Via the WSJ: Obama Outlines Plan to Curb Earmarks At the same time, after Democrats criticized former President George W. Bush’s signing statements, Mr. Obama issued one of his own, declaring five provisions in the spending bill to be unconstitutional and nonbinding, including one aimed at pre...

I haven’t been writing much lately because it’s all such a depressing subject. The ongoing farce of the Obama Administration and the current economic problems are bad enough. But what’s actually depressing me is that there doesn’t seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel...

Two recent versions of the same argument. First, the simplified 800 word version, from Roger Cohen. To paraphrase Mauriac, I love France, but I don’t want there to be two of them, least of all if one is in the United States. … I think President Obama’s counter-revolution goes in th...

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Lorne Gunter of the National Post disgraced himself yet again this weekend with another outrageously inaccurate column about something he apparently knows nothing about: climate science. Gunter held forward William Happer as his climate skeptic champion to put those dullards at the IPCC to shame. He...

One the one hand, it would be a fair statement to note that Rush Limbaugh shouldn’t be as much of a focus of conversation as he had been of late, whether on this blog or in the national discourse. However, since he has been a focus of the national discourse in some significant manner of late (...

In this previous post I talked about the Whigs and Democrats policy stances in the early 19th century. I showed that these two parties differed on a wide range of issues. Now I hope to describe their coalitions of support and show how they were linked to the policy views. In other words who supporte...

Six weeks into the job, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is starting to roll out the Obama administration's approach to the most prickly foreign policy challenges from Arab-Israeli peace to Russia....

Late night comedians have had a difficult problem. Presidents are usually the source of most late night joke, but comedians are having a hard time finding any material to make jokes about President Obama....

Via the AP: Democrats blast Limbaugh for comment on Kennedy A Democratic official rebuked conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh on Friday for suggesting a health care proposal will be named in memory of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer. On his radio show, Limbaugh said President Ba...