Thugs on the Right by Joe Conason
What do the tea party ideologues mean when they speak of liberty and freedom and the Constitution that they supposedly revere?
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October 21, 2010
October 21, 2010
Tea Party Neophytes Outshine the Dems' Old Pros By Michael Barone
One of the constant refrains of the so-called mainstream media is that tea party candidates are blithering incompetents and weird wackos. They may do well this year, the refrain goes, but when voters come to their senses, the Republican Party will pay a big price for embracing them.
October 20, 2010
War of Attrition Against Regulators Needed by Tony Blankley
In 2011, the two major legislative initiatives of the tea party Congress (pray the voters deliver such a congress) will be to get a grip on the deficit, and to begin to reverse the intrusion of the federal government in American lives and business.
October 19, 2010
Sex, Violence and the Female Voter by Froma Harrop
The line between crazy and creepy is not always a dark one.
October 19, 2010
Life Gets Better; Politics Get Worse by Debra J.Saunders
"High school, for me, it sucked," Kristel, a 27-year-old lesbian who grew up in Honolulu, confided in her videotape; it was "kind of a hostile environment."
October 18, 2010
Dems Find Careers Threatened by Obamacare Votes by Michael Barone
Seven months ago, Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent a busy week rounding up votes to pass the Senate version of the Democrats' health care legislation.
October 17, 2010
Harmer Tries To Re-Swing McNerney's House Seat By Debra J. Saunders
In 2006, voters in California's 11th Congressional District, which meanders from San Ramon to Stockton, fired Rep. Richard Pombo, once a highly popular congressman first elected in 1992. Pombo got caught up in a wave that cost the GOP 31 seats and its control of the House.
October 16, 2010
Phoenix Rising By Susan Estrich
It was one of those moments. My son, a would-be engineer, saw it as a triumph of the very spirit of engineers: the can-do, we-can-solve-anything guts and genius that could figure out how to keep 33 men alive for two months while forging a plan to hoist them up from half a mile underground in a bullet-shaped device linked to a pulley.
October 16, 2010
Big-Bucks Whitman Versus Bike-Lane Brown By Debra J. Saunders
Californians do not face an easy choice in the race for governor -- as was clear in Tuesday night's debate at Dominican University in San Rafael.
October 15, 2010
The Democratic 'D' Now Stands for Demagoguery By Michael Barone
I've been in campaign meetings. Sometimes the atmosphere is grim. Your side is down, and you're looking to turn things around.
October 15, 2010
The Folly of “Stimulation” by Howard Rich
No public official has been more integrally involved in the federal government’s “Great Intervention” than U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
October 15, 2010
House Ratings Changes By Isaac Woods
Polling, independent expenditures, and the general intensification of campaigns across the country provide us with new clues about the November outcome that is in store. Our overall view of the Republican wave remains the same, at a GOP net pick-up of 47 seats, but we now know more about which seats are truly endangered and where each side was just tilting at windmills.
October 14, 2010
Obama the Alien By Lawrence Kudlow
Believe it or not, with jobs falling for four consecutive months and unemployment stubbornly high near 10 percent, President Obama is out on the campaign trail bashing businesses and promoting class warfare. Huh? (Oh my gosh is he off message.
October 14, 2010
A Generation of Termites by Joe Conason
When American politicians talk about the legacy we are leaving to the next generation, their usual theme is financial deficits, as if there were no other kind.
October 14, 2010
The Outlook for November 2nd By Larry J. Sabato
As alert readers of the Crystal Ball will note, we have not changed our projection of +47 Republican net House seats in many weeks.
October 13, 2010
The White House Bunker So Soon? by Tony Blankley
Based on the recent appointments of the two most powerful staff positions in the White House, and on various statements, it would appear that the White House is descending deeper into the bunker in anticipation of the expected shift in congressional majorities next year.
October 13, 2010
Traffic Jams by Susan Estrich
There's an old joke in California that if you want attention, stage your event on the freeway.
October 12, 2010
Real Patriots Demand Clean Energy by Froma Harrop
Those orange fireballs you see in the news are NATO oil tankers exploding along the Khyber Pass.
October 12, 2010
Law School Is Obamaland's Boot Camp by Debra J. Saunders
Even though America is fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, members of President Obama's Cabinet are three times more likely to have attended law school than boot camp.
