Leave it to The NY Times to create a faux historical context to absolve Barack Obama of criticism over Obama’s statement that the Cambridge Police acted “stupidly” with regard to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

What faux historical context, you ask? The Times compares Obama’s comments to comments made by...

Lynn Sweet is from Chicago, where Barack Obama launched and refined his community activist/politician credentials. Sweet writes and blogs for the Chicago Sun-Times, and is one of my favorite columnists/bloggers.

When Sweet asked the now-famous question to Barack Obama last night about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it seemed so...

I guess I owe something of an apology to Huffington Post blogger Martha St. Jean who wrote yesterday about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.:

I believe Gates did what anyone would do, he yelled at the officer, probably called him a few names and maybe told him he...

“The time for talk is over.” That sentence should be the new slogan of the Obama administration. Forget “Change We Can Believe In” or “Yes We Can.” Those were yesterday’s slogans, when Obama wanted but did not yet have power.

The time for talk was over when it came to the stimulus...

I have blogged about the horrendous treatment of Trig Palin by many left-wing bloggers. While making fun of Trig’s Down syndrome makes such attacks particularly disgusting, the point is … leave politicians’ kids alone. Period.

The same holds true for Malia Obama, who has been the subject of...

MSNBC, Obama’s favorite network, reported on Obama’s trip with Joe Biden to get a burger. Just two wild and crazy guys out for some red meat. Andrea Mitchell (does she have nothing else to do?) reported that Obama ordered a burger and mustard. Sounds like it had that “real guy kind...

The Nation has run a post, “GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness,” which seeks to blame the opponents of the Stimulus Plan for lack of preparedness for the swine flu outbreak. The post, like most big lies, has a kernel of truth, but twists reality for political purposes. And like most big...

Update 4-28-2009: Murphy declared the winner of the race by a couple hundred votes, as a result of doing better on absentee ballots than expected.

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The Politico is characterizing the virtual tie between Jim Tedesco (R) and Scott Murphy (D) as a loss for Republicans. (My guess, Tedesco will win comfortably...

UPDATE 4-16-2009: The Spanish Attorney General has rejected the attempt to open an investigation of the six Americans accused of, well it’s not clear what, but the Spanish Judge at issue wanted to bring them up on charges related to Gitmo. See background below. Further Update: The Spanish AG ...

My thoughts as the interview progresses:

He says: Investment banking not like it was 20 years ago, when investment bankers only made 20 times what teachers made, not 200 times.

I say: Are you kidding me? Remember Drexel and Michael Milkin? Remember the people who inspired the movie Wall Street? And by the...

Money is being wasted as part of the bailouts, and Obama claims it’s not his fault and he didn’t know. This administration is falling apart, and all the White House spin machine can say is “It wasn’t me.”

This isn’t new. Among the things Obama also didn’t know even though they were...

Oh boy, has this administration become unhinged in its efforts to force through Obama’s “bet the farm” economic plans.

Rahm Emanuel runs anti-opposition campaigns from inside the White House against Rush Limbaugh to take down the...

Much has been written about ammunition shortages, and skyrocketing prices. It is about to get worse, as the Obama administration has implemented scrap metal policies which will make it much more difficult for manufacturers to get the material needed for civilian munitions.

An interesting post at And So It Goes In...

Larry Summers, Obama’s chief economic adviser, says we must overcome the “excess of fear”:

President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser said Friday the nation’s economic crisis has led to an ”excess of fear” among Americans that must be broken...

Professor Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame but writing for Forbes, focuses on changing the way we view and treat “old” age as one of the keys to solving the social security problem:

But even much more modest progress–extending healthy middle age from 60 to, say, 80–would permit significant shifts in retirement ages...

While the Obama administration considers pulling back on continuing to develop technology to provide a missile shield for Europe and beyond, the Iranians have made important developments in missile technology. This is not coming from Chas Freeman’s dreaded Israel lobby, but from a Russian military expert during a March 12, 2009 ...

Adding to the disrespect shown visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the Brits are upset once again because the U.S. Department of Treasury is not answering their phone calls on preparations for the upcoming G20 Summit:

The head of the civil service, Sir Gus [O’Donnell] said the handover to President Barack Obama’s...