John on September 6, 2010
Politico reports that Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle has been sued by Righthaven LLC. Righthaven is demanding $150K plus ownership of Angle’s campaign website. This action was apparently prompted by independent journalist Steve Friess who pointed out the alleged infringement on Angle’s website to Righthaven’s head attorney. If you’re not familiar with Righthaven, it’s the creation of a Las Vegas attorney who has partnered with the owners of the Las Vegas [...]
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John on September 5, 2010
Many have pointed out the ways in which Michael Gross’ piece on Palin seems both unfair and under sourced. I won’t rehash all of that. I’ll just comment on the one section that stood out to me: The term “prayer warrior” describes a person who offers a specific kind of supplication: asking God to direct an unseen battle between forces of light and darkness—literal angels and demons—that some Christians believe [...]
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John on September 4, 2010
Remember when Obama said this: He was very clear about this “We are not going to meddle in GM’s decisions…we’re not in the business of running a car company…we’re not getting involved in day to day management.” Only that wasn’t true. According to Car Czar Brett Rattner, whose new book the Detroit News got an advance copy of, the administration did get involved in at least one major GM decision: [...]
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John on September 4, 2010
From the conclusion of Time magazine’s piece on the President’s flagging popularity: Obama’s aides hope that the controversial reforms in health care and financial rules will produce benefits felt by voters, if not by November 2010, then two years later. That would vindicate the President’s vision of government as a solution and not just a problem. If you understand that this really is the President’s vision, then you understand what [...]
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Morgen on September 2, 2010
You are probably familiar by now with this infamous graph published by the White House in January 2009 highlighting their expectations for the impact of the Recovery Act on the rate of unemployment. Far from leveling off at 8% and then declining, the actual unemployment rate ran up to 10% by the end of 2009 and has declined only slightly since to 9.5%, largely due to a decline in labor [...]
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John on September 1, 2010
This must come as a surprise to…no one: So in the midst of rehearsing all the left’s darkest fears about the Bush’s motives, her mic cuts out and she comes back to admit she’s a conspiracy theorist. Cosmic justice strikes again!
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John on September 1, 2010
I said yesterday, before the speech, that Obama had a choice to make between the high road and the low road. He took the low road. No mention of the surge or the fact that without it we’d be in a very different place right now. But as Krauthammer said yesterday “imitation is the highest form of approbation.” Obama crusaded against the surge, but he now has the same team [...]
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John on August 31, 2010
Things briefly seemed to be going well this morning, but that turned around in the late afternoon. Here is what the Anchorage Daily News had to say at 5PM: Today was the biggest chunk of votes. Murkowski has cut Miller’s lead from 1,668 votes to 1,469 today. That’s not nearly what the Murkowski campaign had hoped for. As a result, Murkowski conceded the primary just a couple hours ago: “We [...]
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John on August 31, 2010
Tonight President Obama is formally announcing the end of combat operations in Iraq. The agreement to do this was actually signed by President Bush, but there’s nothing inappropriate in noting that Obama got the job done. That level of political grandstanding is expected of any politician. But Obama famously predicted that the surge would be a failure. This was during the darkest days of the war in early 2007. Casualty [...]
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John on August 30, 2010
Over at The Corner, K-Lo notes that Huffington Post blogger Beau Friedlander made the following offer: It is time to pop the tea baggers’ favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn [...]
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John on August 30, 2010
His latest column is another fact-free rant about Republican calumny (Rush Limbaugh called Obama an Imam), but the conclusion is interesting if only for its blue on blue content: If I were President Obama, I’d be doing all I could to head off this prospect, offering some major new initiatives on the economic front in particular, if only to shake up the political dynamic. But my guess is that the [...]
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John on August 30, 2010
No teleprompter in sight and this guy lays out the case for dealing with our debt with passion, intelligence and conviction. This is the guy we need leading the party into 2012 and beyond: Am I on the Christie bandwagon? Damn right I am.
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John on August 30, 2010
On Saturday, Al Sharpton held a “Reclaiming the Dream” rally at Dunbar High School. His focus, aside from Glenn Beck, was education. In fact, the only high profile Obama administration figure in attendance was Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education. The SEIU was there too: Note the spelling on the SEIU sign. You can’t make this stuff up, folks. It reminds me of this old Far Side cartoon: [HT: College Politico [...]
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John on August 29, 2010
TBD is a blog site associated with ABC 7 in Washington DC. Yesterday, they promised readers a thorough fact-checking of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally: Glenn Beck says his rally won’t be political. We somehow doubt that. So we’re going to be fact checking the statements of Beck, former Alaska Gov. and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and the other speakers at the “Restoring Honor” Rally today on the National Mall. [...]
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John on August 28, 2010
Liberals have been having a laugh over the idea of a Ground Zero exclusion zone. Matt Yglesias even came up with a helpful map (I’d borrow it but I don’t think he likes me very much). The idea was echoed by Mayor Bloomberg, who said: The question will then become how big should the no-mosque zone around the World Trade Center be? On one level, you have to admit the [...]
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John on August 27, 2010
Here we go again: I haven’t seen the whole tape, but I don’t see how this comment leaves room for a Shirley Sherrod style tale of redemption. Is it just me or is the national dialogue on race not going too well at the moment?
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John on August 26, 2010
This is very NSFW. Language is crude, angry and stupid: Of course one interaction on the street doesn’t tell you much about the wisdom of building the Cordoba Center/Park 51. But the message coming out of liberal precints, from the NY Times on down, is that mosque opponents are irrational zealots operating out of fear and anger. This clip shows us undeniably that there is plenty of rage on the [...]
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John on August 26, 2010
It’s a straight piece and worth reading: On a Saturday in August when most of the political class has escaped this city’s swelter, 50 Tea Party leaders have flown in from across the country to jam into a conference room in an office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, apparently unconcerned that the fancy address does not guarantee air-conditioning on weekends. They have come to learn how to take over the country, [...]
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John on August 25, 2010
Not only do they give her credit, they avoid the usual snark found just about everywhere else these days: [I]n her home state of Alaska, she appears to have engineered one of he most remarkable political upsets of an already volatile year. Palin provided the publicity, fundraising umph and political push for a challenge by newcomer Joe Miller’s audacious challenge to incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski… It may be true [...]
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John on August 25, 2010
Jim Hoft does a great job getting to the bottom of a story which had mysteriously vanished off the radar: Dem operative and firebomber Chris Powers…is was a paid canvasser for Russ Carnahan… The Carnahan campaign and their supporters have either ignored the incident rather than recognize the serious nature of a federal crime, instead allow the incident to be reported and used as an example of right wing domestic [...]
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