Using Sherrod to Undermine the New Black Panther Case
While Andrew Breitbart’s release of a misleading edited version of the now-famous Shirley Sherrod speech on race has led him to rightly note that he has become “public enemy number one,” the left is...
View ArticleShut Up, They Instructed
As I noted yesterday, the totalitarian impulse on the left is all too apparent these days. Their frenzy to silence opposition voices increases in direct proportion to their growing unpopularity and...
View ArticlePlaying the Bigot Card
On the Ground Zero mosque, the left is playing the bigot card, big time. Some may honestly believe the mosque opponents are Muslim-haters, for they cannot fathom why their fellow citizens would object...
View ArticleRE: Peter Beinart’s Lamentation
Pete, I was torn about whether to follow up on your very adept post concerning Peter Beinart’s frustration (as well as that of much of the left) with Obama, America, etc. But I think it is important to...
View ArticleFrom a Fight over the Constitution to a Local Zoning Issue
It’s all getting so confusing now. The early narrative from the left was that if you didn’t support Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s proposal to build a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero, you were a...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Obama has managed to revive the conservative movement, drive independents into the GOP’s arms, sink his own party’s fortunes, bring Sarah Palin and Howard Dean together (on the Ground Zero mosque) —...
View ArticleKrauthammer and Dean Agree: Obama Blew It
Charles Krauthammer, as he is wont to do, makes a salient observation. On Obama’s Iftar speech at the White House, which begat arguably the worst week of his presidency, he writes: It takes no courage...
View ArticleHow Is the Ground Zero Mosque Playing in NYC?
It takes a perfect storm for the Republicans to win a congressional seat in Manhattan. But there is a storm brewing, so is it possible? Well, it’s not likely, but stranger things have happened. The...
View ArticleDesperation Time
The Democrats are now in full retreat. Less 75 days before the midterm elections, the Republicans have a historic lead in congressional generic polling. The president’s approval rating is sinking. It...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
This is presidential. This is a mensch. Blago is right: “Well, I think the question ought to be to the prosecutor, ‘How much money of taxpayers dollars did you spend on this trial?’ I would guess tens...
View ArticleMosque Builders Drop Mask of ‘Reconciliation’
Apparently getting their talking points from David Axelrod (or is it the other way around?), the Ground Zero mosque builders are comparing opposition to the mosque to anti-Semitism. Honest: A leader of...
View ArticleHoward Dean on Fire
Candy Crowley is one of the livelier and more effective interviewers on the air. She did not disappoint with Howard Dean on Sunday. There was this humorous exchange: CROWLEY: But what we found,...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
The Emergency Committee for Israel wonders how it is that Joe Sestak can claim to be pro-Israel but accept Chuck Hagel’s endorsement. “Today’s endorsement of Joe Sestak by one of the leading...
View ArticleAnother ‘Bigot’ Comes Out Against the Mosque
No, Sheldon Silver is no more a bigot than Howard Dean or the legions of conservatives who oppose the Ground Zero mosque. But he — arguably the most powerful Democrat in New York – has come out against...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Obama’s Muslim Outreach
Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations has, of late, shown what those on the left like to say of conservative justices shifting their way – ”growth.” He has come out squarely in favor of...
View ArticleSpinning for CAIR
In an account that reads more like a CAIR press release than a news report, the Washington Post tells us: As expression of anti-Muslim sentiment has risen across the United States in recent weeks,...
View ArticleThis Is All They’ve Got?
Liz Cheney, Howard Dean, and Bill Galston mixed it up on Face the Nation. Howard Dean didn’t have much material to work with. So he was back to arguing that the Tea Party is a fringe, racist group. As...
View ArticleReminds Me Of …
Pundits feel compelled to analogize every political figure or race to another pol or election. They debated whether 2010 was like 1994 or not. (Turns out it was like 1938.) Marco Rubio is like Barack...
View ArticleOn the Persistence of Palin and the Possibility of Pence
Quayle was gone after one misspelled word. Howard Dean was finished after a single yell. Gingrich was not the same after a complaint about his seat on a plane. Edmund Muskie was done after a solitary...
View ArticleAshley Judd and the Will Rogers Democrats
As the Republicans rose in revolt over the GOP’s next-in-linism and the Democratic president won a second term surrounded by potential successors in aging party stalwarts, November’s election seemed to...
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