Amid the tales of sequestration travails, observing the response by Yellowstone National Park to a 5% cut in the National Park Service’s budget reveals just what priorities are being applied by administrators.
Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk’s handling of...
Matt Lewis has a very interesting take on the “culture wars,” The culture war was never a fair fight (emphasis):
Let’s take a step back for a moment first. Many prominent conservatives, like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, argue that conservatives just want to be left alone. In fact, Norquist has dubbed conservatism the...
That’s the format of a joke I often told about calling up state regulators when I was in private practice. They go off duty at 5 p.m., so the phone stops being answered at a few minutes before because a conversation started at 4:57 p.m. might go beyond 5 p.m.,...
Today is oral argument in Windsor v. United States, challenging the Defense of Marriage Act.
We have not followed the DOMA litigation very carefully to date.
We did cover the secondary boycott effort directed at the King & Spalding law...
There is plenty to criticize about Elizabeth Warren’s made-for-YouTube theatrics in the Senate Banking Committee.
Warren has some good goals shared on both sides of the aisle, such as addressing “too big to fail” and “too big to prosecute,” but unfortunately she goes about it the wrong way by belittling witnesses with questions properly...
John Kerry is not making much diplomatic progress on anything, unless you consider forcing Israel to apologize for acting lawfully in the face of aggression to be progress.
Maybe he’s been heading too many soccer balls.
MT @markhalperin: John Kerry avec soccer ball on his head, as @mitchellreports watches. twitter.com/MarkHalperin/s…
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Touré Neblett has built his career with the worst race card baiting, directed at conservatives and the Tea Party in general, and black conservatives in particular.
Now Touré is targeting Dr. Ben Carson.
It’s a shame that someone with the accomplishments of Dr. Carson even needs to respond to people like Touré. But...
In the race to replace now-Senator Tim Scott’s vacated House seat, Republicans Curtis Bostic and Mark Sanford are facing off in the runoff election preceding the May 7 special election.
The date for the runoff election is April 2, just one week away, and occurs when no candidate in the primary receives...
If you have been a reader here for more than a few weeks, you probably have seen one of the many posts about Pallywood (sometimes referred to as Paliwood), the Palestinian cottage industry of creating faux events to stir up public opinion against Israel.
Republican Paul McKinley, candidate to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., for Congress in the upcoming April 9 special election (IL-02), has just released a new ad that illustrates in sobering detail the destruction wrought by the Chicago Democratic Machine.
The video lays bare what the people face in this district, boarded up store...
The oral argument just concluded. The audio will be posted later. Update — Audio is here. Transcript is here.
Expect an avalanche of spin from various pundits — as if the spin matters.
I’ll link to numerous sources which I deem on the low-end of spin meter. Beware predictions. Who guessed how Chief...
Today at 10 a.m. is the argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, also known as the California Proposition 8 case. Tomorrow is argument in the Defense of Marriage Act case.
It’s hard to believe that this day has arrived. We have been covering Prop 8 almost since the beginning of this blog. The...
I was reviewing World War I history with my son yesterday.
The global-scale conflict started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hung...
