Flotsam and Jetsam
It seems that some human rights organization (or perhaps our secretary of state of 19-million-glass-ceiling-cracks fame) should care about all this: “Who, exactly, is it the misogyny-frenzied brutes in...
View ArticleDemocrats Freak Over GOP Women — Again
Politico reports: Two of the conservative movement’s biggest stars, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), lavished praise on each other Wednesday at a boisterous rally...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Judging
We are going to have a Supreme Court confirmation hearing this summer. The mainstream-media chatter is centering on “filibuster or no filibuster?” – a silly discussion in the absence of an actual...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Go 2 for 2
Things are looking up for the Republicans. First, John Boehner – in contrast to Nancy Pelosi’s habit of calling expensive aircraft to ferry her around, like some people call cabs — announced that...
View ArticleRE: Wishful Thinking, Again, by the Gray Lady
Not all reporters are as driven by ideology and ignorant of the conservative movement as is the New York Times. Others have not ignored the obvious conclusion that today, conservatives as a group are...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
The Iraqi parliament finally approves a diverse new unity government, ending nine months of political stalemate and concern for the fledgling democracy: “Although Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds were...
View ArticleSenate Freshmen Decline to Join Tea Party Caucus
Remember that Afghanistan trip Sen. Mitch McConnell took some of the GOP freshmen on last week? At the time, some conservative activists worried it was a “ploy” to co-opt the Tea Party members of the...
View ArticleFocus on Clinton’s Mistakes, Not Abedin
Huma Abedin, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, has been in the news recently as her husband, the disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, tries to worm his way back into...
View ArticleSic Transit Bachmann: The Ridicule Principle and 2016
There was a moment two years ago when Representative Michele Bachmann looked like she had a realistic chance to be a first-tier Republican presidential candidate. In the spring and summer of 2011,...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann Is No Margaret Thatcher
Mark Steyn is someone whom I enjoy reading and listening to. He’s informed, intelligent, and has a wonderful (and sometimes wicked) sense of humor. But once in a while his analysis is, in my...
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