June 14, 2011

Anthony Weiner: The Tweet Smell of Success

We have seen Anthony Weiner before. Is it among the faces in the long line of disgraced, discarded political figures that have preceded him?  In Wilbur Mills or Wayne Hays or Bob Livingston?  In Larry Craig or Mark Foley? No, not really. Is...

February 24, 2011

They'd Rather be Right

I hardly expected to find the musical version of Amity Shlaes' bestselling critique of New Deal economic policies playing in a 99-seat theater on New York's Upper West Side.But, in a very real sense, I did.Now, I do mean that to be taken literally....

August 30, 2010

Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama: Lifestyles of the Rich and Progressive

By now, the adjectives have become commonplace for Barack Obama and his administration. Progressive. Game-Changing. Wilsonian.Yes, similarities do exist between Barack Obama and his Democratic predecessor, Woodrow Wilson. Both are frigidly demeanored...

August 27, 2010

Harry Reid: Praying that History Won't Repeat

It's axiomatic that the most dangerous place in Washington (perhaps in all America) is between Senator Chuck Schumer and a camera. A barely safer location is being a Democratic leader of the United States Congress.This year, Harry Reid is proving tha...

May 11, 2010

New York State Opens a Door to Vote Fraud

Card check -- the scheme that violates the traditional American freedom of the secret ballot in labor union organizing elections -- has just captured a beachhead in New York State general election law, arguably opening the floodgates to massive ACORN...

April 10, 2010

Howard Dean: The Bet's Off on Incumbency

Liberal propagandists are very good at changing the subject, their task made all the more easy thanks to their firm grasp on both the channel and volume controls of the mainstream media remote control device.Take, for very good example, the current e...

March 31, 2010

Obama and Wilson

Barack Obama has been compared to Lincoln, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, and JFK, among others. But few have noted his interesting parallels with Woodrow Wilson. Historical comparisons have their limits. But Wilson-Obama similarities abound, starting with bo...

March 7, 2010

'Give-'Em-Hell Barry' in 2012?

As the current White House occupant, Barack Obama, experiences the most precipitous first-year decline in popularity in recent memory, we seek historical precedents. Statistically the most apt example is that of the patron saint of presidential under...