January 23, 2009

Murtha-Funded Firms Busted

Two firms funded with over $100 million in earmarks from the Democratic Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, John Murtha, were raided and temporarily shut down yesterday by the FBI and IRS. Surprised that you didn't hear about such big new...

January 22, 2009

Obama Outlaws Legal Interrogation Methods, With An Out

President Obama signed a few 'National Security' Executive Orders around noon today, apparently designed to increase the rights of illegal combatants -- terrorists -- that are trying to kill as many of us as possible. They were all remarkable, but pe...

September 26, 2008

Hold It - The Public Hasn't Seen Any Rescue Plan Yet

While the irony of watching the Democrats (approval level - 9%) support and force through a President Bush (approval level - 34%) crafted economic bailout bill that Gallup just announced has public approval of only 22% is wonderful, the fact of the m...

September 17, 2008

Dem Congressman's Son Arrested For Smuggling Illegals

The subject of illegal immigration and securing our borders has taken a back seat in recent months as the economy, especially housing and Wall Street, has surged to the forefront. If it were not for that, certainly this article from the St. Petersbur...

September 9, 2008

The WaPo Swings and Misses (Again) Against Palin

The attacks on John McCain's Vice-Presidential running mate Sarah Palin are starting to get sillier and sillier, with major media outlets now leading with inflammatory and accusatory front-page headlines with little, if any, substantiation for the he...

August 28, 2008

Another voter fraud investigation for ACORN

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports today that the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (Cleveland, Ohio) is investigating 75,000 voter registrations -- many found to have been fraudulent -- submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Re...

August 28, 2008

Jimmy Carter: McCain 'Milking' P.O.W. Experience

Thank God for Jimmy Carter. On the day of the most important speech of his party's 2008 Presidential nominee Barack Obama's life, the former President decides to insert himself into the national conversation. By claiming that Obama's opponent John Mc...

August 26, 2008

About McCain and 'Voting With Bush 95% of the Time'

CQPolitics.com launched a strike of their own against the convention week attacks that the Democrats are launching against John McCain, in an attempt to tie him to President Bush now and to portray him as being a "Bush III" for the future. ...

August 22, 2008

Obama Adviser Brzezinski to the Rescue...of Russia?

Last week, Barack Obama's foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was sounding tough on Russia, perhaps due to the tepid reaction to Obama's initial vapid comments on Russia's invasion of Georgia. Here's an excerpt from an article that ran in the ...

August 19, 2008

3 Days After Saddleback, Obama Looks Even Sillier

Three days after the Presidential forum at Saddleback Church in California, revelations are still coming out that makes the Obama campaign's complaint that John McCain "cheated" look even more like the infantile schoolyard whining of a lose...

August 15, 2008

The Consequences for Russia Begin

As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said yesterday in his press conference (video can be found here, transcript can be found here), Russia's actions in Georgia will result in our allies, especially those in the Russian power sphere that Putin is try...

August 11, 2008

What the Media Knows, and We Don't...Yet

The Edwards affair news drop, on the same Friday night as the Olympic opening ceremonies, seemed designed to prevent mass collateral damage, if not to Edwards, than to the greater Democratic Party. Thus we had the usual suspects coming out, as Lanny ...

August 7, 2008

Rove: The 'Where's the Beef' Strategy, and Beyond

There's another fascinating op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this morning by Karl Rove on the next steps that John McCain should take in his battle against Barack Obama: What McCain Should Do Next. In it, Rove expounds on the growing belief about Oba...

August 5, 2008

Voters Wary of Re-electing Present Congress

Gallup has just released some interesting poll results, based upon the responses that registered voters gave recently when the following questions were asked:Please tell me whether you think each of the following political officeholders deserves to b...

July 31, 2008

Bad news for Dems: GDP Numbers Show Still No Recession (updated)

On July 12th of this year, just two and a half weeks ago, noted economist and Messiah Barack Obama stated to an adoring crowd in San Diego that the country is in a recession. Here's the quote, from an AP report on MSNBC, Obama's home network (Obama s...

July 29, 2008

Sen. Coburn Wins a Big One for Pork-Busters in the Senate (updated)

Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attempted to bring up for a vote what was being referred to as the "Tomnibus" bill -- an omnibus spending bill comprised of 35 separate bills that were being blocked by Republican Senator Tom Cob...

July 29, 2008

Another Gift To The Dems

Well, the Republicans have just given the Democrats another electoral gift. Republican Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted  by a Federal Grand Jury.Anyone who paid attention to political coverage of Congress over the past few years has known t...

July 25, 2008

Washington Post: Why Not Debate More Drilling?

While the New York Times continues on its self-destructive path, the role of the grown-up liberal in the media business now belongs solely to the Washington Post. The paper proves that once again this morning with their editorial, "No Drilling, ...

July 22, 2008

Why Doesn't The GOP Leadership Just Resign?

There's a very disturbing article by Martin Kady II in this morning's edition of the Politicio, GOP senators scramble for life boats. Here's a brief excerpt:Republican Senate leaders -- terrified by the prospect of losing five or more seats in Novemb...

July 21, 2008

Ignore The Media: Al-Maliki Did Not Embrace Obama's Withdrawal Plan

It's an established fact that the drive-by media is supporting Barack Obama's candidacy this election cycle (just ask previous media fave Hillary Clinton). But in the last few weeks, as Obama attempts to redefine himself before the voting masses begi...

July 21, 2008

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Christopher Dodd

With the practical collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac upon us, a good measure of the political bias of the media is who they're claiming is responsible. After all, those two government supported enterprises (GSEs) are the biggest ...

July 18, 2008

Congressional Democrats bullying lobbyists and businesses

In a series of recent stories that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats in both the Senate and the House seem to be saying ‘If you want to play, you've got to pay' to the ...

July 18, 2008

Foreign Policy: Is Obama a Puppet? (Updated)

After reading the article on Barack Obama's foreign policy team in the New York Times this morning (A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy by Elisabeth Bumiller), I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. The first paragraph is fine, as I would ...

July 16, 2008

Gallup: Congressional Approval Ratings Hits All Time Low, Again

Gallup is reporting that their latest Congressional Approval poll has resulted in the lowest approval rating for Congress ever recorded: 14%.PRINCETON, NJ -- Congress' job approval rating has dropped five percentage points over the past month, from 1...

July 15, 2008

Obama's Op-Ed on Iraq - Premise Untrue, And a History Lesson

The story behind Obama's editorial (My Plan For Iraq") just keeps on getting better and better. The candidate's premise for his op-ed is that Iraq's Prime Minister has asked for a solid timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from his country....

July 14, 2008

Obama's 'Plan for Iraq'

Barack Obama has an op-ed in this morning's New York Times: My Plan for Iraq. It's just priceless. I thank him for timing it to accompany my article today, "Iraq and the Surrounding Region, As Obama Wanted It."In it, he attempts t...

July 11, 2008

Right on Cue: Obama Media Minions Focus on McCain's Divorce

It can be argued that Barack Obama won his Senate seat in 2004 on the back of his opposition's divorce files. While much ado was made nationally of the contents of his Republican Senate opponent Jack Ryan's files, the release of which caused Ryan to ...

July 10, 2008

The Pickens Plan -- only one part of the solution

T. Boone Pickens, the legendary Texas oilman, has been on a bit of a media blitz over the past few days, promoting wind-power, of all things. This isn't a new cause for Pickens -- he's a proponent of "peak oil theory", and has been developi...

July 7, 2008

About That Democratic 'Unity'

It seems that despite the media-targeted love-fest in Unity, New Hampshire a week and a half ago, the Hillary-Obama marriage of convenience hasn't really taken off. CNN posted the following story on it's website on Saturday: Poll: Some Clinton suppor...

June 28, 2008

Gallup: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Conservative Economic Policies

As the GOP in Congress appears about to be taking an "every man for himself" strategy for the fall elections, Gallup has just given the Republicans another gift (Americans Oppose Income Redistribution to Fix Economy). The results of this po...

June 27, 2008

Flip-flopping through the campaign

As we read in this morning's Politico (McCain, GOP unleash anti-Obama plan) that the Right is coalescing around a unified message against Barack Obama, we simultaneously find that Obama is handing the "I'm just another politician from Chicago...

June 26, 2008

Supreme Court Inserts Itself Into The Fall Election

It's no secret that conservative Republicans, and even many moderates and independent voters, are not thrilled about John McCain being the GOP Presidential nominee. For some, this election will ultimately boil down to the old "lesser of two evil...

June 26, 2008

IAEA Head Mohamed ElBaradei Admits Failure On Iran

Here's a troubling report from WCBS, reporting on an interview that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei gave on Al-Arabiya television June 20th: Iran Could Make Nuke In 6 Months. In the interview, ElBaradei is attempting to claim credit for being the only p...

June 21, 2008

A United Message On Tax Cuts And Economic Policy

At the heart of Barack Obama's economic proposals -- those that he has promised to deliver if he becomes President -- is the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts. He promises to "restore fairness to the tax code", and provide middle class tax re...

June 20, 2008

Obama On Rejecting Public Finance System

Barack Obama released a video to his supporters, explaining his not too secret decision to forgo public campaign funding. That he did it himself, in a video, shows that he recognizes that he has significant exposure on this issue based upon previous ...

June 20, 2008

Putting Obama and the Dems on the Defensive

Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats find themselves in a no-win situation. We awoke this morning to the reports that a compromise has been reached between the Bush Administration and Congress on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). ...

June 4, 2008

Superdelegates can switch

According to the media, Barack Obama has won the Democratic Presidential nomination (Obama Clinches Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket). That's only true if you count the so-called superdelegates. Neither Barack Obama (175...

May 22, 2008

Democratic Congress Bailing out borrowers

One of the major arguments against the Democratic Congress' new bailout bill for homeowners and lenders is that it rewards irresponsible borrowers and speculators. Unfortunately for the Democrats, this report  has popped up  -- and been den...

May 20, 2008

The Conservative Future in the House

While blame is being slung around for the anticipated GOP slaughter in November, there is one group within the Republican minority in the House that has been espousing a return to the last way of governing that delivered a majority to the GOP: conser...

May 19, 2008

The backstory on Obama's books

If one had to name Barack Obama's chief accomplishments in public life, his two books would outweigh anything he has done in politics. The New York Times had a fascinating article, The Story of Obama, Written by Obama, on the front page of Sunday's p...

May 13, 2008

Media's Basra Narrative Falls Apart. What's the Effect on the Election?

Here's the New York Times on March 27th, 2008 - Iraqi Army's Assault on Militias in Basra Stalls:An assault by thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police officers to regain control of the southern port city of Basra stalled Wednesday as Shiite militiamen...

May 13, 2008

Dems and High Oil Prices

While oil and gasoline prices continue to rise, the rhetoric and actions of Democrats in Congress seem destined to push those costs even higher, contrary to the Dems' promise that they used to get elected to majorities in 2006 that they had "a c...

May 5, 2008

Hell Freezes Over - Ombudsmen at NYT & PBS Hit Wright Coverage

In what must be a sign of the coming Apocalypse, the public editors of both PBS (Michael Getler) and the New York Times (Clark Hoyt) issued rather scathing -- for them -- reviews of their respective media outlet's recent coverage of the Reverend Jere...

April 30, 2008

Gas Prices - Dems are getting exactly what they fought for

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has a wonderful little snippet up at The Hill's Congress Blog, As Gas Prices Rose, Democrats Ignored Opportunities to Help Production:Gasoline today at the pump is $1.25 more, on average, than it was when the ...

April 24, 2008

White Female Democrats Against Obama

Earlier this week at the Huffington Post, Nora Ephron attributed the problems that the Democrats are having to the usual suspect for the elites - racist, misogynistic white men. The headlines in the drive-by media for weeks have been about racial and...

April 16, 2008

Washington Post: Most Now Distrust Hillary, Including 37% of Democrats

An important side story to the main article in this morning's Washington Post on Hillary Clinton's poll problems is one by Anne E. Kornblut and Jon Cohen, Poll Shows Erosion Of Trust in Clinton - Most See Dishonesty. Being a Post article, it still re...

April 2, 2008

What Does Lee Hamilton Know About the Clintons?

The Associated Press is reporting that former 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton is ready to endorse Barack Obama for President over Hillary Clinton. Hamilton, who served as a U.S. Representative from the Ninth District in Indiana from January ...