Gene Schwimmer

Gene Schwimmer

  • Making Presidential Debates Great Again

    October 12, 2024

    Making Presidential Debates Great Again

    Riddle me this, Batman: what has two presidential candidates and sucks? Answer: presidential debates. How bad have these quadrennial exercises in vapidity gotten?  Bad enough that it’s been decades since I’ve watched one....

  • June 23, 2023

    The Trump trial problem hiding in plain sight

    One of those little unexpected perks in life is being able, in our electronic age, to email well known, well regarded experts all over the world and, sometimes, if one is lucky, receive a reply.  This writer has, over the years, exchanged e...

  • April 19, 2019

    How to Defeat the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

    A key difference between conservatives and liberals is the way in which they handle a presidential election loss.  When conservatives lose a presidential election, they take a moment to lick their wounds, then use the rest of their time in the w...

  • August 29, 2018

    There Should Be a Trump Impeachment Vote – and Republicans Should Schedule It

    Needless to say, it's not every day that one sees a conservative urging the House to vote on impeaching President Trump.  So, for liberals yearning for a conservative to do just that, rejoice!  Because this is your day. Thi...

  • July 29, 2018

    How Leftist Slogans Might Mean Republican Court-Packing

    Death to the old slogan!  Viva el nuevo slogan! Or at least until our Democratic friends' new slogan, like the old one, sinks like a lead balloon. Old Democratic slogan: "A Better Deal." New Democratic slogan: "F...

  • June 29, 2018

    How to Humanely Reduce Unlawful Immigration and Shut Down Open-Borders Democrats

    Today's lesson on morality and human rights comes from the probable (according to polls) next president of our crime-infested and corrupt neighbor to the south (emphases added): Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel Lópe...

  • May 22, 2018

    How Republicans Can Help Democrats to Win the Midterms...for the GOP

    In a previous article, this writer urged the GOPs to beat the historical trend favoring the out-of-power party in a new president's first midterm election by tying ostensibly moderate local Democratic candidates to the national – and far mo...

  • May 20, 2018

    President Poker-Player: Obama's Tell

    Poker is a game of odds.  There are high-probability hands and low-probability hands.  As one would expect, lower-probability hands, such as a full house, trump – are stronger than – higher-probability hands. ...

  • April 5, 2018

    GOP: 'Nationalize' the Midterms if You Want to Win

    We've seen this movie before. In the 2006 midterm elections, then-Democratic Party chairman John Dean and Senate and House Democrats, desperate to win control from the Republicans, pressured convinced the extreme left of their party in the cen...

  • March 16, 2018

    Mass Shooting Solutions: What Doesn't Work and What Might

    They're baaaaack... The gun-controllers, that is.  For the typical anti-gun zealot, calling for at least the inconveniencing and, ideally, the disarming of law-abiding gun owners in the wake of a mass shooting tragedy never gets old....

  • May 12, 2016

    Why This Conservative May Vote for Hillary

    Many people seem to misinterpret the #NeverTrump movement as one dedicated to denying Donald Trump the GOP nomination and, by extension, the presidency.  In fact, #NeverTrump is not a movement at all, but simply a commitment by its adherents, in...

  • March 17, 2016

    Trump's Supporters Are the Real RINOs

    Whom the gods would destroy, they first make Ann Coulter. Here is a recent Coulter rant tweet prompted by Donald Trump's cancelation of a Chicago rally because of violent acts by some of the thousands of anti-Trump protestors on the scene: ...

  • February 18, 2016

    George W. Bush's Decision to Invade Iraq Was Correct

    Surely, to all but Donald Trump's ardent supporters – which, sadly, probably is all of them – there can be no doubt, after Saturday's Republican debate, that except on the sole issue of immigration, Trump is a Democrat.  Spac...

  • February 10, 2016

    Every Problem with Women in Combat the GOP Contenders Ignored

    Which of the enemies America faces is the most dangerous?  Is it North Korea?  ISIS?  Iran?  A resurgent Russia?  A rising China? The answer, in fact, is, none of the above. The warriors posing the greatest threat to ou...

  • January 29, 2016

    The Only Book You Need to Understand Donald Trump's Popularity

    This writer has watched with amusement the struggles of politicians; pundits; political analysts; campaign managers; and, well, just about everybody to explain the Donald Trump train wreck juggernaut. Here is a man who has never held public office...

  • January 18, 2016

    The Inscrutable Mr. Sanders

    Yahoo! Politics Senior Editor Dylan Stableford writes: First it was Hillary Clinton's "damn emails" that Bernie Sanders said Americans were sick and tired of hearing about.  Now it's Bill Clinton's sex life. "W...

  • November 24, 2015

    Some 'General Advice' for President Obama

    Anyone seeking a yardstick by which to measure how far the Democratic Party has fallen needs look no farther than the following "tale of two presidents." The facts of yesterday speak for themselves.  The people of the United State...

  • September 11, 2015

    The Age of the No-Information Voter

    Those who, like this writer, have been decrying the advent of the so-called low-information voter need to prepare – or should that be, steel – themselves for the new kid on the block: the no-information voter. “Sundance,” w...

  • August 5, 2015

    Trump: What You Don't See Is What You Will Get

    Matt Welch, on Reason.com, recently called out Hillary Clinton’s die-hard supporters – which is to say, all of her supporters – challenging them to admit that she “could strangle a puppy on live TV” and they would still ...

  • July 18, 2015

    The Golden Age of Giuliani

    This is an article about New York City, the current mayor of which is a socialist, so what better way to begin than with a quote from Marx? Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying...

  • July 8, 2015

    Why This Conservative Sent Bernie Sanders $10

    That sound you hear is Hillary Clinton supporters whistling past the graveyard.  On June 19, The Hill posted on its website an article titled “Sanders surge is becoming a bigger problem for Clinton,” the first sentence of which ...

  • June 3, 2015

    Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity

    Take the left’s penchant for form over substance, combine with a fundamental ignorance of what money is and what it does, stir with hammer and sickle, and what do you get? You get a crusade to raise the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour. One...

  • May 20, 2015

    And Now, the Good News

    “Do these scandals and recent polls make me look not quite so formidable?”  Surely, that’s the question Hillary Clinton is asking as she stands before the mirror in the war room, admiring her own reflection (one of just many tr...

  • April 23, 2015

    The Only Election 2016 Prediction Tool You Will Need

    Though the answer was never really in doubt, the question of “Will she or won’t she?” has been answered: Hillary Clinton is running for president.  And so we move from “Will she or won’t she?” to “Can sh...

  • March 7, 2015

    The Right 'Quartet'

    If one world leader fiddling – or golfing – while the world burns is bad, how bad must four people fiddling be? Four people fiddling, of course, is a quartet, and that is precisely what we have in the Middle East today: a Quartet of ha...

  • January 21, 2015

    Has Bobby Jindal Read the Koran?

    Rarely is a speech widely praised before it is even delivered.  But such was the case for the speech Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal delivered to the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think-tank, on January 18.  In that speech, Jin...

  • January 1, 2015

    Run, Mitt, Run

    To the surprise of no one who has been following the will-he-or-won’t-he back-and-forth of the past few weeks, it looks he will.  Jeb Bush is running for president. Okay, he’s not running; he’s just “actively exploring...

  • November 28, 2014

    Democrats 'On Top of the World'

    Something big is happening in the Democratic Party – something that bodes well for conservatives.  As so many commentators have noted, including Clarice Feldman in American Thinker: Having been clobbered in the midterms, the president...

  • November 19, 2014

    The Vindication of John Roberts

    At the time of this writing, six “Gruber videos” have been released and “gone viral,” as they say in YouTube land.  These are the videos of course, in which “Obamacare architect” Jonathan Gruber lets the cat o...

  • November 13, 2014

    Democrats: Back to Square One

    Tuesday last week’s election, in which Republicans won, virtually across the board, taught Americans, of every political persuasion, a great number of lessons. What it taught this American is that some train wrecks actually can be fun to wat...

  • October 8, 2014

    Be Careful What You Leave Democrats Alone to Vote For

    Will conservatives lose three elections in a row – three chances to win the Senate, three chances to stop Obama and the Democrats’ agenda, three chances to put Democratic senators up in 2016 on the hot seat by forcing them to vote on popu...

  • September 25, 2014

    Why America Loves Israel, Israel Loves Us, and Europe Hates Us Both

    Begin with the obvious: the 180-degree disconnect between America’s and so much of Europe’s attitude toward Israel, as evidence, most recently, by Congress’s September 18 unanimous vote declaring Israel a “major strategic part...

  • August 22, 2014

    Human Shields Don't Need to Eat

    Anyone who can continue to express support for Hamas, at this point, is irredeemably beyond help and certainly beyond persuasion by what appears below.  Nevertheless, for those people for whom religious persecution, forced female genital mutilat...

  • August 10, 2014

    Worse Than Nazis

    By now, the third week of Israel’s Operation Projective Edge, surely there can be no one unaware of the tunnels Hamas spent five years – and millions of dollars of aid money – building to serve as underground bunkers for Hamas...

  • February 5, 2014

    Along Came Kerry

    How has John Kerry mishandled U.S. Middle East policy? Let us count the ways. On January 16, after two days of voting, the Egyptian people freely, democratically approved a new constitution that (emphasis mine): forbids "religion, race, gender or ge...

  • January 14, 2014

    The Divided States of America

    Washington Post pundit Dan Balz has a problem: Political polarization has ushered in a new era in state government, where single-party control of the levers of power has produced competing Americas. Republican states have pursued economic and fiscal...

  • October 14, 2013

    More Fun With ObamaCare

    Last April, American Thinker posted my essay, "Fun With Obamacare." In it, I wrote: When 2014 rolls around and ObamaCare fully takes effect, I intend to drop my current self-financed ($394/month as I write this, sure to increase at renewal) catastro...

  • September 19, 2013

    Why a Defund-ObamaCare Strategy Would Succeed

    We are less than one and a half weeks from the Showdown at the CR (Continuing Resolution) Corral, and establishment politicians, of both parties, are panicking.  The latest turn of the screw came last week, when opposition from 43 apparently non...

  • September 3, 2013

    A Tale of Two Red Lines

    On September 1st, an article appeared in the Times of Israel (emphasis mine): "Netanyahu warns enemies not to test Israel's strength" Speaking hours after US President Barack Obama delayed a military strike at Syria pending a Congressional vote, [...

  • August 8, 2013

    Yes, Defund Obamacare

    The GOP division over whether to defund ObamaCare can be summarized in two quotes: This, from Texas senator Ted Cruz: We can de-fund Obamacare if Republican leaders who tell their constituents they're conservative stand up and act like they're conse...

  • May 17, 2013

    The Senate's Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Law

    In a perfect world, where Republicans actually exercise their principles, this essay would be called "The Democrats' Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog-Law."  Sadly -- but let us agree, surprisingly -- Republicans are complicit with Democrats in passing the trave...

  • April 12, 2013

    Israel's Rise: Dream Realized, or Prophecy Fulfilled?

    Sometimes even the scientist, if he is truly as open-minded as scientists claim to be, must open his mind and look beyond. Almost precisely a year ago, Egypt announced that it would cut the amount of natural gas it would sell to Israel. And littl...

  • April 4, 2013

    Fun with Obamacare

    Having raised a few conservative eyebrows with that title, let me clarify from the outset that I do not support ObamaCare. On the contrary, I fervently believe that this horrible new entitlement must -- and will -- be torn out by its roots, stom...

  • March 1, 2013

    Israel: Never Mind the Palestinians,Talk to the Saudis

    Next month, President Obama will be making his first trip to Israel since becoming president -- a trip that "is almost certain to raise expectations for the type of peace initiative that eluded Obama and his foreign policy team during his first four ...

  • February 6, 2013

    You Got Your Tax Increase, Dems...Now Show Us the Money

    The so-called fiscal cliff has been avoided, at least for the time being, and all it cost was a tax rate increase on the nation's most productive taxpayers.  Of course, conservatives are disappointed, but one also needs to appreciate that with a...

  • January 18, 2013

    Unexpectedly (!) Republicans Do Something Right

    Excerpt from just-released statement from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (emphases mine): House Republicans announced a path forward on the nation's near-term budget challenges.  The 1974 Congressional Budget Act requires passage of ...

  • December 20, 2012

    What if Vicki Soto Had Been Armed?

    After more than a decade of exploding gun ownership -- and the accompanying and indisputable plunge in violent crime, including those committed with guns that accompanied it -- the formula "more guns equals less crime" -- has been proven.  Only ...

  • September 17, 2012

    While Obama Fields Softballs, Romney Plays Smallball

    Show me a Republican campaign in which Democrats are offering advice and the Democrats' advice is better, and I'll show you a Republican campaign in trouble. Democratic political strategist Pat Caddell recently described the Romney campaign as the wo...

  • September 7, 2012

    'These'

    In much the way that "a picture really worth a thousand words," so, too, can a single word spoken at the right time, in the right context, make a point that a thousand words, less well-chosen, could not. For me, not one, not two, but three such momen...

  • August 13, 2012

    Anti-Israel Narrative Fail

    Liberals, Europeans and Scandinavians, who, in their hatred for Israel have been railing against the Jewish state to "lift the siege" of Gaza, even though hundreds of tons of goods enter the Judenrein jihadist enclave from Israel daily. But as is wel...

  • August 5, 2012

    Where is John Galt?

    "Who is John Galt?" That question, of course, is the opening sentence of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, arguably the first major novel written with a sledgehammer and the first (but, thankfully, not last) to drive generations of liberals crazy...

  • July 16, 2012

    Israel's Oil Weapon

    Seemingly out of nowhere, geopolitics have been all but turned upside down in the Middle East, thanks to the discovery of massive energy resources in Israeli territory.  As a nascent Oil Power, the Jewish State is only beginning to contemplate t...

  • June 14, 2012

    The Euro's Collapse Is Not Just About the Euro

    How do you say Schadenfreude in French?  Or Spanish?  Or Greek?  Because, three years into the failed economic policies of a failed president, Schadenfreude -- knowing that, however bad our situation may be, the state of affairs in the...

  • March 4, 2012

    A Separate Set of Principles for Jordan

    Why does the Obama Administration treat one Middle Eastern despot differently? One of the primary tenets of the Jewish dietary laws known as kashrut ("keeping kosher" to my beloved gentile readers) is the prohibition against the mixing of meat and da...

  • February 20, 2012

    Calling Republicans 'The Stupid Party' Is an Insult to Stupid People

    Here's a simple exercise that I invite everyone to try:  First, and I know this is a stretch -- assume that the Republicans actually want to win the election in November.  Second, catalog in your mind (or, if you are not one of the 47 perce...

  • February 7, 2012

    Will We Have a 'Fair' Election in 2012?

    The two questions GOP primary voters are trying to answer -- and balance -- are the same two that dominate every primary season: (1) which candidate best represents the one's principles, and (2) which has the best chance of beating the Democrat? But ...

  • January 28, 2012

    An Army of Magic Alexes

    Given his ability to fill stadiums to this day, I think it's fair to say that Paul McCartney remains as popular as he ever was.  Yet it's a daunting task for any post-Baby Boomer to really appreciate how pervasive and influential McCartney's ban...

  • January 28, 2012

    Pentagon Affirms AT Writer's Analytical Prowess

    In my November 22 article, "Iran's Maginot Line," I wrote: Much is made of Iran's deeply buried nuclear sites.  But those sites are useless if the Iranians can't get to them.  Therefore, it may not be necessary to destroy the sites, but me...

  • January 26, 2012

    U.S.-Citizenship Renunciations Soar Under Obama

    From the AllGov.com Web site: Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes. "Increasingly" is an understatement.  In...

  • January 17, 2012

    Romney Denialists

    Though I have yet to read anything on the Internet that caused me literally to bash my laptop computer into the nearest available hard surface, comments like this, in the comments section of a popular conservative website, come pretty close: Oh no w...

  • December 28, 2011

    The Moral Hazard of Promoting Homeownership

    One of the high -- or low, depending on which candidate one supports -- points of the final debate before the Iowa caucuses came when Michele Bachmann let loose with both barrels on Newt Gingrich for his consulting/lobbying/whatever-the-heck-he-did-t...

  • December 22, 2011

    Good News for Obama

    ... which means bad news for conservatives.  From today's Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way ...

  • December 12, 2011

    Don't Sweat the Presidency, Focus on Congress

    In 1996, Joan Rivers quipped that trying to choose between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton was like "trying to pick your favorite Menendez brother."  But today, as primary season approaches and with it, the moment when I must choose between Messrs. Ro...

  • November 22, 2011

    Iran's Maginot Line

    One of the most important skills in warfare is the art of misdirection.  Like the magician who draws attention to one hand doing one thing while the other hand does another, the attacker who can beguile his enemy into diverting most of his resou...

  • September 24, 2011

    'Why Won't Liberals Listen to Reason?'

    Spengler, a/k/a David Goldman, absolutely nails it.  As the saying goes, read the whole thing, including the most perceptive analysis, (in just two sentences!) of the European - and by extension, the American - left's worldview and how it inform...

  • August 12, 2011

    New First - and Low for Obama

    Like many politically active people, I avidly follow various political polls, checking at least one each day to ascertain where the weight of public opinion falls on the issues of the day, or the electability (or re-electability) of this or that cand...

  • August 7, 2011

    Compare and Contrast

    As one could easily have predicted, Harry Reid wasted no time in using Friday's S&P downgrading of U.S. debt to call for higher taxes. Meanwhile, Ohio's Governor John Kasich announced the elimination of $8 billion in debt and balancing his state'...

  • July 25, 2011

    Party Like It's 1989

    Amid all the hubbub and brouhaha over the debt ceiling - the recriminations, the counter-recriminations, the walkouts and the press conferences-cum-temper-tantrums, the most important question for conservatives has yet to be answered: When can we sta...

  • July 15, 2011

    Et tu, Gallup?

    On Wedesday, I blogged the news that Rasumssen's latest Generic Presidential Ballot showed a generic Republican defeating Obama 48%-43% in 2012, positing it as a possible indicator that the GOP has nothing to fear from Obama in the so-called debt cei...

  • July 13, 2011

    Rasmussen generic prez poll predicting GOP debt ceiling win?

    At the beginning of the month, about the time the debt ceiling negotiations (read, standoff) began, Obama and a generic GOP challenger were tied, at 44%, on the Rasmussen Generic Presidential Ballot. Since then, we've had multiple announcements of im...

  • July 12, 2011

    Make the Capital Strike Official

    One factor that distinguishes the current recession from previous ones in memory is that past recessions have been coincided with a falling stock market.  That the market has virtually doubled from its low of about 6,600 in March 2009, is someth...

  • June 4, 2011

    Ryan-Cantor 2012

    For a political party, the only thing worse than losing an election, is losing an election that that party should have won.  Such was the case in New York's 26th Congressional District on May 24, where the Democratic candidate won a victory that...

  • January 18, 2011

    Why Have a Debt Ceiling?

    Every Passover, Jews ask, "Why is this night different from all other nights?"  As Republicans in the newly-minted 112th Congress take pooper-scoopers in hand to begin cleaning the Augean Stables of the 111th Congress, one might simila...

  • December 30, 2010

    NYC Sanitation Dept. Bosses: Guilty of Manslaughter?

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  • December 11, 2010

    Who Governs?

    Sledgehammers have delivered messages more subtly than the American electorate delivered theirs to President Obama and the Democrats on November 3.  "Shellacking" doesn't even begin to describe it.  "Lunched," a schoolya...

  • May 28, 2010

    Hillary: Brazil Growing Like Crazy

    What's rapid economic growth to a Democrat?  Or truth?  Or fairness?  Hillary Clinton gave us pretty good indication of all three on May 27th, when she said:The rich are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind...

  • May 26, 2010

    Two more nails in liberalism's coffin

    Is Atlas about to shrug? Don't know, but judging by a couple of news items today, it sure looks like the old boy's knees are starting to wobble.First, USA Today reports that in the first quarter, "[p]aychecks from private business shrank to th...

  • April 9, 2010

    The Scientific Socialism of Today

    A certain kind of mind believes that human beings exist as objects to be experimented upon as society is perfected by the privileged class -- a utopia engineered by elites. There's a reason why Engels called it Scientific Socialism. Thomas Sowell all...

  • February 26, 2010

    Powerless Against Palin

    The Palestinians have nothing on liberal Democrats. Palestinians, as Abba Eban, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations, famously quipped, "never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity."  But the Democrats and the joggin...

  • February 12, 2010

    The (Re)Public(an) Option

    What is the "public option"? Basically, it's a health insurance "alternative" conceived, provided, and run by the federal government to "compete" with private health insurance providers. Apparently, the 1,300 health care...

  • January 3, 2010

    (P)raising (Mc)Cain

    All of our current political debate, when reduced to its essence, is centered on answering a single question: Is the Reagan Revolution permanent? By this time next year, after the 2010 midterm election results are in, we will know. I predict that We ...

  • December 17, 2009

    Cloward-Piven-Rand?

    If, as the old saw goes, politics makes strange bedfellows, what kind of bedfellows does the endeavor to restructure our entire society create?Very strange bedfellows -- very strange bedfellows, indeed.Regular visitors to American Thinker are well fa...

  • November 25, 2009

    The Numbers within the Numbers

    Often, "reading between the lines" of a writer's prose will reveal a more interesting message than the one the writer ostensibly intended.  Similarly, by parsing the data - the "numbers within the numbers" of a political poll...

  • November 13, 2009

    The Income Tax and Government Spending

    Unleashed appetites can ruin a personal life. So also with government.Why do we have an income tax?  The obvious answer would seem to be "for the government to get the funds it needs to run itself." But if that's true, then how does on...

  • November 8, 2009

    A new (and old) plan for Mideast peace

    One could be forgiven for taking the two men posing together in the photo below, in obvious friendship, on a sunny Arabian day in 1918, to be Arabs, but in fact, only of them is.  The regal-looking gentleman, in traditional Arab dress, on the ri...

  • October 24, 2009

    The Swine Flu Crisis: A Call for Bipartisanship

    - Satire -It is ironic that the candidate who ran on a promise to transcend partisanship has revealed himself, in his first year, to be perhaps the most partisan and divisive president in American history.  The notion that a republican democracy...

  • October 16, 2009

    Go East, Young Man

    Today's Jerusalem Post reports one million Africans sitting on the Israeli-Egyptian border, waiting for their chance to enter Israel illegally.  They come not to suicide bomb, nor to kidnap.  They simply want to work.  They come seekin...

  • October 11, 2009

    Liberals and Taxes: The Big Question

    Like many Americans who watched their savings nosedive in the market crash of '08, I've had to retrench, rethink and re-strategize my retirement plans.  One course I've considered is to spend less and save more.  The second is, somehow, to ...

  • October 2, 2009

    Doctors: Damned If They Do, More Damned If They Don't

    Americans worried that Obamacare will lead to de facto rationing of health care to senior citizens can stop worrying.  It's already here.  Obviously, the fewer doctors willing to treat Medicare patients, the fewer the opportunities to get t...

  • September 25, 2009

    The Real Nuclear Option

    Appeasement aficionados no doubt can barely contain their excitement as they count down the days to October 1, when the U.S., cowering behind a risible "multi-party" smokescreen, sits down with the Iranians to determine how best to give the...

  • September 14, 2009

    Rasmussen: Obama Rising (updated)

    Five days after the President Obama's "health care speech" before a joint session of Congress, more than sufficient time to encompass all three of the days comprising Rasmussen's three-day rolling average, support for both Obama's health pl...

  • September 12, 2009

    The Obama Administration, Explained

    Imagine a large city, such as my home town, Detroit used to be, before liberalism destroyed it.  Imagine that, in this city, a developer offers to buy a plot of land on which to build a multi-story office building.  The upper floors will pr...

  • September 7, 2009

    Speaking truth to power loses appeal for leftists

    It may have taken awhile, but with the advent of The Most Radical President In U.S. History, the Silent - conservative -- Majority is finally Speaking Truth to Power.  And Power is listening.Thanks to our activism, "green jobs czar" an...

  • September 4, 2009

    Support Warren's Law!

    While most of us have been watching, awestruck, as The Messiah parts the waters and walks upon the unparted portions, a tragedy has been unfolding in America.  A tragedy so heinous as not even to have a name.  A tragedy that far surpasses I...

  • August 25, 2009

    Arrogance

    "The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood -- and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the sa...

  • August 23, 2009

    Rasmussen: Obama Hits new Low (updated)

    Two new lows, actually.  Today, Rasmussen reports that the president's Approval Index (the number of likely voters who strongly approve of his performance, minus those who disapprove) has fallen to -14.  That's two points below his previous...

  • August 21, 2009

    Obama's Scarlet Letter

    The scarlet letter, of course, was "A," the letter Hester Prynne, the unfortunate protagonist of Hawthorne's book of the same name was forced to wear, branding her as an adulteress.  But in American politics, there's another "A,...

  • August 19, 2009

    Rasmussen: GOP Takes Lead on Health Care

    From Rasmussen (emphasis mine):For the first time in over two years of polling, voters trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on the handling of the issue of health care.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that...

  • August 16, 2009

    Rasmussen: New Strongly Disapprove high for Obama

    Today, Rasmussen reports a new Strongly Disapprove high for President Obama, 41%, as his overall approval revisits his previous low of 47%.Note the narrow gap between the two numbers:  six points.  Just as Republicans recently have begun to...

  • August 13, 2009

    47!

    Rasmussen's latest overall approval rating for President Obama: 47% -- a new low for him.Left-wing Bush-haters who soooooo despised him and felt, believe, just knew that Obama would be soooooo much better, would bring closure, unity, peace, love...

  • August 5, 2009

    Rasmussen Poll Watch: Good News and Bad News

    Good news and Bad News for Republicans in yesterday's Rasmussen Generic Congressional Ballot:Support for Republican congressional candidates has risen to its highest level in recent years, giving the GOP a seven-point lead over Democrats in the lates...

  • August 3, 2009

    Can the Schadenfreude - Part 3

    Just a cautionary note to Republicans who may have been taunting, baiting or needling their liberal friends over Obama's falling ratings:  Over the past four days, Obama's negative Rasmussen Approval Index  has been cut in half as he rises ...

  • August 2, 2009

    Mideast Peace Now!

    Is it time for those who clamor for a Middle East peace to "declare victory and go home"?  Two recent events in the region signal the answer.And that answer, resoundingly, unequivocally, is "yes."In 2006, Hezb'allah crossed I...

  • July 30, 2009

    Rasmussen Poll Watch: New Lows for Obama

    Grim news for the White House in today's Rasmussen Poll as Obama's overall approval rating drops to a new low of 48%.  Ditto for his Approval Index, which stands, today, at -12, also a new low.These new figures come in the milieu of press confer...

  • July 27, 2009

    Obama Appeasement Watch: Obama Rewards Hariri Murderers

    For those speculating on the next act in the president's ongoing campaign to appease the enemies of America and her allies, the Kuwait News Agency, via today's Jerusalem Post, gives the answer:Imad Mustafa, the Syrian envoy to the US, said Monday tha...

  • July 23, 2009

    Can the Schadenfreude, GOP (cont.)

    Just one day after my blog entry warning the loyal opposition against premature gloating over Obama's and the Democrats' currently dismal poll numbers, comes a prime example of what I was talking about.  Less than one day after John Boehner took...

  • July 22, 2009

    Dem reps: read this and weep

    Democratic Congressman facing a vote on Obama Care have another reason to think it over very, very carefully. Is it the hand of God or the mouth of Joe Biden?  We may never know.  But whatever the cause, Republicans, for the first time in L...

  • July 22, 2009

    Can the Schadenfreude, GOP

    One detects the acrid odor of hubris wafting from Republican quarters, the kind of hubris that leaves egg on the face of those arrogant enough to celebrate prematurely a flailing president's political demise.While pointing out favorable (to Republica...

  • July 21, 2009

    Obama is a '10' (updated)

    According to a new Gallup Poll Barack Obama is a "10" - not the kind of 10 girls like to look at, but the kind of numbers Obama's political opponents like to look at:At six months in office, Obama's 55% approval rating puts him 10th am...

  • July 20, 2009

    Death Begins at 50?

    Political death, that is, and of course, I am talking about percentages, not years.  (So no silly death-to-Obama accusations from you liberals, okay?)  Today, for the first time (to this writer's knowledge) in any poll of his pres...

  • July 19, 2009

    Healthcare: It's the Cost, Stupid!

    Democrats puzzling over the growing resistance to their universal healthcare proposal need puzzle no more.  A new Rasmussen poll provides the answer - and a golden opportunity for Republicans to stop the Dems' healthcare legislation in its ...

  • July 16, 2009

    Liberalism in a Hurry

    As Obama's poll numbers have declined, the Democrats' push to enact their agenda, especially cap and trade and nationalized health care, has become increasingly frenzied. This is no accident. They are laboring under a delusion. As...

  • July 15, 2009

    More bad polling news for the Dems and Obama

    For the second time since Obama took office, Republicans have been leading Democrats on Rasmussen's Generic Congressional Ballot for three consecutive weeks.  The gap between the two parties matches the previous record of three points; howe...

  • July 13, 2009

    Message to GOP in Obama's Approval Index numbers

    Today, on Rasmussen, Obama revisits his previous Approval Index low of -8, after a three-day (dead cat?) "bounce" to -7.  Note that one of the numbers comprising the index, the Strongly Approve number, hits a new low, 28%.On the nation...

  • July 2, 2009

    Obama's new poll low

    Today, Obama's Approval Index  revisits its previous low, first set on June 21, which was also the day of his lowest approval rating, 53%, to which he also returns today.  What is new, however, is that Obama, for the first time, regist...

  • June 30, 2009

    Obama's polling weakness

    Obama's Rasmussen Approval Index returns to -2, his previous low, without having risen above +2 in the interim.  Note that this rating comes less than a week after two public presidential events:  a press conference and the ABC-sponsored pr...

  • June 28, 2009

    Rasmussen: Obama Approval Index at 0

    Today's Rasmussen poll has Obama's Approval Index at zero. What's especially significant is that this comes four days after ABC's all-day-culminating-with-a-broadcast-from-the-White House health-care plan telethon and five days after a pres...

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