Alec Baldwin, an Erasmus for Our Time
Just as I hope Anthony Weiner stays in Congress as a poster boy for the Democratic party, I hope Alec Baldwin continues commenting on politics for the Puffington Host with gems like this: My thought...
View ArticleRomney, Climate Change, and the Political Climate
Over on Powerline, I have posted an additional comment on another part of Romney’s climate remarks that escaped attention previously, concerning his cliché view of energy efficiency in the U.S. Mitt...
View ArticleThe Palin Phenomenon, Now a Broadway Smash
Increasingly I think Sarah Palin is a real political genius. How else to appreciate how the media have made utter fools of themselves -- again -- gorging on her e-mail trove like it was the Nixon...
View ArticleMore Great News for Romney!
As if things weren't going well enough for Romney, Al Gore has praised Romney's remarks on climate change, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations crowd have also embraced Romney's remarks on...
View ArticleIs China the New Japan? Can Liberals Fix Themselves?
I've been wondering for a long time about the prospect that China will sooner or later follow the Japanese experience, namely, that state-capitalism will crash, as it did in Japan around 1990. Japan...
View ArticleOh Goody, Nork Nukes in the News Again
Don't look now, but North Korea may be making getting closer to dangerous nuclear capability, if this report is accurate.
View ArticleRe: The Churchill Comparison
Glad Ramesh has joined the issue, which I hoped for in choosing for my lede his criticism from among the widely available smackdowns. I don’t think the Alan Keyes comparison works very well though,...
View ArticleIs Newt Like Churchill?
As one of the most polarizing figures in modern American politics, Newt Gingrich has racked up a huge inventory of pungent criticism of both his ideas and his character -- much of it from his fellow...
View ArticleCato and the Power of Ideas
Reading Richard Cohen’s squalid column last week about Andrew Breitbart (“A Bombthrower Without Ideas”) somehow put me in the frame of mind to think about the#...#Koch-Cato feud. You’ll need to bear...
View ArticleThe Left's Case for Reforming Energy Subsidies
If legislators need any more evidence that American energy policy is broken, they need only look at how some of the world’s biggest corporations used “green” energy projects to snatch billions of...
View ArticleRe: Israel and Obama's Radical Past
Regarding Stanley's post highlighting the almost certain ideological hostility Obama has for Israel, I'm reminded again of Glenn Reynolds's refrain that a rerun of the Carter administration may be the...
View ArticleApocalypse Fail
With the regularly scheduled end of the world coming tomorrow, CNBC offers up a good slide show of other failed predictions, among them the Y2K bug, the 2010 breakup of the United States, and the...
View ArticleThe Original Sin of 'Borking' Recalled
The subject of partisan opposition to judicial nominations is back in the news this week, which sent me back to this complaint about the injustice done to Robert Bork back in 1987: As Gene Meyer of the...
View ArticleNo Mas for Mitch
So no mas for Mitch. Coincidentally, I saw my first "Ryan for President 2012" bumper sticker on Saturday. I also expect the phone lines to Governor Christie in New Jersey are going to be busy over the...
View ArticleThe End of the World as We Know It (and I Still Feel Fine!)
Here and elsewhere last week I mused about the prediction that the Rapture (a 19th-century theological doctrine, by the way) would come last Saturday evening. I keep wondering, "What part of the...
View ArticleField of Dreams?
I like what I’m seeing right now. I’m with Ramesh, Jay Cost (“On paper, it would be hard to come up with a GOP field that looks as electable as this one does”), and, just this morning, George Will, in...
View ArticleU.N. Climate Talks Not About Temperature
Here’s my testimony from yesterday’s hearing before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking member Carnahan, and members of the committee: I will begin...
View ArticleMore Left Coast Blues
Normally I leave the "Crazy California" beat to Victor Hanson, but as I'm out here in my home state for a few days I can't resist piling on. Not long ago Gov. Jerry Brown ostentatiously signed a law...
View ArticleIs We Is or Is We Ain't Having a Climate Crisis?
Travel day for me, returning from the beach in California and my annual clowning around with my oldest pals from high school and college -- something we've done every year for 22 years now. We've even...
View ArticleThe White House Non-Beer Budget Summit
From this LA Times account, is doesn't sound like there was much of the famous "Beer Summit" conviviality between Obama and House Republicans meeting at the White House yesterday, but reading between...
View ArticleWeiner's Whopper (Sorry, Can Anyone Help It?)
Over on Powerline, my pal Scott Johnson likens Weiner's less than skillful evasions to Alger Hiss's behavior in that infamous case. I had thought much the same thing. One key aspect of the Hiss case...
View ArticleThe Asymmetry Between Taxes and Spending
It is very much worth clicking over to the NoLeftTurns blog this afternoon to see William Voegeli's typically thorough and thoughtful response to the challenge liberal blogger Joel Mathis (get well...
View ArticleSanctions' Epic Fail
This chilling video of the crash of an Iranian military plane, a Soviet- or Russian-made TU 154, is making the rounds on the Internet, but there's one obvious aspect of this that everyone is missing:...
View ArticleThe Refs Should Stop This Fight
Bill Voegeli is at it again over at NoLeftTurns, delivering a WWF-worthy smackdown of Harold Meyerson on the issue of taxing the rich. It's like watching Mike Tyson handle Pee Wee Herman in the ring....
View ArticleRe: Where Their Minds Take Them
Jonah: The climate change version of reductio ad Hitlerum is not new (that’s the whole point of oh-so-subtle “climate deniers” label), but does vindicate once again the observation of Michael...
View ArticleLife Imitates Art?
Life seldom imitates art exactly, but it comes close sometimes, as when Wag the Dog came out contemporaneously with Bill Clinton’s Lewinski escapade. It was hard to escape a similar irony involving the...
View ArticleRomney and Climate Change
I think it was Denis Healey, the British politician, who is credited with the "First Law of Holes," which goes: If you're in one, stop digging. Mitt Romney hasn't yet mastered this with Romneycare...
View ArticleObama in Deep Trouble?
Bob Shrum, one of the great contrary indicators in the world of political punditry, thinks Obama is on course to an easy reelection. This ought to worry Axelrod and the gang, given Shrum’s track...
View ArticleCrisp Christie?
Is Christie toast?Let’s assume that there are no more shoes to drop, that is, that we don’t discover that Christie was blind copied on the smoking-howitzer emails, or that he otherwise knew about or...
View ArticleGrievance School
Of all the college towns fixed in the American mind as bastions of elite leftism, a Big Four stand out: Cambridge, Madison, Berkeley, and Boulder. It was no wonder, then, that the University of...
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