The Left vs. New Yorkers
If you buy into the left punditocracy’s framing of the Ground Zero issue, there are a ton of Islamophobes in New York: Seven in ten New Yorkers say the proposed mosque/Islamic community center near...
View ArticleThe Wrongdoing, the Cover-Up, and Executive Privilege
Like any administration snared in a Beltway scandal, the Obama team has two problems in the New Black Panther Party scandal: the wrongdoing and the cover-up. The wrongdoing is not merely that the Obama...
View ArticleHiding Facts in a Scandal Never Works
Since the Obama team pulled the plug on the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party, the administration has tried to keep the facts under wraps and the relevant documents and...
View ArticleThe Last Thing This Administration Needs
Earlier this month, I commented that it was quite possible that Obama could choose a worse chief of staff to replace Rahm Emanuel — Valerie Jarrett. Her personal judgment is poor, her political...
View ArticleHe’s Against the Special Interests
John Conway, Kentucky attorney general and the Democratic candidate for the Senate, running against Ron Paul, was asked on Fox News Sunday this morning why he wanted to be elected. He answered...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
What does Hillary need with a VP slot on an Obama ticket? Hillaryland eyes 2016. By then maybe voters will have forgotten what a mediocre secretary of state she was. What does a tsunami look like? “In...
View ArticleBusiness Execs vs. Professional Pols
Linda McMahon has steadily narrowed the gap between herself and state attorney general and faux Vietnam vet Richard Blumenthal. She has run a disciplined campaign and focused voters on job creation....
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
D.C. runs over black schoolkids. “Michelle Rhee—the tough broad who spent nearly four years as D.C. schools chancellor in a pitched battle against the corruption-plagued, incompetence-ridden Washington...
View ArticleWashington Post Confirms More Than a Year of Conservative Reporting
Yes, that’s right. On Saturday’s front page, in a well-documented piece, the Washington Post did a very credible job in reporting the details of the New Black Party Panther case and, in large part,...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: Great Moments in Speechifying
“I’m really into this politics thing” — Jerry Brown, upon winning the governorship of California after serving 30 years ago in the same job, then running for president, then mayor of Oakland, then the...
View ArticleWatching DOJ
Judicial Watch continues to document the New Black Panther Party scandal, which was first reported by conservative media and now has attracted mainstream coverage. (But not the Gray Lady, which may...
View ArticleIf Only King Arthur Had a Videographer Like Obama’s
Some 40 years ago, author Joe McGinniss shined a light on the way campaign imagery shapes our perceptions of politics with his The Selling of the President about Richard Nixon’s 1968 run for office....
View ArticleNever Mind, Forget the KSM Trial
With the midterms in the rearview mirror the Obama administration can now admit the obvious: a public trial for KSM is impossible. The Washington Post reports: Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the...
View ArticleHolder — a People Pleaser!
Another entry in the Eric Holder “Can you believe this?” file comes with this report (h/t Main Justice): In January, after a review by the Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that the...
View ArticleThe Ghailani Debacle
The acquittal of Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani yesterday on all but one of 285 counts in connection with the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has once...
View ArticleJust Hold Them
Benjamin Wittes of Brookings and Jack Goldsmith, a former assistant attorney general in the Bush administration (of which he was a sometimes critic), make a compelling case: forget civilian trials and...
View ArticleRamsey Clark Embraces Hamas: Whose Reputation Is Damaged?
Ramsey Clark, the former U.S. attorney general who went on to a career of far-left anti-American activism, is in Gaza this week to express his solidarity with the Hamas terrorists who rule the strip...
View ArticleSen. Conrad’s Retirement and a GOP Senate Majority in 2012
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) announced today that he won’t be seeking re-election in 2012, and chances look good that Republicans will be able to pick up the seat, helping them inch closer to a Senate...
View ArticleLieberman May Drop Out of 2012 Race
The Hartford Courant’s website is reporting that Senator Joseph Lieberman is poised to announce that he won’t run for re-election in 2012. Lieberman will announce his 2012 plans Wednesday in his...
View ArticleReading The Longest War
Normally, I like a hanging judge, and I am certainly a big fan of Michael Mukasey, the esteemed former federal judge and attorney general. He is one of the most reasonable, learned, and authoritative...
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