Appearing on ABC’s This Week, former governor Eliot Spitzer (why do they give him a forum?) offered the Democratic party’s defense of the Obama economy. The Republicans, Spitzer sputtered, “want to go back to medieval medicine, blood-…
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To Bigotry No Sanction
Now that President Obama has “evolved” on the matter of same-sex marriage to the position favored by “enlightened” Americans, this would seem to be a good time for some rhetorical hygiene.
There are modest and civil proponents o…
The Rise of Europe’s Political Radicals
The theme song of a popular TV show from the last decade featured the lyric “I worry all the time. If you paid attention, you’d be worried too” — a wise posture when analyzing the slow-motion crisis that is Europe.
European gove…
Obama’s Disgraceful Abandonment of Chen Guangcheng
It’s hard to know which is worse: one’s grief over Chen Guangcheng’s fate, or the fury over the Obama administration’s abandonment of him to that fate.
Chen was already an internationally known human-rights activist when he show…
Was the Secret Service ‘Pornified’?
What do you suppose are the chances that the Secret Service agents who embarrassed themselves, possibly endangered the life of the president of the United States, and very likely damaged their marriages and the lives of their children by engaging prost…
Carter Redux?
Every new datum on economic stagnation — such as Thursday’s Labor Department announcement that unemployment claims remain at a three-month high — increases the temptation to compare the 2012 presidential race to that of 1980. Both co…
Fact Checking Global-Warming Hysteria
In a better world, debates about science — and nearly everything else — would be conducted without resort to demagoguery, sentimentality, cynical manipulation, or hysteria. In the world we inhabit, those tactics are dismayingly routine. Sti…
If CAIR’s Attacking You, You Must Be Good
‘Where are all the moderate Muslims?” It’s a question often posed by Americans who watch with disgust as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other apologists for radical Islam hog all of the attention. CAIR, which was named …
Would the Lame-Streams Really Go This Far? ... 
LMFAO is Getting a Bad Rap 
Context: Exceptionalism… 
The Other Global Warming Story 
Please Stay on the Line, Your Call is Very Important to Us -- and Other Lies 
A "Lost" Fact in the “Rathergate” Mess — Part 1 
Obama's Mantra: Don't Blame Me 
Trayvon Martin and Media Hypocrisy 
Goldberg on Rather Canceling O'Reilly 
CNN's Failed Piers Morgan Experiment
- Trayvon Martin and Media Hypocrisy
- A "Lost" Fact in the “Rathergate” Mess — Part 1
Is Jon Stewart A Racist? 
Why Media Bias Matters - Obama's Mantra: Don't Blame Me
Time to Go, Rick 
A New Entry for 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America 
The Man Who Would Be Dictator 
Who Can Beat Obama? 
The 5 Stages of Mitt