I had a Volvo 240 wagon for 14 years. I hated to let go of it, but the time had come. I sold it in 2003, and the person who bought it from me still has it on the road. The engine pretty much can...
Democrat Kathy Hochul won NY-26, a Republican District, in a special election yesterday, with 48 % of the vote. Jane Corwin, the Republican received 42% and phony Tea Party candidate Jack Davis 9%. These percentages may change as there are several thousand absentee ballots, but the...
During a visit today, Obama signed the guest book at Westminster Abbey "24 May, 2008."I'm impressed that he got the month and day correct.This will be about a three hour laugh.Had it been [insert name of random Rebublican here] it would have been a three week media...
I'll have more on Bibi Netanyahu's speech to a Joint Session of Congress later. For now, I'll quote reader Deborah who e-mailed me as follows:As I listened to the live broadcast of Bibi Netanyahu's speech, I thought to myself that HE's reminding us of who...
KathleenCommencement season is upon us, which means that insipid celebrities of all flavors will bestow their opinions upon a new generation of bright-eyed college grads. Notable was former President Bill Clinton. His prose at the NYU graduation read like so: "today’s business schools are teaching...
I've been dreading this day, because even when I asked you to tell me about other candidates, you told me about Mitt Romney.While the MSM tells us that Sarah Palin is the most divisive Republican, I don't think that's true in the Republican primaries.Please hold...
Marc Ambinder serves as the Obama campaign messenger of the day, with an uncritical account of what Team Obama supposedly believes as to the Republican field. You will not be surprised to find that Team Obama was most concerned with a candidate who is not running:Gov....
Is there any doubt that Obama will put the screws on Israel to come close to doing what people like Jeffrey Goldberg insist "my President" will not do, which is force Israel to make dangerous concessions? When there is no reelection on the horizon, when...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at AIPAC last night. It takes a few minutes for him to get into a groove, but it's worth the watch. The speech was interrupted several times by hecklers who were escorted out. The money line comes at the...
You don't need me. You have $7 million plus in the bank, and as of now, you're the most popular politician in Massachusetts.I'm just a small-time, part-time, squeeze-in-posts-between-real-life, blogger. I supported you in early December 2009, when no one gave you a chance, and continued to...
Why are the pre-1967 borders of Israel, which amount to the 1949 armistice lines, so sacrosanct?Once you buy into the narrative of exclusive Palestinian victimization, once you take the Helen Thomas view which is widely accepted in many circles that Israel is an alien European...
Kathleen My friend Zach Caceres, a recent NYU grad, has a guest post over at the fantastic 'Let a Thousand Nations Bloom' blog. Political scientists have shown the costs of status quo bias in simple acts of political reform. Even mutually beneficial reforms like free-trade,...
The disloyalty card is being played by Jeffrey Goldberg (who took great offense to Benjamin Netanyahu's perceived disrespect towards "my President"), Glenn Greenwald (the evil and disloyal Israel Lobby, again) and Andrew Sullivan (the Israeli-influenced media and the crazy Christians, again).Yet these critics who are so quick to run for...
So says Mohamed ElBaradei:Egypt is disintegrating socially and its economy “is bust,” said Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and possible candidate for the Egyptian presidency.“Right now, socially, we are disintegrating,” ElBaradei said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” scheduled to...
who will ask, 'Mother, what was war?'"Noble dream, but what if your enemies dream of giving birth to children who will ask, "Mother, how soon can we go to war?"Spotted by reader Philip in San Diego:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit...
Tim Pawlenty released a web video tonight to preview his official announcement tomorrow that he's running for President. Seems pretty hard hitting and the right tone to me. Me thinks this guy might have some fight in him.Last November I asked you to tell me...
As explained both here and by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, the theories of election fraud propagated by the Kloppenburg campaign based on gaps and holes in ballot bags are absurd because the numbers have not changed much from the election night reports (including by the city of...
