Reax
I’ve been reading the Corner, as sensible people do. Some “reax,” as they say in the political-media biz. (“Reactions.”)1) Brendan Bordelon writes about the White House chief of staff — who says that...
View ArticleObamacarian Zeke Emanuel Cashes In
This is rich. Literally.Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the prime architects of Obamacare, has joined a venture capital firm that deals in medical information–not coincidentally, one of Obamacare’s prime areas...
View ArticleA Thought about Haley
I seem to be in the minority in not having thought much of Governor Nikki Haley’s SOTU response last night. I’m an admirer of Governor Haley’s and suspect that she is bound for a bigger role in...
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Obama Isn't Popular Enough to Give the Speech He Gave Last Night
For me, this Bloomberg headline nicely sums up the problem with Obama’s final State of the Union speech:There was, of course, little that Obama could have done differently last night. No president is...
View ArticleObama's Shameful Iraq Remark
“We can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis,” Mr. Obama said during his state of the union address last night. “That’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and...
View ArticleHilarity and Singularity
Kevin’s remarks about Haley — we used to have to specify which governor we were talking about, Nikki or Barbour, but now I guess it’s just Nikki — reminded me of a George Will line in 2000. The line...
View ArticleThing One and Thing Two Do Their Thing to Connecticut
The Boston Globe is reporting that General Electric will formally announce tomorrow that it will move its corporate headquarters from Fairfield, Connecticut to Beantown. After years of tax and...
View ArticleWhere's the Funny Part of the Deportation Joke?
If you indicate that this rubs you the wrong way . . .Trump should deport Nikki Haley.— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 13, 2016. . . you get told to lighten up, it’s only a joke. (Back in June,...
View ArticleWho Has the Upper Hand in Iowa? Likely, It's Cruz
Today’s Des Moines Register poll, the survey that has the best track record of predicting the Iowa caucus, has some intriguing clues as to what the results might be.Ted Cruz, battered by attacks on his...
View ArticleGermany: Hints of Pim Fortuyn?
Mariam Lau, writing in the Financial Times[Cologne was] Angela Merkel’s worst nightmare. Having pinned her political future on “showing a friendly face” to those fleeing war and persecution, the...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (January 13, 2016)
1. The ten absolute worst and most deadly places in the world to be a Christian2. Melinda Henneberger at Roll Call gets House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi talking about abortion in an interview. Pelosi...
View ArticleAfter Cruz Scores Laxalt Endorsement, Rubio NV Chair Blasts Out Fundraising...
The battle for a victory in the Nevada caucuses is heating up between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.On the heels of Cruz’s endorsement by Nevada attorney general and tea-party darling Adam Laxalt, Rubio’s...
View ArticleThe Deleterious Effects of Koch Addiction (UPDATED)
Yesterday, I noted a new book that details how Fred C. Koch, father of the notorious Koch BrothersTM, helped construct an oil refinery in Hitler’s Germany, thus making his sons the legatees of filthy...
View ArticlePoland’s Lèse Majesté
The New York Times #standswithBrussels in condemning Poland’s new conservative (let’s stick with that term for now) government.Here’s an extract (my emphasis added):[I]t should be made clear to the...
View ArticlePoor Melissa Click, She Received Some Mean E-mails
The strangest story of the day is in the Chronicle of Higher Education, which apparently went to the trouble of filing a public records request to read Missouri professor Melissa Click’s e-mails. Yes,...
View ArticleA Novel Constitutional Principle
I have no idea who should win the Supreme Court case about mandatory dues for teachers’ unions. But I am pretty sure that Dana Milbank has demonstrated the way not to think about it. He barely mentions...
View ArticleSOTU: The Zero Option
I have to agree with my colleagues who decry the damage done to the State of the Union address by the odd couple of Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan. Like them, I look back wistfully to the days, over...
View ArticleNo Mercy with NARAL Pro-Choice America
It just so happens that I was thinking about the National Abortion Rights Action League this morning, while watching Nancy Pelosi’s Roll Call interview with Melinda Henneberger.During the interview,...
View ArticleThe End of Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera America announced today the channel “will cease operation by April 30.”Will viewers miss it? Well, the vast majority of American television viewers missed it entirely. Think of how few...
View ArticleNARAL vs. . . . Nancy Pelosi?
In an interview yesterday, Nancy Pelosi said that she does not “believe in abortion on demand” or believe that “abortion is birth control.” These words meant, I think, literally nothing. They do not...
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