"Democracy," says Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." There's probably no better summation of the 2008 election. After an interminable campaign, Americans are urged to go exercise their little slices of the ...
When Christopher Buckley, the novelist, writer, and son of the founding editor of National Review, first penned his endorsement of Barack Obama in Tina Brown's new web venture, The Daily Beast, he, no doubt, thought that he"d make a stir"but one probably confined to the media gawkers. ...
At first read, Scott McConnell's review of Mark Krikorian's The New Case Against Immigration"Both Legal and Illegal seems like a rather courteous, and not particularly surprising, examination of the volume. McConnell rightly credits Krikorian with crafting a well-researched, levelheaded book ...
Jim, let me just make a point. I’ve got a bracelet, too... ~Barack Obama This statement, better than anything else said, sums up Barack Obama's performance at the presidential debate last night. Coming in a close second would be this exchange on the Georgia-Russia situation (or was it the ...
Barney Frank, the 14-term congressman from Massachusetts's Fourth, might be the most well-connected and secure Democrat in Washington. Ideologically speaking, however, for the past decade or so he's seemed like one of the Left Behind. Frank hails from the retro-liberal wing of the Democratic Party ...
He might not want to say it out loud, but Barack Obama senses, no doubt, that this past weekend's financial meltdown will do much to boost his slumping electoral prospects. According to Democratic lore, financial woes make the "rich guy" Republicans look bad and send the reeling middle ...
Appearing at the National Press Club this morning, flanked by rock-solid conservative third-party candidate Chuck Baldwin, the venerable Ralph Nadar, and the insane and reprehensible leftist Cynthia McKinney, Ron Paul dispensed this guidance: For me, though, my advice"for what it's ...
One amusing aspect of the New York Times's coverage of the government takeovers of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is that throughout the Gray Lady's 2000-word lead essay, it's never once mentioned that the two lending institutions have, well, already been federal organizations for the past 70 years ...
That Bill Kristol, neocon bellwether and house intellectual of the McCain-led GOP, would have nice things to say about Sarah Palin, would even have floated her selection as VP two months ago (!), should furrow the collective brow of all of us in the alternative Right who can barely contain our ...
Before 85,00 adoring fans, the man of "Hope" and "Change" finally got down to specifics and told us who he really is and what he really plans to do as president. Well, sort of... Energy Independence in 10 years (a timeline politicians typically reserve for impossible tasks) was ...
