: Free Speech in an Autocratic Era

A. The Alternate Universe of the Europeans and the Domestic Academies In increasingly lawless Europe they are criminalizing objections to the Western-Civilization-destroying, really homicidal immigration policies and intellectually bankrupt econom...

November 13, 2016

CTRL-L: The Left Loses Its Unremitting Fight for Control

My friend Professor Charles Lipson has suggested this title -- CTRL-L as an alternate to Alt-R not only because it’s a witty rejoinder to the tag, but as well because it accurately describes the left, a faction always seeking control over ...

November 8, 2016

Scooter Libby reinstated to the bar

The Daily Caller reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has reinstated Lewis (Scooter) Libby’s license to practice law, eight years after he was disbarred as a result of his conviction in connection with what became...

November 6, 2016

Drums Along the Potomac

Watching the events of last week online I’m reminded of Drums Along the Mohawk a story about a couple in New York’s Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. The New York frontier settlers fought off Tories, Indians, the Briti...

October 30, 2016

The Clintons: Making Politics Sexy Again

You have to hand it to the Clintons. They bring sex into politics over and again -- and not in the lame fake way people like Gloria Allred bring up accusers against Republican candidates, but instead with real evidence that cannot be dismissed so eas...

October 23, 2016

The Incestuous Left and Those Who Provide Cover for them

As the election nears, the media hype, designed to affect the results, demoralize and demonize Trump and his supporters and confirm the bias of its elite coastal consumers, continues. Saturday’s opinion-posing-as-news lead in the Washington Pos...

October 16, 2016

Man the Vote: It’s the Least You Can Do for Your Country

  Earlier this week Nate Silver reported that if only men voted Trump’s already won. That is, to say women are voting in greater percentages for Clinton and men for Trump. Here’s his astonishing chart:  “If men...

October 9, 2016

The Republican White Togas at Work for the Queen of Sleaze

Years ago I wrote of my contempt for the white togaed squishes of the right who flee the grounds of the forum when jackals attack their allies in order to keep their garb free of stain. This week in the lead up to the second presidential debate tonig...

October 2, 2016

The Fracas From Caracas

Sandra Fluke's plaintive moaning (to advance the Democrats' plan to shove Obamacare down our gullets) about the difficulties college girls have trying to pay for contraceptives ran its course. Indeed, Obamacare itself is on its last legs...

September 25, 2016

The Mark of Soros: Charlotte, North Carolina

Tomorrow night we’ll see the much-awaited matchup one-on-one “debate” between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Her staff is working with the debate commission to erase height and stamina advantages of her opponent. They asked that ...

September 18, 2016

Technology Breaches the Media Maginot Line

Last week Hillary attacked Trump supporters as “deplorables”, accusing half of them of them of being racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic. In this she was following Obama’s disparaging of millions of voters. As Victor Davis ...

September 11, 2016

It’s Debatable

In a preview of the forthcoming “presidential debate,” Hillary and Trump participated in a forum on veterans affairs moderated by Matt Lauer. From the attacks on Lauer by his news colleagues, you’d have thought that despite the fact...

September 4, 2016

Maybe Hillary Should Have Studied Jiu-Jitsu instead of Yoga

Among Hillary’s most preposterous, unsustainable lies about her emails was that she deleted only personal emails referencing wedding plans and yoga classes. If there were a grain of truth to the notion of Hillary practicing yoga I’d argue...

August 28, 2016

Hillary Gets (More Than) a Little Help from Her Media Friends

Before the Internet when I wanted to keep track of a story, I had to clip articles and file them, often establishing over the years how much in error the press accounts had been. Now, a few clicks and there we have what we had remembered but not save...

August 21, 2016

Don’t Be like the Man Who Married His Mother-in-Law

There’s a strange story out of India in the Daily Mail about a man who divorced his wife to marry his mother-in-law and now regrets his decision and is trying to undo it. In a way this reminds me of conservatives whose preferred candidates ...

August 14, 2016

Robin Hood in Reverse: The Clinton Foundation under Fed Scrutiny

This week, the Daily Caller News Foundation’s star reporter Richard Pollock revealed that  Multiple FBI investigations are underway involving potential corruption charges against the Clinton Foundation, according to a former seni...

August 9, 2016

Today's big story--Orlando shooter's father endorses Hillary

  And was it campaign sabotage or idiocy that had him sitting behind Hillary in Kissimee?  Campaign workers always screen those on the stage. Video:  ...

August 7, 2016

The Press and Pollsters Are Putting Too Much Cornstarch in the Cherry Pie

That’s the short take of my friend Thomas Lipscomb and I have to agree with him. Contrary to most of the media-sponsored polls (The LA Times stands alone now calling the race a tie at last view), I agree with this one: Trump will draw in mil...

August 1, 2016

Who is Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen US soldier?

Khizr Khan is the father of a U.S. soldier who died in Iraq, who spoke poignantly of the loss of his son and then used that platform to attack Donald Trump.  On Sunday he tweeted further disparaging remarks about Melania. Google shows this fo...

July 31, 2016

Bridging Troubled Waters: The Estrogen Convention

Every now and then for reasons no one can figure out someone sends me audio tapes and emails meant for Wikileaks. I just got a new batch and I thought you’d like them. The first series which I got on Monday seems to be from the Convention Pl...

July 24, 2016

It Was a 'Dark and Stormy Night' (for Cruz, the Media, and Hillary)

Cruz’s “Conscience” Cruz played dog in the manger at the Republican convention. Someone should have whispered in his ear these words from Omar Khayyam: " “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: ...

July 3, 2016

Maybe It's Time to Stop 'Thinking about Tomorrow'

With the investigation into his wife’s wrongdoings while Secretary of State drawing to a close (she was questioned yesterday for 3½ hours by the FBI, which usually is done at the end of an investigation) Bill Clinton hopped aboard a...

June 28, 2016

The McDonnell case: Another study in criminal law as Democrat partisan warfare

Former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell, by most accounts a popular governor, had a good day yesterday when a unanimous Supreme Court overturned his conviction on “honest services” fraud and Hobbs Act extortion charges. The case was ...

June 26, 2016

On Brexit: Just Call Me Cassandra

On June 12, despite polls indicating the Brexit referendum was too close to call, I predicted it would pass. I concluded by observing, “One thing is clear -- both the EU officialdom and ours are wiser than voters only in their ability to feathe...

June 19, 2016

A Modest Proposal for Improving U.S. Intelligence Operations

See Something, Say Something and Law enforcement Will Do Nothing A number of years ago, a friend and I were discussing how to improve our intelligence operations which to outsiders seem clumsy, not up to the task and subject to numerous damaging ...

June 13, 2016

Why Omar Mateen’s obvious danger signs were missed and he was allowed to purchase weapons

We know Orlando jihad terrorist Omar Mateen worked for a DHS contractor – the people supposed to guard our airports, federal buildings, and nuclear facilities.  We know that in 2013 and 2014, his co-workers reported to his employer that he...

June 12, 2016

Brexit and DCexit: British and U.S. Voters Put a Halt to Elitism?

Here and in Britain voters are torn as to whether or not to jump off the globalization, open borders bandwagon and government by unelected bureaucrats or voting to retake sovereignty and re-establish free markets. The polls show the sentiments for re...

June 5, 2016

America’s Biggest Losers: The Right’s Commentariat

It’s looking to be a long hot summer, full of violence against Trump supporters, exposure of Clinton wrongdoing, and continued loathsome behavior by the president, academics, and the media. To its shame, at this crucial juncture many of th...

May 22, 2016

A Part-time Law Lecturer vs. the Constitution

It’s a lie often repeated that Obama was a Constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago law school. In fact, he was just a lecturer there for a short time who never much impressed his colleagues. Watching this administration in act...

May 15, 2016

Never Say Never and Obama’s Waterloo

Hillary Clinton (pending the conclusion of the criminal investigations about her emails and the Clinton Foundation which linger on) may well be the Democratic nominee. As it is perfectly clear that Trump will win the Republican nomination the #NeverT...

May 15, 2016

States fighting Obama adminstration bathroom bullying

Following on my article today, in which I predicted that opposition to the Administration's bathroom decrees would grow, RedState reports 12 states are now fighting this White House overreaching: These 12 States Are Fighting Back Against Obama...

May 10, 2016

The greatest NY Times correction in years

"Correction: May 10, 2016 [NY Times] Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about a theological battle being fought by Muslim imams and scholars in the West against the Islamic State misstated the Snapchat handle used by Suhaib Webb,...

May 8, 2016

An Epiphany on the Road to Tehran

The internet was abuzz following a story by David Samuels on the jerk who admitted he manipulated the truth to get the president’s absurd deal with Iran accepted (accepted, that is, by the Democrats in Congress who blocked a Republican resoluti...

May 7, 2016

Worried about high unfavorability ratings for Trump?

Since 1984, the candidate with the higher strong unfavorable rating usually has won, according to Asche Schow of the Washignton Examiner.  Ronald Reagan was more strongly disliked than Walter Mondale; George H. W. Bush was more strongly disliked...

May 1, 2016

Pundit of the Week: Rich Danker

I read hundreds of articles and posts every week in an effort to distill for you those that I think are the most informative. This week, there is only one clear choice, the memo Rich Danker (Lone Star Committee Founder) wrote and which William Kristo...

April 24, 2016

Smug’s The Word

As distasteful as the 2016 political campaigns have been, some on the right and left have finally caught on to one important thing: Big Thinkers have treated most of their constituents with contempt. This is true mostly of the left, but the righ...

April 17, 2016

When You’ve Lost Your Leverage (Saudis On The Ropes)

My online friend Lisa Schiffrin notes that “As we know from personal relationships, the less you care about your relationship with someone, the more leverage you have.” That’s the lesson, it seems, the Saudis are about to learn. ...

April 10, 2016

The War On Women Moves to Restrooms

To accommodate the perceived wishes of a very small number of people, the federal government and many states are placing women and girls at risk of rape and assault in restrooms. There are about a mere 700,000 transgender individuals in the U.S.,...

April 3, 2016

If This Is Tuesday It Must Be Wisconsin

This Tuesday, America’s long-running primary contest goes to Wisconsin. Per most of the media coverage, Sanders will beat Clinton and Cruz will beat Trump, in the latter case derailing his victory march through the states. Sanders may well win ...

March 27, 2016

Havana Obama and the Soppy Greeting Card War

Is it any wonder that citizens in the U.S. and Western Europe are increasingly viewing their political leaders with disdain and are seeking to oust them? Is it any wonder that Americans now focused on the nature of the threats, question the outdated ...

March 20, 2016

The He-Man Trump Haters Club

Watching the efforts to stop Donald Trump run through the primaries to the convention this week, I was reminded of the Our Gang “He-Man Woman Haters Club” where Spanky and his friends embark on a futile effort to keep the members from eve...

March 13, 2016

Trump Storm Troopers Mob Sanders Rally: Force Cancellation

Of course, this didn’t happen. The opposite is true, but you can be sure that would be the headline had conservative opponents of Sanders prevented his rally in suburban Chicago from taking place because of mob threats of violence. This makes...

March 13, 2016

Clarice Feldman reports on the DC GOP Primary

The DC primary was scheduled for June 15, but the RNC said that was too late for their rules so the DC Republican party rented rooms in a DC hotel to hold balloting for president and delegates to the convention. Polling was scheduled for 2-4 PM, alth...

March 6, 2016

Dynasty 2016 Episode 2: Romney v. Trump

As you will recall, Episode 1 of "Dynasty 2016" featured Jeb Bush, the heir apparent of many of the RNC and donor class. He ran on amnesty, support for Common Core, and right of dynastic rule and promptly and utterly failed to persuade an a...

February 29, 2016

Trump Being Targeted for not Repudiating a Non-endorsement

Sunday, Donald Trump, who has always dismissed David Duke and his ilk, was asked a question about Duke's endorsement of him and he said he needed to check on that. "I have to look at the group. I don't know what group you're talking ...

February 28, 2016

Cage Match USA: The State of the Election

This week the presidential election campaign is turning into an ugly cage match. The Internet is full of charges and countercharges, many of which are demonstrably false and certainly posted by paid operatives. You can cluck and frown but there...

February 21, 2016

Good Fences

Robert Frost wrote in “Mending Walls” that “good fences make good neighbors”, and this week it appears that people in this country and the UK are chock full of citizens who agree. As I explain, the immigration crises both here...

February 14, 2016

Nipping at the Heels of the Administrative State

Despite the fact that the Constitution sets forth three branches of government, each with discrete powers and limitations -- the executive, legislative, and judicial -- various agencies, boards, bureaus, departments that today make up the federal adm...

February 7, 2016

You Cannot Support Israel’s Existence (and Ours) and Vote Democratic This Election

The Iowa Democratic caucus which I’ve already described as akin to the Marxist Zimbabwe Farmers-workers confabs is over, and it appears -- as Mark Steyn ably notes -- “almost certain” that Hillary Clinton did not win it.  ...

January 31, 2016

Nobody Knows: The State of the Primaries and the Nation

Largely because of the unconventional nature of the Trump campaign and the increasingly hard to ignore accounts of Hillary’s email and Clinton Foundation pay-to-play wrongdoing, it is increasingly difficult to predict the outcome of this year...

January 24, 2016

A Soft Civil War

Washington, D.C. is blanketed in inches of soft powdery snow. The winds are mild and the roads unplowed. For a short time, we are bathed in silence as traffic, work, and commerce stalls. Once upon a time the Army was in charge of keeping the streets ...

January 17, 2016

'Peddling Fiction' Or Repealing Math?

No sooner had the president charged that those who claimed the economy is in trouble were “peddling fiction” than U.S. stocks posted their worst ten-day start to a year in history. Walmart announced it was closing 154 stores in the U...

January 10, 2016

The President Who Fell From Grace

As easily as he slid into office with no qualifications for the post, Obama is falling from grace with fate and the voters. His dishonesty and incompetence are too patent. This week, no sooner had his relatively sparsely viewed presser ended and his ...

January 3, 2016

Trumping Hillary

You must concede this about Donald Trump: He does keep his enemies and opponents rocking back on their heels. He does it, as the Wall street Journal’s sage James Taranto, observes, by following the very Saul Alinsky tactics that so impressed Hi...

December 27, 2015

Some Post-Christmas Thoughts

My mother is 96 years old. About 2 years ago it was clear her osteoarthritis was preventing her from continuing to live independently in South Florida, and we helped move her to Ring House in Rockville, Maryland, which is near to us. Ring House,...

December 20, 2015

The American Dream: Look for it in Jackson Hole, China

Over the years the American longing to form their own communities free from European -style clusters of apartment renters shuffling to and from work on state-devised public transport lines, confined to nearby schools and shops, has been possible beca...

December 13, 2015

Funny...I don't think the New York Times has covered this

In its account of the collapse of Health Republic of New York, the largest of the Obamacare health care co-ops, the   New York Times concentrated on the people who'd lost their insurance and blamed the Republicans: If anyone could ma...

December 13, 2015

Obama Is Not Who We Are

The Washington Free Beacon has put together a video montage of Obama using his catchphrase, “it’s not who we are” 46 times. The video editor, David Rutz, observes: Not unlike his warning to political opponents that they may ...

December 6, 2015

Rebuking Obama's Folly

Once upon a time not so long there were American men like Master Sgt. Roddie Edwards who, while a prisoner in a German POW camp, refused, even with a loaded gun pointed at his head to designate which of his fellow prisoners were Jewish (and therefore...

December 4, 2015

Hillary: Max is a mitzvah

The State Department’s records include a September 14, 2012 email from Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal to Clinton in which Blumenthal passes along a controversial article by his son Max and attacks then-Republican presidential ...

November 22, 2015

A Busy Week for CDC (Center for Dumb Control)

URGENT WARNING;THE CDC (CENTER FOR DUMB CONTROL) IS ISSUING THIS WARNING : BEWARE OF THE RAPIDLY SPREADING DUMB VIRUS.   THE CDC HAS NOTED THAT DUMB IS SPREADING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE,THE NATION’S CAMPUSES, AND ...

November 15, 2015

Banquet of Consequences

Robert Louis Stevenson penned, “Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.” This week Europe’s leaders and America’s academics are being served theirs -- a banquet set in motion by self-destru...

November 8, 2015

Fools Rush In (When will They Ever Learn?)

Once again the corporate media tars a conservative candidate and those who should know better rush in without waiting at least 24 hours for the half-truths and lies to unravel. This week the target was Dr. Ben Carson and the reason and charge were pa...

November 1, 2015

CNBC: Media Matter Less

This was a great week for those of us who consider the corporate media to be underinformed, partisan, and overly impressed with their own power to shape political affairs. This week CNBC’s wretched conduct of the Republican debate hurt the pock...

October 25, 2015

Do Hillary's Lies Matter?

It is of little concern to me that the corporate media says Hillary aced the Benghazi hearing, To me she didn’t, and I care more that the public is being inured to public officials’ lying. Were I running for president against her I’...

October 18, 2015

The Democrats Cross Epees

Well, this was the week of the late but heavily hyped Democratic debate in which a bunch of old white people mostly touting long-failed 1930s policies were asked softball questions designed to make Hillary look good and the panel civil. Her challenge...

October 11, 2015

The Journalists' Handbook: How to Write any Story Without Working At It

At ricochet, Jon Gabriel published a brilliant “Media Narrative Chart for reporting violent crime”. This handy chart helps journalists frame the narrative of each crime, “not to tell the audience what happened, but to expand the ...

October 4, 2015

No Coherent Identityitis

There’s an illness sweeping the country and even the White House has succumbed to it: No coherent identityitis. In the way that the media highlights and frames mass shootings as a sort of ghoulish entertainment and ignores far more serious e...

September 27, 2015

How Long Before Hillary Garbed in a Bathrobe Starts Wandering the Streets of Chappaqua?

Some years ago, in an effort to avoid prosecution, Mafia boss Vincent “Vinnie the Chin” Gigante donned a bathrobe and wandered the streets of Little Italy and Greenwich Village posing as a demented old man. I wonder if Hillary Clinto...

September 20, 2015

Pulling Our Strings and Poking Us in the Eyes: The Ahmed Mohamed Fairy Tale

There can be no doubt that Americans are fortunate enough to be governed by a brilliantly conceived Constitution drafted by remarkable, intelligent men. Unfortunately, too many Americans are utterly ignorant of what it contains and how it impacts on ...

September 19, 2015

General Dahl in Wonderland: no jail for Bergdahl 'appropriate'

Assuming this account by the New York Times is correct, I find it incomprehensible, a blow to military discipline and troop cohesion. The general who led the Army’s investigation into the disappearance of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from his remot...

September 13, 2015

Bag This Tax

Normally, I write about matters which have national import, but bear with me as I discuss the Washington, D.C. tax on plastic bags. I chose it because I think it is a perfect illustration of how foolishly government behaves. If one wanted a better ex...

September 6, 2015

Western Civilization: The Final Frontier?

Remember the emotional gambits used to sell ObamaCare? I do. I still laugh at the nonsensical stupidity of some of them -- like appealing to our heartstrings with examples like the woman who claimed she’d been forced to wear her dead siste...

August 30, 2015

Obama, Bush, Clinton: Secret Agents

I have thought for a while that a case could be made that Obama was really a secret conservative, showing America what would happen if the “progressive” agenda were ever put in place and thereby weaning us off it forever. My friend Noemie...

August 25, 2015

Where did 'political correctness' originate?

The prolific Michael Walsh  has just released a book, The Devil's Pleasure Palace, in which he sheds light on the background of political correctness, which I imagine most of our readers find as offensive as I do.  He traces,...

August 16, 2015

You <em>Don't</em> Have (Hillary's) Mail

Before the Kardashians, reality soap opera fans had the Clintons. If you are too young to have lived through or too old to remember clearly those years, Thomas Lifson has a neat synopsis of As the Clinton World Turns,  This week’s episo...

August 9, 2015

Faith v. Facts on Planned Parenthood

I grew up believing that our intellectual gifts must be used -- that the universe about us is complex but operates on consistent and observable rules that by study and testing we might understand and put to best ends. It seems that this is now an ...

August 2, 2015

Why the Democrats Should Dump Hillary and Nominate Trump

Friday brought an end to a horrific thunderstorm here and for Hillary and the Democratic Party, some telling legal orders. In the capital, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued the following order against Hillary: As agreed by ...

July 26, 2015

Three for the Money: Carly, Walker, and Cruz

This week, three of the Republican candidates showed their mettle and had very good weeks. Majority leader Mitch McConnell and both the Democrat’s “inevitable” Hillary Clinton and the president’s standings sagged. Carl...

July 19, 2015

Tyrants and Snowflakes

At a time when government and institutional overreach has never seemed more extreme, tyrants at the helm are using every means at their disposal to stifle free speech. Elsewhere -- on alternative media and in universities, in particular -- speech is ...

July 12, 2015

Obama's Killing the Left: Let's Help Him

I have enormous respect for Victor Davis Hanson and read with great interest his account this week that the people are getting fed up with the liberal elites.  Amid all this leftish high-fiving about court decisions and executive orders, we...

July 5, 2015

The Penumbra School of Law

I was watching in horror a series of Mark Dice videos of interviews in which passersby signed petitions to repeal the First Amendment to shut down criticism of Obama because it was all clearly racist. petitioned to repeal the Bill of Rights; revealed...

July 3, 2015

Hillary's classified document abuse far worse than what got John Deutch fired as CIA head and General Petraeus to enter a plea deal

Professor Charles Lipson draws some interesting comparisons between the treatment former CIA chief John Deutch and General Petraeus received for mishandling classified materials and what we know about Hillary Clinton's handling of such material: ...

June 14, 2015

Self-Invention Jumps the Shark


To a certain extent the American dream -- the notion that working hard in a land with few barriers to advancement makes it possible for each of us to achieve success -- carries with it an element of self-invention.        ...

June 7, 2015

Jenn[d]er and Other Confusions

Bruce Jenner’s decision to take hormone treatment, wear a wig, call himself Caitlyn, get tarted up and pose in a corset for the cover of Vanity Fair has created a media avalanche, despite the fact that transgendered folk make up a truly sm...

May 31, 2015

Why Can't Republican Presidential Debates be More Like the NCAA Playoffs?

My husband was ecstatic when Rick Santorum threw his hat into the already overcrowded Republican presidential primary ring. Since he’s no fan of Santorum’s I was puzzled by his response and he explained. “As soon as there are 16 ...

May 17, 2015

Fly Specks on the Debate Commission Table

The last thing I read before going to sleep was Rick Ballard’s pithy comment on the news that almost every media operation and figure had contributed to the Clinton slush fund: “It's actually the perpetual Clinton Campaign using ta...

May 10, 2015

Can We Talk?

The really big news this week for many would be voters is who won the least dressed award at the Metropolitan Museum’s Gala opening -- Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, or Jennifer Lopez? Fortunately for people like me who are sick of this stu...

May 3, 2015

The Great American Traveling Riot Circus

To entertain the citizens of Rome, circular arenas – circuses -- were built to house staged events of various sorts, including the slaughter of Christians. After Rome fell, itinerant performers took their shows on the road offering somewhat les...

April 26, 2015

The Clintons' Little Tin Box

This week seems to spell the beginning of the end for Hillary’s campaign and two show tunes keep popping into my head unbidden: “Little Tin Box” from the musical Fiorello and “How Long Has this Been Going on?” Every...

April 19, 2015

The Loretta Lynch Race Game

Saturday’s Washington Post front page carries on its recent tradition of fanning racialist flames without substantial regard to fact or context.  The header reads: “Race creeps into debate over stalled nomination for attorney gene...

April 17, 2015

Lerner walks on contempt charges

It's reported today that as he left office, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia decided not to indict Lois Lerner for refusing to testify before Congress after first expressing her innocence. The question was always a close one, and...

April 12, 2015

Call Her Madame Ka-Ching

The last time she ran for president, her posters shouted “Hillary!”  This was an obvious tribute to the belief that she was so well known and we’d be so excited she was available that a shout out was called for. Now, we’r...

April 7, 2015

New revelation helps exonerate Scooter Libby

In a book just released, The Story: A Reporter's Journey, Judith Miller, a key witness in the Libby prosecution, states that Patrick Fitzgerald had offered repeatedly to drop all charges against Lewis Libby if he would "deliver"...

April 5, 2015

Moral Bullies and the Laws That Enable Them

A bakery in Georgia was legally compelled to bake a cake for a KKK birthday party, which had refused to do so because it violated the owner’s religious beliefs.* This week a TV station in Indiana drummed up a hate fest against a pizza rest...

April 1, 2015

Don't dissemble to Prof. Jacobson

Legal Insurrection does a bit of poking around and finds that the Virginia State Bar Association trip to Israel was canceled on no basis whatsoever, leaving even more question for the Association to answer.  Judicial Watch has now filed a FOIA r...

March 29, 2015

Obama's One Fine Mess of Potage

In the Bible, Esau sold his birthright for a mess of potage -- some red lentil soup, to be exact. Looking at the week’s events, it seems that this country has sold its glorious birthright of constitutional government by honest men and women for...

March 22, 2015

Old Dogs Doing Old Tricks

There’s more than a passing similarity between Obama’s race baiting and his Netanyahu baiting: lies, agitprop, media complicity, shady financing, and prejudice  -- in one case against whites, in the other against Jews. Jack Cashil...

March 15, 2015

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the White House

The world is accustomed to stock plays and players. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is but a take on a play written in Rome by Plautus a couple of thousand years ago, and all the key players are stereotypes of characters we see ov...

March 8, 2015

Benghazibabeatclintonemaildotcom

You can say this about the Clintons; they fill our desire for drama in the annual breaks between episodes of TV serials. “Downton Abbey” ends for the season and Clinton Follies is on tap again as the New York Times reports as old news, so...

March 1, 2015

Bibi Selassie: Dotted Points of Light

A. An historical analogy When you reach a certain age, events that to younger people seem dim and distant still remain fresh in memory. Watching the events surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s invitation to address Congress, I am r...

February 22, 2015

Officer Krupke and the Obama Foreign Policy

It seems like just yesterday that West Side Story, in the classic, “Gee, Officer Krupke”, made fun of the notion that criminals were just “a product of social decay’”: Yes, Officer Krupke, he shouldn't be h...

February 15, 2015

Theories of race guilt refuted, in one easy lesson

If you ever needed a reminder of why it is ridiculous to judge people by their presumed ancestors…. (From Haaretz): In the mid-1990s, near the end of the period during which she lived in Israel, Jennifer Teege watched Steven Spielberg...

February 15, 2015

The Media Questionator and My ISIS Airlift Strategy

I really am just an amateur inventor. I admit at the outset I am not an engineer or math major. Unlike Brian Williams, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, Carl Bernstein, William Safire, and Nina Totenberg, however, I am not a college dropout. In fact,...

February 8, 2015

Cognitive Dissidents

In psychology, cognitive dissonance refers to the fact that people holding two different inconsistent views or those being confronted with information contrary to their beliefs suffer discomfort and try to find some kind of internal consistency. ...

February 5, 2015

Brian Williams should resign for 'conflating'

When a well-paid anchor has consistently lied about his experience in Iraq until soldiers finally call him on it, will his network dare publicize the story, let alone force his resignation?  They should, of course. WASHINGTON — NBC Ni...

February 1, 2015

The Administration's Epidemic Speech Tic

Except for Buenos Aires and the Upper East Side of New York, my corner of Washington, D.C. has the highest ratio of psychiatrists and psychologists per neurasthenic in the world. We also have the country’s most successful independent bookstore,...

January 25, 2015

Obama's Glozell Diplomacy

This week the bizarre priorities and policies of the President presented themselves in relief so stark even the members of those upscale synagogues headed by J Street rabbis -- the guys who say “never again” and then support the very Admi...

January 18, 2015

No Room for Parody

I was sound asleep when the phone rang and so I cannot be absolutely sure the conversation was not a dream, but it seemed real enough. “Hello,” the caller began. “My name is Mr. Mensch, I am president of the Parodists of the Worl...

January 11, 2015

Je Suis Sick and Tired of Cant

Millions of pixels gave their lives this week in lame efforts to explain the horrid slaughter of innocents in France, most of it pure cant by cowardly journalists, uninformed politicians offering up theological views on Islam, and self-described expe...

January 4, 2015

2014: The Year of Peak Stupidity

The year just ended saw one leftist narrative after another collapse under the weight of reality, and the Republicans still sucking their thumbs, turning the other cheek, and failing to effectively respond. My online friend, hit and run, character...

December 28, 2014

For the Media, the Climate of Hate is Always on the Right

I must say that for some decades now, the media have proven to be terrible weather forecasters, always finding the climate of hate on the right, and never seeing it on the left of the political map. My friend (who picked his moniker "Danube o...

December 21, 2014

Naomi Feil: the Spirit of Hanukkah and Christmas in America

Things are rarely what they seem, and sometimes it takes a bit of digging to catch on. (a) Class Warfare Hurts the Poor and the Middle Class For blacks or Hispanics who voted for Obama in the belief that he’d improve their economic s...

December 14, 2014

Clarice's College Guide

If you’ve recently lived with a high schooler in his last two years at home, your mailbox doubtless has been overflowing with college brochures. They picture friendly, sage-looking professors with tweed jackets and leather elbow patches; ivy-co...

December 7, 2014

The Million Man Cigarette and Salt March

In the good old days, when a week was as full of gossipy news as this one was, I’d head off to the bar near the National Press Club. There, amid clouds of smoke and the reek of decades of cheap booze, reporters would sit around and spread the d...

November 23, 2014

Revenge of the Ditz Lord

Having been clobbered in the midterms, the president put on his cockiest face and strut, and in a carefully orchestrated setting designed to make him look imperial poked a thumb in the eye of the newly-elected Congress by announcing that he woul...

November 16, 2014

Smug Filled Rooms

As the story broke bit by bit over the internet -- one angry citizen’s (Rich Weinstein) research established that MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, a major architect and salesman for ObamaCare, boasted in 6 separate videos that he lied and that vo...

November 9, 2014

She Wore Pink Sneakers

This is a great week for moving-van operators in D.C. Hundreds of Democrat solons and their considerable staffs are going to find out if you really can go home again as they desperately, and probably futilely, scramble to find slots in lobbying ...

November 2, 2014

Trading Places: It's Time to Trim the Debate Moderators' Role

As this campaign season draws to an end, doubtless many will comment on what was right and what went wrong for each party. Let me beat the crowd by stating whatever the outcomes of the Congressional and state races the notion of Republicans continuin...

October 26, 2014

Serfin' USA

Do you wish to spend the rest of your life supporting swarms of non-citizens streaming across our borders and voting for you to give them more of your earnings? If not, it would be a good idea to pay more attention to wiping out America’s rampa...

October 20, 2014

Crowd walks out as Obama addresses campaign rally in deep blue Maryland

Right after the NYT published an article about how critical the black vote is to Democrats' chances in the mid-terms, Obama made an appearance in Upper Marlboro, Md, a predominantly Black area in support of a candidate for lieutenant governor. As...

October 19, 2014

Obama: Our House is Your House

The problem with voting into the presidency an internationalist is that his oath to “protect and defend” the Constitution (and by implication the nation) doesn’t apply to this nation.  He sees it as his duty to protec...

October 12, 2014

The Emperor of Plagues

Recently in a cave on a remote island in the Pacific anthropologists found this document sealed in a stone coffer. After months of hard work they translated it from an ancient tongue almost lost to history. I, the official scribe of my people, wri...

October 5, 2014

New Year 5775: Obama undoes the New Deal and Great Society

For me, the New Year began on a sour note. Time spent on the internet has convinced me that more Christians -- especially fundamentalist and traditional Christians -- were more staunchly pro-Israel than the J Street-infected rabbis at some of the ric...

September 28, 2014

Jihadis and Warmunists: Brothers Under the Skin

Watching the parade of the naïve, the far left, and their energy-hogging celebrity manipulators marching in New York City this week, I was struck by how much these true believers had in common with jihadis, a notion reinforced by Purdue Professo...

September 21, 2014

Gird Your Loins, it's the War on Women (Again)

Since the U.S. is largely moderate to conservative, it was hard to imagine how someone as far left as Barack Obama twice won the presidency. After the election was over, we learned how the Democrats’ data mining operation succeeded in bringing ...

September 16, 2014

DoT's equivalent of Michelle's Starvation Diet for School Kids

In NYC and Washington, DC where traffic is already unbearable they are making it near- impossible. Elizabeth Harrington of the Daily Caller writes: The Department of Transportation (DOT) released an action plan last week, detailing its plans to ...

September 14, 2014

Crazy Things Progressives Believe

These days I live in a state of almost continual amazement, bedazzled by the things progressives believe. Earlier this week the New York Times had to print a correction which is probably the number one all time winner in a long line of their recent c...

September 7, 2014

Easy Meat Multiculturalism

"rightrightright" a commenter on my column links to this outstanding treatise on the Islamists and sex slavery in Great Britain. It's a must read for those interested in the Rotherham scandal: http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/wp-co...

September 7, 2014

'Progressive Moral Depravity': A Confederacy of Dunces

There’s a wonderful book, A Confederacy of Dunces, the title of which refers to an epigraph from Jonathan Swift's essay, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting": "When a true genius appears in the world, you may k...

August 24, 2014

Depends on the Meaning of ISIS

Following the horrific ISIS beheading of an American journalist, James Foley, we are led to believe that the president is beginning to rethink the issue of terrorism, or so we gather from the comments of Ben Rhodes,  his deputy national security...

August 20, 2014

Ferguson Facts Slowly Emerging

Following the publication of my column on Sunday, two more leaks have come out which further undercut the media meme on the shooting in Ferguson, Mo. The police department indicates it has 12 eyewitnesses to the shooting who confirm officer W...

August 17, 2014

Ferguson, Missouri, to Gaza, Damascus and Sinjar

An online friend “Miss Marple” notes the similarities between the thuggery in Ferguson, Missouri and the depredations of the Middle East’s jihadi wild packs: I read a book by the historian Barbara Tuchman [A Distant Mirror. The...

August 11, 2014

The terrorists to our south

While our attention has been drawn to the Middle East we cannot forget the terrorist supporting governments in Latin America. Mary O'Grady, reminds us of the threat in this hemisphere.  O'Grady: A Terrorist Big Fish Gets Away ...

August 10, 2014

'Yazidi is Kurdish for 'Unarmed Israeli'

So said the brilliant Iowahawk this week as most people of the world watch in horror the spectacle of 40,000 members of this beleaguered Iraqi minority huddled without food or water on rocky Sinjar mountaintops. Below them the savages of ISIS kidnap ...

August 3, 2014

Three Ninnies and a Jackass: This Week in Gaza

This week we learned that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the elected choice of the wealthy denizens of San Francisco, believes that Hamas is a humanitarian organization. Qatar, Hamas’ principle supporter, told her so. From former...

July 27, 2014

Providence is Not Just a City in Rhode Island

Every now and then we are reminded by events that providence has saved our civilization from disaster. There was, for example, reminds my friend Narciso, the Bojinka plot In which Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed planned to assassinate...

July 25, 2014

Exposing the lies of Obamacare architect

You will rarely see a liar exposed so well as Veronica de Rugy exposes MIT Professor Gruber, an architect of Obamacare, in National Review. She shows that among other questionable behavior, Gruber argued at the outset that the subsidies in question i...

July 22, 2014

Save the Middle Eastern Christians and Europe at the Same Time

European nations, including Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria and Lithuania, are having substantial depopulation problems. In some places, the attempts were made to fill the labor and revenue gap by allowing in immigrants from Moslem countries -- Pak...

July 20, 2014

Jew-seeking Missiles, the Secure Border, and Other Nonsense

I was thinking the world could not be more absurd when I read that a Hamas official announced to Arab Israelis they should not be fearful of their attacks because the missiles were designed to kill Jews only. This development is so outstanding that t...

July 18, 2014

Time for Univ. of Wisconsin alums to zip up your wallets

Writing at Minding the Campus, John Leo outlines what he calls the "amazing" diversity plan at the University of Wisonsin's premier campus at Madison. There is only one correct repsonse to this nonsense: A remarkable article on the...

July 13, 2014

Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace

I remember once when -- we were sitting shiva for my paternal grandmother, I think-- I mentioned to my grandfather how smart I thought my youngest cousin, David, was. He replied, “All my grandchildren are smart, but the longer they go to school...

July 6, 2014

Let's Build a Stairway to Alberta

I was picking at my habanero and lychee salad in one of Washington’s many new chichi must dine at spots and sipping a melon vodka martini which Barry our waiter had highly recommended when it dawned on me . I was so embarrassed this week to be ...

July 5, 2014

Blowback from Obama's Border Madness

Drudge is reporting that the California and Texas militias are heading to the border. Dick Durbin (a Dream Act sponsor) just blocked the aliens from being transported to Illinois. And here's a map showing where they are being transported to, w...

June 29, 2014

Shifting Sands

If you paid close attention this week, you could see the sand shifting under Obama’s feet. From public opinion to the federal courts to the president’s former putative allies, it was not a good week to be Obama, and it’s likely to g...

June 23, 2014

Apparently, we're all dead

Here's a 1986 article from the NYT quoting scientists on a public broadcasting  "Nova" series, which says that because of global warming we'll all be dead by the year 2000. I had to pinch myself.  EARTH'S CLIMATIC CRIS...

June 22, 2014

The Good News Democrats

The town was pretty empty except for tourists Friday afternoon, but the Press Club bar was packed and loud. Even with my hearing aids tucked away in my purse, I hardly missed a word. Jack the bartender turned away from the tap and pointed me to an...

June 15, 2014

Silver Linings

I thought I’d go blind looking for a silver lining this week until by chance I ran into Celinda Faretheewell, chair of the Perpetually Optimistic Society (POS) in a neighborhood coffee shop. “Why so glum?” she asked. “Ev...

June 1, 2014

Race Matters

Some years ago I served on the board of an international school that had students and teachers from all over the world. Some of our very best students were black -- especially those with African or Caribbean backgrounds. At the time there was a priva...

May 25, 2014

Memorial Day: Obama and the Faculty Windbags' Waterloo

The first Memorial Day I can remember was just a few years after the end of World War II. I was in second grade and my teacher, Miss Frank, told us, choking back her tears, what it meant. Her beloved brother had died just a few years earlier, trainin...

May 18, 2014

Corporate Money in Politics: Who's Complaining?

It has been the Democrats’ pitch to the uninformed that they -- the recipients of millions of dollars worth of free puffery and support from America’s almost uniformly left-wing press, unions and big foundations, academic a...

May 11, 2014

Time to Mount the Academic Ramparts, Clean House, and Free the Serfs

Our colleges and universities have become infectious breeding grounds of the left, fattening their tills as the students are yoked to untenable loans to pay for often useless educations they provide. The federal government encourages this bubble, und...

May 9, 2014

Cotton stands tall, takes down Dem hypocrisy

Democrats and their media friends have been hyperventilating over an NRCC fundraising letter that mentioned the Benghazi investigation, calling it "disgusting" and claiming it undermines the legitimacy of the investigation. In a dynamit...

May 9, 2014

A Dear John letter you want to read

Sultan Knish is always worth reading, but this open letter to John Kerry is his absolute finest. An Open Letter to John Kerry | FrontPage Magazine The first few paragraphs: Dear John, Every few years a messiah arrives in Jerusalem, sh...

May 4, 2014

It's time to Isolate and Target Obama's BFF Al Sharpton

Here's an outstanding, detailed history of the man Obama keeps at his side as he tries to drum up black turnout for the midterms. It's time to, in Saul Alinsky's words, "isolate and target" him, and here's the ammunition to ...

May 4, 2014

'A Vocal Segment of the Right'

There is an incredibly incestuous relationship between the media and the administration. Because of this, and because of the media’s puppy love crush on Obama and desire to see him re-elected, the seven-hour-long slaughter of the ambassador ...

April 27, 2014

Cliven Bundy Delenda Est

During the Punic Wars Cato and other notable Romans argued that Carthago Delenda Est, that is, Carthage must be destroyed. Substitute sympathetic ordinary Americans, like Cliven Bundy, Joe the Plumber, and the superbly talented Sarah Palin for C...

April 20, 2014

Death, Taxes, and Anti-Semitism

Ben Franklin opined that there was nothing certain but death and taxes. I’d add a third to the list of certainties, anti-Semitism, and this week reminds us of that. As Americans struggled with preposterously complex federal income tax regula...

April 13, 2014

Democrat Center Folds

It’s hardly been a secret that in recent years the moderate center of the Democratic Party has been driven away and what remains is a conglomeration of disparate blocs which, to date, the party has been able to treat as if there were no conflic...

April 6, 2014

State of Disunion

The clumsiness and incoherence, if not madness, of this administration’s foreign policies are creating havoc around the world.  No one wrapped up the story of the chaos better than Sultan Knish did this week: When Bush left office at ...

March 30, 2014

Bridge(gate)ing the Democrats' Culture of Corruption

This week the indictment and arrests of leading San Francisco and California Democrat politicians follows a long string of corruption cases involving prominent Democrats.  It brings to mind the ridiculous charges by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (e...

March 23, 2014

Pikes, Pickets, and Scams

Every now and then seeing the overwhelming stupidity of so many, I daydream about running a major scam, cleaning up and retiring in style to the Cayman Islands or Tahiti. But reviewing the records of politicians, media, and universities, I realize I ...

March 16, 2014

Calling a Spade a 'Garden Implement' Doesn't Make it a Hoe

Early on in the Genesis chapter of the Bible much is made of Adam giving names to all living creatures. Like everything about the Bible, the meaning of this event is subject to many interpretations, the most often given is that it signals man...

March 9, 2014

Well, I'll Cry Tomorrow: Medea, Debo Get No R-S-P-E-C-T

This week President Obama, following a long string of bloopers that the media underplays or ignores, spelled respect "R-S-P-E-C-T'". It was a fitting blunder in a week in which he and America's left wing took a series of pra...

March 2, 2014

Uncontested and Contested Arrivals

In a juvenile bureaucratic effort to disguise the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, the administration airbrushed it as an “uncontested arrival”. I suppose that might make some not very bright people think the customs and immigration desks...

February 23, 2014

Drag a Hundred Dollar Bill through a School of Journalism

James Carville once shockingly demonstrated the left's disdain for the morals of the poor, saying, "Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find." In truth, you can buy whatever you want much more easily if you d...

February 16, 2014

There Oughta Be a Law(yer)

Nothing better depicted Obama's illegal tampering with the clear words of ObamaCare -- his announcement this week that he was delaying the employer mandate for medium-sized companies -- than Michael Ramirez' brilliant cartoon showing the law as ...

February 9, 2014

Demonomics

This week the big story was the tag end of the old JournoList gang trying to spin gold out of the dross of the Congressional Budget Report. The CBO report projected that by 2021 under ObamaCare more than 2 million full-time workers will find it finan...

February 2, 2014

It's ime to ignore anything the MSM says about Republican Candidates

Time and again, the media run with poorly sourced, inaccurate, unchecked claims against Republican front runners and send the white toga crowd fleeing.In fact, no claim is too outrageous, too thin or poorly sourced to be checked  before it goes ...

February 2, 2014

The State of the Static Union (and Universalist Claptrap)

This week to an ever-diminishing audience President Obama outlined a pedestrian plan for the remainder of this year, amidst the usual hornswoggle of invited guests in the gallery and dubious daytime TV style anecdotal stories of their lives. More pop...

January 26, 2014

Liberals Who Love Obama, a 501(c)(4) for the Age Of Gangsterism

Apart from me, there is only one other non-Democrat I know of in my immediate D.C. neighborhood. Let's call him John Doe, because he's petrified that he'll be the next target of this extra-constitutional gang from Chicago and wouldn't want to see his...

January 19, 2014

Drugs R Us

The more I read about Fast and Furious, the more I am reminded of Milo Minderbinder's M & M Syndicate in Joseph Heller's Catch 22. If you recall, "the business of government is 'business" was Milo's operating principle and he sacrificed the needs...

January 16, 2014

You Can Keep Your Light Bulbs, Congress Has Seen the Light

Some highlights of the almost 1600-page fiscal year 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, a bipartisan effort which will provide discretionary funding for the entire federal government for the fiscal year. Republican House Appropriations Chair Rogers and...

January 12, 2014

Bridging the Obamacare, IRS, and Benghazi Scandal Gap

My neighbor Professor Zigmund Bensky, stopped in to thaw out. It seems that with all the stuff occupying his big brain -- like "why is 'settled science' like 'established law'?" he'd forgotten to pay his gas bill. While he was waiting for the gas com...

January 11, 2014

Proof that the Plame case was a hoax

CIA official's John Rizzo's revelations in new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA, establish beyond peradventure of doubt that the Plame case was a hoax, stirred up by her husband and Patrick Fitzgerald.  See th...

January 5, 2014

2014: Let's Change the Climate

Watching both ObamaCare and the good ship Akademik Shokalskiy crash on the shoals of reality, I think it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the misadventures of Australian climate scientist Chris Turney, who headed that misbegotten adventure...

December 31, 2013

Obamacare propaganda retort

The Washington Post had an idiotic front page story yesterday (see also CNN signs up for Obamacare propaganda barrage) on folks saved by Obamacare, obviously tossed over the transom by the White House. Tom Maguire has a brilliant if longish fisking o...

December 29, 2013

Duck, Duck: A&E Fails to Kill Its Own Golden Goose and Some Parrots Get Caught

So, the kerfuffle instigated by GLAAD (another counterfactual acronym in the pantheon of American interest groups) and carried out by cable network A&E is over. A&E capitulated to the force of public opinion. GLAAD is furious: "Phil Roberts...

December 22, 2013

Advertising in the Age of Obama

Obama was sold to the American voters twice on the strength of shrewd marketing, but as the truth of his unsuitability for this high office becomes increasingly obvious to all but his most uninformed base, even advertising cannot help him pull out of...

December 8, 2013

Obama Stars in The No-Name Law That Sank His Party

When the Pelosi-Reid-Obama troika triumphantly celebrated cramming through the ACA (Affordable Care Act) over majority sentiment, they crowed that this was the president's signature achievement and ACA soon took on the name of its creator, ObamaCare....

December 1, 2013

Let's Talk Turkey

Elect a Chicago community organizer (twice) as your president and you should not be surprised to find that all he is capable of is spewing propaganda and dividing us by personalizing attacks on those who oppose his grandiose, wildly impractical effor...

November 24, 2013

Reid Drops Nuclear Bomb and His Party Will Rue its Fallout

Fresh off the disastrous rollout of Obamacare which Senate Majority Leader Reid and (now former) Speaker of the House Pelosi rammed through Congress using unconventional procedures and with zero Republican support, his extremist wing compelled h...

November 17, 2013

'Racist' President Says Now You can Keep Your 'Substandard Insurance'

In ancient times were a ruler to have mismanaged everything as badly as has Obama, stonemasons would start gathering near the palace in anticipation of being hired to chisel the ruler's name and visage off all public buildings and temples, funerary g...

November 10, 2013

Feminists and 'Moral Panic'

Two incidents have redrawn our attention to the pernicious effects of feminism in America: the skewed married women versus single women vote in Virginia and the increasing pressure put on the military to prosecute meritless charges of sexual assault....

November 3, 2013

The Silence of the Left

There is widespread fury at the lies which were used to sell ObamaCare, a more than 2,000-page piece of legislation no one read before it was passed, a law opposed by the majority of voters which was crammed down our throats without a single Rep...

November 1, 2013

Another -- really bizarre -- Obamacare quirk

James Taranto, author of the WSJ's Best of the Web notes that the only people not required to have maternity coverage in their health insurance are men and women  under 30 years old, that is the tranche of the most likely child bearing  cit...

October 27, 2013

Give us Your Young, Uninsured (and Dying to be Rooked)

I was lingering over my breakfast coffee thinking how the latest revelation about ObamaCare would be treated by a press that saw every Halliburton contract as a direct Ka-Ching into Vice-President Cheney's pocket though he was long gone from that com...

October 20, 2013

Conventional Unwisdom

In an essay "Freedom of the Press" George Orwell wrote presciently about the dangers of a press too bound to prevailing orthodoxy to print anything else: "Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any o...

October 13, 2013

Government 404 Error

It was a lovely day. Everything in the Capital, it seemed, was closed due to the shutdown, and traffic was sparse so I wandered downtown to see how things were faring. My favorite spot was packed with White House aides leaking fake inside tips to cre...

October 6, 2013

When Mettle Meets the Toads

Two battles were joined this week, one on Capitol Hill and another at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (the symbolic core of which is known as Bascom Hill).  In both cases, free men who refused to be cowed struck back at overreaching tyrants....

September 29, 2013

Persian Hokm, Obama -- J Street Hokum

It's my understanding that Hokm is the most popular game in Iran. Among other things the Hokm (commander or leader) of each hand gets dealt the first card and has the privilege of deciding which suit will be the trump cards. While it looks like the E...

September 22, 2013

One Weird Trick to Expose the Truth About ObamaCare

There's every reason to believe that ObamaCare will ruin America's fine health care system; weaken our already shaky economy; cause more people to go without health insurance; and is widely unpopular. Even though most citizens seem quite uncertain o...

September 15, 2013

Hillary! Because What Difference Does it Make?

Watching Hillary get a Liberty Medal on September 10, the day before the anniversary of the attack on the United States soil and the more recent murder of our ambassador and others in Benghazi, I think it's time to review the record of a woman whose ...

September 9, 2013

The remarkable Mrs. Allen West

I've been a long time supporter of Allen West. Now, for the first time, I have the privilege of learning what his wife Angela's views are in this article she wrote for a local tea party journal in Florida.  She is also a remarkable person. W...

September 8, 2013

Obama Copies Animal House's Greatest Speech

A brilliant AT reader ThinkingOutLoud compares the "red line" is everyone's responsibility blather by Obama to this: "But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals. If you do, shouldn't we bl...

September 8, 2013

Operation Cockamamie: The Damascus Follies

Looking over the week's crazy developments, I can see only one coherent strand in Obama's foreign policy.  He wants to make sure that John Kerry and Hillary Clinton will never be elected president.  After sacrificing Hillary's career on the...

September 1, 2013

Mythy Memories of the March that Was

This past week there was a commemoration on the 50th anniversary of what was then  called  the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" and which is now referred to more simply but incorrectly as "the March on Washington."  To many o...

August 25, 2013

ObamaCare: When Socialist Theory Meets Practice

America is lucky to have had two great social theorists: Yogi Berra and Richard Feynman. Had the Democrats heeded their words of wisdom when the issue of ObamaCare arose they'd not be sliding down the slippery slope they greased all by themselves. Y...

August 18, 2013

Obama Flouts the Law

From his first presidential campaign to the present, the president, his party and his administration have openly flouted existing laws, and it doesn't seem there is any legal means of stopping him short of impeachment. As you may recall, the Democrat...

August 11, 2013

Demagogic Writers and the People Who Love Them

On any day on the internet you can find many top-ranked writers in serious dispute with each other. Sometimes it's left versus right, but often it's people on the same side in furious disputation over what in the course of things are rather small poi...

July 21, 2013

Putin and Obama: Brothers in Tyranny

In Moscow and St. Petersburg thousands protested when opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to five years imprisonment on the charge of embezzling from a state-owned timber company. The conviction, like that of other Putin opponents, seems f...

July 14, 2013

Impeach Attorney General Holder - for Justice's Sake

This week, I am grateful I am not a civics teacher.  The entire legal and constitutional framework under which we believe we live seemed to have been turned upside-down.  To start with, as former U.S. Appeals Judge Michael McConnell argued ...

July 7, 2013

White House Down: Obama Version

I don't know how he does it, but Internet Wit Sans Peer, Iowahawk, wrapped up the week more succinctly than anyone: BREAKING: State Department says Egyptian military overthrow spontaneous reaction to 'White House Down' movie" The scandal in Bengha...

July 1, 2013

More academic perfidy

North Carolina University administrators allegedly adjusting minority grades upward. What good purpose can this possibly serve? Certainly not employers or graduate schools. And definitely not the students.  ...

July 1, 2013

The miniscule upside

Wattsupwiththat notes the mind boggling idiocy of the President's war on coal: the reality is that Chris Hope, an ardent supporter of the War on CoalTM, using the most optimistic (and unattainable) assumptions, says that IF we win the War on Coal ...

June 30, 2013

Another Race-based Show Trial Turns Into Farce

1.The Sound of Wet Grass: Black Racists' War on Black Women The Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case has come to trial this week and the best thing that's been said about it is from Thomas Maguire: "I'm proud to say I live in a country where the show...

June 24, 2013

A dangerous head of the FBI?

Citing a number of factors in his career we have already dissected here, the Wall Street Journal indicates its opposition to the appointment of James Comey to be Director of the FBI: Any potential FBI director deserves scrutiny, since the position...

June 23, 2013

Puttin' On the Ritz

A. "The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling" Things are heating up in D.C. with scandals being exposed so rapidly it's hard to keep track of them. And as Obama's luck would have it, they are coming in tandem with his mismanagement of the economy and...

June 17, 2013

Senator Cornyn (finally) comes clean

It's hard to fight the monumental corruption of this Administration when your own skirts are unclean. From today's National Journal, a report that Senator Cornyn of Texas has failed for some time to report pension payments he's receiving: Texas ...

June 16, 2013

Obama is Abrading the Social Fabric

I have always believed that regardless of the laws of a nation, the social fabric that binds it is woven of mutual trust between the people and their private and governmental institutions. Once that fabric is weakened, the dangers to an ordered socie...

June 16, 2013

God Save the Queen

In a deft way -- by honoring an Israeli Professor who fought the British University boycott of Israeli academics -- the Queen of England has embarrassed those anti-semitic   forces who fought for the boycott. Thomas Lipscomb remarks on Faceboo...

June 9, 2013

Scandalzapoppin

With serious and demonstrable charges of administration wrongdoing popping up every day, conservatives are rightfully angry at the desultory treatment they get from the media. At Just One Minute, the poster known as "daddy" summarizes that feeli...

June 6, 2013

Repeal the wheel!

Tom Gelsthorpe of Cape Cod Online examines the enivronmentalists' dream of returning us to a pre-industrial life and suggests Cape Cod could be the experimental site if it will only repeal the wheel: Once upon a time, doing chores the easy way was...

June 2, 2013

Bipartisan Tango and Lawless Justice

Two things caught my attention this week: first, the ridiculous way Democrat partisans, erroneously appointed by President George W. Bush to government positions from which they exercised their power, to undercut Republicans are by reason of the Bush...

May 26, 2013

The Media's Yellow Submarine

Spain is struggling economically, so imagine how angry its citizens must be to learn that its government spent $680 million on a yellow submarine that is unusable because it is too heavy to float As the scandals of this administration start floating ...

May 19, 2013

Capital Powerball: Scandals Grease Washington's Wheels

After running an errand at the Courthouse, I decided to pop into the Barrister Bar and Bistro for a quick bite. The place was packed and Charlie, the maitre d', shrugged his shoulders apologetically. "There's a huge party here this afternoon, but I c...

May 16, 2013

IRS seizes 60 million medical records without a warrant

As we are being swamped with evidence of Administration wrongdoing, we should not forget to prioritize the vast amount of information we are getting. It is beyond peradventure of doubt at this time that the IRS, ordered to scrutinize the tea part...

May 12, 2013

Benghazi Coverup Uncovered

BBC has apologized for its coverage of the Benghazi murders; ABC has unraveled the mendacious tale of the talking points ' genesis and the Congressional hearings this week have dramatically established the administration's elaborate lies about how ou...

May 5, 2013

Dancing with Obama

Political satirist Greg Gutfeld said: The media would not know a good story if they woke up next to it after they were drunk last night. For them Benghazi is like an ugly wallflower at the prom. They just want to dance with Obama all night. It's a ...

April 28, 2013

The Brothers Tsarnaev and the Danger Whose Name we Dare not Speak

We now have had a number of terrorist attacks on the homeland -- though the administration often refers to them in ridiculous euphemisms like "workplace violence" -- and the behavior of the administration, including our lavishly funded FBI and Homela...

April 21, 2013

I Know why the Lame Duck Squawks

This has not been a good week for President Obama. I think it will not be the worst week of this year or this term, which I predict will get worse as his own personality flaws and patently partisan strategies make his lame-duck term even more impoten...

April 14, 2013

Boola, Boola, Save Your Moolah

If you're like me, your college alumni association floods your inbox with email invitations to contribute, often adding invites to football games and lectures by famous alums or popular professors. Except for the moment when an appeal made directly b...

April 9, 2013

Attention GOP Leadership! Start here

Richard Pollack at the Washington Examiner reports on a painless way to  handle sequester costs -- cut out the unnecessary duplicative federal programs: Duplicative drug abuse and treatment services are strewn over 76 federal programs. Housing ...

April 9, 2013

Corrupt federal prosecutors escape even a slap on the hand

The prosecutors of Senator Ted Stevens who, by unethically hiding exculpatory evidence form him and other unprofessional conduct, got him removed from office in time to allow the Democrats to steam roll Obamacare through Congress, have now avoided ev...

April 8, 2013

Crabzilla

Today's Washington Post reports that CO2 is making blue crabs, lobsters and shrimp bigger. Naturally, to the Post that's a big problem. Seems the bigger the crabs the more oysters they eat.  There's nothing for which you can't blame carbon dioxi...

April 7, 2013

J-O-B-S

In one of his more well-publicized gaffes, Vice President Biden said of John McCain: "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word:...

March 31, 2013

We're Doomed, Send Money Fast!

It's a perennial favorite of scammers to claim we face pending doom that can be averted only if we quickly send them more money or do what they want us to. From The Music Man's "Ya Got Trouble" to the emails purporting to be from family members who'v...

March 30, 2013

A Komodo Dragon in Thailand and some Badgers in Singapore

On our way to Bangkok we stop at a small private island , Ko Kood, Thailand, site of three luxury resorts. The island is owned and has been developed by a Thai businessman who has a gorgeous home on the water, At the tip of the gulf is the mouth of...

March 24, 2013

The Wine, Women and Song Foundation

I have watched over the years how publicly unaccountable foundations have amassed billions of dollars, tax free, and spend it on dangerous, leftwing, often anti-American and anti-Israeli outfits, conferences and promoters.  Taxpaying citizens op...

March 23, 2013

Ho Chi Minh (Saigon): Where Everyone Knows Bill Clinton's Name

You cannot miss that Saigon, as natives still call this city, is booming. Writer Gemma Price reports the swinging spots -- Blanchey's Tash, Chill's (sky bar and lounge, and restaurant) and Bobby Chinn's whose specialty is seafood ceviche with coconut...

March 17, 2013

'Reactionary Liberalism' Backfires

The Late Great Peter Bocking said of politicians: Of course they are utterly self obsessed, that is why they go into politics. Where else can these people get to play "Simple Simon Says" with everybody's lives? They should have fixed terms, after w...

March 16, 2013

The Mekong River: Calling into Question the Germ Theory of Disease

On our  journey along cost of the South China Sea, it's now the first day of Tet. About a week earlier, families made their offerings to the Kitchen God asking for a good report to the Heavenly Emperor. The message is to be delivered by a giant ...

March 10, 2013

End the Madness at the EEOC

With no authority to do so and with flawed factual support, the EEOC has issued an enforcement guideline that would compel employers to discriminate in favor of minority ex-cons. It's past time for Congress to rein in the EEOC and make them withdraw ...

March 9, 2013

Tet, the Year of the Snake

On our trip along the coast of the South China Sea, we reached Danang, where US Marine battalions landed in 1965, inaugurating  full scale ground combat in Viet Nam. Except for the government's efforts to keep the war alive in the minds of the c...

March 3, 2013

Who're you going to Trust: The Stock Market or the Media Innumerates?

Years ago, when I used to play poker with some guys, I played a hand in which across the table from me was someone who looked as though he had a straight flush. He kept pumping up the bidding and everyone folded but me. When we finally showed our han...

March 2, 2013

On a Not Very Slow Boat to (Indo) China

Given our ages (my husband and I are both in our seventies) and the heat, humidity and generally difficult travel conditions involved, in order to visit Southeast Asia, we opted for a cruise which began at Hong Kong, traveled through the Hainan or Qi...

February 24, 2013

The Bating Game: Obama Doubles Down

Apologies to readers for temporary absence of this piece due to glitch - editor By law, on Friday the executive must begin to cut $85 billion from federal spending. Though, as is his wont, the president is blaming the Republicans for what he cla...

February 3, 2013

Our Foreign Policy Establishment: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

Like the addlepated women who write love letters to an imprisoned murderer in the belief that the love of a good woman will turn him around, the U.S. foreign policy establishment repeatedly acts as though the power of their love and financial generos...

January 27, 2013

The Administration 's New Fronts in the War on Women

This week, the administration that rode to a second term decrying a fictitious war on women by the opposition, opened real fronts on the war on women, perpetuating feminism's worst inconsistencies through its contradictory programs and in the words a...

January 20, 2013

The Democracy Initiative: a Coup in Plain Sight

Matthew Continetti, one of my favorite writers, wrote an eye opener last week, "'A Conspiracy so Immense': ideological commitment and the timidity of pragmatic politics", too late for me to discuss in my column. It is one of the most important storie...

January 13, 2013

America: The Kardashian Years

Life in the Time of Low Information Voters I used to love American popular culture. I found it rich, diverse and endlessly amusing. These days, I rarely go to the movies or plays and cannot bear to watch television. Even the radio with its repe...

January 8, 2013

Environmentalism, the Ultimate Luxury Good

Sultan Knish has in this wonderful piece what is the best takedown of the pretentious environmentalist movement and its drum major, Al Gore.  Here are a few examples from the article: "While his rival was getting tangled in Iraq, Al Gore was b...

January 7, 2013

Inside the Ringling Brothers court case

Yesterday I discussed how Ringling Brothers owners successfully fought back against "non profit public interest groups" which had charged it with mistreatment of their elephants. Today, the Washington Examiner offers more details: Feld countersued th...

January 6, 2013

The Democrats' War on Science Aids Our Enemies

It's an article of faith among Democrats, crystallized in the book The Republican War on Science, that Republicans are unscientific boobs stupidly opposing such established verities as anthropogenic global warming promoted by those better educated in...

January 5, 2013

Oops!

The leading opponent of genetically modified food admits he's been wrong for two decades. Mark Lynas a British "environmentalist",has been a key figure in the demonizing of genetically modified foods, a drive that certainly has contributed to the sta...

December 23, 2012

Two Christmas Gifts: Hope and Love

This is not the most joyful of Christmases. The tragedy of the Newtown massacre is fresh on our minds. The crumbling of the Administration's misbegotten Middle East and North African policies grows increasingly obvious and presents nothing but fright...

December 16, 2012

Newtown: Just Leave Us to Grieve in Peace

As I do every Friday, I sort through my week's clipping files in preparation for this column. I was going to write about energy. The optimistic assessments of natural resources and the fracking technique to extract them has every potential of changin...

December 14, 2012

Government Grossly Exaggerate​d in Case Against Pollard

The damage assessment respecting the espionage activities of Jonathan Pollard, serving a life sentence for spying against the U.S. for Israel, has finally been released and it indicates the government grossly exaggerated the focus and harm of his act...

December 9, 2012

Slouching Toward Damascus

This was a week of some surprises and some perfectly foreseeable consequences of forces which have been in play for some time. The fiscal cliff talks have gone nowhere, to the surprise of only the most daft who do not realize that the President does...

December 2, 2012

Cliff Dwellers

We, unfortunately, are getting used to living at the edge of a steep cliff, going about our everyday business pretending the fatal drop to the abyss doesn't exist. Culturally, one needn't be what's called a "social conservative" to be appalled at...

November 18, 2012

The Gingerbread Man

Do you remember the tale of "The Gingerbread Man"? It's a children's story in which a gingerbread man runs away from the baker, lots of people try to catch him as he crows,  "Run, run as fast as you can/ You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread ma...

November 11, 2012

The Disappointment of Living in an Electoral Republic

Tuesday's returns seem inexplicable. (a) Logic Took a Powder Jeff Dobbs, a regular at Just One Minute, did some work and shows why the election results this week seem inexplicable and unpredictable: Fun with Exit Polls... 19% of voters who described...

November 9, 2012

Did mishandling of the military ballots cost Romney the election? (update: a hoax)

We have been hoaxed! This is not a serious report. American Thinker apologizes to readers. Duffleblog says that the tardy delivery of the ballots caused them to be returned too late to be counted but these hundreds of thousands of ballots seem prelim...

November 4, 2012

A President without Shame

Speaking at a photo op about the Sandy hurricane disaster, President Obama said:  "In times of crisis, "we pull together, we leave nobody behind, we make sure we respond as a nation," Obama said, reprising one of his 2012 campaign themes. "When...

November 2, 2012

Benghazi Timeline: More Lies Exposed

Doug Ross has done a brilliant timeline of the events in Benghazi and the events in D.C. Worth cutting and saving. Sharyl Attkisson of CBS news has uncovered even more shocking details of the Administration's mishandling and mendacity about the attac...

October 30, 2012

'Courage was Lacking for Benghazi'

There has been some suggestion that the President's hands were tied in dealing with the 9/11 attack in Benghazi because we had no forces and equipment available to assist the trapped men. Retired Adm. Ace Lyons, former CinCPacFlt takes issue with suc...

October 28, 2012

Issa Benghazi Transcript

It is so hard to get coherent, reliable information about what happened in Ben Ghazi, and original documents are generally so helpful in winnowing out truth from chaff, I want to point you to a valuable source uncovered by JustOneMinute poster, JMH: ...

October 28, 2012

Stand Down Obama and Biden, Stand Down

Normally, I have no difficulty writing this column. I see it as a way to provide busy readers a coherent narrative of the best of the week's most important news -- largely as reported by the alternative media and ignored by its richer, fatter and laz...

October 21, 2012

The 'War on Women' Backfires

One of the intriguing aspects of this election is how the Democrats' shameless and clueless appeal to women is ending with the vaporization of the historic "gender gap" among voters.The Lady Parts ConventionFrom the prancing Code Pink vulvas out...

October 16, 2012

AEI Analyzes Polls of Jewish Voters, Finds Dip in Support for Obama

AEI finds evidence -- even before the Democratic convention and its fumbles on Jerusalem as the capital of Israel -- that Jewish support for Obama has dipped considerably. While the percentage of  Jewish voters and their impact has been greatly ...

October 15, 2012

How Close is the Obama Administration with Israel?

In the vice-presidential debate, Joe Biden indicated the administration had close ties with Israeli prime Minister Netanyahu. The video below which features Netanyahu calls that claim into question. He calls for a clear "red line" on action against ...

October 14, 2012

Deliverance with Better Teeth, Clothes, and Haircuts

People who haven't been paying attention were surprised to learn of this week's debate moderator's (Martha Raddatz) close connection to the President. He was a guest at one of her three weddings and a she was invited to his wedding and a visitor to t...

October 12, 2012

We Have Video of the Benghazi Attacks

Last week the FBI retrieved a video tape from the Benghazi mission, reports Eli Lake, and it shows an organized attack.  We also have photos from a drone overhead covering the final hour of the attack: Video footage from the United St...

October 7, 2012

The Master Debater Part II

Wednesday the public got to see the president as I have always seen him -- a lazy, superficial thinker who is over his head as Chief Executive.   There were so many witty tweets and columns that our side of the aisle was kept laughing as the nig...

September 30, 2012

On the Road to Benghazi

In retrospect, the Democratic Convention highlighted a liar, Elizabeth Warren.  She was hired by Harvard law school because she lied about her ethnicity to gain affirmative action benefits, exaggerated her scholarship which was shoddy, practiced...

September 23, 2012

Free Barack: Elect Romney

It is increasingly obvious that Obama wants to get out of the White House, not just to take vacations, visit Letterman, and go golfing, but to be free of the  responsibilities of the office of President itself, and those horrid media types are d...

September 16, 2012

'Why Barack Obama Should Resign'

Instapundit, law professor Glenn Reynolds, writes that Obama's disregard for his Constitutional oath warrants his resignation: When taking office, the President does not swear to create jobs. He does not swear to "grow the economy." He does not sw...

September 16, 2012

The White House and Press Create a Fairy Tale Version of History

When I was a kid, a popular TV show (and earlier a radio one) was You Are There, the theme of which was bringing the viewer into re-enacted historic events to better learn about them. Watching the Middle East doings this week with any degree of care,...

September 15, 2012

Oh, the delicious irony!

On a supreme irony, Patrick Fitzgerald who came to our attention when he turned the Bush administration upside down pretending to trace a leak whose source he already knew, has been named by reporters as the man who leaked information to the press ...

September 10, 2012

Canada Suspends All Diplomatic Relations with Iran

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in Canada is showing the Obama administration what international leadership looks like. From Big Peace: Canada has closed its embassy in Iran and plans to expel all Iranian diplomats within Canada in the ne...

September 9, 2012

Obama and the DNC Running on Empty

The once mainstream media is increasingly despondent as its power to shape opinions and influence this election diminishes.  My favorite of the moaning journalist cries was that of Walter Shapiro:   "This is worse than normal, a lot less f...

September 9, 2012

Obama's Failure On Freeing US Hostage

Sunday's Wall Street Journal tells us more on the all-but-forgotten case of an innocent US hostage in Cuba, detailing the administration's utterly inadequate efforts to free him: Since December 2009, American development worker Alan Gross has been i...

September 2, 2012

Media Madness, and the Reckoning

Last week a line was crossed, and full blown insanity manifested itself in the formerly-mainstream media.  My friend JMH is a model of a temperate media consumer, but watching the coverage of the Republican convention, she could not contain her ...

August 26, 2012

Sleeping with the Enemy in the 'War On Women'

It wasn't long ago that Barack Obama's supporters pointed to his successful campaign as proof of his executive ability, responding to truthful claims he had no executive experience.  As this year's flailing campaign matches his amateurish handli...

August 19, 2012

The Defiant Ones

This week we saw one of the neatest political plays ever.  Obama biographer Ed Klein says that about two weeks ago Valerie Jarrett, Obama's brain trust and manager of his Acme Campaign Strategery , offered Hillary Clinton  a slot on the tic...

August 12, 2012

Paul Ryan and the Triumph of Math

Luftmensh is a delightful Yiddish word to describe an impractical person who concerns himself with airy intellectual matters and not how to make a living or get things to actually work. I had just decided to make this column on Paul  Ryan's nomi...

August 5, 2012

Tea Party Unbound

For several years now it seems to me that voters throughout the country in a perfectly peaceable way have demonstrated their revulsion at the ruling class's political , academic and media elites, and the media's disparagement or utter refusal to cove...

August 2, 2012

Italians hold moment of silence for Israeli athletes murdered in Munich

Michael Ledeen told me of this beautiful deed Sunday but it wasn't reported until now. From Michael Shimulovich of the Times of Israel: Members of the Italian Olympic delegation held a moment of silence Sunday in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes mu...

August 1, 2012

House to Take action on Ecuador

Citing, inter alia, human rights violations, corruption of its judiciary, failure to abide by an international arbitration tribunal ruling on its suit again Chevron, its role as a major narcotics transit, its dealings  with Iran Congressman Mac...

July 29, 2012

Wile E. Coyote Joins Obama Campaign Team

Memo to Acme Products From:  Roadrunner Campaign Consultants To:  Acme Product Development Subject:  The Obama market I see that you've okayed my idea for your new line of exploding cigar wrappers for the Obama market, now that Wile E....

July 27, 2012

What's really behind education's reading and math wars?

Robin Eubanks has been studying U.S. education policies and practices:   "...education in the US and globally has been, for decades,  engaged in a massive Newspeak (as in George Orwell's 1984) campaign that creates a public illusion o...

July 22, 2012

'You Didn't Build That.' Boston Globing for Obama

This week Obama, speaking off the teleprompter, said something that set off a storm of criticism: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this un...

July 18, 2012

The Prisoner of Castro

Ambassador Armando Valladares, who was himself a prisoner of Castro and, upon his release was made out Ambassador to the Human rights Commission, takes up the case of Alan Gross, an American being held in Cuban prisons as a hostage to Castro's demand...

July 15, 2012

My Problem Is I'm Too Good

A dear, now deceased, relative used to say, "My problem is I'm too good," without realizing the humor of that self-evaluation. I was reminded of that this week, when for the first time President Obama acknowledged he just might have a teeny flaw. "T...

June 29, 2012

Obamacare: 'Things are now up for Grabs'

[This week, Clarice's Pieces is appearing on Friday.] "[I]n the 1980s, the political psychologist Philip E. Tetlock began systematically quizzing 284 political experts - most of whom were political science Ph.D.'s - on dozens of basic questions, like...

June 24, 2012

Obama and the Kingdom of the Concrete Skull

My friend Jane Woodworth looked over her newspaper, put down her coffee mug, and said , " Imagine being so down and out that you have to deter people from talking about the economy with the news that you are an accessory to murder." Nothing better su...

June 23, 2012

Lone prof fights Obama Library at Univ of Chicago

The Chicago Sun-Times documents a lone professor, Charles Lipson's, fight against siting a proposed Obama library and museum on the University of Chicago campus. He argues that the university has a long standing policy of not taking political positio...

June 17, 2012

Holder's Just-Us Department under Fire

Whether he resigns or is removed or spends the rest of this year responding to Congressional  inquiries, Attorney general Holder has treated the Department of Justice as a partisan arm of the Obama Administration.   Now and for the for...

June 10, 2012

The Wintour of Our Discontent

Back at my favorite boîte, in a dark  back  booth I was scanning the news clips of the week and watching TV while waiting for lunch.  Greg Gutfeld's take on the Wisconsin recall election made me laugh out loud: "The media wanted Norma...

June 3, 2012

Seventy-Six Trombones and 8.2% Unemployment

This week the economic news is so grim even the media's usual qualifier "unexpected" is meaningless. We have grown to expect a stagnant economy on the rocks.  Meantime, the Obama campaign is heading into full conman territory, hoping like the Wi...

May 27, 2012

The Bane in Bain is Really Just a Feign

I got an email from my friend Rick Ballard: "There's no point in beating the drum for a sideshow when the clowns have the center ring."  That pretty much expressed my feelings about the latest Acme Campaign Strategery: Obama's Attack on Bain Cap...

May 21, 2012

More on the Kenyan Cherokee

Believe it or not, Breitbart has dug up evidence that like his pal, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama has claimed Cherokee heritage and has done so, as she has, with no proof whatsoever of the truth of that claim: [Ms. Warren's claims are current and w...

May 21, 2012

Wayback Feature Unravels the Obama Bio Lie

Doug Ross of Director Blue used the wayback feature to investigate Obama's literary agency's website and it shows that there were a number of revisions to the literary agent-distributed Obama biography that said he was born in Kenya; these revis...

May 20, 2012

How to Write Democrat Autobiographies (or Naked Came the Kenyan Cherokee)

Maybe it was just a dream, but I feel certain that I read an essay titled "How to Write Democrat Autobiographies (or Naked Came the Kenyan Cherokee*)," authored by  Barack H. Obama and Elizabeth Warren. I can't remember the name of the publicati...

May 14, 2012

How to get the Washington Post's attention

The Washington Post will not publish a correction on the Romney bullying story; they will not report the Rev Wright bribery. Mybe readers should know that there are other options besides Kaplan, the subsidiary that provides the bulk of the compa...

May 13, 2012

Attack of the Tea Party Zombies

Readers who heed what the media says would have thought the tea party bitter clingers were dead, so this week's election results must have seemed to them like the attack of the zombies. The zombies made their appearance known in Wisconsin, Indiana, a...

May 11, 2012

White House Gets West Virginia Message: Coal is Back!

Michelle Obama's Mirror catches the May 9-to-May 10 change on the Obama  website energy plan. Clean Coal has now taken the place  once held by  "Fuel Efficiency."  Nothing like losing over 40% of the primary vote to a jailed felon...

May 6, 2012

Clueless: Kim Kardashian and Elizabeth Warren

This week the White House Correspondents Association Dinner and the practice of Affirmative Action both took what  should be major body blows  at the hands of Kim Kardashian (famous for  a sex tape and very short marriage) and Elizabet...

April 29, 2012

Acme Sharpened Pikes Report to Stockholders

This Report highlights for our stockholders some of the events taking place in Washington DC and the consequences of those developments on our profit picture this year. We believe this is an exciting time of opportunity for our sharpened pike busines...

April 22, 2012

This Week's Exploding Cigar: Obama, the Dog Eater

As Don Surber notes: "Sadly, the economy still slogs along with gun sales as the lone bright sport."  Aware that this is not the kind of record you win re-election on, Obama's crack campaign staff has --with the aid of their media lapdogs-- set ...

April 15, 2012

'A Struggle Ensued': Lynch Mob Justice In Florida

From time to time the U.S. is engaged in its popular, charming pastime, following criminal cases. Once the special hobby of retirees who flooded the courthouses, since cable TV and the Internet, anyone can participate in these modern versions of mora...

April 8, 2012

Izzy, Esther, and Me: Memories of I.F. and Esther Stone

The American Spectator reports on I.F. Stone, charging as others have that he was an agent -- at least for a time -- of the Soviet Union: Stone has been hailed by liberals for decades as the literal "conscience" of journalism. The Los Angeles Times ...

April 1, 2012

Capitol Follies

Scientists announced this week that they had found ten billion habitable planets in the Milky Way.  The announcement was cheering, raising the possibility that there was some intelligent life somewhere in the universe in a week where it was...

March 30, 2012

The high cost of China's low prices

Matt Holzman thinks we are making a big mistake buying technology from China and explains: Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, made some very provocative statements to Smithsonian Magazine that were released today. He is deep...

March 29, 2012

Power and Willpower In the American Future

Power and Willpower In the American Future, by Robert J. Lieber It is no surprise to American Thinker's sophisticated readers that the meme of the day is that America is in decline and will not retake her place in the world.Mark Steyn's recent artic...

March 26, 2012

Obama and the Hoodie

How classy is this? The Obama election committee is selling hoodies with Obama's name on them. Obama 2012‏@Obama2012 Let everyone know whose team you're on for 2012 with today's merchandise steal: the college-style hooded sweatshirt.http://OFA.BO/...

March 25, 2012

The Incredible Pliability of Fact and Statistics

This week's report is about energy and the crazy things the President, Democrats, media, college students, and professors believe about energy and why their inability to acknowledge reality and understand economics and statistical evidence places us ...

March 18, 2012

'The Blacks: A Clown Show' (Revisited as an American Tragedy)

In 1961 a play  titled "The Blacks : A Clown Show" by the  French petty criminal and homosexual  prostitute  Jean Genet, was the avant garde sensation of New York.  At the St. Marks Playhouse it starred a cast of Black actors...

March 11, 2012

The Book of Obama: The Ganza Megillah

The story of Purim is found in the Book of Esther, a long, detailed story known as the "Megillah."  In Yiddish, the term "Ganza Megillah" has a number of meanings -- usually a long story -- which is how I am using it now. This week was Purim, th...

March 4, 2012

The Bell Tolls for Breitbart

The untimely death of the conservative media genius, Andrew Breitbart, came during a week where the lesson he taught us about media manipulation of the voters in support of leftwing Democratic goals was yet again manifest. William Jacobson set out pe...

February 26, 2012

Road to Road Island

This week the White House website announced that the Vice President was traveling to "Road Island," an error typical of the many risible illiteracies that regularly appear there, and of the inattention to detail that is the hallmark of the credential...

February 19, 2012

Leni Riefenstahl: Congratulations on the HHS Regulations

Memo: From Leni Riefenstahl To: President Barack Obama Schatzi, it's been over a year since I last wrote you. Please forgive me. It's been so hot here I can barely stand to touch the keyboard. Not that I don't appreciate the green energy projects you...

February 12, 2012

Won't You Come Home Bill Daley?

The past week saw a tardy footnote explaining in part how the Administration was able to cram  ObamaCare down the throats of  Americans who overwhelmingly opposed (and still oppose) it.   After the government spent $ 1.8 million d...

February 5, 2012

We're All Nonprofit Now

I have been watching over the years as non-profit foundations enormously have increased their assets and sway over the political and cultural life of America (essentially on our dime) with no real oversight or controls.  In many cases these outf...

February 3, 2012

Major Party Shift Among Jewish Voters

The Republican Jewish Coalition reports a seismic shift in Jewish voters party affiliation: In an analysis released today (Thursday), the Pew Research Center noted: Even Jewish voters, who have traditionally been and remain one of the strongest Demo...

January 29, 2012

The Debate Show

For months now we've been watching a series of kick lines fatuously called debates. The formula is essentially the same:  a moderator, or moderators, presses a slowly diminishing number of Republican candidates for their party's nomination with ...

January 22, 2012

Newt's Third Law

Isaac Newton's Third Law is familiar to most of us. Simply put: " To every action there is an  equal and opposite reaction." This week Newt Gingrich showed that the laws of motion are equally applicable to media manipulation to favor Obama or an...

January 15, 2012

Voguing for Obama

Quentin Crisp's take on fashion and fashionistas comes to mind whenever I read Style section writers like Robin Givhan ogling the First Lady's clothing choices: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are." As for fashionistas promoti...

January 8, 2012

How To Win Power by Selling Out Your Own Union

From an historian's point of view, one could do worse than studying the United Mine Workers of America.  It is a microcosm of the American Labor Movement.   It is a startling picture of the role of individuals in the making of American...

January 5, 2012

Obama's bogus recess appointment

Secrecy News cites this latest Congressional Research Service report on recess appointments. It's full of useful information. ...

January 1, 2012

Two Silly Notions: Biofuel Mandates as Carbon Neutral and Rhino Horn Medicine

I don't know why it is so, but it seems as if the folly of others causes so much suffering in Africa, a place which could do without extra disadvantage.  I had a wonderful vacation in South Africa, but while there I learned of the havoc being wa...

December 18, 2011

The Days are Long but the Years Are Short

Someone said this -- I forget who -- about parenthood, but it's true of life as well.  It's hard to believe it but this year is drawing to a close.  I will be spending most of the closing days -- the Chanukah and Christmas season -- on the ...

December 11, 2011

Attorney General Milo Minderbinder

It is a true pity that Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22, is no longer with us.  He deserved the chance to observe his character Milo Minderbinder, come to life. Minderbinder is Heller's prototype of deceitful, arrogant authority gone so awry he...

December 4, 2011

Scenes of the Occupation

I like to think I'm as avaricious as the next person, so when I read that $1 million in stimulus funds had been given out to the author of an online soap opera called "Diary of a Single Mom," every greedy bone in my body started tingling like Chris M...

November 27, 2011

Real Life K.O.'s Zorba and His EU Friends

In Nikos Kazanzakis' Zorba the Greek we see both Kazanzakis' disdain for capitalists and a description of the Greek ethos which is proving that country's economic downfall: "You think too much. That is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they w...

November 20, 2011

Secrets of the American Nomenklatura

With the rise of independent media, the secrets of the American nomenklatura are coming into clearer focus, the shameless exploitation of the good will and treasure of the people increasingly put on view for all to see. 1. The media and the Democrats...

November 13, 2011

Living in Omelasville

John Scalzi, discussing the outrageous behavior of the adults in the football program at Pennsylvania State University, sets the tone for today's piece. He describes the cowardice of all those who knew of the abuse of the young boys taking place and ...

November 6, 2011

Razing Cain

The media have been up to their usual tricks this week, smearing a Republican candidate with innuendo and anonymous charges. As the always fair minded James Taranto notes, Cain seems as much a victim as a villain in this  latest mediagenic tale:...

October 30, 2011

Self-Reliance for Dunces

America is divided between those who think her citizens are helpless and  stupid, and those who don't.  People who need the direction and control of such bright lights as Nancy Pelosi and the folks who okayed the Solyndra and Fast and Furio...

October 23, 2011

Karma

There are many definitions of karma.  For my purposes today I'll define it as the natural consequences of one's acts -- you know, you reap what you sow.  In that respect it's been a terrible, horrible, awful no good karma week for the White...

October 16, 2011

Bored Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue

In his book God Knows,  Joseph Heller perfectly described the manipulative, power hungry bored first lady.  Bathsheba, in his telling, is a constant meddler, jockeying for power and, desperate to have her son, Solomon, made David's successo...

October 9, 2011

Steve Jobs and the Adullamites Who Occupy Wall Street

The president and his attorney general, along with a number of other high-ranking administration officials, found themselves in deep trouble this week as their scandalous conduct in Solyndra and Fast and Furious received increased congressional scrut...

October 2, 2011

Science, Lies, and Videotape

It is the elite perception that conservatives are beetle-browed, anti-science nutters wedded to faith-based, unverifiable beliefs eschewed by the more sophisticated, scientific-thinking left. I call this the Garofolo Theory to memorialize this darlin...

September 25, 2011

Solyndra: Obama's Marble Boat

The dowager empress of China, Cixi, famously took the admiralty funds intended for building up an Imperial Admiralty and used them to construct a boat carved of marble on the shore of Kumming Lake for her amusement and the pleasure of her royal entou...

September 18, 2011

Hall of the Blue Dog

I probably shouldn't have watched chef Anthony Bourdain whip up his cod-sperm crème anglaise and sheep-testicle soufflé so close to bedtime because my dreams that night were  certainly bizarre. But I had stayed up late to see the victories in NY...

September 11, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Ten Years After 9/11

It's the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and an appropriate time for people to recall where they were on that day and how they reacted.  I don't really need an annual reminder though.  The day is so much a part of me that I still ofte...

September 4, 2011

Obama's Road to Bali

Upon his return from his Martha's Vineyard vacation, a trip cut short  so he could be photographed pretending  to exercise some hidden  capability to temper Irene's fury, Obama announced he wanted to give a speech to a j...

August 28, 2011

Will the Democrats Trump Trumka

Things rarely turn out the way I would have imagined them to, and President Obama and the Democrats might soon find that to be true of AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka.  I sure did. As a young lawyer with a few years experience working for the Appell...

August 21, 2011

Rime of the Ancient Democrat

I think sentient Democrats are watching their party's chances in 2012 slip away, and had they not made such a big deal of claiming all opposition to  Obama was racist in motivation and effect (see, e.g., this)  , they would now be urging hi...

August 14, 2011

Obamamandias

In ancient times, a leader who failed as greatly as Obama has was simply erased from the history of his people.  Craftsmen were engaged by his successors in power to chisel his name off of all the temples, (stone) archives, and monuments. ...

August 7, 2011

Raging At The Dying Of Their Light

Twice in recent years pleasant social events have been shattered by rage-filled outbursts when liberal men of a certain age learned that I disagreed with their views.  In each case the rage with which perfectly polite disagreement was expressed ...

July 31, 2011

Coin of the Realm

Creative accounting can land you in jail if you work in a business, but when it comes to Washington, it can be regarded as genius.    The debt ceiling game of chicken played out this week, and ground on into the weekend, as the House p...

July 24, 2011

The Budget Talks: Edge of the Rim of the Cusp

I cannot imagine a more perilous undertaking than predicting the outcome of the debt limit increase  negotiations still underway as I write this. To those who just prefer to ignore politics and blame both sides, that's all they'll take away...

July 17, 2011

President Demands 'Massive, Job-killing Tax Increases' and Dares Republicans to Call His Bluff

This was the kind of week where any self-respecting 2008 Obama supporter who had not yet yanked off his Obama-Biden Bumper sticker should have been in his garage scraping off that old Hope and Change. It began on Monday when he insisted on a "grand b...

July 10, 2011

Progressive Unemployment

The great political philosopher P. J. O'Rourke said, "You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money." If anyone doubted that, the present inhabitant of the White House has proven it by tossing away trillions of dollars on projects that had no l...

July 3, 2011

The Community Organizer Who Would be King

I really have to stop reading MayBee's sarcastic comments   just  before bedtime. She was making fun of Michelle Obama's teleprompter speech to some lady donors:  "It's also pretty funny to picture them, actually sitting on a sof...

June 26, 2011

Fast and Furious Fiasco: Time to Abolish the ATF

Voltaire observed "It's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others." This observation inspires me to suggest  that when an agency carries out  such a  bit of  idiotic malfeasance as the ATF's operation "F...

June 19, 2011

Happy Father's Day

I hope all you dads are having a great day. But if it's less than perfect, remember it could be worse. You could be Anthony Weiner's dad listening to his resignation speech in which he thanks you and his mom for instilling in him "the values that car...

June 12, 2011

The Flasher and the Journalist Flash Mobs

I was hoping to avoid discussing the Weiner situation, my inclination being to avoid listening or reading any information at all about other people's sex lives, preferring  (as someone whose name I've forgotten said) to just assume everyone has ...

June 5, 2011

You Did Not Learn All You Needed to Know in Kindergarten

In 1988  a fluffy lightweight book by Robert Fulghum , a Unitarian Universalist Minister, hit the best seller lists.  Its thesis was that everything you really need to know you learned in kindergarten. The top three items were "Share everyt...

May 29, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: The Quest for the Great Pizza

About two years, ago, inspired by the fantastic work of Sullivan Street Bakery's, Jim Lahey, I tried my hand at artisan bread. Oh, to be sure, I tried bread making before but even though I am a rather decent cook and baker, good tasting bread escaped...

May 22, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Obama and the 'Teutonic Shift' in the Middle East

One wonders if this is finally the week that the scales fall from the eyes of those Jews who voted for and supported Obama, not to mention these and other voters who hoodwinked themselves into believing that this man was some sort of brilliant new le...

May 15, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Waiting for Moammar

Michael and Barbara Ledeen were out of town.  They left a few things in my safekeeping, and -- listen, I know it was wrong -- I decided to try his Ouija board to see if it would be as lucky for me as it has been for him.I'm happy to report that ...

May 8, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: About Abbottabad

It's me, the official White House fly on the wall. It's been a big week around here.  I learned that 47% of the citizens of Detroit are functionally illiterate; national testing establishes that three out of four U.S. students "lack a basic...

May 1, 2011

Trump and the Hunt for Red Obama

Before the last presidential election I ran into many people I had considered reasonably well-informed and educated, only to be surprised by the extent to which they had been utterly taken in by the obviously ghostwritten Obama hagiography and the me...

April 24, 2011

Psst -- The Holder Tapes

SatireI'm letting you in on a secret. No President since Nixon -- until now -- has had secretly taped conversations in the Oval Office.  President Obama , however, decided it would be prudent to tape all his conversations with his Attorney Gener...

April 17, 2011

Did We Hitch Our Wagon to a (Death) Star?

Vittorio Arrigoni, who had devoted several years of his life to the Palestinian cause, is dead -- murdered by those he thought he was helping.An Italian pro-Palestinian activist was killed by Palestinian Islamic extremists who had kidnapped him in Ga...

April 10, 2011

The Story of O (Icarus, not Pegasus)

This week is one where the high flying, above it all (or, depending on your point of view, arrogant and totally self-seeking) president has over flown his carefully constructed, made up persona, and his wax wings are melting and with them his party's...

April 3, 2011

Code Pink reappears

Hugo  Chavez's  Code  Pink Pals vanished as the President expanded the war in Afghanistan and bombed Libya. So what are they up to?From  Iran, this  mystery is solved:Activist groups from across the United States have ga...

April 3, 2011

The Unified Theory of Obama

For as long as I can remember scientists have been trying to put together a Theory of Everything which would explain and connect all the knowledge we have of physical phenomena. So far they haven't been successful, but they keep trying.  I wonde...

March 29, 2011

Hitchens: The Iraq Effect

Funny how it takes Christopher hitchens to acknowledge that none of the change in the Middle East would have been possible without President Bush's decision to invade Iraq:Can anyone imagine how the Arab spring would have played out if a keystone Ara...

March 28, 2011

More on the U.S. military Japanese Aid Work

Two Sundays ago I wrote about the devastation in Japan and included an email from Maggie Porter, aboard the USS Mustin. Here's a relevant portion of her latest email which reveals not only the nature of our continuing work but as well how rapid and w...

March 27, 2011

Ishtar II: The Audacity of the Artless War

If you've ever eaten out in Los Angeles you know everyone waiting on you is just auditioning for a part or angling for someone to read his screenplay.  My grand daughter whom I was visiting was hungry, and we stopped at the nearby In-N-Out for a...

March 20, 2011

The Fukushima 50 and the White House Cipher

This was a week of enormous contrasts, in which we saw colossal courage and integrity and bravery on the part of U.S. troops and ordinary Japanese, and cowardice and childishness in the White House. Battered by a devastating earthquake followed by a ...

March 13, 2011

The Chic of Araby

Not since the 1978 FBI Abscam sting when FBI agents posing as a fictional sheikh and his associates, has Washington D.C. been so entertained by make believe Arabs exposing corruption by those who think they are smarter than we are.  You may not ...

March 6, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Picture This

This picture tells what I mean to say about this week: The persistence of false memes and how they are destroying America's poor and the fabric of our nation. We must be more successful in persuading those who believe them that they are false. Becaus...

March 4, 2011

A Tutorial on Polls

Legal Insurrection will be offering a polls tutorial:I'm pleased to announce that next week Legal Insurrection will have a special guest series of posts on pollling, written by Matthew Knee, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale (don't hold it against him)...

February 27, 2011

The Fierce Moral Urgency of WTF

Sick of carving up my hands as I wrestled with those ubiquitous clamshell packages, I bought a super duper package opening tool which promises to make this chore easier, but I nicked my skin on the clamshell packaging as I struggled to get to it.In t...

February 21, 2011

Obama airbrushing history

Tom Maguire reprints the White House version of Obama's role in the Wisconsin labor dispute and suggests we compare it with the video of his remarks. If you do, you know they are airbrushing history. The Milwaukee television interview that was Mr. O...

February 20, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: The Gift of Words

I think if there is a heaven, a special place must be found there where the best teachers in the world have thrones of glory. If I'm right then there's one that already has inscribed upon it the name "Miss Sanchez," for she has given my fiv...

February 16, 2011

Lax IRS Misspends Billions Each Year. Billions

The Washington Examiner reports that the IRS failed its own audit, having been found to have made billions in refunds to people who don't deserve them using a program that by 2014 could result in $65 billion being given away to unqualified recipients...

February 13, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Arianna for President

I see that Donald Trump (with how many wives and bankruptcies in his past?) appeared at the CPAC conference, hinting that he might run for President on the Republican ticket. With all due regard, I suggest he's the wrong person: We need Arianna Huffi...

February 6, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: The Incredible Lightness of Obama

This week saw a showdown between the man whose most significant achievement before 2008 was that he very nearly got the asbestos removed from the Altgeld Gardens tenements in Chicago and the third-longest-ruling head of Egypt since the Pharaoh Ramses...

February 1, 2011

Administration itself sank ObamaCare

Jennifer Rubin explains that, even in the absence of a severability clause, judges try to save as much of a law as they can when portions of it are found to be unconstitutional, but in this case, the Obama Administration forced the court to void the ...

January 30, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: She Wouldn't Harm a Fly

Frances Fox Piven is a sociology professor who for four decades has advocated violent social upheaval as a means of effecting the radical change she believes in.  Her notion of appropriate change is quite obviously the displacement of the produc...

January 23, 2011

Allegory of the Cave of the Mama Grizzly

It was my online friend narciso, the pen name of a brilliant commenter on the day's events, who first summed up this week's folderol over Sarah Palin.  "One is struck," he noted,  " by how much Plato's 'Tale of the Cave' seem...

January 16, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Another Memo from Leni Riefenstahl

From: Leni RiefenstahlTo: Barack Obama und Frau ObamaSubject: Politische Kundgebung getarnt als eine Gedenkfeier (Political rally masquerading as a memorial service)It's been two years since I last wrote.  Then it was about the Invesco Field Ral...

January 14, 2011

Afghans in Kabul Demonstrate Against Iran

Afghanis demonstrate against the Iranian regime; they chant: "The Iranian regime is a crocodile", "Khamenei is sick in the head", "Death to the Mullah Regime of Iran. They are burning and stomping on Ahmadinejad's photo and s...

January 12, 2011

Sarah Palin speaks

Here is a part of the statement Sarah Palin issued today, something no one else in her party (are you listening Governor Pawlenty ?) has had the wit or wisdom to say: Like many, I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for...

January 11, 2011

Loughner's Grudge Against Giffords Dates From 2007

Legal Insurrection has been following the media /left distortion of the shooter's motivation in the Arizona atrocity. The effort to blame Palin/Limbaugh/heated rhetoric is preposterous.It is becoming clear that Loughner had a longstanding delusional...

January 10, 2011

ETA Basque terror group announces 'ceasefire'

Barcepundit expresses reasonable skepticism as the intentions of ETA which has just announced a  "permanent and internationally verifiable ceasefire." ETA's  announcement made no mention of dissolution of the organization or ...

January 9, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Be Scientific (Skeptical) about Scientific Research

David Suzuki said, "Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."  His observation is proven right every single day.I remember when I first learned that lesson at my moth...

January 8, 2011

Saddam's WMD stockpile raided by Al Qaeda on 2003

Barcepundit reports on this story from the left wing UK Guardian, which details how in the early days of the Iraq war Al Qaeda was able to get its hands on a huge store of Saddam's weapons:According to the piece, the material included chemical w...

December 26, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Kentucky McConnell and the Temple of Pork

I was really happy when I read in the Washington Post that soon-to-be demoted to Minority Leader of the House Nancy Pelosi has turned to director Steven Spielberg to "rebrand" the House Democrats.The story offered me a way out of my quandar...

December 19, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: This (Class) War Is Lost

Rev. Senator Harry Reid famously said before the Bush surge in Iraq, "This war is lost."  It wasn't.  But you could take one look at his face Thursday night, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party that signifies the American...

December 17, 2010

Michelle Obama, food dictator

"Granny Jan" consistently turns out great videos mocking the administration. Here's "her" latest, making fun of Michelle Obama's School Lunch  grab and showing the likely consequences on overflowing landfills and school trash...

December 13, 2010

Virginia AG Cuccinelli's press conference (updated)

This afternoon Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli held a press conference to explain his view of the case and what the next steps would be. He said this litigation was a "long process"; that as the case was wending its way to the Supr...

December 13, 2010

Jikileaks

J Street is the fake Israeli advocacy group which is anti-Israel and close to Obama. Someone is posting documents on a website called Jikileaks www.jikileaks.com which confirms all the critics of the organization have said of it.Here's an example:　J ...

December 12, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: The Incredible Shrinking President

From the beginning of the week to the end, the president made crystal-clear to anyone who paid attention that he was over his head in this position and that he was startlingly disengaged in all but the most trivial of ceremonial matters.Obama's agent...

December 6, 2010

Israel's 'delegitimization' a threat to her security

Robert Satloff , of the Washingon Institute for Near East Policy returns from a Mideast tour with a rather more optimistic view than we generally hear and one warning from the Egyptian Prime Minister:[T]he Institute delegation was struck by two comm...

December 5, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Some Things about Politics I Don't Understand

I have lived in Washington for over forty years. Between us, my husband and I have worked for the federal government, in private practice, in the House, in the Senate, and for nonprofits. In those years, we've learned a fair amount about the workings...

November 28, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: A Very American Thanksgiving

Community organizers, like most Democrat candidates, gain power by dividing people and by emphasizing what distinguishes groups (sex, age, religion, race, ethnic background). They promise that they will "fight for you" -- that is, fight for...

November 22, 2010

Ozone Day Musings

Matt's Meditations reviews the fantastical predictions on the disappearing ozone layer which proved wrong  and the switch from global warming to climate change when the evidence for warming seemed rigged and argues persuasively why it's all popp...

November 21, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: God Bless Barack Obama

I suppose that heading is a bit startling coming from me this fall Sunday but I mean it. In literature, deus ex machina refers to a plot device which resolves what appears to pose an intractable problem. And, as I explain, I think Obama is ours -- a ...

November 16, 2010

I bet you're wrong, Roger Ebert

In his review of the new film Fair Game, an odious pack of lies about the Plame affair, Roger Ebert says this:In the film, we see that Plame, under a variety of aliases, ran secret networks of informants in Bagdad and other Middle Eastern cities. Whe...

November 14, 2010

Confrontation In Costa Rica

Once again, the leftist thugs of Central America test our mettle and prove the  impotence of international organizations.Haaretz reports that Iran,Venezuela and Nicaragua are working together to encroach on Costa Rican territory:The recent borde...

November 14, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Restoring American Stature Abroad

With his characteristic inability to carry his thoughts to a logical conclusion, President Obama seems to have missed that his constant denigration of his own country and apologies for its actions (which, in fact, require none) diminish not just the ...

November 13, 2010

Just about anything is 'Fair Game' - except the truth

The arty secions of many newspapers are promoting "Fair Game" the make believe story of Valerie Plame in which the name Richard Armitage does not appear. An exellent debunking of this Hollywood history remake is here.  Even more inte...

November 11, 2010

Big redistricting problems for Dems in 2012

The National Journal surveys the 2012 Congressional landscape and, inter alia, finds the Democrats at a distinct disadvantage because of redistricting:Republicans have the ability to expand their congressional majorities in other battleground states...

November 7, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Glib Pasha Gets His Just Desserts

While most of the talking heads are rattling on about House and Senate seats lost by the president's party, the real news, it seems to me, is the massive shift of power to the Republicans at the state level. Next year's redistricting will see the Rep...

November 4, 2010

Reports of our death were greatly exaggerated

The inestimable James Taranto reminds us brilliantly of the large number of prognosticators who were dead wrong about this Read it all, this is just a sample:Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, last year published a quickie book,...

November 3, 2010

Obama India trip to cost taxpayers $200 million a day

The Press Trust of India reports that the Obamas lavish get out of town and mambo in Mumbai trip will lost U.S. taxpayers $200 million a day.Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Ob...

November 1, 2010

The Five Stages of Democratic Grief

My friend JMH composed this and agreed to let me share it with at readers:The Five Stages of Democratic GriefPre-mortems: 1. Prep the battlefield. Winning isn't everything, you know! 2. Move the goal posts (or baselines). If Republicans don...

October 31, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: The Philosophical Pragmatist's Passage to India

A certain Harvard professor named Kloppenberg (which my rusty Yiddish indicates means "meatball hill") has written a forthcoming book about Obama. When an article on it was published in the New York Times, this piece invited derision of Klo...

October 26, 2010

New book captures Iraq combat experience

"Nightcap at Dawn" is a new book written by a group of very intelligent warriors to benefit the families of those troops who fought in Iraq. Christopher Hitchens highly recommends it:This week sees the publication of a truly extraordinary...

October 24, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Fox and Hens (A Terrible Week for the Media)

As we draw nearer to the midterm elections and what still promises to be a crushing defeat for the Democrats, the Democrats themselves refuse to campaign on the issues, preferring to rely on every bit of manufactured slime they can use. Their media ...

October 21, 2010

Allen West leads in Florida slugfest

In a wild, slug it out race, Republican Allen West is leading the incumbent Ron Klein in Florida's District 22 according to the latest Sunshine State poll: Republican Allen West narrowly leads U.S. Rep. Ron Klein in a bruising battle for South Florid...

October 20, 2010

Smartypants AP reporter not so smart

The AP's reporter got caught flatfooted suggesting Christine O 'Donnell didn't know the Constitution and then the article was simply rewritten without issuing a correction or notice to readers. Patterico has the details....

October 19, 2010

CIA Sues Ishmael Jones: His Response

Ishmael Jones, former CIA employee and author, has been sued by the CIA which claims he published his book without authorization in violation of his pledge to the agency. Jones has contributed several articles to AT. I asked him to respond and here i...

October 19, 2010

Judge could rule on VA's challenge to ObamaCare by year's end

The office of the Attorney General of Virginia is reporting that after arguments today in Richmond, it is possible that the state's challenge to the Constitutionality of Obamacare, will be decided before the end of the year: Richmond (October 18, 201...

October 18, 2010

'Fault Lines'

In the Weekly Standard, Noemie Emery has produced an article so excellent and full of insight that  it seems wrong to even try and  excerpt. I urge you to read every word about Obama's apologists and how they keep trying to scapegoat the op...

October 17, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Bang the Drum Loudly

By today, the deadline has passed for your chance at an all-expenses-paid trip on October 22 to Las Vegas to meet the president, a lottery sponsored by Organizing for America and said to be worth $1,200. It's one of the few chances to meet him outsid...

October 15, 2010

Start the day right

Rushing to down that coffee and get to work where you can read American Thinker at leisure? J.M. Guardia, who's stationed in Barcelona, is taking advantage of the time difference to gather up the night's happenings and serving the news up to you ...

October 10, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Lean Forward

The week ended with 36 attendees at an Obama rally in Maryland collapsing in apparent illness. As one wag said, it seems like just yesterday Obama crowds were swooning; now they are simply sickened. Our quick-witted Vice President Biden told a Wiscon...

October 6, 2010

Able Danger Back in the News

Sometimes stuff swept under the carpet makes its way out no matter how hard the broom is wielded, and so it is with Able Danger, the pre 9/11 program on data mining which popped back in the news when we learned that the Department of Defense had boug...

October 3, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Chum for Chumps

Earlier this week, Michael Barone reported that the battleground for 2010 indicated that the Democrats were being wiped off the election map everywhere except the coasts and that even there, Republican Meg Whitman was slightly ahead of Democrat Jerry...

September 30, 2010

ObamaCare Chickens Coming Home to Roost

The Administration cared little when voters and employers warned of the problems in ObamaCare. Now that it's passed, every day brings more evidence that it should have listened to those warnings.The Wall Street Journal reports that McDonald's may hav...

September 26, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Make Way for Hillary?

Obama, Pelosi, and Reid shoved the hated ObamaCare legislation through the world's greatest deliberative body, and we are seeing the results. As my friend Rick Ballard says, "Those who went along with the Three Stooges of the Democalypse are goi...

September 25, 2010

Which 'Malik Shabazz' visited the White House?

It's increasingly likely that the White House was involved in the decision to drop the election intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and Big Government reminds us that the visitor's log indicates a Malik Shabazz visited there in Ju...

September 24, 2010

William Ayers denied academic honorific

It's only an honorary status and the rebuke is long overdue, but the University of Illinois finally treated ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers with the kind of treatment he merits.Chicago Sun Times: When retiring University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bil...

September 24, 2010

Ecuador:An Attempted International Ripoff Dissolves in Farce

A stupid American movie star, an ambitious plaintiff's counsel, a corrupt leftist government and a U.S. oil company star in a morality play in which an attempted ripoff turns into a farce, and the good guys who stood their ground (Chevron) appear to ...

September 21, 2010

Jesse Jackson Jr's Blagojevich Story Doesn't Match His Fundraiser's

The Chicago Tribune reports that Jesse Jackson Jr.'s account of his efforts to get then-Governor Blagojevich to appoint him to Obama's vacant Senate seat is not matching the account given by one of his fundraiser's.  Shortly after Blagojevich's ...

September 21, 2010

Progressive jihad against Israel

This article from Andrew Marcus in Big Government documents in fine detail the facts of the progressive jihad against Israel, naming names and organizations and linking such Democrats as Barack Obama, John Conyers, Maxine Waters and public figures...

September 20, 2010

'Islamaphobia' another political tool

If Legal Insurrection isn't among your bookmarked sites, it ought to be because Professor Jacobson also provides interesting material.Today he shows that the Arab world is in agreement with those who think the Cordoba Mosque ought not to be built at ...

September 19, 2010

The 'Lombardi Rule' is in effect

Fed up with those on the right unfairly critical of Christine O'Donnell, Delaware's Republican senatorial candidate, Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson says: The left is doing to O'Donnell exactly what they did to Sharron Angle -- swamp her with a...

September 19, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: I Told You So

Last year I wrote that the Tea Party demonstration in Washington was a "transformative event," and I described it through the eyes of a participant:Sometimes an event occurs which is transformative in a way that everyone who sees it or part...

September 18, 2010

DoJ investigates itself

Reviewing the Department's handling of the Black Panther case and the news that the IG is looking into the work of the Civil Rights Division, Jennifer Rubin, writing in the Weekly Standard concludes:[D]espite the Obama team's best efforts to stonew...

September 17, 2010

Lobbyist singing to the feds

Hot Air notes a little noticed AP story to the effect that Murtha-linked lobbyist Paul Magliochetti is singing to the feds and that means trouble for a number of Democrats also associated with Magliochetti and the late Congressman Murtha.In the meant...

September 15, 2010

Eleanor Holmes Norton on Tape Strong arming a Lobbyist for $$$

Big Government has a revealing tape of Eleanor Holmes Norton soliciting funds from a lobbyist in which she improperly notes his contributions to other committee members and hints at her power to give or deny favors. On Sunday I  indicated Speake...

September 15, 2010

Jonah Goldberg on last night's primary results

Jonah Goldberg has some thoughtful things to say about the primary including this:You can't play out the "what ifs" with any certainty, but it seems pretty obvious to me that if the tea parties hadn't been around, doing what they do, the G...

September 14, 2010

Look at Obama spend your money. See him spend. Spend. Spend. Spend.

Barack Obama is to publish a children's book, featuring his daughters on the cover. As Byron York notes, the daughters, formerly declared off limits, are trotted out to sell books now. The contents have not been revealed yet, but we are told it is ...

September 14, 2010

DOJ's IG dong a Programmatic Review of the Civil Rights Division

The Washington Time's Jerry Seper reports that the Department of Justice's highly regarded Inspector General Glenn A Fine, has found a work around the law''s limitation on his power to investigate DOJ  wrongdoing, and is examining the Department...

September 12, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Democratic Party Death Panels

The past week began (for me) on a bright note and only got better. The New York Times announced that the Democrats have instituted internal death panels:As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders a...

September 6, 2010

Final Jeopardy: The answer is zero

And the question is...How Many Democrats Are running Ads Saying they Voted for Obamacare?The answer is zero!That's what Politico is reporting:A handful of House Democrats are making health care reform an election year issue - by running against it.A...

September 5, 2010

Green Money Laundering

The Telegraph  reports that the green carbon emissions scam is not only lining the pockets of the usual big money phonies, but as well is proving a wonderful vehicle for the Mafia and other criminals to launder their ill-gotten gains:"Attra...

September 5, 2010

ETA No Violence Pledge Suspect Says Barcepundit

Our favorite Spanish blogger, J.M. Guardia of Barcepundit, explains why he views the Basque separatists' (ETA's ) pledges to stp offensive attacks with great suspicion.  Like him, we'll believe it when we see it.FORGIVE ME if I fail to get much ...

September 5, 2010

Michelle's No Fat Kid Program Has a Problem

Theodp on Slashdot reports a certain inconsistency is Michelle Obama's anti-fat kids program. (No, smartie, it's not that she's always photographed eating ice cream, while promoting veggies for us.)   "The winners of the childhood...

September 5, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: The Summer of Recovery Ends, Epic Fail Fall Begins

Summer began on such a hopeful note. Vice President Biden was trotted out of seclusion to announce in January, "You're going to see, come the spring, net increase in jobs every month." Certain he'd not mislead us, we waited, full of optimis...

September 2, 2010

The Make Believe Mosque and Info On Rauf's Funders

The Washington Examiner reveals some creative tax filing by Imam Rauf and reveals who is funding him..Feisal Abdul Rauf, the New York imam and State Department envoy who wants to build a controversial new mosque at Ground Zero, applied for - and rece...

September 1, 2010

Administration Tries and Fails To Pull a Fast One (Drilling Moratorium)

Having been enjoined by Judge Feldman (no relation) from trying to halt oil drilling based on inadequate scientific basis, the Administration's Secretary Salazar, tried to pull a fast one by simply issuing another moratorium. Judge Feldman has refuse...

August 31, 2010

Jay Cost: It was Healthcare that Did in the Dems

Perceptive Jay Cost writes persuasively on Real Clear Politics that the process and passage of healthcare legislation is what has turned the tide against House Democrats: Partisans on both sides tell themselves stories about why they're up, why they'...

August 29, 2010

Latest Development in Wuterich (Haditha) Case

One defendant, SSgt Wuterich, remains in the case against the Marines in the surely ginned up "Haditha massacre," and his counsel has filed suit to dismiss it on the ground of Marine Corps interference with counsel,  by forcing him to ...

August 29, 2010

NYT's Zernike: Tea Party = racist

Timothy Carney at the Washington Examiner takes on Kate Zernike's opinion posing as news story about yesterday's rally, concluding:[S]he ends with this conclusion:Even if Tea Party members are right that any racist signs are those of mischief-makers,...

August 29, 2010

Cordoba Mosque Developer Tax Deadbeat

The more we learn about the developer the less likely it seems the mosque will get off the ground.The NY Post reports that Gamal has a signficant unpaid tax bill :Sharif El-Gamal, the leading organizer behind the mosque and community center near Gro...

August 29, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Reach Out

I had all my notes ready for this week's column and grabbed them to think in peace and quiet in the Georgetown Rathskeller, one of the few non-tarted-up boites left in this growing-ever-richer Capital City.I can't work in an atmosphere of botoxed bab...

August 28, 2010

Cordoba Mosque Developer's Run-ins with Cops and Money Problems

The New York Daily News reports Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the Cordoba Mosque has had 7 run ins with the law and money difficulties:Years before his latest real-estate project ignited an uproar, Sharif El-Gamal racked up at least sev...

August 27, 2010

It's the Oiks versus the People

James Taranto at Best of the Web has something so good I hope you share it with friends and family:  The British philosopher Roger Scruton has coined a term to describe this attitude: oikophobia. Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia ...

August 27, 2010

Last Refuge of a Liberal

The great Charles Krauthammer knocks one out of the park again, describing how the elites, having lost majority opinion, try to tar the opposition and fail:  It is a measure of the corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-...

August 27, 2010

A "Perfect Storm' in the Middle East

Michael Totten interviews an Israeli journalist who made his way into south Lebanon:You don't see the Lebanese flag in the south. Only the Hezbollah flag, the Amal flag, and the Iranian flag. It was a real eye-opener. I knew this already, but it's s...

August 26, 2010

US Soldier at Fort Hood in Uniform Attacks Service as Islamophobic

Isn't there a rule against military service members making political statements while in uniform? Here's an Al-Jazeera interview of a man in U.S. military uniform who says he's stationed at Fort Hood complaining of Islamophobia in the milit...

August 25, 2010

'Anti-Muslim' attacker works for Pro Cordoba Mosque Group

You cannot make this stuff up. Politico reports today that the man who attacks a Muslim cab driver in NYC apparently as an anti-Muslim act, works for a group supporting the building of the mosque at ground zero.The apparent anti-Muslim assault o...

August 25, 2010

Why is CBO's Job Saved Model Like Ed McMahon's Ads?

Professor Jacobson takes issue with the predictive model CBO uses to claim the stimulus lalapalooza "may have saved" 3.3 million jobs,comparing it to the Publisher's Clearing House ads telling viewers they "may have" won millions....

August 25, 2010

The Imam's Wife Joins the Taxpayer Paid Free Ride

What is wrong at the Department of State? The great Claudia Rossett, reports now Imam Rauf's wife has joined the taxpayer paid free ride:Yes, fresh from denouncing America on national television as a place rife with "hate of Musli...

August 24, 2010

Christopher Hitchens: Let's Make Tolerance a Two Way Street

Noting his disagreement with the opponents of the mosque, and Imam Rauf's support of Iran's Mullahcracy, among other things,and Islamic overreaching and intolerance to others, Christopher Hitchens suggests we should make the mosque a true test o...

August 24, 2010

Obama is Dukakis, not Carter

The Weekly Standard's Noemie Emery argues persuasively that Obama should be compared to Dukakis, not Carter, concluding:"The first America tends to make the finer sounding speeches, and the second America often strikes cruder, more xenophobic n...

August 22, 2010

Are you a member of the political class?

I'm a big fan of pollster Scott Rasmussen but hoped for a clearer definition of what he calls the "political class". Today the Wall Street Journal , in an article about him, reveals the answer to my question:To figure out where people are,...

August 22, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

The week began for Obama with him basking in the love of his invited guests at a White House Iftar dinner and ended with his party in disarray, his political fortunes plunging even further, and his sixth (Michelle's seventh) lavish vacation of the se...

August 21, 2010

Pew: Jews Leaving Dems

It turns out the Obamessiah really can pull off a miracle. Charles Blow of the NYT reports on a Pew poll which shows that Obama has performed the impossible. He's breaking the traditional hold the Democratic Party has had on Jewish voters: ...

August 19, 2010

The Wall Street Journal Calls on Patrick Fitzgerald to Resign

Calling him an "unaccountable federal prosecutor run amok", the Wall Street Journal says  Patrick Fitzgerald should resign as a U.S. prosecutor or be removed by his superiors:  As the former Justice Department lawyer Victoria...

August 18, 2010

Some deluge

Arizona's Espresso Pundit makes fun of the Arizona Republic's predictions about the political affect  of the state's immigration law:I especially enjoyed the commentary by Democrats who "worried" that SB 1070 was going to lead to the d...

August 18, 2010

Giant Obamacare Loophole

NRO's Stephen Spruiell  notes a large Obamacare loophole which could undo the entire scheme of  forcing young healthy citizens to subsidize the health care of everyone else:  One challenge in implementing healthcare refo...

August 18, 2010

Let's Just Appreciate the Great Obama Presidency

So says the Washington Examiner's Noemie Emery, writing tongue in cheek:How brilliant are these strategists there at the White House, and how canny at reading the mood of the people? How wise is this strategy of giving them what they don't want, and ...

August 17, 2010

Judge grants stay on overturning CA gay marriage

Professor Bill Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a stay of the District Court order overturning the Prop 8 ban on same sex marriages and in the process ignored the lower court's language that ...

August 16, 2010

Holding Islam to Account

Asia Times' Spengler examines America's views of Islam and finds that except for our elites, American's views are unfavorable and hardening: Never in American history has the gap been greater between the experience of ordinary Americans and the ...

August 16, 2010

DoJ finally drops 6 year investigation of Tom DeLay

Politico's Mike Allen reports that the Department of Justice has finally formally dropped its investigation of former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay: From Mike Allen at Politico this morning:EXCLUSIVE - The Justice Department is dropping ...

August 15, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Requiem for a Heavyweight

Nancy Pelosi rode into the speakership on a theme of ending what she called the "Culture of Corruption," suggesting that she was going to get out her broom and clean it up. As wealthy as she is, the thought of her cleaning house was always ...

August 13, 2010

ACORN loses its funding ban appeal.

AP is reporting that the federal  Court of Appeals overturned a district court  which had ruled unconstitutional Congress' ban on future ACORN funding.h/t: Dan RiehlThe lower court decision was preposterous and the reversal is both understa...

August 13, 2010

Another Dem boondoggle on life support

The Washington Examiner's Barbara Hollingsworth has some good news, the Dem's planned golden goose  called the Chicago Climate Exchange is running out of money and laying off employees.Reuters reports that a lack of Senate action on cap-and-trad...

August 11, 2010

President Obama: Brought to you by GE

Gateway Pundit reports:This is criminal...FOX Business Channel's Charles Gasparino told Bill O'Reilly tonight that GE CEOJeffrey Immelt gathered the NBC reporters together in early 2009 and scolded them for reporting negatively on Bara...

August 9, 2010

AIDS and PC, a fatal combination

South Carolina adopted a perfectly reasonable method to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS in its prison  population: isolating those with the disease from the rest of the prison  population. Unsurprisingly, the demented P.C. crowd at the Depa...

August 9, 2010

Congress just as wasteful on travel expenses as Obamas

The Hill reports Congressional travel expenses are soaring rapidly. No doubt impressed by the Obama's profligate use of our money, Congress has followed suit: The Senate is on pace to set an all-time high for foreign travel costs this year, with a ...

August 8, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: From Cordoba to Marbella

The no-good, horrible, terrible week for the credentialed morons.Newton believed that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, and while he was observing physical phenomenon, the same can be said this week of American politics.If la...

August 8, 2010

Follow your money

Two expenditures by the administration sure to raise hackles.First, from Information Week: Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $36 million prog...

August 8, 2010

AFL-CIO Employees Demand Administration Remove DHS Immigration Heads

Director Blue's Doug Ross reports a stunning development: It was unanimous. That is, 259 of 259 representatives of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm of the AFL-CIO voted to demand the removal of President Obama's DHS immigration heads. 100%...

August 5, 2010

Obama's August Surprise?

Rumors are spreading that in the face of a predicted blowout for Dems in November and Obama's ever lowering approval numbers, he is planning to order Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to renegotiate down the principal on mortgages where the properties are n...

August 2, 2010

It's official: Maxine Waters faces ethics charges

The Washington Examiner reports that formal charges have been filed against Congresswoman Maxine Waters by the House Ethics Committee:The House ethics committee on Monday announced it has found Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., in violation of the...

August 2, 2010

The Aristocrat Party

Even the generally clueless Boston Globe is catching on. Our "people's party" is headed by rich aristocrats with lavish, ostentatious tastes:Democrat John Kerry sets sail in a $7 million yacht built in New Zealan d. Republican Scott Brown ...

August 1, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Long Hot Summer

Faced with a rising crime rate, unending social costs of a porous border with Mexico, and unlimited numbers of illegal immigrants crossing it to take advantage of Arizona's largesse, that state sought a reasonable solution. It passed a law which trac...

July 31, 2010

AZ immigration appeal scheduled for week of November 1

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will not hear Arizona's appeal of the injunction order issued by Judge Bolton on an expedited basis. Instead the hearing is scheduled for week of November 1.Professor Jacobson once again expresses my own thoughts o...

July 30, 2010

Secure Communities

It's a head scratcher. Tom Maguire notes the NYT articles on an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) program called Secure Communities -- which seems remarkably like the Arizona law which the department just succeeded in getting enjoined. ...

July 29, 2010

Neither Roosevelt nor Reagan

Noemie Emery explains how Obama blew his lead and devastated his party in the August 2 edition of the Weekly Standard.  Don't miss a word of it. Here's the conclusion:As Henninger concluded, "Barack Obama took a rising reservoir of pub...

July 29, 2010

Some Dem and Administration Operatives on Journolist

Ezra Klein's vetting process left a lot to be desired, if we are to believe his claim that he kept political operatives off Journolist. As Daily Caller reports:Despite its name, membership in the liberal online community Journolist wasn't limited to...

July 26, 2010

Why has Jesse Jackson, Jr. escaped prosecution in Blago case?

The great John Kass of the Chicago Tribune reveals what most of the press has avoided in the Blagojevich case, there's evidence that Congressman Jesse Jackson,, Jr. was involved in a plan to pay off then-Governor Blagojevich for appointing him to O...

July 26, 2010

Now You See Her, Now You Don't

Alexander Marlow at Big Government points out something that underscores what lots of us believe about the rapidly fading into meaninglessness Sunday morning shows:They exist to pump stories Obama wants and hide what he doesn't want. Exhibit One--S...

July 25, 2010

Obama Admin Approved Lockerbie Bomber Release

Some folks in Scotland are angry enough to leak to the Guardian what many of us already suspected. The Lockerbie bomber was released only with our approval--grudgingly given perhaps--but given nevertheless.Barack Obama is under growing pressure ...

July 25, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Know When to Hold 'Em

Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" is as good a start to this week's summary as I can think of:"You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em,Know when to walk away and know when to run.You never count your money when yo...

July 24, 2010

New additions make for 107 Journolist names

Poster Buckeye Texan of Free Republic has posted an updated list of 107 names confirmed on Journalist, with organization identities provided:1. Spencer Ackerman - Wired, FireDogLake, WashingtonIndependent, Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect2....

July 24, 2010

The real loss to the media in the JournoList scandal

Jay Cost explains the real loss to the media in the JournoList scandal. The media will now be viewed, as it ought to be; as expressing partisan views, and not some objective reality. He thinks that's not a bad thing. Neither do I.Somehow, Ezra Klei...

July 23, 2010

Dem Senator turns on the diversity shakedown

In the Wall Street Journal Democrat Senator James Webb attacks both the basis for "diversity" racial preferences and its negative impact, indicating it's time to end these programs.   He's proven himself a political opportuni...

July 23, 2010

More Journolist Members Identified

Nate Silver at 538 blog outs himself on his membership on Journolist, and Ezra Klein  provides the names for more members of Journolist. The no longer covert  members are compiled on Protein Wisdom:Nate SilverOffice of Management and B...

July 22, 2010

Using the Internet to make Anti-Semitism Respectable

Lee Smith details how the internet is being employed by media companies to spread anti-semitism:If not quite as popular as adult-content sites, the anti-Israel blogosphere is a dirty little thrill that major U.S. media outfits have mainstreamed f...

July 21, 2010

Known Journolisters

A Free Republic poster compiled this list of known members of the JournolistSave this--a poster at FR has compiled a list of known journolist membersThe following 64 names are confirmed members of the now-defunct JournoList listserv.1. Ezra Klei...

July 19, 2010

IG Report: Obama policies responsible for job losses

According to the Washington Examiner's Mark Tapscott, a report to be released tomorrow, blames the Obama Administration for significantly increasing job losses by its ill-considered shuttering of GM/Chryser dealerships:A report to be released tomorr...

July 18, 2010

DoE Suspends Funds to CRU Crew

While the press had largely satisfied itself that the internal whitewash of the Hadley CRU climategate  email scandal settles the matter, the U.S. Department of Energy seems to be saying, "Not so fast."The American government has suspe...

July 18, 2010

Clarice's Pieces July 18, 2010

There was so much material this week, it was almost impossible to choose, but here it is: "Immigration," "Green Beans!" "NASA's Wings Clipped," and "The Summer of our (racist?) Discontent"ImmigrationThe suit ag...

July 17, 2010

WaPo will publish classified info on Monday

The Washingon Times indicates that Monday, the Post will start printing security information respecting the work of contractors carrying out classified activities for the government.I have obtained this document sent by the Office of the Director of...

July 17, 2010

Renee Ellmers: RX for No. Carolina's 2d District?

Rasmussen reports that voters are increasingly disconnected from their elected representatives and 47% of them believe a Republican takeover would produce significant changes in their lives:While roughly two-thirds of Mainstream voters say Republican...

July 16, 2010

DC spies sentenced today

The prominent D.C. couple caught spying for Cuba were sentenced today. 73-year-old Walter Kendall Myers was sentenced to life in prison withot possibility of parole, while 72 year old wife Gwendolyn Myers was given 81 months in prison.In court Friday...

July 14, 2010

Guess who's coming to drill

As the Administration's stunts cause drilling rigs to leave the Gulf for Africa and elsewhere, Russia moves in.From Stratfor:  Russia: Oil Company To Drill Off CubaJuly 14, 2010Russian state oil company Zarubezhneft plans to drill a shelf a...

July 11, 2010

Clarice's Pieces

Law Enforcement is the theme of this week's essay. I know that it's hard for non-lawyers to comprehend the nuanced and complicated issues which face the Attorney General and his aides, so I'm taking time this week to do just that.Before I do so, howe...

July 7, 2010

Spy swap

The UK's Daily Mail suggests that the Russians are offering to swap spies -- taking the 10 just arrested in exchange for a nuclear scientist who denied he ever spied for us and signed a confession saying otherwise under duress plus 10 others convicte...

July 6, 2010

DoJ: Az Law Will Create Too Much Work for Us (Updated)

Citing preemption, the Department of Justice reportedly plans to challenge Arizona's law on illegal aliens on the preposterous grounds that it will create too much work for our underperforming federal enforcement agencies. Jerry Markon of the Washing...

July 4, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Independence Day

While many of us are focusing on the reports of Al Gore liberating his chakras with a masseuse in Portland, more serious members of our online community are fascinated with the notion of liberating our carbons. I expect that if you are not a regular ...

July 1, 2010

Too brilliant to fail?

The really brilliant Noemie Emery takes note of those pundits who, persuaded of Obama's brilliance, are puzzled at his failures.She observes they have an odd test of brilliance.That Obama seems so much like their idea of brilliance that they assume...

June 30, 2010

Reporter, Consultant, Housewife, Spy

Late Monday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of ten people in the United States who had been planted here by the Russians in the 1990s to blend in and gather information, which they transmitted back to Russia. The defendants are charge...

June 29, 2010

Kos Pollster Fired for Faking Data

Daily Kos is certainly one of the most popular left blog sites, so it is with interest that we learn that its pollster upon whom so much of its stories were based, was just making it up. From NRO:DailyKos Surveys Likely Bunk, May Have Been Fabri...

June 28, 2010

US Arrests 10 Deep Cover Russian Espionage Agents

The Department of Justice announces what appears to be a major bust of Russian deep cover espionage agents in N.J., N.Y. Va. and Massachusetts: Eight individuals were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, "deep-cover" assign...

June 27, 2010

Clarice's Pieces

As usual, the idiocy wave field was so great I had to be very selective this week.I am always amused at the ability of federal agency and department spokesmen to talk endlessly while saying nothing. This is not an easy talent to acquire. This week's ...

June 26, 2010

Another blot on U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald

Friday, in an editorial captioned "Conrad Black's Revenge", discussing the Supreme Court's haircut of the "honest services" prosecution of Conrad Black by Patrick Fitzgerald, the Wall Street Journal's editors said:The Black revers...

June 26, 2010

Barone: In Black and White terms, Obama's in Terrible Shape

Writing in the Washington Examiner, Michael Barone explains why the Dems are in even worse shape heading into the 2010 elections than it may at first appear from polling data:Obama's job rating among black voters is 91% positive. A lttle...

June 26, 2010

Iran cancels Gaza Blockade- Breaking Ship

Iran has decided it will not send a ship with armed Revolutionary Guards to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Michael Ledeen says the lesson of this retreat is clear: 1. They talk a lot but they're afraid, profoundly afraid (can you imagine the ...

June 26, 2010

Civil Rights Division Attorney Talks: Time to Remove Holder from Office

J. Christian Adams, an attorney with the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division who resigned rather than comply with the Department's ruling that he not respond to the U.S. Civil Rights Division's subpoenas to testify about the dismissal of th...

June 23, 2010

Israeli Planes Reportedly Spotted in Saudi Arabia

The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli planes have been spotted flying into Saudi territory:Israel Air Force aircraft have been spotted in recent days at a Saudi Arabian military base unloading military equipment in the city of Tabuk, in northw...

June 21, 2010

No Leak Prosecutions in five years (2005-2009)

Secrecy News reports some interesting statistics on the non prosecution of those who leak classified information:Between 2005 and 2009, U.S. intelligence agencies submitted 183 "referrals" to the Department of Justice reporting unauthorize...

June 21, 2010

Hamas Losing Gaza Flotilla Stunt

In contrast to those who assert that Israel's announcement  of a change in the transport of goods to Hamas represents a victory for Hamas, Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection argues there were few changes in existing policies and most were ...

June 20, 2010

U.S. Taxpayers and Soros Underwrite Those who Honor Turkey

The incomparable Claudia Rossett reports/:Turkey's leaders have made a lot of news lately, and it's been ugly: holding hands with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, blessing the lead role of the terror-linked Turkish IHH foundation in last month's Gaza ter...

June 20, 2010

Clarice's Pieces

The pixels were hardly dry in last week's Clarice's Pieces when candidates for this week's edition made themselves apparent.(1) Do you see and hear what James Clyburn does?    (a) He hears racist epithetsSouth Carolina's James Clyburn ...

June 19, 2010

Left wing US PR firm and the Gaza flotilla

The Israel Project reports on some disturbing relationships between Fenton Communications and the Gaza Flotilla operation. (Fenton's ties to the U.S. and international left are well known to AT readers.)U.S. PR Firm on Payroll of Qatar...

June 18, 2010

An apt metaphor for the entire government effort to clean up the oil spill

On his own Louisiana Governor Jindal sent out barges into the Gulf to vacuum up thousands of gallons of leaking BP oil before it hit the Louisiana Coast. And it was a plan that was working. Until the U.S. Coast Guard halted the barges to determine ...

June 17, 2010

Steyn: The Lesson of a Jewish Cemetery

Reflecting on an abandoned Jewish cemetery in Tangiers, Mark Steyn concludes Iran might well use the bomb once it gets it, and blames the dual psychoses of the Islamists and the European Jew haters for this development:  Islam is a one-way ...

June 16, 2010

Backstabbing (Israel) 101

Writing for Fox , Ann Bayefsky details the Administration's backstabbing of Israel: By supporting the Security Council statement in unprecedented haste with few facts, and by now refusing to indicate that the Israeli investigation satisfies the Counc...

June 16, 2010

GOP and Diversity: A New Life for the Grand Old Party

Writing in the Washington Examiner, Noemie Emery lists this year's crop of Republican likely winners. She begins with the women who are heading their tickets,(Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina in California; Sharon Angle in Nevada; Susana Martinez is run...

June 14, 2010

Obama's other energy disaster

Barron's reports on another energy disaster--one engineered by Obama at our expense to help the flagging fortunes of Senator Harry Reid of Nevada:OUR ASS-KICKING PRESIDENT should take careful aim at his own derrière. He's triggered a less pub...

June 14, 2010

Make room under the bus for Eric Holder

One of my favorite national security mavens, Gabriel Schoenfeld, says in the Weekly Standard that Attorney General Eric Holder's likely to be thrown under the Obama bus. I can't find a thing wrong with that prediction:Eric Holder has been a disastrou...

June 13, 2010

Citizens to FTC: No way!

The public seems strongly opposed to the administration's plan to shove tax dollars into the maw of a dying media industry; [H]ere's basically zero popular support for several already unlikely initiatives the FTC is looking into in order to support t...

June 13, 2010

Who supports the Israeli blockade of Gaza?

If you guessed the White House or Europe you lose. If you guess the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, you win. Quoting Haaretz:Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is opposed to lifting the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip because this would ...

June 13, 2010

Clarice's Pieces

What would Ashton Kutcher say?My friend Janet responds to vapid comments by asking that question.If you don't know who he is, don't be embarrassed. I didn't either. He's a young, not terribly talented actor married to the older not terribly gifted bu...

June 12, 2010

Some encouraging news about Israel

This past week was full of the usual: Double standards being applied to cast Israel as a vicious, law-breaking state and more threats from Iran to an already besieged country.Yesterday, there were two bits of encouraging news.First, at almost th...

June 10, 2010

Conrad Black on Turkey

Conrad Black has a unique view of the consequences of Turkey's radicalization: he thinks it opens up new doors to walk through for Middle East peace, but only if defter diplomacy than this Administration has yet deminstrated is available....

June 10, 2010

Wharton school blasts a hole in AGW

The internet is buzzing with this report from Jason Scott Johnson of the University of Pennsylvania Law School for the ILE - Institute for Law and Economics a Joint Research Center of the Law School with the Wharton School of economics.The report is ...

June 9, 2010

Our Alien president

The Wall Street Journal's gifted Dorothy Rabinowitz explains exactly why Americans are uneasy about the president--he is alien to us, to our values and, worse, is utterly out of tune to the threat we face A great part of America now understands t...

June 7, 2010

Reuters Photocropping for Jihadis

Reuters is up to its old anti-Israel tricks, this time cropping, not Photoshopping, news photos to favor the Palestinians. Arutz Sheva provides the visual evidence that the news agency cropped out a knife held in the hand of a "humanitarian...

June 6, 2010

Hamas Helen and Hearst

Our gal Helen's anti-Israeli remarks were not her only signs of support for the Palestinian terrorists. She actively raised money for those who funded the Gaza flotilla:Helen Thomas, the Hearst Newspaper columnist under fire for her remarks...

June 6, 2010

Pre-War Shipments from Iraq to Syria

Obama's designee for Director of National Intelligence, Gen. James Clapper, earlier intimated that he believed Saddam Hussein had shipped his weapons to Syria in advance of the invasion of Iraq. It was anticipated this would create problems for his c...

June 6, 2010

Obama: I can handle this

In today's Washington Examiner, Byron York reminds us of Obama's claim that he could handle emergencies like the BP spill:It's not mentioned much now, but in the late summer of 2008, a major hurricane, Gustav, was in the Gulf of Mexico and headed tow...

May 26, 2010

Dems miscalculate on immigration issue

Just as the Democrats miscalculated when they shoved Obamacare down the throats of the voters the vast majority of whom were happy with their present care, the party has erred in decrying efforts to enforce border security as racist and discriminator...

May 26, 2010

Why border security matters

While the administration treats as ill-informed racism the border states pleas for federal security, the threats occasioned by an unsecured border grow. Foxnews reports: The Department of Homeland Security is alerting Texas authorities to be on ...

May 25, 2010

'Little noticed' provisions of ObamaCare

At Legal Insurrection, Professor William  Jacobson observes almost two dozen accounts of awful provisions in ObamaCare which the press now describes  as "little noticed."  "Litte noticed" by them, it seems, but...

May 25, 2010

Kagan's 'judicial hero' has some bizarre ideas about the law

Powerline notes that Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, has expressed admiration for Israeli Justice Aharon Barak calling him her "judicial hero" and tells us why that is a very bad signal Quoting Judge Richard Posner on ...

May 24, 2010

Obamacare: More devils in the details

Tom Maguire notes some flaws in the monstrosity known as ObamaCare and Rasmussen reveals that 63% of the voters want it repealed.As they study the law, employers are discovering another provision that got much less attention. If a company offers cov...

May 21, 2010

Congressman McClintock Answers President Calderon

Saying what many of us feel. Congressman McClintock (R-Ca), responds to the outrageous address to Congress yesterday by Mexican President Calderon.Hat tip: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2518280/posts  ...

May 21, 2010

Culture of corruption, indeed

Writing in World Net Daily, frequent AT contributor Jack Cashill reminds us of the unsavory way Joe Sestak won his first race for Congress against Congressman Curt Weldon It's not that different than the means used to unseat long time Republican S...

May 20, 2010

Spot the offensive picture

My online friend bgates, created this for Draw Mohammed Day and invites anyone who want to republish it.It is right on target, I think:...

May 20, 2010

The Case of the Muzzled Mole

Archy Cary, writing for Big Journalism, details the strange case of an FBI Mole, Bernard Barton Jr., who appears to have first hand knowledge that would implicate Obama in crimes  involving Rezko and Blagojevich but who has never been called by ...

May 19, 2010

'The Nation' Magazine in death spiral

Another left wing publication, The Nation, seems to be joining Newsweek in the debtor's circle. It has a deficit of $1,000,000 and is asking its writers to beg for donations. Katrina vanden Heuval's seat as the nuttiest (and richest) leftist on tv ...

May 19, 2010

Phony Marine at Phony Vietnam Blumenthal's Presser

Doug Ross spots a ringer. One of the merry band of brother "Marines" at the presser of Connecticut Democrat Senatorial  candidate Blumenthal evidently is a phony soldier.This is William Joseph Trumpower (AKA Eliot Storm), a m...

May 19, 2010

The Administration's Re-Bombing Program

An Al Qaeda thug is caught by us in 2007, released by this Administration in 2009 and goes on to kill 166 more people and planned a huge bombing at the upcoming World Cup.  As Doug Ross reports:Next month's soccer World Cup in South Africa was t...

May 18, 2010

Debunking Liberal Cant

NRO's Mona Charen takes aim at the Washington Post's blather about Republican partisanship:[T]he greater weakness in the liberal cant about meeting somewhere in the middle is this: The great domestic question of our time is whether we can r...

May 17, 2010

Speechless about our apology to the Chinese for protecting the border

Jay Nordlinger at NRO is struck almost speechless at an AP report about the Administration's Human Rights talks withChina;We, the United States, have been having human-rights talks with China. Our side is apparently led by Michael Posner, an assista...

May 14, 2010

You Cut

Congressman Cantor has started You Cut, a program which allows each of us to vote for which federal program we most want to cut funding.http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/A number of programs are described online and you are free to nominate your...

May 13, 2010

GOP moves to block taxpayer funds from IMF Greek bailout

The Washington Post reports several Republican Congressmen have introduced bill which would preclude taxpayer money from going to the IMF to bailout Greece.After a week of preemptive attacks on a possible IMF bailout of Greece, Rep. Mike Pence (R-I...

May 13, 2010

Interpol helping Iran to track dissidents here

It seems shocking but it is charged that interpol is helping the Iranian regime track and beset dissidents living here: LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The Iranian regime is notorious for cracking down on dissent inside Iran . Now Mahmoud Ahmadenijad and the...

May 13, 2010

Compare and contrast: Russia vs Obama on terrorists

While Attorney General Holder debates whether it's improper to offer Krispy Kreme doughnuts to terrorists while reading them their Miranda rights, Russia is taking more immediate measures to deal with terrorism. The Somali pirates the Russians origin...

May 9, 2010

The Holder (Miranda) Backstroke

Attorney General Holder now says the administration believes the Taliban in Pakistan were behind the failed bombing attempt in Times Square. He also admits by his actions that treating terrorist suspects as criminals is not a good idea. He seeks legi...

May 9, 2010

Graduation Agonistes

I love to share with family and friends the joy of watching their children graduate, but I find myself increasingly refusing to attend or even walking out in the middle of the ceremonies. It's not just that these ceremonies are often physically uncom...

May 7, 2010

Allen West K.O.'s MSNBC Nitwit

MSNBC, still promoting the now thoroughly discredited tea party = racist lie, tries to undercut Republican candidate for Congress Allen West and gets knocked out in the process....

May 7, 2010

Barbara Boxer -- Too Stupid for California?

In a stunning development the LA Times has declined to endorse Barbara (Senator, not ma'am, please) Boxer for re-election on the ground that she's failed to exhibit intellectual leadership. Who knew?Maybe anyone who paid attention to her babbling ove...

May 7, 2010

Al Sharpton's idea of 'social justice'

He says in this video he's working for the President, and he is. "We Won't Have True Social Justice Until Everything Is ‘Equal in Everybody's House'":This Marxist statement of purpose is being brought to you by the man the President a...

May 7, 2010

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer and media madness

The great James Lileks deconstructs the meaning behind MSNBC's Contessa Brewer's on air wish that the bomber would not be a Muslim ,the suggestion being that she hoped it would be the folks MSNBC loves to demonize--conservative Americans. Good people...

May 6, 2010

Obama to freeze funds for terrorism screening program

In a bit of remarkably bad timing and worse sense, the administration plans to cut a visa program designed to screen out entry to terrorists:(CNSNews.com) - Four months after the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit an...

May 6, 2010

A Real Leak of CIA Identities

Under the media radar but of far greater significance than the Plame case is the John Adams Project matter where defense counsel leaked the identities of CIA interrogatories to detainees at Gitmo. We now learn that Patrick Fitzgerald has been put in ...

May 6, 2010

Nashville devastation downplayed by media

Newsbusters has some pictures of the devastation wrought by the flood in Nashville which is getting little media attention. Maybe we need Sean Penn to boat around down there to get someone to pay attention. Or Geraldo and Shep to fly down and cry on ...

May 6, 2010

Is the end near for the European Monetary Union?

One market watcher predicts -and I agree --the end of the European Monetary Union is near:Yesterday we pointed out that France was a global top three derisker in sovereign CDS as traders have shifted their worries from the periphery to the core. We h...

May 6, 2010

Women's equity in science

At the moment science and math education in the universities remain rather untouched by the PC dumbing down in the rest of academia. Is that about to change? "Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science," was passed unanimously by...

May 3, 2010

Palestinians Show How to Indoctrinate Children into a Culture of Violence

Palestine  Watch has a new report up today entitled "From Terrorists to Role Models." It  reveals the extent to which the Palestinians continue to glorify violence.The report reveals the Palestinians have named 100 schools, summer...

May 2, 2010

Smaller than expected crowds for pro-illegal immigration protests

Despite the media's predictions that rage at the Arizona statute enforcing the federal immigration law would up the numbers of marchers demanding free entry and citizenship, the rallies were quite small.In 2006, the crowd estimate in Los Angeles was...

May 2, 2010

Oil Disaster: All Hands Not On Deck -- Why?

Doug Ross notes that this oil spill was not treated as earlier ones were:On April 29th, Ron Gouget, who once managed Gulf spill response teams, publicly pilloried the administration's response to the tragic oil rig explosion in the Gul...

May 1, 2010

Some truths about illegal immigrants

Those who oppose the enforcement of our immigration laws are peddling the story that the aliens here are hard working law abiding folks. Many are. But many are not. As the Law Enforcement Examiner reports On April 7, 2007, the US Justice Department ...

April 30, 2010

'Leaks are always bad news.'

A friendly reader reminds me of this respecting the James Risen subpoena investigating national security leaks to the New York Times."COURIC: She served 20 years in the CIA, many undercover in the agency's counterproliferation division, rising ...

April 30, 2010

How much is too much, Barry?

My friend Hit & Run has created a video showing graphically the parochial vision expressed in Obama's comment,"At a certain point you've made enough money" Clarice Feldman ...

April 30, 2010

Arizona says Adios to 'Ethnic Studies'

Arizona is at the forefront again. This time, it's banning ethnic studies at state-funded institutions. These studies are a preposterous waste of money and students' time, preparing them to Balkanize the country into islets of never ending grievance ...

April 30, 2010

DOJ Subpoenas NYT's Risen re CIA Leaks

The NYT is reporting that one of its, reporters, James Risen has been subpoenaed by the Holder Justice Department for matters in a book he wrote, not for the intelligence leaks he published in  that paper The Obama administration is seeking to c...

April 29, 2010

The facts on illegal immigration

As the rhetoric on illegal aliens residing in the U.S. heats up, it would be nice to have some reliable facts with which to work. The Congressional Research Service has put them together for us--the numbers, areas of residence, time of arrival, parti...

April 29, 2010

Dems dealing from a weak hand on insurance mandate

Georgetown Law Professor Randy E. Barnett says Congress' new rationale for the individual mandate that all adults purchase health insurance is the kind of "tell" card players know reveals a weak hand. He says the Supreme Court will find it...

April 28, 2010

More Fannie Mae Hijinks Exposed

The tentacles of Fannie Mae extend to the carbon credit scam. The Washington Examiner's Barbara Hollingsworth unveils more hijinks at Fannie Mae When he wasn't busy helping create a $127 billion mess for taxpayers to clean up, former Fannie Mae Chief...

April 28, 2010

Majority of AZ Latinos support immigration bill - Rasmussen

Hot Air reports that the majority of the Latinos in Arizona appear to support that state's tough new immigration bill, according to the Rasmussen poll of that state:Fully 70 percent overall support this part of the law, and given the fact that Latin...

April 27, 2010

Communist spies reported to be spilling their guts

McClatchey is reporting that Walter and Gwendolyn Myers who'd spied for Cuba from within the State Department are revealing what they know as part of a plea deal. I described what we know about them for AT readers. Of major interest are the names of ...

April 25, 2010

ADL is speaking against Obama? Which Day Was That?

I have long taken issue with ADL [Anti-Defamation League] leader Abe Foxman's undiluted support for Obama. So I was surprised to read this in Newsmax:The Anti-Defamation League has taken issue with comments from President Barack Obama that the ADL sa...

April 23, 2010

Time to put Holder and Perrelli under oath in Black Panther whitewash

Writing in Contentions , Jennifer Rubin confirms what has long seemed obvious: the decision to drop the case against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia was a political decision which involved appointed officials at the...

April 23, 2010

Dr. Ivins Not responsible for Anthrax Attacks

I have always been suspicious of the FBI conclusion that Dr. Ivins who committed suicide during the agency's lengthy investigation of the anthrax attacks on US soil was the perpetrator. Today's article by Scott Shane  New York Times adds fuel to...

April 22, 2010

Blagojevich Trial Nears: Can Obama Be Implicated?

Will President Obama have to testify under oath about the appointment of his Senate successor?Drudge carries two big stories this afternoon on the trial of former Governor Blagojevich. Blagojevich has subpoenaed  the President to take his t...

April 22, 2010

Corporate cronyism or gangster government? You decide

Andrew Mellon at Big Government has a true blockbuster:At the end of 2007, hedge fund billionaire John Paulson invested $15 million in the leftist non-profit, Center for Responsible Lending, their largest single donation ever. Around the same time, ...

April 22, 2010

South Korea believes North Korea torpedoed its ship

Reuters is reporting that South Korea is confirming what many of us had suspected. It's ship was torpedoed by North Korea, adding fuel to a difficult situation for the government of South Korea and the U.S.South Korea's military believes a torpedo f...

April 21, 2010

Gangster government: The continuing series

Beginning with the auto "bailouts" where in contrast to established bankruptcy rules, secured creditors were forced to accept 33 cents on the dollar in liquidation of the company's debt with the UAW, an unsecured creditor received 50 cents ...

April 19, 2010

The Clinton-Llorens Tegucigalpa Tango Siniestra

In  Monday's Wall Street Journal, Mary  Anastasia O' Grady details the continuing efforts of US Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens to undermine democracy in Honduras . In this effort he was openly   aided by two Hill st...

April 18, 2010

GWO?

Banning the use of the word, Islamist, Obama has turned this into the Global War on ?We've all heard of the love that dare not speak its name, but to turn the enemy into a nameless foe is preposterous. Sodahead thinks so, too:In Senate testimony,...

April 18, 2010

It's just not cricket

EU Referendum reports that because of an EU directive on the treatment of willow used in making cricket bats, UK companies producing them will soon go out of business, leaving the world with only a two year supply of the bats.The dead hand of the ...

April 14, 2010

Is the CIA working with the NYT to harm our troops in Afghanistan?

Big Journalism reports the New York Times is about to out the Department of Defense's covert agents in Afghanistan, putting them and our troops in great danger.   I'd consider this a claim that required a great deal of evidence before repea...

April 13, 2010

Dept of Justice Appeals Injunction Preventing Cut Off of Funds to Acorn

The Department of Justice has appealed the ruling of a district court judge who first granted ACORN a preliminary injunction and now has entered a permanent injunction preventing Congress from cutting off funds to that organization which has amassed ...

April 13, 2010

Ooops! Congress loses health care plan under Obamacare?

In what appears to have been a laughable oversight, Congress seems to have stripped itself of its very generous healthcare plan and I don't see how they an undo the damage without conceding (a) they never read the Act before they passed it; and (b) t...

April 12, 2010

Correction

Roger L. Simon contacted the source quoted in the Maariv article upon which, we, too, based our claim that the Administration was denying visas to Dimona nuclear scientists. He says the problem is not new, but has been in place since 2001:This mornin...

April 10, 2010

White House says visas for Israeli scientists not denied

Thursday, we reported, based on a story in the Israeli newspaper Maariv, that Israeli nuclear scientists working at the country's Dimona nuclear facility have been denied visas to the U.S. Joshua Pundit which first brought the Maariv story to our att...

April 8, 2010

US Refuses Visas to all Israeli Nuclear Scientists

In a new and ridiculous policy, the US is denying Israeli scientists who work at the Dimona  reactor site an opportunity to refresh their knowedge, Joshua Pundit reports:Ma'ariv reported today that the Israeli government was stunned when every n...

April 7, 2010

More feminist nonsense from Duke

Not slowed down a bit in its race to be the most absurd campus in America Duke continues on, though Dr. Helen comes up with a great strategy to beat off this latest bit of feminist idiocy:Responding to this announcement from FIRE: DURHAM, N.C., ...

April 7, 2010

Fanning the Flames of Poppycock

James Taranto, who writes the Best of the Web for the Wall Street Journal has a  devastating, well documented retort to Congresswoman Maxine Waters who accuses the tea party of vicious rhetoric. He plays back her own stuff, fanning the flames of...

April 6, 2010

A real 'outing' of a CIA Operative by Obama administration

In contrast to the bombast and demands for punishment which accompanied the news that White House officials "outed" CIA desk jockey Valerie Plame, there's been almost total silence respecting this Administration's outing of a real undercove...

April 6, 2010

Nyet to 'Net Neutrality'

AP reports that the prestigious U.S. Court of Appeals  for the District of Columbia has ruled for Comcast and against the FCC's effort to impose "net neutrality" on  broadband providers. The FCC was attempting to compel providers ...

April 5, 2010

The Democrats' Risky Business

As time goes on it is increasingly clear that a contrivance designed to defame the Tea Party and drive people from them was the base of charges that Tea Party demonstrators hurled homophobic and racist epithets and spat at Congressmen as they passed ...

April 5, 2010

Something's Rotten in Caracas

Vaclav Havel notes the arrest of the former Chief Justice of Venezuela by Hugo Chavez for having supported an investigation into the government's support of the Colombian terrorists FARC:The arrest of Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, a former preside...

April 4, 2010

Another view of the Iraq election

An occasional correspondent who has spent 48 of the last 72 months in Iraq has sent me his observations about the election and authorized me to publish it. With regard to the comments on Iraq's elections, I would like to offer a first hand[i] as...

April 4, 2010

The Man in the Watchtower

Some years ago, my sister wrote from Milwaukee to tell me that Lauren, the daughter of a friend of hers, was going to be interning for the summer in Washington and asked if I might look after her. The girl is a brilliant mathematician, and the progra...

April 2, 2010

New conservative 527 group has raised $30 million

If you are unhappy with the Republican National Committee and still wish to find a way to support Republican candidates,there is a new organization to which you might contribute; American Crossroads.Like New Ledger's Pejman Yousefzadeh I supported Mi...

April 2, 2010

Bureau Of Labor Statistics Dance of the Seven Veils

Rick Ballard writing in You, Too Congress compares the BLS figures from March of 2000 and March of this year and credibly asserts it appears the Bureau is playing partisan games: The report buries the 48,000 temporary hires by Census in March 201...

April 2, 2010

Mandate's constitutionality the key

Writing in the Volokh Conspiracy, Professor Dave Kopel argues that the mandated insurance provision of Obamacare is unconstitutional and is not severable from the other provisions which, then ,almost must fail to pass constitutional muster As the joi...

March 30, 2010

Huge Gap in Support for Israel Between Democrats and Republicans

Although Democrat flunkies like former Congressman Wechsler persuaded their Jewish constituents that their party stands firm behind Israel, the latest Zogby poll finds that there is a significant divide, with Republicans being far more supportive of ...

March 30, 2010

What if the Palestinians in Jerusalem were settlers?

Professor William A. Jacobson asks "What if Palestinians Were Settlers?" Barack Obama's insistence that Israel cease all building in Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, calling such neighborhoods "settlements," raises an inter...

March 29, 2010

Time for apologies to Tea Partiers

It is an unfortunate fact of modern American politics that right wing movements are demonized as racists by their political opponents with a lot of help from the media. The most recent such incident was the claim that black congressmen had been ...

March 29, 2010

Obama: His word is as good as (Fool's) Gold

We all know that Obama's word has a very short expiration date. To help us keep track of just how short, Jim Geraghty at National review Online has compiled 33 already expired promises.Here's a sample:HEALTH CARE MANDATESSTATEMENT: "We've got a...

March 20, 2010

SCOTUS may yet intervene on Slaughter rule

Stanford Constitutional law professor Michael McConnell,whose argument that the Slaughter Rule is unconstitutional we cited to the other day, explains that the Constitution forbids the Slaughter rule technique and argues that while the Supreme Court...

March 19, 2010

Ben Nelson's Back Up Bribe

Much as been made of the Cornhusker Kickback to secure Ben Nelson's vote for Obamacare. And much as been made of the cancellation of it. Less has been made of the backup bribe to him. As the Washington Times reports: The Obama administration has...

March 19, 2010

GAO Contradicts White House on Intelligence Oversight

Secrecy News reports that the GAO claims the White House misstated the facts about GAO's role in intelligence oversight:The Obama Administration presented "several misstatements of law and fact" in its March 15 letter opposing legislation ...

March 18, 2010

The Administration's Manufactured, Trumped Up Fight With Israel

The Council on Foreign Relations asked Elliott Abrams and several other Fellows here to discuss "Why are the United States and Israel divided over the settlements issue"  and his answer reveals the utterly fraudulent nature of the...

March 18, 2010

Right and left join hands against Obamacare

Professor William Jacobson notes that lefty blogger Jane Hamsher is opposed to Obamacare, calling is "fascism:"Hamsher reacted to Dennis Kucinich's capitulation this morning by stating that Obamacare amounts to fascism:The claims made by t...

March 17, 2010

Republican Congressmen to force vote on Slaughter rule tomorrow morning

Connie Hair emails that "The vote being forced by House Republicans on whether or not Congress can use the "Slaughter Rule" will take place now TOMORROW MORNING at around 11:00 am on the House floor-either the actual vote or the vote o...

March 17, 2010

Iraq election results

The Institute for the Study of War projects the Iraq election results: The race is extremely tight; Maliki's election list has a slim lead but his return as the Prime Minister is not a done deal. He still needs to form a governing coalition with at ...

March 17, 2010

Lawsuit readied challenging constitutionality of Demon Pass by Landmark Foundation

We reported that Mark Levin and Professor Michell McConnell believe the Slaughter Rule is unconstitutional. Landmark Foundation which Levin heads, has its complaint ready to go and its online if you care to read it:Of course there is no certainty tha...

March 16, 2010

Israeli report details Hamas inhumane behavior

For all those who have a fit whenever Jews buy land in 'the Hood" or try to build housing for their people, where are you, now?The Jerusalem Post contains the language of a report detailing Hamas' inhuman behavior - behavior the rest of the wo...

March 16, 2010

Princeton Prof gives Obama straight A's

If you thought Paul Krugman ( see here ) was the only nut on the Princeton faculty, you'd be dead wrong. U.S. News and World Report advises that Princeton historian and professor of politics emeritus Fred Greenstein gives Obama almost perfect high ma...

March 15, 2010

The real story behind that 'reconciliation bill'

Steve Gilbert at Sweetness and Light says this reconciliation bill is just the shell for the shell game and reports from the American Spectator: Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Democrats released a 2,309 page health care bill that will start the p...

March 15, 2010

Fauxmentum and the latest swing district polls

Just One Minute's Tom Maguire sniffs an air of fauxmentum in the Democrat camp and Tom Bowler brings to our attention this swing district poll which should be giving a lot of Nancy's troops heartburn:The Wall Street Journal has a very timely art...

March 15, 2010

Slaughter Rule Unconstitutional

Stanford Professor Michael McConnell, writing in the Wall Street Journal, argues that the Slaughter Rule end run is unconstitutional:It may be clever, but it is not constitutional. To become law-hence eligible for amendment via reconciliation-the Sen...

March 14, 2010

A 'Back-Door' public option?

So much was flung into the Senate Bill that complete analysis has never been made, but a review of it suggests for those who employ more than 50 employees, the Senate has written in a back door public option. It's a bit complicated but go to the Bill...

March 14, 2010

Yoo Hoo, Abe (Foxman)

For some time we've been critical of the blinkered vision of Abe Foxman, head of the ADL who seems to be stuck in a time warp, not noticing that the Democratic Party for which he shills has left him at the station.It appears that Secretary of State C...

March 13, 2010

The Miss America President

Jane Woodworth, publisher of You Too, Congress, a blog advocating that Congress be forced to follow the same rules they impose on citizens, writes that Obama reminds her of Miss America:President Obama seems to have taken his cues from Miss America. ...

March 13, 2010

Levin on Representative Slaughter - and the Slaughter Rule

Arguing that Slaughter is attempting an unprecedented violation of the constitution, Mark Levin in this audio clip, argues that the House Republicans should initiate expulsion proceedings against her . He concedes it may be a futile gesture, but I th...

March 12, 2010

Senator Sessions Calls Holder's Breach 'Extremely Serious'

We reported this week that Attorney General had failed to disclose his participation in the defense of terrorist Jose Padilla during his confirmation hearing. Senator  Sessions calls this breach "extremely serious" and demands an early...

March 11, 2010

Obama's physician cousin angrily denounces health care reform

Writing in the Washington Times, Barack's cousin, Dr Milton R Wolf, a physician, blasts this legislative attempt to take over health care: "Primum nil nocere."First, do no harm. This guiding principle is a bedrock of medical care. Sadly, th...

March 11, 2010

Update on ACORN RICO suit while Obama administration shuts down criminal probe

In October of 2008 I wrote in Pajamas Media about the Buckeye Institute of Ohio's RICO law suit against ACORN. That case has been settled and the settlement is confidential.But one portion of it is now public and it indicates that Buckeye was success...

March 11, 2010

NY state seeks to ban salt use by chefs

In a positively insane move , a dunce in the NY legislature who obviously never cooked a meal in his life,wants to ban all chefs from using salt in NY state. MYFOXNY.COM - Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introd...

March 11, 2010

Was Massa right about a conspiracy?

Dan Riehl looks at the new timeline on the Massa complaint and Pelosi/ethics Committee response and suggests my initial suspicions were not without warrant. It looks like they held on to the complaint longer than the rules required and notified him ...

March 10, 2010

Rove on the Crazy Witch Hunt of Patrick Fitzgerald

In his new book, Karl Rove shows how bizarre the witch hunt against him and Scooter Libby was. Remember this when you think of how Patrick Fitzgerald ruined Libby and almost destroyed Rove:After the October grand jury testimony, Fitzgerald called Rov...

March 10, 2010

Saddam was ready to purchase nuke package from A.Q. Khan

The Washington Post reports the persian Gulf war halted Saddam Hussein's plan to buy a full nuke package from A.Q.Khan:As troops massed on his border near the start of the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein weighed the purchase of a ...

March 10, 2010

Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Overreach: Airline Delays

Hoping no doubt to curry favor with passengers beset by lengthy delays Administration bureaucrats set unconscionably high fines for delays. As a result airlines will simply cancel delayed flights rather than bear these punishing consequences for ofte...

March 10, 2010

Holder's Hidden Friend of Court Briefs

Bill Burck and Dana Perino reveal in NRO that AG Eric Holder expressed views on detainees in amici (friends of court) briefs he signed on to that he was obligated to inform Congress about but failed to. This suggests that the views expressed in those...

March 9, 2010

'Demonizing lawyers with impunity'

James Taranto takes note of the controversy surrounding the large number of terrorist defense counsel appointed to handle such cases at Holder's Department of Justice. Liz Cheney uncovered 7 such appointments and has been roundly attacked for sugges...

March 8, 2010

Rep. Massa and the Chicago Boys (updated)

Last week, when Rep. Eric Massa announced he was not running for re-election, I wondered if it was only a coincidence that he had earlier announced he would not vote for the Senate version of Obamacare. Now, there is a report that Massa claims he was...

March 6, 2010

Charitable Money Laundering For Democrats: The Tides Foundation

Activist Cash.com does a fantastic job of tracing foundation and activist activities and has long cast a jaundiced eye on the actions of the Tides Foundation and its offshoot the Tides Center.Here's a sample, but I invite you to scroll through all th...

March 6, 2010

The Two Universes of Paul Krugman

Do you find yourself surrounded by people who still believe what Paul Krugman writes? Here's the definitive refutation (audio file) by James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web..Krugman v. Krugman.Send it to them....

March 5, 2010

NoKo army running out of food (updated)

Tiger Likes Rooster, an American who lives in Asia and regularly posts translations of posts from Korea and Japan describing events in North Korea reports that: N. Korean Army Running out of Food...Soldiers Ordered to Sleep Rather Than Do TrainingSou...

March 3, 2010

Congressman Massa will not seek re-election (updated)

Is there any relationship between these two stories? Or just coincidence? Number One (MPNNow.com)March 2, 2010 Canandaigua, N.Y. - U.S. Rep. Eric Massa, D-Corning said today he would vote against the Senate version of health-care overhaul legislation...

March 3, 2010

CO2 emissions: Push coming to shove

In an effort to force the opposition to cave on the feckless Cap & Trade legislation, the administration, through the EPA, threatened to control CO2 emissions by regulations.Congress --mostly Republicans but Democrats in coal states as well--are ...

March 3, 2010

How the Congressional Democrats Doom Obama to One Term

At a dinner party at my home, a Democrat friend (who is a Washington player with extensive experience as a congressional staffer and in the executive branch before he entered the private practice of law) and I were discussing those things on which we...

March 2, 2010

Rangel steps down as Ways and Means chair

Ethically challenged Charlie Rangel, despite the support of the Black Congressional Caucus and the Speaker, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, announces that he's stepping down as Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. Allahpundit at Hot Air asks r...

March 2, 2010

The Right to Bear Arms Apparently Extends to Chicago

David Savage, reporting for the Los Angeles Times, believes the Supreme Court signaled today that it would extend the Second Amendment's Right to Bear Arms to the states through the Due Process (Fourteenth Amendment) and overturn a city wide ban on g...

March 2, 2010

Dubai Killing: Curiouser and curiouser

Over the past few days the number of suspects in the Dubai assassination of an Hamas murderer has jumped to 27, two of whom the Dubai authorities traced to an escape to Iran. Dubai officials are now quoted as having offered up at least four different...

March 2, 2010

ACORN in the news

Patterico laboriously details myths reported about ACORN by journos willing to fudge to protect that organization. And Founding Bloggers us that the Brooklyn D'A.'s refusal to file charges against the ACORN affiliate O'Keefe and Giles busted the...

March 2, 2010

Slate blogger Mickey Kaus to challenge Boxer

My favorite Democratic blogger, Salon's Mickey Kaus, is planning a run against Senator Barbara Boxer according to the L.A Weekly: Pioneering political blogger Mickey Kaus took out papers filed to run for U.S. Senate in California, he told LA Weekly. ...

February 28, 2010

Unions Toll Bell for Card Check

The unions are receiving very poor returns on their major ($400 million) investment in Obama, the AP reports. No chance at the card check legislation they wanted and only a slim chance at passage of the health care legislation they endorsed. Tho...

February 28, 2010

Green jobs baloney

Tom Maguire takes his scalpel to the nonsensical claim of huge employment available if we go green. More make believe economics: We hear about "green jobs" from Sunil Sharan, who was "a director of the Smart Grid Initiative at GE fro...

February 27, 2010

The lie at the heart of ObamaCare

Megan McArdle argues persuasively in the Atlantic that lacking health insurance does not increase  mortality rate and the numbers thrown about to suggest otherwise are poppycock:The possibility that no one risks death by going without health ins...

February 24, 2010

The Party of 'After You, Alphonse'

The Democrats call their opponents "the party of No", asserting their failure to accomplish Obama's key legislative initiatives is the fault of the Congressional Republican minority.Bt it appears they are the party of "After you, Alpho...

February 24, 2010

Supreme Court Loosens Miranda Restrictions

Writing for the LA Times, David Savage reports that the Supreme Court has abrogated what was known as the Edwards rule and has ruled that if a suspect has been released from custody after having invoked the Miranda rule, he may be questioned again af...

February 21, 2010

A reminder of how grateful we should be to our Iraq veterans

You must not miss this beautifully written article by a young soldier returned from Iraq who sacrificed so much--as did his colleagues--to free the people of Iraq at the direction of a Congress and voters who now seem to be oblivious to their accompl...

February 20, 2010

Jay Bybee and John Yoo cleared

Friday night (the traditional time to bury news), the Department of Justice finally released the report clearing former Department of Justice counsel of wrongdoing on the much hyped "torture memos," in which shortly after 9/11 they describe...

February 18, 2010

Was the Hamas Dubai hit red on red?

While Dubai insists that Mossad was behind the assassination of a Hamas commander in its country, two Palestinians living in Dubai have been arrested in connection with that event and a third Palestinian living in Syria is reportedly under arrest, su...

February 9, 2010

Another bogus prosecution of our soldiers nixed

Once again, it appears the military has brought a meritless case against our troops, accusing them of wrongdoing on very flimsy evidence :The military has canceled the deposition of an alleged terrorist mastermind who claimed that he was assault...

February 8, 2010

The Tangled Web Behind AGW

Behind the now discredited theory of anthropogenic Global Warming and the IPCC claims about it, are a vast army of people with substantial monetary interests in keeping this scam alive and their pockets filled. Pajamas Media is making a concerted eff...

February 8, 2010

Will no one rid us of this meddlesome AGW nonsense?

AGW, the never ending story..*sigh*. It seems the President is not ready to give up the anthropogenic global warming faith.AP is reporting that the Obama administration is setting up a new "climate service" in the National Oceanic and Atmos...

February 8, 2010

America, the ungovernable?

Taking issue with those bien pensants who look at Obama's failed agenda and pronounce America "ungovernable," analyst Jay Cost says the president is not up to the hard job to which he was elected, that he has turned over too much power to t...

February 8, 2010

Memorandum from Totus to Palin's Hand

From: TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States)To:  Sarah Palin's HandSubject: MemorandumI hope you will not think this too forward of me but I noticed your picture in this article and must say I was  instantly and deeply smitten. I assure ...

February 7, 2010

Robert Kennedy's fantastically stupid weather predictions

David Freddoso reminds us of Robert F. Kennedy Jr's (D.Caracas) screed just 15 months ago that global warming means anemic winters in the DC area.Kennedy, then:In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the...

February 7, 2010

Obama's biggest and latest whopper

To a perfectly credulous press, too busy to fact check, Obama's whopper about the unnamed cancer patient on his campaign crew who couldn't afford coverage, died and asked to be buried in an Obama T-shirt, this latest example of political policy- ...

February 6, 2010

Spain experiencing debt implosion

Barcepundit reports that Spain is imploding under the weight of its huge short term debt and that Zapatero is finding few defenders:[T]ake a look at this chart by McKinsey showing Spain's total debt, including government, non-financial business, hou...

February 5, 2010

Not all Euro-elites are anti-Israel

Catalonian journalist Pilar Rahola breaks with the European elites in offering up a strong defense of Israel. In a speech too full of smart thinking to be summarized, she defends Israel against its foolish and unfair detractors in European government...

February 5, 2010

The Joke's on Patches

Yesterday, The Hill reported that Patrick ("Patches") Kennedy took a swipe at Scott Brown:Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) election has been shown to be "a joke," the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said Thursday.Rep. Patrick...

February 3, 2010

Underpants bomber fibs from administration

Byron York catches the administration in a major fib re the underpants bomber. If he gave them everything he had in the first 50 minutes, why are they leaking that he's continuing to provide us with info now that the heat is on for mirandizing him?Th...

February 3, 2010

President Obama, Meet Attorney General Holder

Either Eric Holder is acting in direct contravention of the wishes of his boss, or his boss was just making up nonsense when he was asked about how enemy combatants would be treated.As Stephen Hayes reminds us in the Weekly Standard:In an interv...

February 3, 2010

House Dem chairmen seek to block new EPA regs on CO2

We owe the founding fathers a great debt for making overreaching power grabs more difficult than they are in other places. Today The Hill brings more proof of their wisdom House committee chairmen from Minnesota and Missouri are floating legislation...

January 31, 2010

The climate change bandwagon rolls along

Nothing will turn the international organizations away from the pot of gold they see running through their fingers under the climate change umbrella DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund is planning a 100 billion dollar fund to h...

January 31, 2010

Taliban leader connected to CIA attack in Pakistan is dead

Barcepundit reports:TALIBAN LEADER IN PAKISTAN HAKIMULLAH MEHSUD HAS BEEN KILLED by a US drone, according to Sky News who cites Pakistani TV. The local paper The Nation, though, says the attack took place on January 14; Mehsud was injured and succum...

January 31, 2010

More scientific frippery from the IPCC

The Telegraph reports that the UN's IPCC pawned off another bit of frippery as scientific evidence of global warming: The IPCC's remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change.In its most recent report [p...

January 30, 2010

Friday night news dump; Bybee, Yoo cleared by Justice Department

Pilloried by the left for the "torture" memos they wrote while at the Department of Justice, it appears that the remaining grownup ( career lawyer David Margolis) at DoJ has cleared Bush appointee Judge Jay Bybee and Professor John Yoo o...

January 30, 2010

KSM trial on the move

The NY Post reports that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may be tried in Gitmo by a military tribunal after all. This is *gasp* what the Bush administration had intended and what people like Obama were so critical of :The trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shei...

January 29, 2010

Foreign contributions to Obama campaign should be investigated

One of the oft remarked upon ironies of Obama's untoward attack on the Supreme Court ruling declaring unconstitutional the foreclosing of corporate and union contributions to political campaigns was his unwarranted claim that the decision opened up t...

January 29, 2010

Obama - playing us for suckers on nuclear power

If you go through anything in the State of the Union Address that sounds reasonable, you are certain to find it is mere words without any effort to follow through on making them a reality. So it is about the president's claim to want nuclear power ca...

January 29, 2010

Reining in Eric Holder

The New York Daily News reports that the White House is ordering the Department of Justice to move the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed presently scheduled to take place in Manhattan nor far from the site of the former World Trade Center whose destruc...

January 28, 2010

Impeach Eric Holder?

Ron Radosh reviews the handling of the underpants bomber and reports in detail why historian Martin Sklar thinks Holder can and should be impeached.  Sklar... argue[s] that the decision for a civilian trial disarms our country and objective...

January 28, 2010

Chris Matthews Forgets Obama is Black

MSNBC's cast of characters defies rational explanation. Last night Chris Matthews pronounced that listening to the SOTU address he forgot Obama was black for an hour. What in the world does that mean?Is it supposed to be flattering to Obama...

January 28, 2010

Alito's 'Not true' was correct

Much is being made of the president's peroration on the SCOTUS ruling last week permitting corporations to freely speak out on political matters in federal elections. As he spoke , attacking the Court, whose members were present, observers saw Justic...

January 27, 2010

'Free Gaza' movement and the 54 Democrats who support it

Canada Free Press  has a list of CAIR supported congressmen who are fans of Hamas. They are all Democrats.Perhaps the savvy ADL head Abe Foxman just missed this somehow.The entire "Free Gaza" movement is a Hamas propaganda project that...

January 27, 2010

Jews leaving Dems: ADL's Foxman Alarmed

In my hometown newspaper, [link repaired] notice is finally taken that Jews are growing increasingly disenchanted with the Democratic Party, a move I could hardly have imagined before Obama.Barack Obama started his presidency with an astounding 83% a...

January 26, 2010

Everything old is new again

Under the heading everything old is new again, I regret to bring to your attention that once again we will have medical school ethnic quotas, this time in the state of Massachusetts and this time it's probably unconstitutional. From Anthony Paletta a...

January 26, 2010

Equivalent of one-third of Spanish GDP in Non-performing Loans

The extent to which the economies around the world are in trouble is being underreported. J.M. Guardia of Barcepundit reports  that the equivalent of one-third of Spain's GDP is in non-performing loans.SPANISH BANKS currently have...

January 26, 2010

More healthcare shennanigans

Heritage's blog is reporting that it looks like Congress wants to exclude itself and federal employees (along with unionized workers) from the tax on health care benefits.Cool! Those of us who aren't in Congress should all go to work for the federal ...

January 26, 2010

Are class action suits unconstitutional?

That's the position of a Northwestern University law professor who makes a compelling case in Forbes against a tactic which is the favorite legal tactic of the left, and a big money maker for the lawfirms which utilize it. Lest you imagine that he...

January 24, 2010

DoJ hires bloggers as propagandists and sock puppets

Hans von Spakovsky of the NRO asks about the Department of Justice's propaganda machineThose of you wondering how DOJ uses your tax dollars to enforce our nation's laws might be interested to learn that Eric Holder has apparently hired former Democr...

January 24, 2010

ACLU Rethinks Free Speech

The NY Sun reports that the ACLU which has long opposed restrictions on free speech in campaign finance laws is rethinking its position now that the U.S. Supreme Court adopted that position itself.The ACLU has long opposed government limits to how ...

January 24, 2010

Obama Astroturf Popping Up All Over

Patterico and his readers are uncovering numerous instances of pro-Obama astroturfed letters to editors all over the country under multiple names.Are these NEA members who were expected to change the names along with the phony addresses and were too ...

January 22, 2010

Schumer hurt by Supreme Court campaign finance ruling

Senator Chuck Schumer is, next to the President (who famously reneged himself on his promise to accept only public financing for his election run) most enraged by the Supreme Court decision invalidating key portions of the 2002 Campaign Finance refor...

January 21, 2010

No one in charge at Justice

Reporting in the Washington Examiner , Byron York notes the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Committee are zeroing in on the Attorney General's role in the inexplicable treatment of the underpants bomber:All ...

January 21, 2010

Winging it on terrorism - Part II

Just as FBI Director Mueller testified before the Senate Judiciary committee, DNI Director Blair testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee that he had no notice of the decision to treat the underpants bomber as a criminal defendant. He ...

January 20, 2010

Winging it on Terrorism

You will not believe who made the decision to treat the underwear bomber as a criminal and give him Miranda rights.In today's Washington Examiner,Byron York details the interrogation by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of FBI Director Muell...

January 20, 2010

Brown strategist: national security the sleeper issue of the campaign (updated)

NRO's Robert Costa interviewed Scott Brown strategist Eric Fernstrom who revealed something from their internal polls which no pundit to my knowledge has observed. The key issue for Massachusetts voters was not healthcare or spending. It was national...

January 19, 2010

Another Obama blunder unraveling

Riffing off a Newsweek report by Howard Isikoff, Jennifer Rubin writing in Contentions, notes that  Attorney General Holder and Obama may suffer the humiliation of having to reverse their cockamamie decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a ci...

January 18, 2010

Dem Mayor of Quincy, MA endorses Scott Brown

Redmass Group reports a startling endorsement from the mayor of the seventh largest city in Massachusetts:James Sheets a six term Democratic mayor of Quincy today endorsed Scott Brown for United States Senator. He released the following statemen...

January 18, 2010

Recall effort underway in New Jersey for Menendez

Big Government reports on another recall petition . (There's already one gathering signatures in Louisiana against Senator Mary Landrieu as we reported.) In this one the Secretary of State, has contrary to normal practice, declared her own state's c...

January 14, 2010

DoJ is out of control: New Black Panther case

We have covered the Department's inexplicable refusal to continue to the punishment phase of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther party in Philadelphia; conduct condemned by the US Civil Rights Commission which is investigating ...

January 12, 2010

EU Carbon Swap market riddled with fraud

Wattsupwiththat reports the European carbon trading market is riddled with fraud--perhaps as much as 90% of the volume of all transactions have been fraudulent European authorities believe the EU has lost at least €5bn to carbon-trading VAT frau...

January 11, 2010

When it comes to the IPCC, follow the money - if you can.

My favorite overseas blog site, EU Referendum, is at it again. This time they are untangling the webs hiding the payments to key members of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climatee Change (IPCC) team.Today;'s involves New Zealand's Reisnger who...

January 11, 2010

Rasmussen on MA senate race: Still Coakley's to lose

Rasmussen compares the three Massachusetts Special Senatorial election polls and concludes it's still Coakley's race to lose: One reason the race is a bit closer than expected is that all three polls show Massachusetts voters are divided over the he...

January 10, 2010

Iceland to walk away from $5 billion foreign debt

Steve Gilbert reports that Iceland is about to renege on billions owed to Britain and the Netherlands leaving those countries no recourse but to cut off further loans to that country.Six out of 10 Icelandic voters plan to reject a bill on repayment...

January 9, 2010

Paul Kirk Threatens Constitutional Crisis if Scott Brown Wins (updated)

Not happy with having played games to fill Ted Kennedy's seat , Pauk Kirk is now threatening to remain in the Senate after the health care vote if Scott Brown, the Republican challenger wins.At what point will the people of Massachusetts decide they'...

January 8, 2010

How the Dems Alienate Voters

You don't need to be a political scientist to understand why the voters are turning against the Democrats. Just take a moment to read Howie Carr's brilliant piece in the Boston herald on why people should vote for Republican Senatorial candidate Scot...

January 8, 2010

Petition to recall LA Senator Mary Landrieu

The blog And So It Goes in Shreveport notes that a petition to recall Senator Mary Landrieu has been accepted  for filing by the Louisiana Secretary of State. Citizens have 180 days to file enough signatures to get this on a ballot:Via Caught Hi...

January 8, 2010

DoJ Civil Rights Division sues New Jersey

The Star-Ledger reports that once again the Department of Justice is interfering with testing--this time for New Jersey policement--based on "disparate impact:"New Jersey's civil service test for police officers seeking a promotion to serg...

January 8, 2010

Climategate or Pressgate?

Big Journalism skewers the media's coverage of the CRU emails and what they mean, part of their neverending promotion of the now highly questionable climate change fandango. Here's a sample, comparing what AP SAYS Dr. Frankel said, with what he act...

January 7, 2010

DoJ Civil Rights Division lawyers sanctioned

This division is not only in hot water over its dropping of the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, but has also had two of its lawyers sanctioned by a very liberal judge for charging discrimination and then refusing in discovery proceedings ...

January 7, 2010

Appeals court denies challenge to existing habeas corpus rules

On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the most important of the appellate courts, second only in prestige to the U.S. Supreme Court,denied the challenge to the existing habeas corpus rules for men detained abroad under th...

January 6, 2010

Mayor Rahmbo?

The Chicago Tribune's John Kass, a keen observer of Chicago politics, has fun with a Washington Post report that Rahm Emanuel is thinking of running for Mayor Daley's post in Chicago :When the president installed Rahm as his chief of staff, the Wash...

January 5, 2010

Massachusetts Earthquake Rumblings?

I have been watching with great interest, the campaign for the January 19th special election to fill the senate seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. Online, of course, as the major media seem to have just assumed Democrat Martha Coakley will walk ...

January 5, 2010

The CIA takes on global warming

Buoyed perhaps by the brilliance of its recent National Intelligence Estimates -  including a recent one which suggested Iran had given up its nuclear weapon efforts, the CIA is adding global warmng to its portfolio: The nation's top scientists...

January 4, 2010

Hockey stick Mann's New Year's Surprise

The Telegraph reports that Michael Mann of climategate's Hockey Stick fame, received a surprise today, a notice to all his colleagues that there's an effort to collect data on misuse of federal funds in his operation in an effort to mount a Federal ...

January 4, 2010

NPR using your tax dollars to insult you

There's no question NPR is for the Administration and against its opponents but with the nation being almost evenly split between the parties and the Tea Party gaining support every day, how much chutzpah does it take for an organization which gets a...

January 4, 2010

Obama's 'can't do style'

Professor Robert Lieber, in an op ed for the LA Times, summarizes Obama's foreign policy moves and describes them as his "can't do style."To be sure, presidents typically face a steep learning curve during their first year. And gi...

January 2, 2010

Was there a second arrest in the Christmas day attack?

The things you learn on the internet. The Detroit News reported the story of Kurt Haskell and his wife,Lori, on Flt 253 who claimed that their had been a second (Indian) man arrested in connection with the incident on the plane. The Government denie...

January 2, 2010

Obama briefed on terror threat at Christmas 3 days before attack

Newsweek's blog reports that Obama was warned before he left for his Hawaian vacation that there was reason to expect a Christmas Day attack. Where are the harridans screaming, "What did he know and when did he know it?"President Barack Ob...

January 1, 2010

Anthrax case falls apart

In yet another chapter of your FBI in Peace and War, the FBI is proven off base--this timme in its assessment of who was behind the anthrax attacks in September 2001:Michael Barone reports in the washington Examiner :Here's some news I missed.Edward ...

January 1, 2010

Update on the Federal Judge's decision to throw out charges against Blackwater defendants

The NY Times has more details on Judge Urbina's decision to drop charges against the Blackwater defendants, accused of murdering Iraqis in a 2007 ambush on a State Department convoy moving through downtown Baghdad:The judge also blasted prosecutors ...

December 31, 2009

Charges against Blackwater guards thrown out

Citing prosecutorial misconduct of a very serious kind. US Federal District Court Judge Urbina has thrown out the case against Blackwater security guards charged with killing Iraqi civilians in Baghad in 2007.I think it's time for Congress to take a...

December 30, 2009

They can't paper this one over

Contentions' Jennifer Rubin reports this shocking development about the would-be Detroit plane bomber detailed in the Wall Street Journal: The father of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab met with the Central Intelligence Agency at the U....

December 30, 2009

'Secondhand Hate'

The incomparable Noemie Emery takes after the liberals' nonsensical view of their conservative opponents in the Weekly Standard: Liberals fixate on the GOP's Southern strategy of the 1960s as the key to the modern Republican party, and for a time Nix...

December 29, 2009

Napolitano in context

Often when public figures say their embarrassing comments were "taken out of context" they are obfuscating. Law Professor and blogger Ann Althouse, puts into context Napolitano's claim that " the system has worked really very, ver...

December 28, 2009

Two airplane bomb plotters released from GItmo

A disturbing report which if true should underscore completely the absurdity of the Administration's policy of shutting down Gitmo: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit...

December 28, 2009

DOJ Voting rights chief fired. Prosecuted New Black Panthers

Main Justice.com   reports there's been an unceremonial  removal from office of the Civil Rights Division's Voting Rights Section chief, Christopher Coates. He signed off on the complaint against the Black Panthers and is presently under su...

December 27, 2009

How did the bomber get a visa when he's on the terror watch list?

I am not the only person shaking my head at the thought this man was issued a visitor's visa. A thorough investigation is called for: The revelation of Abdulmutallab's background has confounded terror experts. Dr Magnus Ranstorp of the Center for Asy...

December 26, 2009

What About Holding People Accountable?

The U.S. Transportation Safety Administration has responded to the aborted bombing of a NW Airlines plane in Detroit with its usual inanity: make the passengers suffer more, in this case by forcing inbound international flight passengers to remain se...

December 26, 2009

Dear Hillary, Return to your Office!

Perhaps Hillary Clinton might be well advised to get off the dinner circuit and return to her office, because it appears that the Department of State is in need of supervision.Reports from Jerusalem today suggest our embassy officials there are delib...

December 26, 2009

Looks like something big is up in Israel

  The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a call up to all top Israeli diplomats serving around the world to return home for talks.First-ever Heads of Missions Conference at the MFA24 Dec 2009Israel's ambassadors and consuls ge...

December 23, 2009

Five reasons why containing a nuclear Iran won't work

Writing in Foreign Policy, Robert J Leiber and Amatzia Baram argue that containment of a nuclear armed Iran would be far harder than the proponents of that policy argue In reality, defusing an Israeli-Iranian nuclear standoff will be far more diffic...

December 23, 2009

J Street and its Saudi friends

Lenny Ben-David details the interrelationships between Soros funded-J Street Project, James Zogby and the Saudis, in their effort to destroy Israel.J Street is the front group of make-believe Israeli supporters that Obama relies on to cover for his c...

December 23, 2009

Does the Reid bill unconstitutionally turn private health insurers into public utilities?

University of Chicago Law Professor Richard A Epstein has brilliantly argued that the Reid bill unconstitutionally turns private health insurers into public utilities. Luckily for those who haven't time to study his detailed argument, he's now summar...

December 23, 2009

New delay in moving Gitmo detainees

Man, those unequivocal Obama campaign promises are really going nowhere. Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces a New DelayWASHINGTON - Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the ...

December 23, 2009

Legislating discrimination

Hans von Spakovsky at NRO catches yet another few provisions in the Reid bill that seem to conflict not only with common sense and good medical practice but with the constitution as well:It directs the secretary of health and human services to award...

December 23, 2009

Court battle begins over Nelson Medicare goody in Obamacare

Ben Nelson's taking a lot of heat for accepting the Reid bribe of a free pass on Medicaid to sign on to the Reid health care fiasco. Even the state's biggest newspaper is poking fun at him and one of my correspondents indicates he'd not be surprised ...

December 20, 2009

Did FBI leaker target Rep. Harman?

There's been a report that an anti-Israeli lefty translator working for the FBI has pleaded guilty of leaking classified information respecting government wiretaps to a blogger. Checking the record, the most likely leak that fits the bill is this re...

December 19, 2009

Tales of the Stim bill

From the Republican House Ways and Means Committee: The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law (through the end of 2010) with the actual change in...

December 18, 2009

Reid's Manager's Amendment posted, Dems get 60 votes

For readers who might be interested, the long awaited Reid Manager's Amendment is  now posted online here.Update from Ed Lasky, Politico reports:In announcing his support of the Senate reform legislation, Sen. Ben Nelson is warning that the bill...

December 17, 2009

Obama goes from one disaster in DC to another in Copenhagen

The health care fiasco is starting to become ever clearer to voters who still haven't been given the privilege of reading the Senate bill.(Why should they see it when the Senate can't?) Meanwhile, our glory seeking POTUS is about to flit off to Cope...

December 16, 2009

Russians drop another Climategate bombshell

Icecap drops this bombshell from Russia's Rionovosta:On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office ...

December 13, 2009

An Iranian military ultimatum to the regime?

Afshin Elian, a professor at Leiden University, confirms in an article for Pajamas Media that a letter signed by key members of the Iranian military is a warning to the Iranian mullahs and their revolutionary guard henchmen that the army will interv...

December 11, 2009

When the UN's involved: Follow the Money

And if you follow the money on the Copenhagen conference it leads right to the pockets of the head of the chairman of tne U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  As World Net Daily correctly reports:NEW YORK - A story emerging ou...

December 11, 2009

Krauthammer: Green is the new red

Charles Krauthammer explains how the worldwide environmentnal movement, epitomized by the UN efforts to shift vast sums of money from the democratic industrialized nations to the third world kleptocracies, is really socialism in a new guise. As ...

December 11, 2009

Health care reform by hook or by crook

Yesterday, Tom Maguire accurately described the state of the play on Obamacare: The Senate bill seemed to be approaching its death knell and only a favorable report from the Government Budget Office had a prayer of resuscitating it. Reviewing a prog...

December 9, 2009

230 physicists, including a Nobel Laureate, sign petition on Climategate

On December 6, I wrote that a number of distinguished physics professors, horrified by the revelations of Climategate have asked the American Physical Society " to put the 2007 Statement on ice until the extent to which it is tainted [by the wor...

December 9, 2009

Double standard for a Dem

Bloomberg reports that marketers are puling ads featuring Tiger Woods from prime time.Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- No advertisements featuring Tiger Woods have run on prime-time television broadcast networks or 19 cable channels since late last month, ...

December 8, 2009

Is the Holder DoJ imploding?

The Washington Times suggests in an editorial that the fallout from the Department's refusal to proceed with the New Black Panther party's criminal prosecution for voter intimidation is causing an implosion in the Holder Department of Justice.DOJ has...

December 6, 2009

Members of American Physical Society takes a stand against scientific fraud

Horrified by the climategate revelations, some members of the American Physical Society take a stand against scientific fraud by penning a letter to members: Dear fellow member of the American Physical Society:This is a matter of great importance to ...

December 4, 2009

AGW not stopped yet

The Telegraph's Delingpole argues from a comparison of web and news stories that Climategate is a much better story than the mainstream press seems to think it is:Climategate is now huge. Way, way bigger than the Mainstream Media (MSM) is admitt...

December 3, 2009

CRU's Phil Jones thrown under the bus

The Telegraph is reporting that Professor Micharl Mann of notorious hockey stick fame has thrown CRU's Phil Jones under the bus:One of the scientists to whom the emails were addressed, Professor Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science ...

December 3, 2009

CRU scandal investigation broadens

Until today, many assumed the investigation into Phil Jones' East Anglia CRU operation would be limited to the leak of the damning emails. Apparently, it is to be broader and will cover the reliability of the data spewed out by this group as well. ...

December 3, 2009

Pervasive impact of GHG scam

Steve Aftergood's Secrecy News  published a Congressional Research Service Report which reveals how extensive is the worldwide effort to reduce greenhouse gases and how countries are making these restrictions even more onorous at the very moment...

December 3, 2009

'Welcome to the Piltdown Institute of Mann-Made Global Warming'

That's how the Telegraph headlines a story about the present state of ClimateGate. The author, Gerald Warner, indicates that he believes the "investigations" undertaken at the University of East Anglia, home of the warmist ringleader Phil J...

December 1, 2009

Reconciliation fandango on ObamaCare

Connie Hair of Human Events reports that Senator Harry Reid is setting the stage for getting ObamaCare passed on only 50 votes as a reconciliation bill. He moved an unrelated House-passed tax bill (which provides for first time homebuy...

December 1, 2009

NY Times Science blogger: CRU emails show smug groupthink and hype

The New York Times John Tierney describes the consequences to the CRU scientists for their conduct that was revealed in the emails made public last week.Tierney notes that the emails are damning and they show the following:While Harry [the unit's ...

November 29, 2009

The warmist PR con job

It's almost a left wing harmonic convergence on global warming fraud. Chris Horner writing for Big Government reveals that the principle warmist blogsite, Real Climate, is a Fenton operation. Fenton Communications is the left wing PR operation that p...

November 24, 2009

CRU emails spur lawsuit

Chris Horner writing for The American Spectator reports that the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has filed a lawsuit against NASA and Goddard Space Center demanding information they've withheld for three years:   Today, on behalf of the ...

November 24, 2009

Violating the principle of science as 'social contract'

Charles Martin, writing in Pajamas Media, explains why science is a social contract which to be meaningful requires open debate, peer review, transparency in methodology, sharing of data, and most of all, trust. Why and how did the East An...

November 24, 2009

Monbiot: Phil Jones should resign

In an often snarky piece, George Monbiot of the Guardian , a warmist advocate, calls for Phil Jones ,head of the East Anglie CRU to resign and for the product of the unit to be re-examined: ]Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent ...

November 23, 2009

ACORN dumps documents; Breitbart has them and will release

Following the release by Breitbart's Big Government website of a video showing employees at ACORN's San Diego County office offering to assist in the transportation and exploitation of underage prostitutes from abroad, the Attorney General of Califor...

November 23, 2009

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer notes CRU hack

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Nigel Lawson, notes the CRU scandal. Writing in the TimesOnline,  Lawson calls for the creation of a think tank that will examine the global warming issue honestly, giving skeptics a chance to make their ...

November 22, 2009

Today's Media Ethics Award goes to...

A ridiculous piece today in the Washington Post by Juliet Eilperin about those who've drawn attention to the documents from the CRU lab in East Anglia which caught the principal architects of the AGW hype manipulating the data, the peer review proce...

November 22, 2009

Warming's 'Pentagon Papers' continues to unravel the fraud.

Charles Martin, writing at Pajamas Media has done an incredible job in sorting through the material from the CRU computers put online and is making sense of it.  He says the material appears authentic (and to date no one has disputed its au...

November 21, 2009

The FBI in peace and war

Twice we have suffered slaughters of US citizens on American soil--once on 9/11 and again at Fort Hood. In both cases the FBI had advance information which might have stopped the plots and twice they failed to share it.The first time they claimed it ...

November 20, 2009

Breitbart: Investigate Acorn or else (updated)

The most recent ACORN tape of the L.A. ACORN office is far from the last tape sting Andrew Breitbart has. Attorney General Holder keeps refusing to investigate what is an obvious nationwide criminal endeavor. Breitbart now threatens that if Holder do...

November 20, 2009

Scientific scandal appears to rock climate change promoters

There's big news for climate change students. A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU, Britain's largest climate research institute and a proponent of global warming, and seems to have uncovered evidence of substantial fraud in reporting...

November 19, 2009

Holder's two-tiered system of justice

Posting at Volokh Conspiracy, Professor Eric Posner of the University of Chicago law school  has offered up the most cogent explanation yet for Attorney General Holder's decision to try the 9/11 co-conspirators in a civil trial in New York:Eric ...

November 17, 2009

About that Holder rationale for trying KSM in New York...

Tom Maguire puts his own special wit to use as a skewer on which to impale Eric Holder's flaccid excuse for distinguishing between the trial venues of the USS Cole and 9/11 defendants As he told us last Friday, Eric Holder wants to try Khalid Sheik ...

November 17, 2009

In NJ Republicans picked up Asian votes

Michael Barone reports the New Jersey Governor's race  results indicate that the Republicans picked up votes this time with Asian voters, largely those of Indian descent:All this evidence strongly suggests that Republicans made gains and De...

November 17, 2009

Obama made up his mind on KSM trial in NY 6 months ago

James Taranto is a far better forensic reader of the news than I am. Reading carefully the report that New York Governor Paterson objects to having the trial of the 9/11 terrorists in New York City, he reads that paterson was told of this plan six mo...

November 15, 2009

DeMint and Honduran Democracy 1 - Obama Administration 0

In a victory for democracy in Honduras and common sense in foreign affairs, the Administration has backed off its insistence that Zelaya be returned to power:Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to block influence domest...

November 14, 2009

More on the post-election ballot question in NY 23

It appears, though it was not widely reported, that in an effort to prevent Hoffman from being seated should he win, Owens preemptively contested the results, and the ballots were impounded so the New York  Board of elections could not - and did...

November 13, 2009

Disbelief in response to news of KSM's upcoming trial in New York

The news that the administration plans to try the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in New York has placed the Holder/Obama team's legal idiocy in the spotlight. Some have noted how impossible it will be to impanel a fair jur...

November 12, 2009

Shock! Recanvassing shows NY 23 race not over - sort of

In a shocker , recanvassing of the votes in NY-23 may establish that Hoffman, not Owens, won, according to this piece in the Syracuse Post Standard by Mark Weiner:[A] recanvassing in the 11-county district shows that Owens' lead has narrowed to 3,02...

November 12, 2009

Hasan emails with radical cleric should have been a tip off

Alarms should have rung when emails from Major Hasan to Awlaki were intercepted by our intelligence agencies. He's linked to the London bombings, the attempted attack on Ft Dix, and is far more than just a provocative, hate monger.Writing in the Los ...

November 11, 2009

Bush starting to look better already

Nine some months out of office, and the miserable job Obama is doing has started to rehabilitate the reputation of George W. Bush.Hill Buzz is a blog by Hillary fans. An amazing article is found here, where they take back what they said about the Bus...

November 10, 2009

A Warning on Government Health Care From Peter Bocking

For many years Peter Bocking  known online to most as PeterUK or PUK charmed the denizens of Tom Maguire's blog, Just One Minute, with his wit and intelligence. He died quite recently and for the first time many learned he had been an early, ext...

November 10, 2009

Kelo Karma

Call it Kelo Karma: The outrageous abuse of eminent domain permitted by the Kelo Decision has resulted in disaster for the presumptive beneficiaries. After turning property law on its head by allowing the state to take private property from one owner...

November 9, 2009

Casey's 'concern' (updated)

Echoing my thoughts and I believe the thoughts of many Americans, Contentions' Jennifer Rubin responds to Army Chief of Staff General George Casey's "concern" about a "backlash" against Moslems in the U.S. military as a resul...

November 9, 2009

Tim McGirk who concocted the Haditha massacre is back

Seems like just yesterday Tim McGirk was making up lies about the "Haditha massacre" . Well, he's  baaaaack! Now as Time's Bureau Chief in Jerusalem he suggests that Major Hasan might have been afflicted with "secondary trauma....

November 7, 2009

Obama snubs Ft. Hood to relax at Camp David (updated)

Dan Riehl checks the President's schedule and learns that Obama's not going to Fort Hood, but rather to Camp David for the weekend. In an update, Dan notes that his predecessor is more sensitive to the situation. Fox Reports GWB and Laura spent ...

November 7, 2009

Maybe if we apologized with greater deference

Tom Maguire notes the president's preposterous statement about the shooting at Fort Hood to the effect that there should be no backlash against Moslems - -a common refrain among the left at each of these outrages and one without any factual basis for...

November 7, 2009

Videos of Ft. Hood Shooter at Israeli Ambassador Address to Homeland Security Policy Institute

Free Republic poster, American in Tokyo has identified and detailed frames of a conference at George Washington University in Washington DC where Israeli Ambassador Meridor spoke on counter terrorism. He sat in the second row of a very small meeting ...

November 5, 2009

Our clueless C in C

Twelve soldiers were murdered in cold blood at Fort Hood. Thirty others were wounded. Our Commander in Chief calls a press conference and begins it with a long thanks to the Interior Department and Indians who just concluded a conference and...

November 5, 2009

Unions big losers in this election

Michael Barone notes how much unions have been shoveling into Dem coffers and how much has been repaid to them by the party, but suggests that they are the big losers in this election because card check--- the centerpiece of the SEIU  head Andy ...

November 3, 2009

Operation Orchard: a real life thriller

Der Speigel has a spellbinding article on Operation Orchard, the Israeli operation which destroyed the Al Kibar nuclear reactor in Syria, an operation the Syrians never protested and the Israelis never claimed credit for. Al Kibar was a joint North K...

November 2, 2009

Confusion or worse

The invaluable Secrecy News reports a disconcerting confusion in the Administration's national security secrecy rulings:The decision last week by the Director of National Intelligence to declassify the FY2009 budget for the National Intelligence Prog...

November 2, 2009

A new (terrible) paradigm for America

Of Thee I Sing has a thoughtful article on statism worth reading:Today, a new paradigm for America is being imposed upon us. New for America, but old, tattered and largely discarded where it has been imposed by repressive regimes elsewhere. Its basic...

November 1, 2009

How fast has Obama Fallen? This fast!

The Rasmussen presidential monthly approval polls show a breathtaking drop in Obama's approval ratings, something we might miss in the daily reports:I don't remember ever seeing anything like this....

October 31, 2009

Now what?

Fred Barnes has the best analysis of the legislative prospects for Obamacare.There's one tricky part for Republicans in the health care fight. They don't want the bill to be improved--that is, made a bit less sweeping and draconian. The bill can't be...

October 31, 2009

Somali Pirates Learning from Mark Steyn?

Just days after a brilliant Mark Steyn piece suggesting that environmentalism is just a cover for totalitarian thuggery, the Somali pirates seem to have caught on.Here's Steyn :Yet high-tech statism still needs an overarching narrative. In the new sc...

October 31, 2009

The nameless leaker Richard Armitage

The trial of Scooter Libby stands as an outrage whose true story has been kept from the public. The press today continues to package its accounts of the matter to obscure inconvenient data that might distract from Libby. The investigation began as a ...

October 30, 2009

Obama ditching the First Amendment to curry Moslem favor

Stuart Taylor explains how the Administration's cave in to the Moslem members of the United Nations (and other statements and writings of its officials) is a real and present danger to the continuing application of the First Amendment ...

October 30, 2009

Catholic Bishops call for unprecedented opposition to ObamaCare plan

Catholic Online reports" Bishops Call for Unprecedented, Massive Catholic Opposition to Abortion in Current Health Care Reform"I have asked my friend Mark Wauck to explain the significance of this and he responds:1. the national confer...

October 28, 2009

The Senator and the spies

Toby Harnden has done a fine wrap up of the Myers' spy case (see here and here for background) for the Washingtonian. Among the points of interest: The first person Gwen Myers called upon being arrested was her old boss former Democrat Senator Aboure...

October 27, 2009

The whiff of fascism becomes a stench

Herb Denenberg, once Pennsylvania's Commissioner of Insurance and a Professor at the Wharton School, describes in The Bulletin, how the whiff of fascism in this Administration is turning into the stench of fascism. He starts with a reminder of the ma...

October 25, 2009

Teaching teachers

NRO's John J Miller tackles a pet peeve of mine, the low quality of teacher training with its mindless hours of pedagogical instead of subject matter instruction, and in the process he brings to our attention Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's prep...

October 23, 2009

The Revolution is On! Palin Endorses Hoffman

In New York's 23rd District where the Republican establishment is supporting Dede Scozzafava, a candidate who might best be described as a Democrat, Sarah Palin has announced her support for Doug Hoffman, who is running on the conservative ...

October 20, 2009

Imitation, the Sincerest Form of Flattery

You might think AIPAC stands for the American Israel Political Action Committee and you'd be half right.It also stands for a fairly recently created tax exempt group working for "free Gaza", known as   the Association for Investme...

October 14, 2009

Making things worse in Pakistan

Tom Maguire details problems in Pakistan reported in the New York Times:Unlike previous no-strings aid packages, Kerry-Lugar makes support conditional on Pakistan's military being subordinated to its elected government, and taking action against mili...

October 13, 2009

What ever happened to mens rea?

Mens rea, the concept of criminal intent, was until fairly recently an essential part of criminal law, precluding the conviction of those who had inadvertently committed a crime without intention to do so and without acting negligently.In recent year...

October 9, 2009

Steal this!

A Canadian study shows that people who buy green products tend to lie and steal more than those who don't:Toronto, October 6, 2009 -Those lyin', cheatin' green consumers.Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new s...

October 8, 2009

Ambassador Oren: The Goldstone Report Justifies Israel's Destruction

In a powerful piece published in the October 6 edition of The new Republic, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren details why the UN's Goldstone Report is a justification for the annihilation of a UN member state, Israel, It is to these depths...

October 8, 2009

The money man behind attacks on Palin (with correction)

Meet Stewart A, Resnick: Vicious Pistachio Man. He's the billionaire Lefty Californian who heads Rolls International, parent company of: Teleflora, the largest flower delivery service in the world.FIJI bottled waterPOM pomegranate products.Param...

October 8, 2009

Leading Human Rights Advocates Cover for Obama's Real Politik

Attacking the administration's refusal to meet with the Dalai Lama and explaining what this means to the Tibetans and the world, Professor Stephen Diamond observes how leading human rights advocates on campus turn a blind eye when it is politically c...

October 6, 2009

Republican Small-bill health care proposal

  Here's a small bill proposal -- simple and cheap -- by Republicans in contrast to the War and Peace Democrat Baucus version. Jennifer Rubin sums up this proposal by   Jeffrey Anderson as follows :It would1. Leave employer-provided in...

October 6, 2009

Who to Believe: Obama or the Iranians?

Barry Rubin notes there is a very wide variance between the Administration's view of what happened in Geneva and what it's "negotitaing partner" Iran said went on.And now it's official! Iran's Supreme National Security Council has anno...

October 4, 2009

America's Standing Abroad: 'A Political Puzzle'

It was an article of faith among the left that President Bush had damaged our standing abroad and cost us the good will of the world so evident to them after 9/11. As the theory went, we'd have had a broader alliance in Iraq if only Bush hadn't been ...

October 2, 2009

Of Thee I Sing 1776

An old friend and great lawyer, Stephen Porter , has co-founded a new blog, "Of Thee I Sing", and American Thinker readers might find it worth reading. Here's a sample from the first essay,The New Ruling Class:In recent years, the trend has...

October 1, 2009

ACORN documents uncovered

Today's ACORN story via Big Government involves Oklahoma:A Republican state legislator released documents Tuesday which he says show the community-organizing group ACORN focused on helping Democrats in three legislative races in the November 200...

September 29, 2009

Courage, Dan (updated)

I thought the lower court  which refused to dismiss his nonsensical claim against CBS was as twitchy as Dan Rather's awful pretend folk metaphors so I wasn't surprised to see it was dismissed out of hand  by the higher court:A New York stat...

September 25, 2009

The Kerry-Kennedy bridge to nowhere

What is it about Democrats and their penchant for using our money to build modern pyramids to each other? From the Boston Globe:WASHINGTON - A large military spending bill moving through Congress contains a little-noticed outlay for Boston that has n...

September 25, 2009

Congressional Research Service: Zelaya's Ouster Legal Under Law of Honduras

Once again the facts trip up the Administration. The  well-regarded and non-partisan Congressional research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress examined Honduran law and concluded, contrary to our benighted Department of State and Chave...

September 24, 2009

Administration giving $400K to Qaddafi Family Foundations

NRO's Andy McCarthy reports that the Administration has notified Congress that the Department of State intends to give $400K to Foundations run by members of the Qaddafi family including the son who  escorted the freed Lockerbie bomber back to a...

September 23, 2009

ACORN sues Giles, O'Keefe and Breitbart

In what has to be a really dumb move the Baltimore office of ACORN has sued videographers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles and publisher Andrew Breitbart, saying that Maryland law forbids the audio taping without the permission of all parties.  Po...

September 23, 2009

IRS severs ties with ACORN

AP reports that the IRS is severing ties with ACORN. On September 13 and 15th we reported on the tires between ACORN and the IRS and suggested a serious review of that relationship was in order. It appears it didn't take the IRS long to realize ...

September 22, 2009

Ledeen: It's Virtually Over for Iran's Mullahs

Michael Ledeen, who has always been a shrewd observer of the events in Iran, says this regime is virtually over; it is being met with ridicule from fellow clerics and citizens alike; high ranking members are racing to make deals with their opponents,...

September 21, 2009

ACORN the landlord

The NY Post brings us news of one of NYC's biggest landlords, the seriously embattled "community organizing" outfit called ACORN:ACORN has quietly become one of the Big Apple's biggest owners of low- and moderate-income housing, amassing a ...

September 19, 2009

Holder throwing in the towel on CIA investigation?

Tom Maguire, citing the Washington Post, reports that AG Eric Holder seems to be winding down the much ballyhooed and widely criticized decision to investigate the CIA interrogators:The WaPo reports that, having finished with the grandstanding and pu...

September 18, 2009

ACORN in the courts

Politico notes that a threatened suit by ACORN against O'Keefe and Giles would be a major mistake for the organization. Threatened criminal charges against them are being threatened by the ACORN workers involved:The New York Daily News reported today...

September 18, 2009

Barack & ACORN Tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G

How closely is President Obama aligned to ACORN, the disgraced "community organizers"? World Net Daily offers up a detailed list of the almost two decade relationship between the president and the criminal enterprise. ...

September 17, 2009

The Kamikaze media

John Nolte, in an exceptional piece for Big Hollywood, explains why this is no longer the dinosaur media, it's the kamikaze media, an industry so desirous of promoting Obama and his leftist agenda that is has shredded utterly its credibility and util...

September 16, 2009

Race card losing its effectiveness (updated)

In the past the race card was in fact a potent play for the left. I wonder if it hasn't been played so often that it's now thin enough for people to see through.The latest Rasmussen poll suggests that is the case:Twelve percent (12%) of voters nation...

September 16, 2009

Feldman's Law

Godwin's Law has a new companion: Feldman's Law. Wikipedia defines Godwin's rule as follows:Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1] is a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990 which has become an Internet adage....

September 15, 2009

Spotlight on IRS/ACORN ties

On September 13 I noted there were ties between the IRS and ACORN through the VITA program, an operation ostensibly designed to help low income persons file their tax returns.It seemed to me that in view of the clear videotaped evidence of ACORN tax ...

September 14, 2009

ACORN Back for more federal $$, but Senate votes to block funding

The Washington Examiner which is always worth reading reports that ACORN just filed applications seeking $6 million more in federal funds:The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department o...

September 13, 2009

Time for IRS to review all ACORN-prepared tax filings

The federal government should review all tax returns prepared by ACORN tax preparers (and all loan applications prepared by ACORN -- but that is a separate review process). That the IRS knows who these people are is suggested by this article, wh...

September 13, 2009

A tale of two rallies

Tom Maguire compares and contrasts two rallies and the press coverage of them: The huge anti-Obama rally in Washington D.C. and the rally in Minneapolis which drew 15,000 people to an arena that holds 20,000.The DC Tea-PartyMatt Welch reports hi...

September 12, 2009

Another Mystery for NYT Readers

In what is becoming a pattern, the NYT is deliberately keeping bad news from its readers re-creating the old Soviet-stle airbrushed news. Doug Ross reports on the paper's (non)coverage of the ACORN scandal:With word that the Census Bureau cuts its ti...

September 11, 2009

Keeping Andrew Sullivan on the team

Here's a very interesting case which should be called to mind whenever you see Andrew glossing over Obama's many imperfections and tossing rose petals in his path. Sullivan was caught with a controlled substance on federal parkland in Massachusetts.H...

September 10, 2009

ELF Institutes it's own 'Fairness Doctrine'

Waiting for Obama to shut up the opposition is evidently too tiresome for eco terrorists Earth Liberation Front (ELF) in Washington State who are now using bulldozers to bring down AM radio transmitter towers to monopolize political debate in that fa...

September 10, 2009

ACORN nabbed in sting operation (includes video)

Andrew Breitbart has established a new website, Big Government.com, a companion to his Big Hollywood.com, and on it you can see this video of Obama's buddies, ACORN, prepping two people posing as a pimp and a prostitute how to lie to the IRS to obtai...

September 9, 2009

Paglia:The Democratic Brain Has Marinated in Cliches so Long It is Pickled

In her column in Salon, Camille Paglia  argues that it may be too late for Obama to salvage his standing and win a second term of office. In analyzing why this is so, she makes a number of points worth reading, including these:Why did it take so...

September 9, 2009

Czar Dish

With virtually no input from the mainstream media, the alternate media exposed and forced the resignation of Communist, racist, intemperate partisan Van Jones. He will not be the only White House czar forced from office in this way.According to the m...

September 7, 2009

Free speech in Canada again

Mark Hemingway of NRO  brings some wonderful news from Canada . The odious Hate Speech provisions which were used in an attempt to muzzle Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant have been declared unconstitutional.The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal...

September 6, 2009

Obama knew about Lockerbie Bomber Transfer

It seems that Obama is not going to get away with blaming the Brits for releasing the Lockerbie bomber. At least not if Downing Street can help it. The British say the White House and Secretary of State Clinton were fully informed of the decision an...

September 6, 2009

Shipping News (Updated)

A few weeks ago, rather buried in other news was an odd report of a Russian ship which apparently had been hijacked after picking up “timber “in Finland. Various conflicting accounts of its whereabouts and cargo and the details of the hij...

September 5, 2009

Labor Polls Poorly

Mickey Kaus highlights a poll that has to be depressing news for unions this Labor Day weekend:Gruesome new poll numbers on public support for unions--the percent who say they "mostly hurt"the U.S. economy jumps from 39% in 2006 to 51% las...

September 5, 2009

Yale Law School and Why Van Jones went There

During the Anita Hill hearings after a series of implausible witnesses all of whom were black Yale law school graduates, Juan Williams wrote in the Washington Post that he could now understand the wisdom of the saying that Yale law school had ruined ...

September 1, 2009

Mothers Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up To Be Blue Devils

Not content with the mess they created when the university threw innocent lacrosse team players to the wolves following a manifestly false accusation of group rape, Duke university has now instituted a policy for handling rape charges manifestly unfa...

August 31, 2009

Unintended consequences

Forcing Sarah Palin out of the Alaskan governorship with repeated meritless claims of ethical violations which she was forced to defend, may prove to be the Democrats most stupid move this year. (Last year's was nominating an unqualified sophomoric t...

August 30, 2009

AQ Khan ordered freed of all restrictions

The Telegraph is reporting that a Pakistani court has ordered nuclear scientist A Q Khan freed of all restrictions on his freedom:A.Q. Khan, the 'godfather' of Pakistan's nuclear programme accused ofsharing technology with rogue states, has been gran...

August 26, 2009

No Myth: Illegal Immigrants Covered under Obamacare

Since he obviously can't be bothered reading the bills he insists we need to support, Obama might be forgiven for characterizing as a myth something which is not one.  Mark Tapscott highlights a report establishing that ObamaCare will cover ille...

August 25, 2009

Nixon White House redux

Don Surber notes that the man behind the Glenn Beck boycott is a White House official -- and the press yawns:An environmental adviser on Obama's payroll was behind that campaign to get advertisers to boycott Glenn Beck's TV show, the Los Angeles Time...

August 25, 2009

Cheney was right; Obama's wrong

I've begun re-stocking my emergency food supplies as I live in D.C. and I simply have no faith in this Administration's ability to defend the nation any longer. Matt's Meditations underscores how the Bush-Cheney team saved us from further attack...

August 21, 2009

Let Them Eat Arugula (Updated)

Like a child who wandered into an adult cocktail party and tried to seem precocious by mouthing clichés he doesn't really understand, Obama once again made a fool of himself as he did during the campaign  when he told his rich backer...

August 11, 2009

Are We Paying to Defame Palin?

Dan Riehl does some investigative work on Jesse Griffin, an Alaskan blogger who's been defaming Palin ,and finds that he does not work where he says he does but that he seems closely linked to a couple of Dem activists who are getting stimulus funds....

August 11, 2009

Obama's Tone Deafness

The WSJ's Dorothy Rabinowitz skewers the President and his tone deaf campaign for health care reform  The election over, the warming glow of those armies of supporters gone, his capacity to tolerate criticism and dissent from his policies grows ...

August 10, 2009

Obama's way with words

Dennis the Peasant catches another of those Obama fumbles (or was he just  being candid?) , this one reported in the NYT.  President Obama said Monday that efforts to change the immigration system would be a major focus for his adminis...

August 10, 2009

Americans know who their friends are

Despite all the ridiculous posturing and advances to the Middle Eastern dictators by this administration, Americans aren't buying.Rasmussen reports today:A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey asked adults nationwide to assess America's re...

August 10, 2009

Guess who beat up Gladney?

Bill Hennessey of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition reports per Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light that the man who beat up Mr Gladney is an SEIU official who is a candidate for Mayor:Tea Party researchers have discovered some interesting ne...

August 9, 2009

Defending Palin's 'Death Panel' remark

Moderate law professor Ann Althouse (an Obama voter) takes issue with those who twisted Sarah Palin's criticism of the Obama health care proposal. She says Palin's right to be worried and admits she is, too:"The Democrats promise that a governme...

August 6, 2009

Don't Know Much About Arithmetic

From the Boston Globe comes proof of our genius President's math abilities:The [so-called stimulus] plan was divided into three parts. One-third of the money has gone to tax relief for families and small businesses. One-third of the money is cutting ...

July 31, 2009

Is DoJ Complicit in Election Crimes?

Some of my most interesting ideas come not from fellow bloggers or established media pundits, but from readers themselves. Today at Pajamas Media I wrote about the inexplicable decision by the Department of Justice to drop the uncontested prosecution...

July 29, 2009

Special Prosecutor in Stevens Case Wins Important Ruling

The Anchorage Daily News reports some information in the ongoing investigation of the prosecution team that destroyed Alaska Senator Stevens' political career:A special prosecutor in Washington, D.C., was granted authority Tuesday to compel testimony...

July 27, 2009

Cambridge cops speak out on Gates and Obama (video)

Cambridge PD Sgt. Crowley's black colleagues support him, say there was no racism, that Obama rushed to judgment. One black woman cop says she supported and voted for Obama but will not do so again. Video here....

July 27, 2009

Just how smart is Obama?

Just how smart is the President? Famous presidential historian Michael Beschloss, a regular on PBS's Newshour show, says his IQ is "off the charts" and that he is "probably the smartest guy ever to become president," while admitti...

July 25, 2009

About that charity you run, Professor Gates

Dan Riehl explores  a charity headed by Professor "Skip" Gates which takes in a lot of money, pays out very little, mostly to his colleagues and assistants at Harvard, was late filing the necessary papers and lists as its office the ho...

July 24, 2009

IDF prepares for Life without US Defense Assistance

It could simply be prudent planning, a test of the new President's will, or a sign of genuine concern about the intent of the new Administration, but the Jerusalem Post is reporting the Israelis are in serious discussions to determine how they w...

July 23, 2009

Time: Cheney and Bush Fight Over Pardoning Scooter Libby

Time magazine has a long, detailed piece on the dispute between the former president and his vice president over pardoning Scooter Libby and  why Cheney believes the failure to do so will diminish the Bush legacy:For Cheney, however, the ongoing...

July 22, 2009

Will someone please teach AP how to Google!

Steve Gilbert checks online into the background of the investigator who preposterously suggests in an illegally leaked preliminary report that there was something unethical in the creation and operation of the Palin defense fund, set up to defray the...

July 19, 2009

Recycling Old Lies

With their trajectory heading further downward and the profligate spending they authorized putting not a dent in the weakening economy, the Democrats have reached into their bag of tricks and are recycling old lies.The AP, among others, reports that ...

July 18, 2009

A Paktika Province Fourth of July

My friend Matt Holzmann has published a beautiful tribute to two young Americans killed there on the Fourth of July while we, safe at home, were celebrating our independence. ...

July 16, 2009

Human Rights Watch Trolling for Saudi Bucks

The notoriously anti-Israeli Human Rights Watch was, indeed, trolling for Saudi dollars to fund its work, concludes The Atlantic's  Jeffrey Goldberg, confirming what the Wall Street Journal earlier reported:... yes, the director of Human Ri...

July 16, 2009

Obama's Head Full of Academic Yada Yada

Obama is a symbol of everything wrong in higher education today:He has graduated Columbia and Harvard  Law School with a head  full of a fluff, no substance. He throws around words that are in vogue among the academicians, but it is clear t...

July 14, 2009

Obama said he would, but now he won't

Obama's CIA chief Leon Panetta has made clear that he ended a program initiated under the prior administration to capture and kill Al Qaeda leaders in countries not cooperating with our efforts to root out these scourges.One has to assume that t...

July 12, 2009

Dems Lied About Warrantless Surveillance Program and Smeared Gonzales

Andy McCarthy, writing at NRO   did what I was too lazy to do: review the report released  Friday afternoon on the warrantless surveillance program.I suggest you read his summary . If you do you will learn how reckless and dishone...

July 10, 2009

P.U. To Pew (and the NYT)

Pew, which played a serious but hidden role in the press for the free speech limiting campaign finance reform act (likely soon  to get a thorough clipping by the Supreme Court), is at it again in a study on science and public attitudes...

July 8, 2009

The NeoCon Role in the Iran Revolt

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web notes that the mad mullahs seem to believe that the neocons greenlighted Obama's effort to overthrown their regime.Of course, it seems a preposterous notion. But Taranto quotes from Chri...

July 8, 2009

America Souring on Hope and Change

As if we were speaking another language, the Democrats are ignoring all the signs that they are overstepping in expanding the federal government and spending like there's no tomorrow:The first signs of a revolt are apparent in the polls.President Bar...

July 7, 2009

Ex-Contractor with Ties to Murtha Indicted

The Hill reports that an informer contractor linked to Murtha has been indicted in the continuing probe:Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh have charged a former executive for a defense contractor with ties to Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) with taking nearl...

July 5, 2009

Saudis OK Israeli Overflights?

Sounds hard to credit, but the Times Online is saying that's the case:The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flyin...

July 5, 2009

Larry Franklin speaks

Larry Franklin , the only person convicted in the ridiculous AIPAC case (he pleaded guilty), is now free to and does speak to Haaretz about how his efforts to alert the National Security Council of the need for regime change in Iran  embroi...

July 2, 2009

Obama condems Zelaya-like behavior

Small democratic nations allied to us (Israel, Honduras, Columbia) get the shaft and thugs get a pat on the back? My friend Hit & Run brings to our attention the latest example -- we excoriate Honduras for the same thing that happened in Niger. B...

June 30, 2009

More details from Myers spy ring court papers

The Telegraph's Toby Harnden has unearthed some additional details from the papers the government has filed in the Myers case.Among them the fact that Kendall  Myers does have a previous criminal conviction which will add to the length of his se...

June 29, 2009

Campaign Finance Law and Sotomayor

People will certainly be speculating on the impact of the Ricci opinion on the Sotomayor nomination . (I just drafted one such article for Pajamas media.) But the court has now handed the Senate Judiciary panel another reason to closely question Soto...

June 23, 2009

Another DOJ Criminal Division Mess Up

This time the case involves a Mexican charged with major drug dealing, and the judge is the same one who dismissed the Stevens case. Once again, the issue is the government's mishandling of exculpatory evidence.Will the Department probe inc...

June 23, 2009

Cuba's Spy Program Widely Seeded in US Government

The man who dug up Cuban spy Ana Belen Montes, Chris Simmons, warns that they are deeply planted throughout the government and may also be in the legislative branch as well, reports Carlos Montaner of the Miami Herald:The interesting thing about the ...

June 22, 2009

Covering up a Bush program's success

Slate's Mickey Kaus revealed a secret the media is hiding from us, President Bush's No Child Left behind act is working--certainly to the dismay of the education unions which so strongly oppose it:Psst! Tsi-ay Inda-Kay Orking-Way: What if they came o...

June 21, 2009

Lancing Fitzgerald

Peter Lance, author of Triple Cross, a book critical of Patrick Fitzgerald and in particular his handling of material and witnesses which handled otherwise might have prevented 9/11, details the latter's efforts to intimidate his publisher into ...

June 21, 2009

What have Iran's leader and ours in common?

The ever witty Jeff Dobbs gives us a graphic answer. ...

June 20, 2009

More great videos from Iran

Filming the Revolution. See also Persianq....

June 20, 2009

Iran protestors remind mullahs what happened to Saddam

It turns out that the example of a tyrant overthrown and executed next door weighs on the minds of protestors in Tehran, and maybe on the mullahs' minds too. Gateway Pundit reports:Happened to Saddam" It looks like the situation in Iraq is playi...

June 19, 2009

Ten Amazing Videos from Iran

Modern technology makes the revolt in Iran as close to home as possible. Here are ten videos documenting the street scenes there.And still, in the idiotic hope that ignoring this groundswell against the mullahs he can get the theocratic crooks t...

June 17, 2009

It wasn't the Gorelick Wall?

A just-declassified monograph written for the 9/11 Commission would have us believe the Clinton-era "Gorelick wall" between police and intelligence can't be blamed. Oh really? Steven Aftergood's Secrecy News alerts us to the release of...

June 16, 2009

Cuba Fishes for Spies in DC Academic Waters

The Miami Herald explains that the FBI was reluctant to arrest and prosecute Americans who spied for Cuba until after Cuba shot down two Brothers to the Rescue planes, killing four Americans. It also indicates that Cuban intelligence was badly damage...

June 15, 2009

We Don't Need No Stinkin'Intel Oversight

Secrecy News reports that the President has still not appointed anyone to the presidential intelligence oversight board:President Obama has still not appointed anyone to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), Secrecy News has learned.The...

June 15, 2009

Daschle's connection to the Myers' Spy Case

Friday,  I noticed that Tom Daschle was handling foreign affairs for then-Senator Abourezk when Gwendolyn Myers, accused of spying for Cuba along with her husband,  was also on the Abourezk payroll and when in 1977 Abourezk took two South D...

June 12, 2009

More Obama Thuggery

Inspector Generals are appointed to make certain that agencies are running properly and to rout out corruption, but apparently if that corruption involved a big time Obama supporter and you find it, you will be fired.Writing for the Washington Examin...

June 10, 2009

Myers spy case update

After learning the Myerses had  planned a sail to the Carribbean with no return date, the judge denied them bail pending hearing.In the course of the trial we learned a bit more about their activities:Kendall Myers, 72, who appeared in federal c...

June 8, 2009

Fidel-ity: Three Decades of the Myers Spy Ring

Last week a Department of State retiree and his wife were arrested and charged with spying for Cuba for thirty years. In this article I will sort out what we know, don't know and need to explore about this matter.Walter Kendall Myers, Jr .and his wif...

June 6, 2009

They Shoulda Listened to Me

In 2006 I wrote Kendall Myers should be fired from the Department of State:Once again, a high State Department official utters, publicly  and in undiplomatic language, views which are harmful to our national interest. It's long past time fo...

June 5, 2009

More Apparent Prosecutorial Misconduct in Alaskan Prosecutions

It seems that Senator Ted Stevens was not the only Alaskan Republican ensnared by unethical prosecutors. Thursday's stunning development:The U.S. Justice Department this afternoon asked that two former Alaska state legislators imprisoned after convic...

June 5, 2009

Single Payer Propaganda

Tom Maguire is deeply skeptical about the latest study intended to stampede the country into socialized medicine, this one claiming even health insurance doesn't protect you from bankruptcy.The particularly alarming news from the new study is that no...

June 3, 2009

Chavez and Fidel To Obama's Right?

How far to the left is Obama? Here's Venezuelan Preseident Hugo Chavez' take:    "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his r...

May 27, 2009

The Union's Pyrrhic Victory Over Capitalism

For those companies that caved in to the outrageous Obama Administration bailout plan which rewarded the UAW at the expense of the bondholders, the market noticed and is exacting its price. Dena Aubin reports for Reuters:NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scores o...

May 25, 2009

More Evidence of Saddam-Al Qaeda Links

It is perhaps unfashionable to keep reminding people that the claim that there were no links between the deposed Iraqi regime head and Al-Qaeda is bunk. Mark Eichenlaub isn't letting that stop him. Regime of terror has more:Overlooked and new testimo...

May 23, 2009

Obama's verbal onanism

My Just One Minute friend Danube reports how many times Obama used the first person singular in his latest speech:I did a bit of an experiment. I found the complete text of Obama's national security speech from last week. Using the control-f function...

May 22, 2009

Telegraph:Cheney Lands 10 Solid Punches to Obama's Jaw

Conceding that pugilistic terms best suit the comparison of the Cheney and Obama dueling speeches on defense, Toby Harnden of the Telegraph reports that former Vice President Cheney landed 10 solid punches on Obama's jaw. Here's one:Cheney'...

May 21, 2009

Obama Backtracks on Threat to California

It seemed outrageous when Obama threatened to deny California stimulus funds if it reduced SEIU member health care workers' wages, and , indeed, that threat seems to have only been empty posturing, according to Peter Nicholas of the LA Times:The Obam...

May 13, 2009

Did Obama Open Pandora's Box?

Be careful what you wish for. And never take for granted the loyalty of your enemies.In a typically brilliant analysis, Legal Insurrection's Prof. Jacobson notes that the forthcoming Congressional hearings on the treatment of high level Al Qaeda deta...

May 11, 2009

Time For Holder to Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate the Leaks from OPR

Powerline's Paull Mirengoff notes that the leaks of the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility's (OPR) draft report on the investigation into the enhanced interrogation memoranda of law violated boththe Department's regula...

May 9, 2009

Poppin-Jay

Jay Rockefeller is a consummate liar. Some years ago he was caught out planning to do something never done in modern history -- turn the Senate Intelligence Committee into a partisan tool. Today's Wall Street Journal shows he continues to lie --...

May 8, 2009

The nutroots doesn't know Obama anymore than we do

Cornell Law Professor William A Jacobson made fun of the press drool over Obama's visit to a local hamburger joint where Kerry-like he asked for dijon mustard. The blog entry drew heated  comments  from around the nutrootsosphere and Jacobs...

May 7, 2009

Congress Should Say Nuts to ACORN (updated)

The Washington Examiner is quickly becoming a formidible publication with a bevy of first rate writers.Today's expose of Congressional largesse to ACORN  by Kevin Mooney is a good example:At least $53 million in federal funds have gone to ACORN ...

May 5, 2009

And Now--The CIA's War on Obama?

Jack Kelly reminds us how the trumped up Plame affair was the first battle of the CIA against Bush and suggests Obama is now about to feel the agency's bite:The CIA's war against President Bush was motivated by ass covering, or by political partisans...

May 5, 2009

Unfinished Business in the AIPAC case

Friday the Department of Justice indicated to the court that it would be filing a motion to dismiss the case it had brought against two former officials of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee).The landscape of this case has changed signif...

April 28, 2009

Remembering Specter

I remember Specter from almost 40 years ago when he was Philadelphia D.A. My client. Jock Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered in their beds and we knew that the UMWA was behind it. It took years to successfully prosecute all the participan...

April 28, 2009

Fly By Farce Theory (updated)

JOM poster Mustang has a plausible theory on the fly-by over Manhattan yesterday: that it was to aid in the production of a film Red Tail about the Tuskegee Airman called Red Tail. Tom Maguire details it:This is an interesting theory about yesterdays...

April 28, 2009

'Scooter' Pelosi?

Except for a glaring factual error -- Lewis A. "Scooter" Libby served no time in prison -- this IBD editorial is good:  Remember the thrilling days of yesteryear and the alleged outing of the already known CIA officer Valerie Plame? We...

April 27, 2009

It wasn't an NSA tap on Harman's telephone line (updated)

I knew it! The NSA was not the agency tapping Rep. Jane Harman's calls:COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The National Security Agency did not place a wiretap that reportedly intercepted phone conversations made by Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., the top U.S. intellige...

April 24, 2009

Obama Nominates King County Vote Theft Abettor

Steven Sharansky who documented how the King County Democrats in Washington State stole the 2004 gubernatorial  election reports:King County has now settled my public records lawsuit for $225,000, one of the largest settlements for public r...

April 24, 2009

Stevens Case Prosecutors Lawyering Up

Legaltimes is reporting that the prosecution team in the now-dismissed case against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens have engaged heavy hitting private counsel and it appears the taxpayers will be picking up the tab for their defense. ...

April 22, 2009

Holder on interrogations in 2002

Eric Holder spoke out on the interrogation of unlawful combatants in 2002. "One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells a...

April 21, 2009

Harman Tape Irony (Update: Prosectors reported considering dropping AIPAC case)

Secrecy News which has provided for me the most reliable and detailed accounts of the case agasint the two former AIPAC officials has some thoughts about the leaks of the Harman tape:What makes the quid pro quo allegation questionable is that neither...

April 21, 2009

Voters are Smarter than Media Thinks

Michael Barone, writing for the Washington Examiner, notes that people are smarter than the press thinks they are, noting a recent Pew poll:My conclusion: Americans are pretty knowledgable about our economic problems, and as they watch public policy ...

April 20, 2009

Leak targets Rep. Harman: Another coincidence? (updated)

The long-delayed trial against two former officials at AIPAC  is scheduled to start soon and -- what a coincidence! -- a rumor circulated three years ago about the potential involvement of Congresswoman Jane Harman  suddenly is repeated , t...

April 20, 2009

China only works if we do

My DC neighbor Rick Ballard, a master of invention and a linguist of note, stopped by to show me his newest creation."I call it the Way Forward machine," he said, explaining it was a takeoff on the reverse phenomenon in the movie ,"Bac...

April 19, 2009

Credentialed Morons:1938-9 Version

For those of us surprised by the thinking of the denizens of the groves of academe, JOM poster, Daddy, reminds us that there is nothing new here:Last week I finished Walter Isaacson’s “Einstein”. Einstein had moved to Princeton in 1...

April 19, 2009

Math is hard!

When is a 16% margin a narrow one? When it's the Washington Post describing support for same-sex marriage:Public opinion remains narrowly against same-sex marriage. A Newsweek poll in December found 55 percent of people opposed to it, compared with 3...

April 18, 2009

A good week for the Stevens family

The Alaskan Supreme Court confirmed  that a lower court correctly dismissed a case against Ted Stevens' son who was being investigated by Alaskan authorities at the same time Ted was being hounded by federal investigators. It appears the law the...

April 18, 2009

Iowahawk on DHS

Iowahawk presents a transcript of Homeland Security's film ,warning us of the dangers of the Red State International Constitutionalism scare. Here's a quick preview:This is Pinewood Lane, in Anytown, USA. A street probably a lot like yours. Happy cit...

April 17, 2009

'Cheap Grace'

That's Tom Maguire's take on the Administration's release of the "torture memos":TALK IS CHEAP:  Imagine with me that terrorists kidnap Sasha, Malia, and their little dog, too, but the good guys manage to capture one of the terrorists ...

April 17, 2009

Pwned by China?

Are we already, in an expression found in internet chat rooms, pwned (beaten) by China? Here's a distressing report from the Times of India, which suggests we are:WASHINGTON: The Chinese cyber spies have penetrated so deep into the US ...

April 16, 2009

Obama committed to 2 state solution within 4 years?

Yedioth Achronoth, the largest circulation daily in Israel, is reporting that Rahm Emanuel has said that President Obama intends to implement a two state solution of Israel and Palestine within his first term in office. MJ Rosenberg, the Washington D...

April 15, 2009

DHS on left wing and right wing threats: a big contrast

Ed Morrisey is first on the draw with a comparison of the DHS' disparate treatment of right and leftwing extremism:[The report is]is here, courtesy of Jake Tapper.  This is the report heralded by counter-critics of the DHS report on "r...

April 12, 2009

Government Schools and the Ruling Elite

Peter Hitchens documents how the Tories and Labour party worked together to destroy the publicly funded British grammar schools while maintaining their own elite status by placing their children in non-state funded schools and completely avoid t...

April 12, 2009

Washington Post Post Mortem on Stevens Case

The Washington Post reports today (with less fanfare than it reports gossip about the First Family's dog) the aftermath of the announced investigation into the legal team that prosecuted Ted Stevens:Prosecutors and FBI agents are hiring their own law...

April 9, 2009

Policing the Prosecutors

In recent years service as a successful crusading prosecutor has been a pathway to political success (See Giuliani and Spitzer, for example) and high paying positions in the private sector. At the same time, to me anyway, there has been an increasing...

April 8, 2009

Prosecutor of Ted Stevens also worked on Libby case

In a short bio preceding a presentation to Stanford Law Center, we learn that Brenda Morris, one of the lawyers in the Stevens case under investigation for wrongdoing in the prosecution of that case, was involved in a number of other familiar cases, ...

April 8, 2009

The US Electrical Grid has Been Penetrated by Foreign Spies

The Wall Street Journal has some very distressing news:WASHINGTON -- Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security off...

April 7, 2009

Judge names special prosecutor for Stevens prosecutors

The federal judge in the Ted Stevens case not only threw out his conviction but took the unprecedented step of instituting a criminal proceeding against the prosecutors."In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the m...

April 6, 2009

It Looks Like the Ted Stevens' Case Judge Means Business

Prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case face more than an internal investigation by Eric Holder. The federal judge who tried Stevens is acting on his own. Although the prosecution in the corrupt case against Senator Ted Stevens was replaced and the Attor...

April 4, 2009

More Obama cluelessness

Apparently as late at the Gordon Brown visit the new administration didn't even realize the Dept of State has a protocol office:"According to a person close to the situation, Obama hasn't yet appointed a chief of protocol and his staffers, still...

April 2, 2009

Obama bows down to Saudi King (updated)

I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a President of the United States.See also: With bowed head and bended knee  Would Abe Lincoln bow down to a slave-keeping Arab king?Drip, drip, drip -- the MSM coverup of t...

March 31, 2009

Outrageous federal power grab

Big Brother will set all pay levels once federal bailout funds are received. Remember: some banks were forced to accept bailout money. Byron York, writing in the D.C. Examiner  brings to our attention a truly awful prospect:[T]he House Fina...

March 29, 2009

Holder to drop prosecution of Ted Stevens

Too late to save his  political career, the Department of Justice moves to drop the case against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, in an obvious effort to shield from public view the improprieties of its own attorneys:The Justice Department fil...

March 27, 2009

Some thoughts on Political Gold in Daily Dross

Tom Maguire vivisects Congressman Paul Ryan's Texas sidestep on the AIG bonuses today:Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the budget committee, said Thursday he would have voted against the 90 percent tax increase if he had know...

March 26, 2009

Dems Keep Madoff $$, Media Has No Comment

The Hill is angry that the Democrats are hanging on to the Madoff contribution of $100,000 when it should be returned to those he bilked. But the rest of the media seems to be averting its eyes:The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)...

March 24, 2009

Left of Sweden

Paul Krugman keeps insisting we should nationalize our troubled banks: But if you think that the banks really, really have made lousy investments, this won't work at all; it will simply be a waste of taxpayer money. To keep the banks operating, you n...

March 22, 2009

Richard Holbrooke's Terrible , Horrible, Miserable No Good Week

Richard Holbrooke, Obama's Special Envoy is coming in for criticism from all sides. First Mickey Kaus observed that Holbroke was in the middle of the AIG and subprime messes  Obama's special envoy Richard Holbrooke served on A.I.G.'s board when ...

March 22, 2009

Let other states produce California's power

As the Democrats make extraction, refining  and utilization of traditional fossil fuels increasingly impossible, touting alternative sources, the party's leaders put their own aesthetic NIMBYism first.Ted Kennedy has worked to block windmills th...

March 20, 2009

Get the Temple of Obama props out of storage

Beldar nails Obama far better than I can. (When I try, I sound like Ferris Bueller's sister, flabbergasted that her brother has once again hoodwinked everyone.):Obama has dispelled his mystical (and entirely unproven) aura of competence with breathta...

March 18, 2009

Dodd comes clean

After we reported that Senator Dodd was the author of the exception in the stimulus act that permitted the AIG bonuses, he and his friends in the press (The Atlantic, for one), implausibly denied that he was.Today he now admits he was the author....

March 18, 2009

Insurance Commissions Failed to Do Job In AIG's Case

No one's doing a better job than Tom Maguire in explaining the AIG madness. The mainstream media is reporting utter nonsense for the most part. Today he adds to this reputation with a close look at what caused AIG to fail. The regulated old insu...

March 17, 2009

Haditha update

Another decision bringing an end to another part this tragic hoax of a case was just rendered. Mark Walker writes in the North County Times:In a key ruling, a military appeals court has upheld the dismissal of dereliction of duty charges filed b...

March 17, 2009

Court Rules Bankrupt Municipality Can Void Union Contracts

In a first which will be watched by states and municipalities around the country which have grossly underfunded their pension and benefit programs for their emloyees, a judge ruled that Vallejo California's bankruptcy permits it to void the contracts...

March 17, 2009

Our Brilliant Class Warfare Generals Attack Their Own Troops

After sinking our money into companies like AIG to keep them afloat and the credit markets operating, how dumb is it of the President and Senators like Dodd  to attack the AIG bonuses to  those key employees who we need to bring the co...

March 17, 2009

You can lease Chris Dodd, but you can't buy him

Dodd is such a bum when you buy him he doesn't stay bought. You get, at best, a short term lease, if the public gets angry. Rich Edson of Fox Business reports:   Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of tax...

March 16, 2009

AIG Bonuses

As usual, the reports of substantial bonuses to bailed out AIG officials is grist for the populist, anti business pro government interventionist  mill, but in two lengthy posts, Tom Maguire argues the cheap shot is extremely stupid:As the letter...

March 16, 2009

European Hypocrisy in a Nutshell

Europeans who offered to help us close Gitmo with promises to help resettle the prisoners in their countries reportedly are (surprise!) having second thoughts.  Tom Maguire especially likes this part of the New York Times article: The ...

March 14, 2009

Obama giveth and then taketh away

Honestly, I know with advancing age, I'm slowing down, but our new President has my head absolutely spinning. CNS reports:"On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell re...

March 13, 2009

More Obama appointee trouble

Has ever a new Administration had more trouble with its appointees? If so, I don't remember it. Thursday the FBI arrested two officials of D.C.'s Office of Technology which until recently was headed by Vivek Kundra, the President's pick to head...

March 12, 2009

Soros-funded Institute for Public Accuracy to Freeman's Defense

An outfit called Institute for Public Accuracy is advertising that Chas Freeman and others are available for interviews on the dastardly Jewish Lobby's role in forcing Freeman's withdrawal from nomination.Among the persons offered up for interviews i...

March 11, 2009

Mc-Cain Feingold Like Gag for TARP Recipients?

Believe it or not, elements of the left are arguing for a gag rule on TARP funds recipients. And getting smacked down. Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher leads the charge against recipients of TARP funds being free to express their views on pending legislati...

March 5, 2009

CFLs may increase greenhouse emissions in cold climates

Citing  the CBC, Steve Gilbert  informs us that using compact flourescent lights in cold climes may actually increase greenhouse emissions  :Questions are being raised about whether so-called energy saving light bulbs might cause cold-...

March 5, 2009

Can We Endure an 8 % Reduction in Clean, Safe Energy?

Ken Nahigian, former Chief Counsel of the Senate Energy Committee, comments on the failure to fund the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility:Nuclear power constitutes 20 percent of the electricity used in the United States. That’s right, one ...

March 5, 2009

Bad Science Informing bad Tax Policy

Our tax chiseling Secretary of the Treasury who can't manage to understand Turbo Tax further reveals his scientific and economic illiteracy:WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsid...

March 4, 2009

Has Obama Killed Nuclear Power?

That's what Steve Sailer asks, and he's got good reason for asking because buried in the budget is a clue that under the radar that's exactly what Obama has done:It looks like Obama's budget intends to give up on implementing the Yucca Mountain nucle...

March 4, 2009

The genius of Obama

JOM commenter Soylent Red hits the nail on the head respecting the preposterous flailing about of the President on foreign affairs:Let me see here...1. Tell the world during your campaign that you want to eliminate missile defense. Make one of your f...

March 1, 2009

Yet another corrupt Obama appointee

Steve Gilbert is not resting on his laurels (CPAC Blogger of the Year). He points us to a NY Daily News report on yet another corrupt Obama appiontee:The man who is President Obama’s newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in camp...

February 28, 2009

Spielberg: the magic is gone

John Nolte says what most of us are thinking: Spielberg's magic is gone, and he's so morally blind that even those of us who loved him, are happy to hear that:… Spielberg may not get to make his Lincoln biopic because his moral blindness makes...

February 26, 2009

The Game's Afoot

The Heritage Foundation details how Senator Durbin is attempting to avoid the constitutional problems in reintroducing the fiarness doctrine while achieving the same ends--shutting down conservative talk radio:T]he Durbin amendment doesn’t actu...

February 26, 2009

Marty Peretz as a judge of character

The New Republic's Martin Peretz is disappointed in the man he backed for president:Here is the most stunning prospective appointment of the Obama administration as yet. Not stunning as in "spectacular" or "distinguished" but stun...

February 25, 2009

Conde Nast Reaps What It Sowed

Before the election I wondered here on AT why luxury good retailers continued to advertise heavily in publications that had so strong a leftward bias that should their favorite candidates win election, it would cost the retailers their...

February 25, 2009

AIPAC Prosecution Receives Another Blow

Secrecy news reports that the prosecutors in the AIPAC case have received yet another blow and indicates that the next status hearing on the case on February 26 will be telling as to whether or not this unfortunate case will finally be dropped:A fede...

February 23, 2009

Relax, Rush

Much has been made of the possibility of a revival in one form or another of the Fairness Doctrine, an obvious ploy to diminish the considerable impact of conservative radio hosts, notably Rush Limbaugh, whom the President has pointedly named as a ke...

February 19, 2009

New Ruling May Well Lead to AIPAC Acquittals

Secrecy News bring some long awaited news about a ruling in the AIPAC case which may well lead to the acquittal of the defendants in that long running and most peculiar prosecution:A federal court this week ruled that J. William Leonard, the former d...

February 18, 2009

Putin warns US to eschew socialism

What is the world coming to? Pat Dollard links to Peter Goodman's report the Russian leader warned the US against adopting socialism because it doesn't work:Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin has said the US should take a lesson from the page...

February 16, 2009

Will Welfare 'Unreform' Undo the Dems?

Mickey Kaus examines the public's distaste for welfare programs. He says voters:didn't trust  old style liberals not to spend in actively destructive ways, like subsidizing an isolated underclass of non-working single mothers with a no-stri...

February 14, 2009

Ted Stevens' prosecution held in contempt (updated)

Throughout the trial of  Senator Ted Stevens -- and in the post-trial period -- there have been repeated indications that the prosecution was not playing by the rules and that the case against the former Senator who lost his reelection bid when ...

February 11, 2009

Iowahawk on the stimulus

  The inimitable Iowahawk explains the science behind the numbers in the Stimulus Bill.Iowahawk - Numbers in the News:  "The number itself is incomprehensible by human minds, and can only be theoretically understood in a fractiona...

February 10, 2009

FBI Visiting More Murtha Pals

For the second time in recent days, the FBI has raided a firm connected with Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha. ABC reports:The FBI raided the offices of a defense lobbying firm with close ties to Democratic Rep. John Murtha (Penn.), so...

February 8, 2009

Lancing Lancet (updated)

Update: The London Times story we cited has been allegedly shown to be false.The esteemed Melanie Phillips writes on the case.Last week we blogged about Lancet's false reports in 2006 of Iraqi casualties and the author of that unsubstantiated report....

February 6, 2009

Another global warming ripoff

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:  -- The federal government on Friday settled a lawsuit that accused two U.S. agencies of financing energy projects overseas without considering their impacts on global warming. The Export-Import Bank ...

February 4, 2009

We need Sarbanes-Oxley regulations for Congress

JOM poster JimmyK has suggested the creation of a new law which applies the principles of Sarbanes-Oxley to Congress. After giving this some thought, I am in full agreement, as long as my name appears as a co-sponsor, of course. To refresh your recol...

February 4, 2009

Lies and damned lies

This morning brings us more evidence of how lies are quickly spread by the media around the world to create a kind of ersatz reality which it is hard to debunk.From Haaretz we finally learn that the IDF did not attack the UN school, that the falsehoo...

February 4, 2009

Shaming women to death

The rise of women suicide bombers has been a shocking and fairly inexplicable development. Inexplicable because while it is a strategic ploy of obvious utility, it is hard to imagine women in these societies having the means or interest for such mart...

February 1, 2009

Form 1040 (Dem)

Riffing off a comment on Ann Althouse, Just One Minute's poster Ranger has his own idea for the new form 1040Dem, inspired by the Geithner and Daschle tax chiseling:Line 1: Are you a Democrat?Line 2: How much income [d]o you want to declare for ...

February 1, 2009

Daschle Skirted Lobbying Law, Too

The Washington Post has some more details about Daschle's work on health care matters over the past year. Given the new expanded lobbying rules  in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-81, 121 Stat. 735, September...

January 31, 2009

A call to arms on Daschle

Dan Riehl, of Riehl World View has issued a call to arms on the Daschle nomination and I agree.There is no acceptable excuse for the type of tax problem Dashcle has. He failed to pay taxes on income well in excess of what a majori...

January 29, 2009

The boycott sword has two edges

For the first time, a group of American academics has called for a boycott of Israel's universities. If American donors decide to boycott donations to their respective schools, it show the signers of this insidious petition the cost of denying academ...

January 24, 2009

Obama's war crimes begin

Congressman Conyers and the loony left have been pushing for war crimes show trials of the prior administration. At the same time, President Obama has issued a fluffy, means-nothing executive order on closing Guantanamo, accepted the prior Administra...

January 19, 2009

Empty coffers, rising 'threats'

It is a  common phenomenon that whenever "public interest groups" find their coffers or influence diminishing they find threats in their area of concern which are rising and must be monitored and stemmed. Press releases on this co...

January 14, 2009

Will Obama clip his own wings?

I remain skeptical that Obama will willingly reduce his own executive powers once he takes office no matter what he or his appointees said when those powers were not his to wield. We may soon see.From Secrecy News: "In a revealing conflict ...

January 14, 2009

Libby pardon watch

Byron York notes the silence of Cheney and Bush on the possibility of a Libby pardon and concludes:“There are pardons that the president may choose to make that mean something other than the typical forgiveness kind of pardon, which contemplate...

January 13, 2009

McGirk again

In an article fisking Time's story on Gaza, Stephen Green reminds Pajama Media readers what I told them about this jihadist lover a long time ago.But, as Clarice Feldman noted in an American Thinker article asking if McGirk was “the new Mary Ma...

January 13, 2009

IDF on YouTube

Undoubtedly because of the biased coverage in prior years, the IDF has set up its own website to show what it is doing in Gaza and why. Please avail yourself of this opportunity to see the events without the filter of media  propagandists for Ha...

January 12, 2009

Libby's Innocent and the President Should Pardon Him

If the President hasn't already pardoned Lewis (Scooter) Libby, I beg him to reconsider and do so, for Libby is an innocent man.Most of what people believe about the Scooter Libby case was proven wrong at trial.  Many wrongly believe: 1) Libby l...

January 10, 2009

Islamisists Caught Out

The Jerusalem Post's David Horovitz notes how odd it is that the Moslem street which can be mobilized to march with every false account of insult to Islam or Mohammed is silent as the IDF targets mosques in Gaza, noting there is no protest ...

January 7, 2009

Beware the Battling Belgians

Russia has cut off critical energy supplies to the Ukraine and Europe and the EU has issued an ultimatum according to the UK Mail:Russia today shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine, leaving 12 countries without fuel in freezing winter c...

January 7, 2009

Let our Roland go

John Kass continues with his hilarious take on Chicago politics in the Chicago Tribune:If the Senate Republicans truly wanted to make Tombstone Burris' march on Washington a spectacle to bedevil the Democrats, here's what they'd do.They'd p...

January 5, 2009

Obama's choice for Solicitor General

The Obama Administration continues to staff up with academicians to gladden the hearts of liberal elitists. Elena Kagan, the well-regarded Dean of Harvard Law School, is going to be named as Obama's solicitor general nominee:From: owner-community@lis...

January 4, 2009

Guilt by association?

Bgates, a wag who posts at Just One Minute, detailed the prominent Dems under a cloud for corrupt actions and concludes:Probably somebody will want to put Obama on my list, but I've explained before it's just guilt by association to associate Obama w...

January 4, 2009

Richardson drops out

NBC is reporting that Governor Bill Richardson has taken himself out of the running for a cabinet post:New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for t...

January 2, 2009

Obama's no gentle faun

John Kass of the Chicago Tribune rings in the new year with another winner:President-elect Barack Obama was not found as an infant, floating in a reed basket along the banks of the Chicago River. He is not the gentle faun, the Mr. Tumnus, of the Dale...

January 1, 2009

It's a Small World After All (Siemens' Bribes)

TS 9 brings to my attention to interesting and linked stories. First, German company Siemens got caught bribing overseas officials to garner business for the company. The New York Times reports of the huge fine levied on Siemens: Siemens, the German ...

December 31, 2008

Blago 1 -- Obama 0

The Chicago Tribune's John Kass, the go to guy on Chicago politics says with the appointment of Burris, Blago thumped Obama and the Senate Democrats:Tuesday's fiasco could have been avoided. Democrats in the state legislature could have stripped Blag...

December 30, 2008

NYT Sued by Iseman

As the paper reels from its lost revenues and diminished assets, it is being sued by a woman with whom the paper suggested Senator McCain had had an affair. From The Hill:Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman is suing The New York Times for implicating he...

December 30, 2008

Exclusive from Caroline Kennedy's Chief of Household Staff

Iowahawk has an exclusive from Caroline Kennedy's chief housekeeper on why she'd be a perfect Senator. It is something the way his tentacles reach into every celebrity household. The National Enquirer, it seems, has some stiff competition....

December 30, 2008

Israel finally wises up

After losing the last war in Lebanon to a deceitful press whose false coverage -- largely by foreign stringers --was exposed by such bloggers as EU Referendum and epitomized by the Green Helmet poseur who stages many of the most propagandistic of the...

December 27, 2008

What exactly is the Kennedy legacy?

Noemie Emery notes how far apart the various members of the Kennedy family have been on policy and behavior, argues that the public has observed this disconnect and questions Caroline's effort to cash in on this now devoid of meaning "...

December 24, 2008

More Shennanigans Charged in Stevens' Criminal Case

The prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens more and more  seems to have  been scandalous. Yesterday we reported that an FBI agent who worked on that case filed an 8 page affidavit charging his fellow agents and the prosecution team wi...

December 24, 2008

The Libby Prosecution in a Nutshell: The DoJ War Against Cheney

If you weren't paying attention at the time and feel the whole matter is too complicated for you to absorb now, do not despair. In a few pithy graphs, Tom Maguire has nailed the exegesis of the Libby case....

December 23, 2008

WSJ: Pardon Libby (updated)

Like me, the editors of the Wall Street Journal think Scooter Libby was wrongly convicted and the President should pardon him:Mr. Bush's failure to manage his Administration's disputes on Iraq was a root cause of Mr. Libby's troubles. Many in his Adm...

December 23, 2008

FBI Whistleblower Files 8 Page Complaint Re Ted Stevens Case

The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that an FBI agent who worked on the criminal case against Ted Stevens has filed an 8 page complaint charging his fellow agents and the prosecution with misconduct in the prosecution of Ted Stevens, long...

December 20, 2008

Past Tense Pretense

I confess I do not and never really will understand the workings of large bureaucracies. Correspondence on my desk today confirms that I probably will spend the rest of my sentient days wondering of them, "What were they thinking?"The troub...

December 18, 2008

Madoff: 'The Producers' redux?

The newspaper here at our vacation place  is the Sarasota Herald-Tribune a total rag owned by the NYT to find a place for family members who prefer living in Sarasota. I can't bear to read it but my husband who must read every word of whatever l...

December 18, 2008

Human rights commission prosecutes only Christians

Ezra Levant, that fighter extraordinaire for  free speech, notes that the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) which once  unsuccessully targetted him, seems to prosecute only Christians for hate speech.His prime example is a Canadi...

December 16, 2008

The left and nukes

While it may be a perfectly human thing to wish to put such substantial threats out of mind from time to time, it is odd that, as Mark Steyn notes, we magnified the threat when nuclear weapons were in the hands of only relatively sane nations and rid...

December 15, 2008

More on the FISA leaker

Patterico, the penname of a prosecutor who blogs Patterico's Pontifications, says he thinks FISA leaker Thomas Tamm ought to be criminally prosecuted for leaking the FISA program to the New York Time's Risen and Lichtblau:[S]peaking as someone who be...

December 14, 2008

Will Holder have to recuse himself from Chicago probe?

AP's Pete Yost reports that legal experts tell him that if Eric Holder is confirmed as attorney general, he may have to recuse himself from overseeing the Illinois courruption probe that has ensnared Governor Blagojevich and struck fear in the hearts...

December 14, 2008

Whistleblowing or Politics?

Over a year ago I wrote about a Department of Justice lawyer, Thomas Tamm, who seemed to have been involved in the FISA leak. Today, without the details I provided a year ago on Tamm's pro-Democrat anti-Bush ideological bent (maybe he doesn't know ho...

December 13, 2008

Fitzgerald's Repeating His Outrageous Behavior

Victoria Toensing takes this serial offender to task:Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's "conduct would make Lincoln roll over in his grave," according to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. But Mr. Fitzgerald's statement would, at the very least...

December 12, 2008

Jimmy De Leo:The Guy behind the Guy

Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass tells us about Jimmy De Leo, the state senator who runs Rahm Emmanuel's Congressional District, the guy behind Governor Rod Blagojevich:It's reasonable to assume that if there's one fellow Rod would talk to ab...

December 11, 2008

He's not crazy, he's stupid

In his usual well-reasoned and explicated  fashion, Michael  Barone explains the Chicago political scene, how a really stupid man like Blagojevich is the Governor and what he sees as the possible outcome of all this:The nightmare scenario f...

December 11, 2008

Rev Wright (Wrong Again) on American History (updated)

Did you know the meaning of Dec. 7? Obama's minister of 20 years and inspiration says:"Today. Is December 7. The day that this government killed. Over 80000. Japanese civilians. At Hiroshima in 1941. Two days before giving an additional. 64...

December 11, 2008

Camerot

Jennifer Rubin writing in Commentary's blog Contentions , observes that even the MSM is being forced to cover the scandal. She cites this from the NYT: Mr. Emanuel was among the few people in Mr. Obama's circle who occasionally spoke to Mr. Blagojevi...

December 8, 2008

Revenge is a dish best eaten cold

As word is bruited about that Caroline is seeking appointment for the  to-be-vacated N.Y. Clinton seat in the Senate (a move that may be designed to exact omerta against the Cuomos for the nasty divorce of Andrew Cuomo and Caroline's cousin...

December 7, 2008

Earmarks vs protecting our soldiers?

The Seattle Times has a disturbing story. A superior lotion for chemical weapon decontamination was on the DoD wishlist, but the company which made a less efficacious powder currently in use liberally paid off Congress with campaign donations, a...

December 6, 2008

Klaus Reminds Europe What Democracy Is

EU Referendum reprints portions of a transcript of an incredible clash between Czech President Vaclav Klaus and members of the Conference of the Presidents of the European Parliament, Friday 5 December 2008, Prague Castle.  He seems to be t...

December 4, 2008

Susan Rice and Reality

Commentary's blog, Contentions, has a short but sweet take down of Obama's nominee to be Ambassador to the UN, explaining that this naive, incoherent multiculturalist and her boss are about to meet head on with reality and it s going to expose them b...

December 3, 2008

Look Who's Ponied Up for Murtha

If you are still as angry as I am about Congressman Murtha's slander of the Marines in Haditha, you might be interested to know who shipped him the last minute funds he needed to pull victory out of a looming loss:  Wednesday, December 03, ...

December 3, 2008

Fast News Beats Slow News (Mumbai Massacre)

Mickey Kaus often makes refreshingly clear observations. His analysis of the reporting on the Mumbai massacre is a good example:Read the Times story and you'll see a numbing litany of "systemic" problems with Indian security, including ...

November 23, 2008

The Noble Lord Black Writes From Prison

I  have always been fond of Lord Black and an admirer of his. Never more so than today upon reading his article written from prison as he awaits the result of his appeal  of what I regard as a meritless conviction:Given the putrefaction of ...

November 20, 2008

Hillary and Obama

Like Steve Gilbert of Sweetness and Light, I'm beginning to think Obama discussed the Secretary of State slot with Hillary because he felt he had to -- but he really doesn't want her to take it.    His camp has cert...

November 20, 2008

Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary? (Important Update)

It's true that as his Finance Director, Obama probably feels that he owes Penny Pritzker, an early and longtime backer of his, something.But nominating her for Secretary of Commerce seems to be pushing the envelope more than seems prudent. As Lynn Sw...

November 20, 2008

Ayres' Influence on Obama's Education Policies:The 'Education Debt'

Many have felt that the biggest and most significant part of the Bill Ayers-Barack Obama story was overlooked: Ayers' views on education and Obama's apparent approval of his noxious plan (for other peoples' children) of making whites pay to redress w...

November 17, 2008

Turning up the Heat on Global Warmists

The tide must certainly be turning in favor of rationality and away from the religion of global warming. It's starting to become fashionable to question its tenets. Harry McGee writes in ther Irish Times:A new Irish film claims that climate change gu...

November 16, 2008

Sorcerer's Apprentice Caught With Pants Down

A particularly egregious and obvious error seems to have finally outed Al Gore's Merlin, NASA's Dr. James Hansen:... [a] surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide a...

November 16, 2008

Is Preventive Detention In the Wings?

Tom Maguire notices the New York Times is suddenly getting weepy at the thought of where to house the terrorist thugs if Gitmo is closed, and it would appear that there's some movement afoot to get Congress to pass a preventive detention act.So ...

November 12, 2008

Winter v. NRDC: Injunction Lifted

In an unfortunately too rare exercise of judicial sanity and restraint, the Supreme Court has dissolved the injunction issued in California preclluding the Navy's sonar training on the ground it might interfere with the whales and other marine mammal...

November 10, 2008

Quick Change!

A website detailing Obama's agenda, which got a great deal of critical agenda online since Thursday when it was publicly viewable, has quickly been scrubbed reports The Washington Times:Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Chan...

November 7, 2008

Iowawk on this Historic 'Inspirational Disaster'

Reporting from Chicago's " Electionpalooza Control Desk", Iowahawk weighs in on this "Inspirational Disaster":When Russian tanks start pouring into eastern Europe and Iranian missiles begin raining down on Jerusalem, their le...

November 6, 2008

Time for McCain to Step Up to the Plate Again

We supported John McCain and hisrunning mate,Sarah Palin, and are sorely disappointed at the cattiness toward Sarah by McCain's staff that's making its way to the press.There's only one way to end this and protect the reputation o...

November 5, 2008

The Shameful Treatment of the President

In a truly magnificent op-ed in the Wall Street  Journal , Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, who at one point interned with Senator Kerry, details the shameful treatment of President Bush and its consequences:The treatment President Bush has received ...

November 4, 2008

Live Blogging the Election From NPR HQ

Clarice Feldman is spending the night at NPR headquarters, one of several nprbloggers.  Stay tuned for her coverage of the election returns.I will be heading off to the NPR headquarters soon, but wanted to summarize my impressions and thoughts b...

November 4, 2008

'Take it to the Bank, Pennsylvania is Turning Red'

Sean Malestrom is persuaded that McCain Palin will win Pennsylvania and the White House. He has many interesting observations about polling, campaigning, and broken glass conservatives but his views on Pennsylvania mirror my own:Take to the bank, fol...

November 3, 2008

Live Blogging the Election From NPR HQ

For your records,and so you can follow along, during the pre-tally hours I will post useful guides. This is a map of the U.S. with poll closing times marked.   I will be at NPR headquarters Tuesday night, the guest of NPR and the ...

November 3, 2008

Obama wants to destroy agriculture too

Not content with destroying the coal industry, Obama is also targeting our agricultural sector, Red State notes: Obama has it in for another industry: agriculture. Check out these statements from an interview he gave with Time's Joe Klein: As a conse...

November 1, 2008

Dustbin Stasi

The marvelous writer whose work appears under his pen name Theodore Dalrymple has long argued that in statist regimes like that in the UK local authorities do little to prevent or punish real crime but use every law at their disposal to beset and har...

November 1, 2008

Helen Jones-Kellly Lied About Why She Ordered the Check on Joe The Plumber

Having been caught red-handed invading without warrant the privacy of Joe the Plumber, Ohio's Helen Jones-Kelly, an Obama contributor, lied about why she ordered the search and her staff is not backing her up. Tandy Ludlow of the Columbus Dispatch re...

October 30, 2008

More Dems In Early Fla Voting (But They're Voting for McCain)

Wizbang has an interesting report:This is very interesting. According to an LA Times/Bloomberg poll of those who voted early in Florida, McCain leads Obama 49-45% even though more Democrats voted than Republicans:Democrats are beaming that their part...

October 29, 2008

Obama Family Values

It seems that Obama has more relatives in need than his shanty-living  half-brother in Kenya. From the UK Times:Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from whe...

October 29, 2008

New Obama campaign tie to ACORN exposed

Money ties between the Obama campaign and ACORN have come to light. Brad Bumstead of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports: Anita Moncrief, a former Washington, D.C. staffer for Project Vote, which she described as a sister organization of ACORN...

October 29, 2008

Dem attacks on GOP challenger in Florida

Lt Col Allen West, an African American Republican candidate for Congress in Florida's 22d Congressional District, must be gaining on Democrat Ron Klein. Huff Po contributor Hari misrepresents the facts respecting Lt. Col. Allen West's efforts to...

October 27, 2008

Update on AIPAC Case

Josh Gerstein, formerly with the NY Sun , has a new blog, and begins with an interesting update on the AIPAC case. Here's a taste:...former four-star U.S. Army general, Anthony Zinni, and an arms-laden freighter seized by Israel in 2002 could both fi...

October 27, 2008

Aristide and his Democrat Friends

Did well connected Democrats conspire with Haitian dictator Aristide to rip off Haiti? Mary Anastasia O'Grady has an intriguing report in the Wall Street Journal:It took eight years, but on Oct. 8 I finally secured a copy of Fusion Telecommunications...

October 24, 2008

The monied left under Obama

I ran an errand that took me to Friendship Heights, an area near my house which has in recent years become the Washington metropolitan area's equivalent of Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive. Neiman Marcus, Tiffany, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, Cartier,...

October 23, 2008

Leftist Bianca Jagger's 20 year rent scam comes to a halt

The Court of Appeals in New York has upheld the eviction of Bianca Jagger , a foreigner who visits the U.S. on a tourist visa, from the 20 year tenancy of a rent stabilized apartment on the upper east side of New York city. She claimed it as her...

October 22, 2008

Is ACORN Setting Up a Nutty Defense?

Faced with a number of investigations and countless reports of wrongdoing as well as a suit by the Buckeye Institute of Ohio, an ACORN lawyer's report critical of the organization's operations somehow made it to the New York Times . Pardon my sk...

October 20, 2008

The never ending (meritless) AIPAC case

Secrecy News has an update on the interminable and meritless case against two former AIPAC officials:...in an August 20 response (pdf) that was redacted and unsealed last week, the defense not only denied guilt but also said it would prove that no cr...

October 20, 2008

ACORN's sweatshop

Not only is ACORN (closely linked in its formation and support with SEIU -- Service Employees Union International) exploiting us by its outrageous practices abetting vote fraud and mortgage  manipulation, but it appears it exploits its very own ...

October 20, 2008

NYT Highlights Cisneros' Role in the Housing Disaster

Amazingly the NYT acknowledges how great and varied a role Clinton appointee Henry Cisneros played in America's housing disaster:As the Clinton administration's top housing official in the mid-1990s, Mr. Cisneros loosened mortgage restrictions so fir...

October 20, 2008

Phone banks to get out the vote

John McCain kept his pledge to use only public financing for his campaign. while Obama broke his pledge and has gone with private funding. He has so much -- much of which cannot be traced to legal contributors -- that he has get out the vote operatio...

October 18, 2008

Many Enlist, Few Actually Shlep

The Telegraph reports that the much heralded shlep to Florida by grandchildren to persuade their grandparents to vote for Obama was a bust. Twenty thousand signed up, only 200 appeared.  Not even for Obama will these kids visit bubba and zaidie....

October 16, 2008

24,000 ballots to be sent out in Washington to felons not eligible to vote

KIRO in Seattle reports that 24,000 illegal felons will probably be sent out ballots even though they are ineligible to vote. In fact, some have already voted this year:SEATTLE -- An exclusive KIRO Team 7 Investigation discovers the state will send b...

October 16, 2008

Ohio Files Emergency Appeal to Supreme Court

Although Ohio's Secretary of State Brunner said she'd abide by the Sixth Circuit's ruling that she was not complying with the law in refusing to advise country poll offices of problems in new registrations (200,000 of them are facially defective),Ohi...

October 14, 2008

Temporary restraining order reimposed in Ohio voting scandal

It looks like ACORN and the Ohio Secretary of State will not be able to guarantee a fixed election after all. The Darke Blog explains:[a] 3-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a temporary restraining order which woul...

October 14, 2008

Outrageous Obama propaganda in schools textbook

Gateway Pundit reports that an 8th grade literature class in Racine, WI is already using a new textbook which carries a fifteen page section ("Out of Many, One") solely about Obama. There are no pages dedicated to other ...

October 13, 2008

Karma:Foley's successor in own sex scandal

For all those  who refused to vote for the Republicans in 2006 and turned Congress over to the Democrats because of the trumped up Foley "scandal", here's some news: There is a real sex scandal involving his successor and his payo...

October 11, 2008

2007:Obama promises to give ACORN a role in shaping his presidential agenda

Watch it. He can try to to explain it away, but how eprsuasive can he be? ...

October 10, 2008

ACORN Fraud In Pennsylvania

The American Spectator documents huge vote registration fraud in Pennsylvania:A retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice says that she is "not confident we can get a fair election" in the state come November.Justice Sandra Newman, accompa...

October 10, 2008

Stopping ACORN

ACORN is rapidly becoming a major issue, with the Republican base outraged over the voter registration fraud investigations in ten states. An online petition has been created to demand an investigation of it and that the government take steps to stop...

October 8, 2008

Wonder How the Dems Will Finance All the New Giveaways?

Cutting out every single tax break they can get their hands on, including your 401(k), which has proven a popular way for Americans to save and invest enough money to afford to retire. Sarah Hansard of Investment News reports:A wide range of sweeping...

October 8, 2008

What Newspapers Does Obama Read?

Looking at the facially preposterous claim by Obama's campaign that he did not know of Ayers' past, Jonah Goldberg reviews the papers in Chicago relevant to the issue and concludes either Obama never read the papers or he's forwarded a preposterous l...

October 7, 2008

Ayers' Social Justice: Educational Malpractice

Sol Stern, writing in City Journal,  highlights what is often overlooked in the discussion about Ayers' and Obama's Chicago Annenberg Challenge: It represents yet another effort to spread Ayers' brand of educational humbug to poor urban sch...

October 7, 2008

When Associations with 'Extremists' Matter to Dems (And When They Don't)

When Judge Alito was being considered for the Supreme Court Senator Kennedy expressed concern that Judge Alito might have had some association with a group called CAP (Concerned Alumni of Princeton) which fought increasing minority enrollment. Any as...

October 5, 2008

Plame update

I am informed that Ishamel Jones' new book on the CIA,  "The Human Factor" pp. 254-255, says of Plame:"Newspaper reports suggesting that Plame had been involved in intelligence operations overseas as a non-State Department of...

October 5, 2008

Weathermen for Obama (updated with video)

Doug Ross of Director Blue notes, At least four top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization have signed on as members of a "grassroots effort" to support the election of Barack Obama. [....]Progressives for Obama signatories includ...

October 4, 2008

The Scott Shane Whitewash: Obama and Ayers (updated)

Today the NYT carries a report by Scott Shane which purports to demonstrate that contrary to the work of unnamed bloggers (ahem), the Ayers/Obama contact was minimal.  This front page account represents the Times' acknowledgement that there has ...

October 3, 2008

ACORN vote fraud continues (updated)

ACORN, responsible for so much vote fraud in Wisconsin and elsewhere, violated Wisconsin law by employing felons for  its voter registration drive. Milwaukee election officials approved this and were caught out at it. Greg Borowski of the Milwau...

October 2, 2008

Ifill on Palin

In advance of her performance at tonight's debate, Gwen Ifill has already tipped her hand respecting her animus toward Sarah Palin. From an actual transcript of her PBS show Washington Week.  GOV. SARAH PALIN (R-AK): Here's a little newsflash fo...

October 1, 2008

Hunting Mr. Good Will

Powerline has a compelling blog on the many fraudulent contributions for Obama--including from overseas. Here's one example, Mr. Good Will: In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donation...

September 30, 2008

Wisconsin Vote Fraud

  When I grew up in Milwaukee it was a model of civic probity. In recent years it has become a site of blatant election fraud. Yesterday, there was an effort to punish some of it. Greg J. Borowski of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writes:A Milwa...

September 28, 2008

Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda, Here I am at Camp Obama

You  too can learn the Alinsky techniques of community organizing by signing up for Camp Obama. Steve Gilbert has all the details and a link to an application form. [Editor's note: if the title of the blog baffles you, please listen to this song...

September 27, 2008

Memory Lane: 'Lynching' Franklin Raines and How Fannie Mae Isn't 'Broke'

Classical Values brings to our attention this incredible video showing how the Republicans in Congress tried hard to regulate better Fannie Mae and how the Democrats fought that tooth and nail, even referring to criticism of foremer chairman Raines a...

September 27, 2008

Replenishing ACORN's Account: Keeping the Housing Mess Going

Like me the WSJ thinks it's outrageous that the Democrats are trying to find money in the bailout to keep their friends in ACORN well nourished:Acorn has promoted laws like the Community Reinvestment Act, which laid the foundation for the house of ca...

September 26, 2008

ACORN doing its thing: Will Taxpayers Keep Funding Them?

Reports continue that as  in previous elections ACORNS's fraudulent voter registrations continue unabated:Two suspicious Seminole County voter registration cards became a flash point Wednesday in the Republican effort to suggest the community gr...

September 24, 2008

The Mystery Candidate (Obama) and his Pals

Stanley Kurtz, writing for NRO, reports more of his finds in the Daley Library holdings of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), including more evidence that Obama has not been forthright in explaining why he--with no background for the position--wa...

September 23, 2008

Jewish organizations choosing abortion over Israel

Caroline Glick has an outstanding piece in today's Jerusalem Post excoriating those Jewish organizations which chose abortion over Israel in demanding that Palin not be allowed to address the anti-Iran rally:[quote]Two of the rally's co-sponsors - th...

September 23, 2008

Leftist watch

Independent Sector, a supposedly nonpartisan nonprofit organization helping other nonprofits be ethical, has been on the Fannie Mae take.Reader TS brings the following to my attention:Independent Sector received the following grants from the Fannie M...

September 22, 2008

Diana Aviv Has Some 'Splaining to Do

Why would someone involved in keeping nonprofits ethical give the appearance of being involved in political partisanship?When Ricky Ricardo caught Lucy in some very compromising position he said she had some "‘splaining to  do."T...

September 22, 2008

Jawa Report Charges Obama With Astroturfing

Last week I explained the propaganda tool called astroturfing, spreading stories through paid or coordinated sources to make it appear it is a spontaneous, volunteer effort when it is anything but.Today, the Jawa Report observes -- in a lengthy, well...

September 22, 2008

The Washington Post's double standard on religious cartoons

Yesterday the Washington Post ran this Oliphant cartoon, insulting to Pentecostals (and Palin):Some time ago when asked why the paper refused to print the Mohammed cartoons the paper responded:Philip Kennicott [WaPo staff writer]: I think the Post ha...

September 20, 2008

AP's 'Racists May Cost Obama the Election' Piece

In one of his usual rapier-tipped analyses, Steve Gilbert notes of the AP article suggesting racists may cost Obama the election:Translation: AP asked a handful of people a series of vague questions that could be massaged by armchair psychologists in...

September 19, 2008

Obama and Raines: then and now

In 2008* the Washington Post reported  (and its principal source was clearly Franklin Raines) that Raines was offering financial advice to Obama: In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae's chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 ...

September 19, 2008

Obamonopoly

Doug Ross has created a wonderful graphics series, a parody of the game of Monopoly he calls Obamonopoly, so anyone can understand the Obama/Fannie Mae/ACORN  connections:It might help for you to print , cut and use these when explaining th...

September 18, 2008

Rangel's further abuses exposed

The New York Post reports today that House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel's (D-NY) violation of Congressional rules (and tax law) continues. Seems he's been using the Congressional parking lot as a free storage facility for his no l...

September 17, 2008

Astroturfing, the new propaganda plague

If you're reading this article online, you probably do know about astroturfing, but your friends who are less computer savvy do not: Astroturfing is the attempt to create the feeling of a grassroots movement by planting stories around the web through...

September 17, 2008

ACORN Fraud in New Mexico Again

Over 1,000 fake voter registration cards have been turned in in New Mexico and 6,000 cards remain to be examined. At least one -- the one which triggered the investigation -- was turned in by ACORN. It's not known how many more of these were tho...

September 16, 2008

ACORN, Fannie Mae and Motor Voter

 M. Simon traces the funds Fannie Mae pumped into vote fraud  specialists ACORN, and explains how that organization pressed for the grant of mortgages to unqualified buyers, leading to the subprime mortgage  mess and Fannie Mae collaps...

September 15, 2008

More trouble for Rangel (updated)

The New York Daily News reports  there are even more troubles lurking in Rangel's financial records:Rangel said he expects to file amended tax and House disclosure reports going back several years. A source said figures in the two sets of d...

September 15, 2008

Obama: leave Iraq, no stay

Doesn't it strike you as the last straw that Obama who won the primary on  a plank demanding immediate withdrawal of our troops in Iraq, was behind the scenes demanding (in violation of the Logan Act I should think) that Iraqis not enter into a ...

September 14, 2008

More Rangel Scandals

First we learned he was occupying five rent controlled apartments in New York City; then we learned he wasn't paying tax on income from a vacation home he owned abroad although as Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, he surely knew that was a...

September 14, 2008

More ACORN fraud (What Else is New?)

As we head toward another election, ACORN is doing what it does best: handing in phony voter registrations and facilitating election fraud. From L.L. Brasier of the Detroit Free Press:Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent...

September 14, 2008

Obama's missing years

Now that we've had full field MRIs of Palin, her family and their pets, perhaps the media could focus on the many missing aspects of Obama's bio.Tom Maguire noted that we know virtually nothing about his time in NYC when he was attending Columbia (wh...

September 12, 2008

The Fall of Pelosi?

Gallup reports a huge shift which may mean the end of the Democrats' control of the House of Representatives.The positive impact of the GOP convention on polling indicators of Republican strength is further seen in the operation of Gallup's "lik...

September 12, 2008

Judy Woodruff peddles old tripe

In last night's event at Columbia University, Judy Woodruff peddled some old tripe about the military being largely composed of poor and minorities. Not so and it's about time more "informed" people knew that:When it comes to the demographi...

September 10, 2008

The Obama "tell" (updated)

Remember when Hillary took Obama apart in the debate and he then made a speech where it was  claimed he made a very rude gesture in reference to her? Many claimed it was simply an inadvertent positioning of his hand.Here are two speeches he...

September 10, 2008

Dems vs. Dems

Here are a series of videos by Democrats who charge the caucus primaries were marked by violations of the rules and the elemental principles of a fair election.#1#2#3#4#5 ...

September 9, 2008

Biden's expensive commute on Amtrak

Much was made of Joe Biden's daily Amtrak commutes from his home in Delaware to the Capitol. Some bloggers tried calculating the cost, and determined it was very substantial and wondered how anyone could afford to do that.The answer's simple: he char...

September 8, 2008

How to tell Obama's in trouble

Sunday Biden says life begins at conception. Over the weekend Obama said he'll not rescind the Bush tax cuts if the economy remained in trouble. Earlier  on O'Reilly he said the surge did work.Backtracking on the surge, taxes and abortion. Hmm. ...

September 5, 2008

Iowahawk on Community Organizers

Iowahawk has the definitive defense of community organizers which includes useful information like this:Specifically, America's community organizers:reach out and work with communities in various ways. liaison with, and for, community agencies f...

September 5, 2008

What do you mean 'us' Kimosabe?

How badly did Jann Wenner's Us Weekly misjudge his readers? Badly enough that the magazine may be on the rocks for its unfair treatment of Sarah Palin--and the issue hasn't even been mailed to subscribers yet. Courtney Hazlett of MSNBC.com reports...

September 3, 2008

Obama's Plan for Ruining Your Schools

The poster known as "bad" at JOM brings us this disheartening news. Obama hopes to bring the lessons of the failed lefty boondoggle he ran known as the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to your schools if elected:  Citing Chicago兵s Academy f...

September 3, 2008

Another Weird Development in the AIPAC Case

Secrecy News reports that the prosecution is trying to prevent a key government witness from testifying on behalf of the defendants in the AIPAC case (on the grounds that he briefly consulted with them). The government has threatened him wi...

September 2, 2008

Mrs. Palin Goes to Washington

I'm a sucker for Frank Capra movies, movies like "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington "which underscore the difference an honest person dedicated to the common weal can make to his community and his country. W...

September 1, 2008

Ask Alan (Colmes)

Aside from making it impossible for conservative guests to answer his convoluted compound "questions"(actually laundry lists of lefty talking points) Alan Colmes, it appears is an expert on obstetrics. Missing but captured  by Wizbang ...

September 1, 2008

Obama Begins the Ayers Walk Back and Heads Into the Reparations Trap

Steve Diamond notes that Barack Obama is beginning a walk back on his preposterously untrue former claims that Ayers was just a guy in his neighborhood. Using Linda Lenz, a close ally of both men to do so, the Chicago Sun Times quotes ...

August 29, 2008

Hillary supporters and Sarah Palin: a first indication

A poster at JOM just posted this and I want to share it with you:That hillaryclintonformum.com site is still closed to lurkers, and last time I was there I saw at least 400 comments, probably many more, 99% whooping and cheering Palin, promising to d...

August 27, 2008

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum

Reuters previews  the finale of the Democrat convention, something like Greek theater at Invesco Field:Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a ...

August 25, 2008

Ayers' long march through education

A former American Education Research Association ( AERA) employee details how Obama's pal and educational grant dispensing partner, former Weatherman Bill Ayres, plays a key role in the radicalization of public education through that organizatio...

August 23, 2008

Misfortunes of War

Under this title Noemie Emery explains the effect of the Iraq war on the candidates and offers this suggestion for a McCain ad: Cut to Obama, praising his own judgment.Cut to Obama, opposing the surge, repeatedly, as it is bound to prove useless.Cut ...

August 22, 2008

Obama-Ayers Annenberg papers to be released

AP is reporting the University of Illinois Chicago has relented and the CAC records in its possession will be released and made available to the public Tuesday.In reporting this, AP  briefly acknowledges the Ayers/Obama connection....

August 20, 2008

The Annenberg Challenge money

Tom Maguire of Just One Minute has been covering the media's utter failure to explore the massive Annenberg grant to improve public education in Chicago.The group (CAC) headed by Obama  worked with and paid  former weatherman Ayres and...

August 12, 2008

Plame and Wilson's lawsuit going nowhere

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distrcit of Columbia Circuit today sustained the lower court's dismissal of their civil suit against Libby, Rove, Cheney and Armitage,  in which they claim the defendants engaged in tortious conduct in revealing...

August 11, 2008

'The future is so bright I have to wear shades'

M. Simon reviews European housing markets;the slumping mortgage markets, the war in Georgia, the US economy  and concludes:"The future is so bright I have to wear shades"There are also problems in Ireland and a number of other European...

August 10, 2008

Edwards, Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young

As the media continues to avert its eyes from the Edwards' scandal, bloggers continue to tell us interesting things about the Democrat's fair haired boy and what was going on in Edwards' camp under the radar. Stranahan reports:Andrew Aldridge Young i...

July 29, 2008

Wexler Games the Tax Codes of Fla and Md

We have more details on how Congressman Robert Wexler -- for whom no liberal spending program is too much -- has gamed the tax system for his benefit:Accusing U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler of being more of a Maryland resident than a Floridian, the six...

July 28, 2008

Meanwhile in Waziristan

AJ Strata faithfully watches what happens across the Pakistan border in the lawless Waziristan where Bin Laden is believed  to be hiding. Today he notes reports of a cross border missile attack there:Those must be some high value targets to...

July 27, 2008

Labour's 'suicide election' (updated)

Odd, that as Europe's left is having a hard time staying alive, much of  this country seems enamored of the most radically leftist presidential candidate ever.It's gotten so bad in the UK, Labour is considering a "suicide election...

July 26, 2008

Dancing in the (UK) streets

My friend PUK is angry that I haven't made note of the big lose Labour just suffered. He says:"The Labour Party has lost Glasgow East, a tribal stronghold. The equivalent of a Kennedy losing in Massachusetts. There is dancing in the streets....

July 23, 2008

It's rewrite time again for Obama

Steve Glbert catches Obama rewriting (without acknowledging he's done so) his pledge on dealing with Iran. And Patterico reports that the entire Der Speigel interview with Maliki was rewritten by the magazine:The Columbia Journalism Review has a madd...

July 22, 2008

Obama's Strategy:A cultural, Not a Political, Campaign

The product of a mind as keen as Shelby Steele's is always a pleasure to read, but this article from the Wall Street Journal explaining why Jesse Jackson  hates Obama is a must read , especially if, like me, you think Obama would be a disastrous...

July 22, 2008

Supreme Court error now formally raised in new filing

ScotusBlog reports that Louisiana has filed a motion for rehearing in the Supreme Court respecting its decision  detremining it was unconstitutional to impose the death penalty for conviction of the crime of  child rape:The rehearing petiti...

July 21, 2008

Hillary's disappearing Obama criticism

Steve Gilbert reminds us this is what Hillary said about Obama and Afghanistan:Hillary For President"True"TV : 30 Announcer: Barack Obama says he has the judgment to be president. But as chairman of an oversight committee charged with the f...

July 18, 2008

A recipe for starvation

I have previously discussed briefly the movement by foolish foodies to politicize food production. Their efforts include a program to boycott food not grown locally. Art Carden of the Ludwig von Mises Institute argues why this is a lunatic notio...

July 18, 2008

Some German venue suggestions for Obama

While it seems that his preposterously narcissistic notion of a speech before the Brandenburg Gate has been scotched by German authorities, no alternate venue has been named.JOM commenter narciso has a few brilliant suggestions:The house of 54 Marien...

July 18, 2008

They preen that others may sacrifice

Americans for Prosperity catches on video Gore's supporters arriving in cabs for his speech on global warming in which he  calls for higher gas taxes and  greater use of public transportation. But there's more: Gore...

July 16, 2008

Archaeologists and political correctness

I suppose I should by now be inured to the news the academics, NGOs and scientific organizations are often agenda-driven propagandists and not truth seekers, but this report cinches it: A recent mission to Iraq headed by top archaeologists from the U...

July 15, 2008

Senator Lieberman on Obama's Speech: Not Tough, Smart or Principled

I think Senator Lieberman 's critique of Obama's pre-fact finding tour  statement on Iraq is on the mark:Senator Obama this morning said that he wants a foreign policy that is “tough, smart, and principled.” This afternoon, I ask: wa...

July 13, 2008

Was Schumer's Attack On Indymac Coordinated with 'activist' group?

CNBC is suggesting that Senator Schumer's unprecedented role in breaking Indymac, a Pasadena bank, was part of a coordinated scheme with The Center for Responsible Lending , as usual, a name from a  far left "public interest...

July 12, 2008

Obama's Shock Troops

John Fund has a very good piece in today's Wall Street Journal  detailing how the far left mobilized to snatch the nomination from Hillary for Obama and how they plan to operate to achieve an Obama victory in the general election.Obama's fu...

July 11, 2008

Something for the mullahs to ponder

The Jerusalem Post reports that sources in the Iraqi Defense Ministry told a local network that Israel's air force is flying into Iraqi air space and using US bases there. Iranian news agencies also cite the report. There's no way to know if thi...

July 9, 2008

Memo from Leni Riefenstahl

Rally MemoFrom:               Leni Riefenstahl To:                   Barack Hussein (dare I say it?) ObamaSubj...

July 5, 2008

Kosovo, Ho!

The travel section of the paper featured a story on Kosovo the other day with a recommendation that readers visit this latest "must see" spot on the globe. It made me laugh. Almost forty years ago--1971 to be exact -- I traveled in what was...

July 4, 2008

Iowahawk does Obama

Obama's doing somersaults on all his positions including Iraq and the inimitable Iowahawk does his take on it. Here's a sample:You may have read recent news reports that suggest I have modified my position regarding the redeployment of American milit...

July 2, 2008

Monica Conyers in Sludge Investigation (updated)

The FBI is investigating what appears to be corrupt practices by Detroit pols on a sludge contract. One of the persons reportedly under investigation is Monica Conyers, wife of Congressman Conyers. There's nothing that can't be turned into graft in D...

July 2, 2008

Supreme Court's Embarrassing Error (updated)

A blogger,  Caaflog, caught Justice Kennedy having made the biggest error in modern Supreme Court history that I can recall.  In the death penalty child rape case, when he said that the death penalty for this crime was "against evolvin...

June 27, 2008

Steyn wins!

Mark Steyn has won a victory in his free speech fight in Canada. Ezra Levant reports :The Canadian Human Rights Commission, like any petty tyranny, has a strong instinct for survival. As I predicted last week on the Michael Coren Show, that instinct ...

June 27, 2008

Obama birth certificate mystery still unsolved

Controversy swirls among conservative bloggers over questions that have been raised over the authenticity of Barack Obama's birth certificate posted at the Daily Kos and (a different one) posted at his campaign's "Fight the Smears" website....

June 25, 2008

Obama's anti-smear site relies on a phony document

For some time now Just One Minute's commenter jmh, Polarik at Townhall and others have examined the "birth certificate" for Obama published on the Daily  Kos site as well as the site Obama has established to respond to the "smears...

June 25, 2008

Obama's anti-smear site relies on a phony document

For some time now Just One Minute's commenter jmh, Polarik at Townhall and others have examined the "birth certificate" for Obama published on the Daily  Kos site as well as the site Obama has established to respond to the "smears...

June 22, 2008

The Washington Post Creates an 'Explosion'

Undoubtedly in line with the theme of today's edition that those who won't vote for Obama are motivated by racism, the paper reports there's been an 'explosion' of visits to an online racist hate site, accepting at face value the word of hate site pr...

June 22, 2008

West Answers Obama:Run as a Man and Leader

In response to Obama's claim that Republicans will use race to stoke fear, Lt. Col Allen West, candidate for Congress in Florida's 22 District issued this release:My advice to Senator Obama is to run as a Man and Leader, and the American people will ...

June 21, 2008

Robert Wexler (D, Nuthouse)

I nominate Congressman Robert Wexler as the craziest man in a not very sane Congress:Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), one of the most vocal opponents of the Bush administration on Capitol Hill, said Scott McClellan's book and testimony justify the beginn...

June 21, 2008

Govt Loses Its Appeals In AIPAC Case

In what has to be a good development for the defendants in the case against two former AIPAC staffers, the government has substantially lost its appeals in the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. of the pre-trial rulings of the trial judge,J...

June 19, 2008

Michelle Obama's pander

James Taranto calls out  Michelle Obama for appalling pandering to the lie that the government deliberately injected black men with syphilis in the notorious Tuskegee Study. Yesterday, a  New York Times article about her noted that she had ...

June 18, 2008

What we taught the Taliban

Last night I heard Brit Hume report the strange discrepency between press accounts of Taliban activity in Afghanistan and official reports from the area.North Shore Journal reviews the matter in depth.Instapundit calls it "insurgency by press re...

June 17, 2008

Haditha Hoax: Apparent Last Chapter

A military judge has dismissed the charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani.   The hoax screeches to its final terminal -- as we predicted it should two years ago.  Only the trial of S Sgt Frank Wuterich remains....

June 17, 2008

Obama Channels Tz'u-hsi

Tz'u-hsi ,the dowager empress of China, took sadistic delight in discomfitting those around her. She's often walk in her gardens surrounded by her many ladies in waiting with retainers bringing endless dishes to be sampled. Many of these dishes were ...

June 17, 2008

Obama's Pals: From Chicago Corruption to anti-US Iraqi Thieves

Talismangate connects a bunch of dots from Obama to Rezko to a corrupt Iraqi minister. It may be that by comparison  Ayers and Wright are small skeletons in Obama's closet.Ayham Alsammarae, Iraq's slimy ex-Minister of Electricity under...

June 14, 2008

Czech Republic says 'no' to Lisbon Treaty, too

My initial elation at the Irish vote against ratification of the Lisbon Treaty was tempered by reports that the EU proponents were continuing on course despite this latest setback. But today it appears the Czechs are adding their "no" ...

June 14, 2008

More Words of Wisdom from the Democrat's 'Genius' Candidate

Barack Obama once again embarrasses himself with his poor grasp of history. Even worse, the former president of the Harvard Law Review does not seem to understand the nature of a famous court. Jake Tapper of ABC's Political Punch blog writes:Obama, a...

June 11, 2008

How low can the UN go?

It's impossible to imagine how much lower the UN could go beyond this. From the Investigative Project:The U.N. organization charged with protecting children world wide is "partnering" with an organization not only designated by the U.S. as ...