Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Daniel McCarthy
The antiwar ex-congressman is outpolling former Sen. Dan Coats in match-ups against the likely Democratic nominees for retiring Sen. Evan Bayh’s U.S. Senate seat (which had once been Coats’s seat).
Here are the latest Daily Kos/Research 2000 numbers. Hostettler runs at 40 percent against Brad Ellsworth (36 percent) and 42 percent against Baron Hill (36 [...]
Filed under: Election, Politics
Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Patrick J. Buchanan
We inherited the worst situation since the Great Depression.
That is the reflexive response of President Obama to the troubles from which he has been unable to extract his country.
Even before [...]
Filed under: Economics, Politics, World
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Kelley Vlahos
UPDATE: No one ever said I wasn’t in “crying need of an attentive editor.” Thank you to Robert Spencer for stepping in. Below, I have edited Figh Council of North America to Fiqh Council of North America, turning it from a Gaelic organization to a Muslim one in a single keystroke!
I received an email from [...]
Filed under: Politics, Religion, liberties
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Patrick J. Buchanan
A decade ago, Oldsmobile went. Last year, Pontiac. Saturn, Saab, and Hummer were discontinued. A thousand GM dealerships shut down.
To those who grew up in a “GM family,” where buying a Chrysler was like converting to Islam, what [...]
Filed under: Economics, Politics
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by William Upton
CPAC 2010 was my first CPAC ever. For most of my life I have run in local conservative circles, but never really had any interest nor ambition to throw myself into the chaos of CPAC, but when I did, I was taken for quite a ride. The highlights of the event for [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, libertarianism
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by Philip Giraldi
Even if it is the economy that will inevitably bring about the undoing of American empire it is hard to ignore the fact that the economic crisis was fueled by spending on wars and homeland security using borrowed money and pushing the government deep into deficit spending. With that in mind, I was very interested in listening [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by Patrick J. Buchanan
“I used to think it would take a great financial crisis to get both parties to the table, but we just had one,” said G. William Hoagland, a former adviser to the Senate Republican leadership on fiscal policy.
“These days, I wonder if this country is even governable.”
Quoted in The New York [...]
Filed under: Politics
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Daniel McCarthy
In a very surprising announcement, Indiana Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh says he has decided not to run for re-election. Polls had him ahead of both major Republican contenders, former Sen. Dan Coats and former Rep. John Hostettler. Will Bayh’s retreat lure Rep. Mike Pence into the race? The seat looks like a Republican pickup now.
Filed under: Election, Politics
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Daniel McCarthy
What to make of Sarah Palin’s remarks yesterday on “Fox News Sunday”? Here she is sharing her wisdom about what it might take for Obama to get re-elected:
Say he played, and I got this from Buchanan, reading one of his columns the other day. Say he played the war card. Say he decided to declare [...]
Filed under: Politics, War
Posted on February 6th, 2010 by Clark Stooksbury
I can’t understand why Harry Reid is still the Senate Majority Leader when he is so weak and he allows things like this to continue:
Sen. Richard Shelby’s (R-AL) office has confirmed to TPMDC the reports that Shelby has placed a hold on President Obama’s nominees over a pair of government programs set to be based [...]
Filed under: Congress, Politics