Monthly Archives: October 2012
October 26, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Lena Dunham’s creepy Obama For America ad (“My First Time”) may not be the work of a lone genius. It demonstrates the kind of creativity Joe Biden brought to the stump speech he crafted for his short-lived 1988 presidential campaign. Observers such as Joshua Keating have cited a campaign advertisement touting Obama’s close personal friend Vladimir Putin. From Russia with love? After his election, of course, Obama will have more
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October 25, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Citing its latest survey, in which Mitt Romney leads President Obama 50-47, the Washington Post reports that “Poll shows widening racial gap in presidential contest.” But I like my headline better, because the widening of the racial gap is solely the result of white voters abandoning Obama. Obama’s support among black voters is constant; he captured 95 percent of that vote in 2008 and, according to the Post’s survey, will
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October 25, 2012 — John Hinderaker
The Center of the American Experiment hosted its annual Fall Briefing tonight, with Bill Bennett as the featured speaker. My wife and I bought a row, as we always do, and because we had a few vacancies at the last minute, I offered three seats to Power Line readers last night. The Fall Briefing is usually at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, which is being renovated at the moment. So this
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October 25, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Paul Ryan gave an important speech in Cleveland, Ohio yesterday. The underlying subject was the enduring necessity of civil society and the role that local communities play in the typical American life, about which Ryan said this: [Romney is] the type we’ve all run into in our own communities – here in Cleveland, too, and all around America. Americans are a compassionate people, and there’s a consensus in this country
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October 25, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Over at the Weekly Standard, Daniel Halper has posted highlights of Lars Larson’s interview with the father of Tyrone Woods, one of the four Americans murdered in the 9/11 attack in Benghazi. Halper introduces his summary as follows: Charles Woods, the father Tyrone Woods, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, reveals details of meeting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the
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October 25, 2012 — Steven Hayward
Because I’m speechless. This even tops the Life of Julia:
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October 25, 2012 — John Hinderaker
All eyes are on Ohio, which Obama probably needs to win to have a chance of re-election. Currently most of the polls show Ohio a dead heat. Today the Romney campaign sent out this memo on the current state of play in the Buckeye State: October 25, 2012 To: Interested Parties Fr: Rich Beeson, National Political Director, Romney for President Scott Jennings, Ohio State Director Re: State of the Ohio
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October 25, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Earlier this month the Government Accountability Institute report cited chapter and verse showing how the Obama campaign was set up to facilitate illegal foreign contributions (among other kinds of illegal contributions). We wrote about the case study provided by the New York Post a few days ago. Over at PJ Media, Mike McNally goes the whole nine yards to show how the Obama campaign accepts illegal foreign contributions. McNally is
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October 25, 2012 — John Hinderaker
On paper, a president with Barack Obama’s record has no shot at re-election. The Democrats, knowing that Obama’s record is indefensible, decided that their only viable strategy is one of distraction. Every day, they have to come up with something to distract voters from Obama’s record. Michelle Malkin called it the Squirrel Strategy–“look, over there–a squirrel!” Today’s squirrel is a decades-old divorce in which Mitt Romney was deposed. At issue
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October 25, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
The Washington Post reports that Republican fortunes have improved in the battle for the Senate, “encouraging Republican hopes that they may yet snag the chamber which very recently seemed beyond their reach.” The Post adds, however, that to accomplish this, Republicans will need to win nearly all of the close races. The Post attributes the improved outlook for Republicans to the surge of Mitt Romney. That’s a reasonable conclusion. Let’s
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October 25, 2012 — John Hinderaker
If you rely on the national media, you would hardly know about Mitt Romney’s surging campaign. You would think that the big news story is Richard Mourdock’s tripping over his tongue. You likely would be puzzled as to why Romney has now moved past Barack Obama in the polls. But if you live where the candidates are and pay attention to local media, then you know about events like Romney’s
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October 25, 2012 — Steven Hayward
Are Minnesota universities trying to make complete buffoons of themselves? Last weekend in “Regulators Gone Wild” I noted the blunderbuss bureaucrats, acting as a protection racket for the state’s hidebound universities, who tried to block online college courses from being offered in Minnesota. Today comes the news from The Daily Caller of how Concordia College is threatening disciplinary action against a student for the sin of embarrassing Democratic Congressman Collin
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October 25, 2012 — Steven Hayward
The forlorn climate campaign has become the New York Yankees of the Power Line Green Weenie Award—winning the big prize over and over again on account of a bloated payroll of big egos, yet winning little affection from the people at large. Way back at the beginning of this month—seems like a long time now to go back to before the first Romney-Obama debate doesn’t it—the UN’s top climate change
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October 25, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Jay Nordlinger wraps up his four-part series on our friend Tom Cotton at NRO this morning. Part I is here, part II is here, part III is here, and part IV is here. Tom is running to represent Arkansas’ Fourth Congressional District. He is one of our Pick Six candidates. John held a fundraiser for Tom in Minneapolis early in the campaign. Jay’s reports provide strong evidence that come election
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October 25, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Major E. is our man at Camp Victory in Baghdad. Today he writes to comment on the attack on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, heading his report “Bombs in Baghdad — Spectacularly Ineffective”: By now, I am sure that many of your readers have seen the eye-catching video of multiple vehicle bombs detonating in front of a Baghdad hotel. Since it is being broadcast all over the airwaves, I just
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October 24, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
If President Obama loses this election, the Democrats will need a scapegoat. The obvious scapegoat would be Obama himself. But he’s been getting free passes all of his life, and the left-liberals who comprise the Democratic mainstream will think long and hard about holding him accountable now. For one thing, he’s manifestly one of them. For another, he’s African-American. Accordingly, the need for a different scapegoat would arise. That scapegoat
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October 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Bill Bennett is speaking tomorrow night in Minneapolis at the Center of the American Experiment’s Fall Briefing. It will be a fun event, on the eve of a historic election. Information about the event is here. It is sold out, but you can still come, as my guest. We bought a row as we always do, but the wife of one of our guests is traveling in the Middle East
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