Hot Air in Aspen
Imagine going to the Heritage Foundation to see Ronald Reagan in the late 1980’s. Or listening to Margaret Thatcher at a National Review dinner at around the same time. Or applauding Charlton Heston at...
View ArticleThe Matthews Thesis
On last night’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, Matthews said: [D]o you think it was odd of the president of the United States, who’s basically against multilateralism, period . . . to be quoting the...
View ArticleThe David Gergen Project
Not since The Blair Witch Project has there been a more terrifying piece of seemingly amateur video than this short squib captured by my friend Jeff Jarvis, in which David Gergen, the Super Elastic Man...
View ArticleThe Scheuer Charade
Michael Scheuer, the former head of the Osama bin Laden desk and now a leading media “expert” on counterterrorism, has two faces. When he is talking to or writing for the non-mainstream media, he heads...
View ArticleOut of the Box, or Off the Wall?
Over the past few months, I’ve written a few posts that raised questions about the arrangement of the marbles inside the brain of Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit and...
View ArticleObama’s Amateur-Hour Road Show
Amid the media gang tackle of Sarah Palin as she flogs her book, the refrain that she was — and is — unworthy of respect as a policy cipher and ignoramus is heard again around the land. Liberal pundits...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Stuart Rothenberg moves the Nevada Senate race to “lean takeover.” (No wonder Republicans have stopped calling for Harry Reid to step down. Mitch McConnell doesn’t want Reid to go anywhere.) As for...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Odd that Saudi Arabia isn’t contributing anything to Haiti, or even covering it on English-language state news. “It seems it was God’s little joke to hand the greatest supplies of oil and natural gas...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Jim Geraghty observes of Obama’s appearance in Ohio that the president was “defensive, prickly, almost indignant that he’s found himself in the tough spot that he’s in.” That’s pretty much par for the...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: Some More on Obama’s Performance
John, I think Obama is suffering from three factors. First, the expectations for him, based on a good deal of media puffery, are that he should dominate these events. When he doesn’t and looks like a...
View ArticleTurning the Tables
Michael Gerson echoes what many of us observed yesterday: President Obama, as usual, was fluent, professorial and occasionally prickly. Some are impressed by the president’s informed, academic manner....
View ArticleThe Political Noose Tightens for Dems
Gallup’s generic ballot poll (courtesy of the indispensible RealClearPolitics) shows a 49-43 percent lead for the GOP, the largest lead for Republicans since the poll started in the midpoint of the...
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