Is Michael Gerson trying for a Pulitzer? After all, his Washington Post colleague, the faux-conservative Kathleen Parker, won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary this year for being, as she admitted to MSNBC talk show host Joe Scarborough, a “conservative basher”. It worked once; maybe it will work again. Gerson is part of the Post‘s attempt … Read more WaPo‘s Michael Gerson problem
Insanity, according to an aphorism often attributed (probably erroneously) to Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Last week Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that the Federal Open Market Committee plans to purchase $600 billion in longer-term Treasury securities between now and the middle of next … Read more Monetization and insanity
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