Dems at War: Public Unions vs. Gentry Liberals by Michael Barone
My subject today is the civil war raging in one of our great political parties, as highlighted in recent primary elections.
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September 20, 2010
September 19, 2010
End Prohibition; Yes on Proposition 19 By Debra J. Saunders
"In almost every respect imaginable, Prohibition was a failure," former New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent concluded at the close of his new book, "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition." "It encouraged criminality and institutionalized hypocrisy. It deprived the government of revenue, stripped the gears of the political system, and proposed profound limitations on individual rights."
September 18, 2010
A Bullish Tea-Party Revolt By Lawrence Kudlow
This past week, I gave a speech to a group of investors. The organizer of the event e-mailed me the night before, asking that I please try to be optimistic. Well, that's my usual habitat. But optimism has been hard for me this year. Our muddle-through economy and lackluster stock market, challenged by so many taxing, spending and regulating problems coming out of Washington, are the reasons why.
September 17, 2010
Beyond Party by Susan Estrich
Schadenfreude means taking pleasure in the failure of others, which is the Hollywood vocation and, lately, that of Democrats, as well.
September 17, 2010
Authentically Newt-ered By Debra J. Saunders
This is how news gets made. Conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza writes a piece for Forbes pimping his new book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage." During a National Review interview, former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich gushes over the piece and calls it "the most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama" as it reveals the "Kenyan anti-colonial" thinking that motivates Obama.
September 16, 2010
Democrats Need to Turn Off Fox News by Froma Harrop
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Democrat Al Gore became captive of the right-wing noise machine.
September 16, 2010
MIDTERM MORSELS by Larry J. Sabato
Just having issued our Labor Day predictions, we’re not quite ready to call any of the remaining toss-ups or change any ratings (with one prominent exception), but we thought we’d share our current inclinations on a few of them in “nutshell” form.
September 16, 2010
Will Big Tobacco's Former Bag-Man Really Be the Next Speaker? By Joe Conason
With their loud voices and antic style, the "tea party" activists may lead voters to expect something new and different if the Republican Party returns to power. But observing the man who would wield that power if his party wins a midterm majority should swiftly dispel that illusion.
September 15, 2010
The Difference Between Girls and Boys by Susan Estrich
When I was in seventh grade, I was the only girl on the junior high math team. I wasn't the best, and I wasn't the worst.
September 15, 2010
America's New Terrorist Networks by Tony Blankley
While public attention was diverted by whether or not Florida pastor Terry Jones and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf had reached a compromise, a report critical to our national security went virtually unnoticed.
September 14, 2010
The Harsh Bigotry of Their Expectations by Debra Saunders
Why did Florida pastor Terry Jones garner all that media attention last week for threatening to burn Qurans on Saturday's 9/11 anniversary?
September 14, 2010
'Art' Fights Nature in Colorado By Froma Harrop
Colorado's Arkansas River is a masterpiece. Crafted by the Creator, it is a natural work of art that needs no improvement. That a ludicrous proposal to cover 42 miles of it with 120-foot-wide fabric has gotten as far as it has speaks to the marketing genius of showman-artist "Christo."
September 13, 2010
Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare by Michael Barone
"There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases."
September 12, 2010
Zen and Art of Political Machine Maintenance By Debra J. Saunders
Jerry Brown has a secret plan to balance the California state budget. When the state attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial nominee recently visited the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board, he brought with him a large three-ring binder with his ideas on how to bring state spending back into the black. But he wouldn't tell us what was in the book.
September 11, 2010
Bashing Bush and Boehner Won’t Work By Lawrence Kudlow
Under pressure from a barrage of bad midterm-election polls, President Obama has gone on the campaign trail to blame Pres. George W. Bush for all our economic problems, and to bash House Republican leader John Boehner as nothing more than a Bush retread.
September 10, 2010
Why Barack Is Behind by Joe Conason
Among the very puzzling aspects of the midterm election -- and the Democratic debacle that appears to be looming in November -- is why voters would return the opposition to power only two years after the multiple disasters of the Bush administration.
September 10, 2010
Sinking With Obama, Democrats Plan Political Triage by Michael Barone
When you spot the word "triage" in a political news story, you know someone is in trouble.
September 10, 2010
House Ratings Changes By Isaac Wood
GA-2 (Sanford Bishop-D): After nearly two decades in Congress in a Southwest Georgia district that is nearly 50% African-American, Democrat Sanford Bishop was not exactly at the top of many Republican target lists. Given the Republican wave that seems to be brewing, however, and the potential for a greatly diminished minority turnout in 2010, he suddenly is in a fight for his political life. State legislator Mike Keown will be the GOP standard-bearer and he should be able to keep up financially with Bishop, who had just $400,000 in the bank at the end of June. In a midterm year, and especially this one, Bishop could be vulnerable, so we are moving this from Safe Democratic to LIKELY DEMOCRATIC.
September 9, 2010
Spare the Quran and Save the Woman by Debra J. Saunders
A Florida pastor's plan to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11 is a breathtakingly dumb idea.
September 9, 2010
The Rich Are Not Here to Give Us Jobs by Froma Harrop
Let's cut the baloney about jobs and rich people's taxes.
