Welcome back to the Fourth Grade. Barack Obama has decided that fiery self defense and withering mockery of Republicans are the best modes of attack as he tries to save Democrats from a drubbing in November’s mid-term elections. Absent any reality-based defense of the dismal results his policies have delivered, the Smartest President Ever is [...]

Maybe not but, hey, it’s a start. As Michelle Malkin says, good for all of them. I also agree with the esteemed Ms. M that there is no way in hell this would have happened if Martha Coakley was going to be the next Senator from Massachusetts. Honestly, today’s meeting between President Obama and members [...]

In Obama space, no one can hear you scream. Voters aren’t happy with the latest tax proposed to help pay for the trillion-dollar national health care plan, and they’re even unhappier with exempting labor unions from that tax. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 33% of U.S. voters support enacting a [...]

Let’s hope Marc Ambinder is into yoga or he might sprain something after all this twisting. Trent Lott resigned; Harry Reid should resign. Logicians call the above remark, from Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), an argument from false or weak analogy. In Washington, it happens to be a reflexive, almost instinctive identity protection mechanism. In this [...]

This is what happens when you try to mainstream the short-bus bureaucracy. Ed generously refers to the federal “helpers” as obtuse. If the federal bureaucracy was a school kid, it would be held back in kindergarten in perpetuity. The “predatory lenders” we heard so many on the Left caterwauling about when the first ton of [...]

I may have been a bit underground and under the weather the past week but I’m making up for it on Friday (11/20/09). In conjunction with New York Entrepreneur Week, I’ll be participating in an online conversation as an “un-panelist” through an absolutely ingenious new platform called SnazL. I’m just going to give a quick [...]