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Monthly Archives: September 2010
A sense of the Senate
With the primary season over, now is a good time to assess the chances that the Republicans will win control of the Senate. To do so, Republicans will need to pick up a net of ten seats. The good news is that, following Kelly Ayotte’s victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday night over Tea Party favorite Ovide Lamontagne, the Republican Senate candidate is the clear favorite in every state where »
Breitbart Confronts Paid Union Thugs
The Right Nation 2010 convention has been going on in Chicago. Andrew Breitbart was a featured participant, along with Glenn Beck and others. Obamabots from OFA and paid union thugs were bused in to create the illusion of a grass roots opposition to the conservative gathering. Breitbart, with typical boldness, didn’t just walk past the paid union members who had no idea why they had been ordered to attend. Rather, »
Czars at the commanding heights
From the beginning, the Obama administration has been big on appointing leftist “czars.” The first wave of them was appalling but probably not terribly consequential (e.g., Van Jones, czar of “pie in the sky,” or whatever). Now, however, Obama has placed czars in top positions at the commanding heights of our economy. Specifically, he has bypassed the Senate confirmation procedure by (1) installing Don Berwick, via recess appointment, as Administrator »
Now They Tell Us
At its Leadership Conference and 16th Annual Fundraising Banquet on Oct. 9, the Council on American-Islamic Relations–CAIR–will honor Helen Thomas with a “lifetime achievement award.” From CAIR’s perspective, Thomas’s most notable “achievement” was no doubt her suggestion that Jews should “get the hell out” of Israel and “go home” to Poland and Germany. The lifetime achievement award suggests, however, that CAIR believes Thomas has been doing its bidding for quite »
My favorite candidate
Our friend Hugh Hewitt has performed a service in compiling a list of of the top 20 campaigns in which to invest between now and November. Hugh’s list is short on the congressional candidates who will help Republicans retake the House. Supplement Hugh’s list with Dick Morris’s most recent update to the House races he is watching for this purpose. I want to add this personal footnote. My favorite candidate »
See how high she flies
Al Franken proved himself to be a terrible candidate for the Minnesota Senate seat held by incumbent Republican Norm Coleman in the run-up to the 2008 election. Franken had titled the memoir of his fictitious presidential campaign Why Not Me? That question could have been the theme of his real Senate campaign as well. Franken is a man of the hard left, but that isn’t necessarily disqualifying in the land »
Obama vs. Palin
Via InstaPundit, some thoughts by Doctor Zero at Hot Air, on Barack Obama and Sarah Palin: The effort to stuff Boehner into a Darth Vader costume over the past few weeks was comical. If the Democrats want to run some more plays out of Alinsky’s faded old handbook, they’ll need to focus on someone exciting. Palin is linked to other high-profile female candidates, like Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell, so »
Fruit of the Poison Tree of Socialism
“By the fruit you know the tree” is the world’s wisest proverb; you could get through life reasonably well on that adage if you didn’t know much else. Which brings us to Communism, perhaps the greatest of history’s evils. (It would be interesting to compare the ravages of Communism with, say, the bubonic plague.) Via Ann Althouse, “Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ killed 45 million in four years”: Mao Zedong, founder »
How Popular Is the Tea Party?
The Tea Party movement is undeniably the most vibrant force in American politics today, but how well-regarded is it by the general public? Scott Rasmussen offers some interesting data: [V]oters now have stronger reactions–positive and negative– to the Tea Party label than they do to the more traditional labels. Seventy percent say that identifying a candidate with the Tea Party movement would affect their vote. Interestingly, those with the strongest »
Dems Take A Pass on Crist
Charlie Crist left the Republican Party in hopes of drawing enough votes from Democrats, independents and misguided Republicans to put him over the top in Florida’s Senate race. Mostly, though, he hoped to be the de facto Democratic candidate once the party gave up on little-known Kendrick Meek. And early on, there were signs the Democrats might do just that. Yesterday, however, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ripped Crist for »
Fighting Down
Ronald Reagan used to say that you should always fight up, never fight down. It’s a rule we try to follow, but President Obama seems to have forgotten it. In recent weeks he has launched one attack after another against John Boehner. I haven’t seen Boehner’s name recognition statistics lately, but it’s a good bet that half of Obama’s audience doesn’t know whom he is is talking about. Somewhat weirdly, »
Annals of Tolerance
Two stories in the news today: Six street cleaners arrested as cops foil plot to kill the Pope: A street cleaner last night told of the moment police swooped on his depot and arrested five colleagues at the centre of an alleged terror plot to kill the Pope. It was feared the men were planning to plant bombs in bins to blow up the 83-year-old as he travelled through Central »
Christine O’Donnell’s Career, RIP
Christine O’Donnell’s campaign went off the rails today when Bill Maher announced that he has previously-unseen clips of O’Donnell from the late 1990s when she appeared several times on his show. In one clip, she says that she once “dabbled into witchcraft.” I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these »
Tide Still Flowing Our Way
From all around the country poll data are coming in, and nearly all are encouraging for conservatives. Here are a couple of instances from Rasmussen Reports. In Wisconsin, it increasingly looks as though Russ Feingold is going down. Currently, Ron Johnson leads Feingold among likely voters 51-44 percent. Meanwhile, in Indiana, Dan Coats has pulled away from Democrat Brad Ellsworth by a 50-34 percent margin. I think we can put »
Now she tells us
In an interview with Fox News, Sarah Palin was asked whether she will campaign for Christine O’Donnell in Delaware this fall. Palin replied: “I’ll do whatever I can. I want to help, though, and not hurt. And, you know, sometimes it’s a double edged sword there if my name is connected to anybody.” This answer is consistent with a point some of us have been making for a while — »
Better books for next year’s beaches
Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne of the National Association of Scholars have compiled an absolutely great list of 37 books (plus a second list of six more difficult books) that they recommend for college “common reading” programs. The list follows up on the June 2010 NAS report on common reading programs. The NAS list of recommended books is included in “Read these instead: Better books for next year’s beaches.” The »
