St. Barack and His Pastor
In a front page story yesterday the New York Times devoted 1,500 words to how some pastors would base their Easter Sunday sermons on the controversy surrounding Barack Obama and his former pastor, the...
View Article‘Tis the Season to Be Obnoxious
Garrison Keillor, one of my least favorite people, has written a column in which he tells “nonbelievers” to butt out of Christmas. He especially objects, it seems, to Christmas songs written by Jewish...
View ArticleNot the Voters!
Greg Sargent observes: One possible scenario that reform proponents dread is that Congress fails to pass reform before the Easter break — leaving Congressional Dems in the position of returning to...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Christopher Hitchens is out hawking his book with tales of his Oxford escapades. Alas, now “he’s a Dorian-Gray picture of his former self invoking the memory of it all to sell books this time around,...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Michael Barone on ObamaCare: “In fall 2009, Democrats could have pivoted on health care to craft a popular bill or a watered-down unpopular bill to be passed by a bipartisan safe-seat coalition....
View ArticleHow a Bill Becomes Law in Three Minutes—and How a Party Becomes Toast in Six...
Americans, it is said, don’t care about political procedure — how the House and Senate do things. That’s true. But they’re about to. If, indeed, Nancy Pelosi and Louise Slaughter and the Democrats...
View ArticleIs It Working Yet?
Rasmussen reports: “Republican candidates have now stretched their lead over Democrats to 10 points in the Generic Congressional Ballot, their biggest lead ever in nearly three years of weekly...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
No (except from the Obami): “Does anyone think that Iran would be shipping arms to terrorists or building nuclear weapons if it was a democracy?” asks Elliott Abrams. Predictable (when you nominate...
View ArticleObama’s Thugocracy
The White House chests are puffed, and they are marveling at their political muscle. Health care can be rammed through, and Israel can be bullied — so what else to do? Ah, run roughshod over the...
View ArticlePassover Mush
Obama, as presidents have traditionally done, released a Passover message. It is typical Obama — off-key, hyper-political, and condescending. The core of the message is this: The enduring story of the...
View ArticleWhy Does the New York Times Only Cover Some Kinds of Anti-Semitism?
Here’s a pop quiz that I’m sure nobody will have a hard time passing: Which of the following two stories made it into the New York Times? 1. One of the top leaders of Hamas, Mahmoud Zahar, a man who...
View ArticleYou Can’t Fire the Star of a One-Man Show
Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, thinks that whoever has been responsible for the Obama administration’s Middle East policy should be fired. He runs through the...
View ArticleEaster in Palestine Means Blaming Israel, Not Muslims, for Christian Woes
Easter is an apt moment for the West to ponder the fate of Christians in the Arab and Muslim worlds but, as is usually the case on Christmas, the media tends to focus its attention on anything but the...
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