Hands In The Cookie Jar
Not surprisingly, the DFL managed to get enough wobbly Republicans to override Gov. Pawlenty’s veto of their pork-stuffed transportation bill. Contrary to the typically childish arguments of some, the...
View ArticleThe Creation Of A Conservative
David Mamet has a frank and amazing essay in The Village Voice about how he ended up going from being a “brain-dead liberal” to a conservative: I wrote a play about politics (November, Barrymore...
View ArticleBarack Obama Versus Alexis De Tocqueville
Armed Liberal, an Obama supporting blogger, has one of the more interesting takes on the whole Obama “bitter-gate” flap from a liberal perspective: Here’s another thought: Obama believes that the...
View ArticleObama And Redistribution
David Harsanyi has an astute piece on Obama’s collectivist tendencies: Now, I’m not suggesting Obama intends to transform this nation into 1950s-era Soviet tyranny or that he will possess the power to...
View ArticleDukakis 2.0
At The Weekly Standard, Noemie Emery hits Obama below the belt by saying that his Presidency is the Dukakis Administration that never was: As Barack Obama sees his ratings descend toward the high 30s,...
View ArticleAndy Stern’s Liberal Fascism
Andy Stern, the head of the SEIU and one of President Obama’s biggest supporters has a shockingly honest piece in The Wall Street Journal calling for the United States to mimic China’s model of...
View ArticleLeviathan Unchained
Harold Meyerson, writing in The American Prospect argues that Americans are “hypocrites” because we dislike regulations in general, but like specific regulations: Last Thursday, the Pew Research Center...
View ArticleThe Curious Evolution Of President Barack Obama
President Obama has come out in favor of gay marriage, contradicting his positions in 2008. It’s not surprising that Obama is suddenly an advocate of same-sex marriage—I rather doubt that anyone took...
View ArticleNo Longer California Dreamin’
The reason why I am not a liberal is because liberal means can never achieve liberal ends—and nowhere is that more apparent than in the state of California. For decades, California has been an enclave...
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