It is two hours since the first presidential debate ended, and guess what: The money boys suddenly are looking at Mitt Romney with respect. On Intrade, the Irish-based futures market that allows you to bet legally on political races, the value of contracts favoring Romney over President Obama began shooting up in value as the…
(I am taking the liberty of posting here an excerpt from my book “Journalism and Other Atrocities” (2010). Fortunately, I am the only person who can do this without having to pay royalties.) In 1963, toward the end of my tenure at the Philadelphia Inquirer, I began to think that I would like to get…
If you need proof that President Obama places little value on the Constitution he has sworn to protect, go visit the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles and ask to take a peek at Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man who produced that God-awful film called “The Innocence of Muslims.” Nakoula, if that is his name…
The Democrats would like you to believe that it’s all over, that the trend is in President Obama’s favor and that if the election were held today he would win re-election against Mitt Romney, and that come Election Day he will win by an even bigger margin than he would today. They want the Republicans…
Jeb Bush, who seems destined to be the only member of his family never to serve as President of the United States, says that the Republican party can’t survive if it continues to be perceived as a bunch of “old, white guys.” He’s been saying that for years, but I only just learned about it,…
Fathers can no longer take their daughters to father-daughter school dances in the state of Rhode Island. A law suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union put the kibosh on such time-honored, festive events. It seems that a mother complained to the ACLU because there was no father in the house to take her…
My, my, my. Just when everybody was prepared to bury the Romney candidacy, look what happens. Colorado, a battleground state with 9 electoral votes that picked the winner in each of the past three elections, has swung into the Romney camp in the latest Rasmussen poll. Rasmussen hadn’t polled there since early August, when it…
In case you haven’t noticed, the White House approached YouTube about removing a trailer for the dorky film “Innocence of Muslims” from its site. The White House asked YouTube, which is owned by Google, to “review whether it violates their terms of service.” Both YouTube and Google replied that it does not violate their terms…