For another take on the whole “socialist” thing, it’s useful to look at Rick Hertzberg’s take on Friday’s Krauthammer column: If Barack Obama succeeds, his joint address to Congress will be seen as historic—indeed as the foundational document of Obamaism. As it stands...

Senator Richard Shelby Says Obama's Stimulus Plan Will Lead To 'Disaster' Crisis, Catastrophe: Are These Words Of Hope? SCHIP Enables Bad Parenting, Benefits Illegal Aliens 'Today Show' Suggests Single Moms Only Need Dad's Money Child Porn Pandemic As Police Estimate 600,000 Americans Trade Child Po...

If you haven't seen Fark.com, you should take a look.  It's a kind of one-line news aggregator with one-word commentary: e.g., dumbass: Man insures his honeybees.  Often the observations on the events are hilarious.  But you wouldn't or shouldn't at least consider them...

As we prepare to say goodbye to our 43rd President, an important question needs to be asked: will those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome be cured on Inauguration Day? As most informed people are aware, BDS was first identified by conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer. In his December 5,...

Written by James Crumley If conservative leaders want to know what is wrong with the limited government movement in America, they should talk to my cousin Mary. Mary is mad. Really mad. Jumping up and down, yelling, red in the face angry. She’s mad about spending. She’s mad about the bai...

Imagine how hard it is to actually try to defend W. You almost have to feel sorry for these guys (not really). From Think Progress : Krauthammer praised Bush on Fox News today, saying that “he took a shoe for the country, a bullet for the country� by absorbing all of “the opprobrium and the ab...

Twenty years ago Charles Krauthammer wrote The Mideast as Moral Disneyland. (Washington Post, February 5, 1988). What set Krauthammer off was a complaint by Woody Allen about how Israel wasn’t so lovable as it once was. In the middle of the article Krauthammer diagnoses Woody Allen’s com...

The roundtable on Monday night's Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC was not kind to the New York Times's hit piece on Sunday's front page that blamed President Bush and only Bush for the mortgage meltdown, ignoring the Democrats in Congress who protected the irresponsible push for more "af...

This summer when I heard people on the radio talking about what a great choice Joe Biden would be for vice-president because of his foreign policy credentials, I said, huh? What credentials? What has Joe Biden ever accomplished? I remember Brit Hume publishing a famous article in the New Republic in...

Leave it to a conservative. In comments, CWD raises the question of whether it's fair to allow domestic auto makers to fail given the gargantuan financial industry bailout. Oh, I kid CWD. He actually argues, quite correctly, "I've pretty much always been opposed to the idea that we have to do someth...