Grand Old Populists
Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Patrick J. Buchanan
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Vets Score One Against DoD on Burn Pits
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Kelley Vlahos
As Veterans Day approaches, a gift of some good news. Thanks to a lot of lobbying by members of congress and vet organizations, and backed up by great reporting by the Army Times and by hundreds of personal testimonies and affidavits by individual soldiers and veterans, Congress has passed some tough new guidelines regarding the [...]
Filed under: Election, Uncategorized
Rand Paul, Peter Schiff Gaining Momentum
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
Rand Paul, running for the Kentucky U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim Bunning, has raised over $100,000 so far today in a money bomb to beat the $500-a-plate Washington fundraiser being held tonight by his Republican primary opponent, Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Meanwhile Peter Schiff, eying Chris Dodd’s Connecticut Senate seat, picked up [...]
Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Exposed (Sort Of)
Posted on August 24th, 2009 by Kelley Vlahos
There is a lot to chew on in the long-awaited (but heavily redacted) 2004 CIA Report on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) used in the CIA’s counterterrorism intelligence and detention activities. The ACLU sued to get this report released.
The gumshoes at The Washington Independent are doing a much better job distilling this thing, but a few [...]
Filed under: Election, Uncategorized
The long twlight struggle
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Sean Scallon
Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race has finally, mercifully come to an end. The Minnesota Supreme Court voted unanimously to reject Norm Coleman’s court challenge which means Al Franken is the winner by a little over 330 votes.
Lincoln-Douglas this U.S Senate campaign definitely was not and serves well as an example to why the 17th Amendament needs [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy, World
The well positioned man
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Sean Scallon
If Salam and Douthat have someone in mind to fit their perscriptions to cure what ails the GOP, that person would undoubtedly be Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. “TPaw,” as he’s known here in the Upper Midwest, all but announced his 2012 presidential candidacy yesterday by announcing he would not run for a third term.
Pawlenty doesn’t have [...]
Filed under: Election
Gingrich 2012?
Posted on March 6th, 2009 by Freddy Gray
Newt Gingrich is putting out feelers for a run at the presidency in 2012. It’s probably PR smoke and mirrors, but we should have realized something was up after Gingrich’s megalomaniacal appearance at CPAC last week. The former House Speaker, as Kelley noted nicely below, strutted into the Regency ballroom to the thumping chords of [...]
Filed under: Election
Heckling the Coronation
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Dennis Dale
During his first year in office, President Obama can be expected to unquestioningly acquiesce to the consensus demanding he oversee an increase in public debt twice as large, as a percentage of GDP, as any year in the Roosevelt administration. He will do this because, as any successful politician, he is congenitally incapable of recognizing, [...]
Populist Chic vs. the New Populism
Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Sean Scallon
In less than a week Barak Obama will be inaugurated as President and what has come of the time of reflection the new loyal opposition has supposedly gone through from the day he was elected until his moment next Tuesday? Well, Fred Barnes is writing mash notes to outgoing President Bush II, the would-be chairmen of the Republican [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Politics
When Make Believe Makes Us Believe
Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Dennis Dale
Last summer, as Barack Obama directed the subtle intimidation of fawning European crowds (millions of charisma-intoxicated Germans can’t be wrong!) at those Americans still retaining the quaint notion presidential elections are domestic affairs not subject to global opinion, at least one of his acolytes in the media here in the formal remnant of the United [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy, Politics, War, World