Commentary on political events
I had not intended on making Sunday’s post a two-part series, but just as I was posting it the online journal Politico ran a story that makes my point. According to the authors, Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent … Read more The Stupid Party — 2
Karl Rove got the blogosphere buzzing last week when he told The Daily Telegraph he doubts that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the “gravitas” to be President. “With all due candor,” said Rove, “appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus … Read more The Stupid Party
Liberals and the establishment news media were practically giddy with joy last week when they thought they had caught Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell in a major gaffe. “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?”, asked O’Donnell during a debate with the Democrat nominee Chris Coons. The audience of law … Read more Liberals and the establishment clause
Ever since Sharron Angle won Nevada’s Republican Senate primary back in June, the Harry Reid campaign, joined by much of the news media, has worked night and day to paint her as some kind of dangerous extremist wingnut. The latest episode of this ongoing drama opened this morning with a column in the Las Vegas … Read more Sharron Angle’s ‘extremism’
Last Thursday Baltimore County police shot and killed one man and arrested two others shortly after midnight as they were leaving their Pikesville, MD, hotel room. The three men had been under police surveillance for some time, and the two who were arrested were charged with — get this — counterfeiting currency, a federal crime. … Read more Getting real about the Arizona law