Spambot of the day
This one’s kind of chatty and colloquial, and not quite as obsequious as the usual: Great article. There’s a lot of good data here, though I did want to let you know something – I am running Ubuntu with the … Continue reading →
This one’s kind of chatty and colloquial, and not quite as obsequious as the usual: Great article. There’s a lot of good data here, though I did want to let you know something – I am running Ubuntu with the … Continue reading →
I’m not at all sure I’m up for watching Obama’s SOTU speech tonight. But here’s a thread to talk about the speech, if you’re so inclined. [ADDENDUM: I got home from dinner at 9:50 PM, turned it on, turned it … Continue reading →
TNR’s Jonathan Cohn has this to say about Obama’s SOTU speech this evening: Today Obama faces a dire threat to his presidency: A political backlash threatening to destroy his signature domestic policy initiative and, more broadly, his entire governing agenda. … Continue reading →
My new piece, entitled “Health care lessons: learned and lost,” is up at the Weekly Standard. The WS site has no online comments section—only email responses accepted. Feel free to send them glowing laudatory messages, if you hanker to do … Continue reading →
Oh, no. It’s come to this.
Continue reading →James O’Keefe, the man who was instrumental in making the ACORN-sting videos featured prominently by Breitbart, has been arrested along with three other men: A witness told authorities O’Keefe was sitting in the waiting area of [US Senator Mary] Landrieu’s … Continue reading →
From another highly-recommended and comprehensive look at the Abdulmutallab fiasco: Other than the first interview, the FBI’s focus was on ensuring that any statements obtained from Abdulmutallab could be used at trial. Intelligence gathering was, if thought of at all, … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman is very angry at President Obama for his spending freeze proposal. And when I say “very,” I mean very. Krugman’s most recent piece is short, only 214 words. But it contains a surprising amount of death imagery—mostly in … Continue reading →
Stephen F. Hayes offers an excellent summary of the colossal screw-up that is the Obama administration’s response to the Christmas bomber. Chaos, stupidity, ignorance, missed opportunities, coverup—it’s all there. Who’s responsible? First and foremost, President Obama, for having adopted the … Continue reading →
Obama has nobly declared that he’d “rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” But wouldn’t a “really good” president ordinarily be re-elected? And if not, why not? Assuming that Obama is not obliquely referring to … Continue reading →
The other day I was watching an in-depth personal profile of Scott Brown by Fox’s Greta Van Susteren. It featured interviews with the newly-elected senator’s friends, neighbors, former colleagues in the state senate, ex-coaches, and even the guy who fixes … Continue reading →
At first glance I thought that this confession by Jill Dorson, a self-described independent who voted for Obama and now regrets it, would represent an example of political change. Alas, no. Dorson—who is so excoriated by the commenters there that … Continue reading →