During Obama’s 2008 campaign, many of my conservative colleagues were harshly critical of the then-senator’s campaign message of “hope and change,” demonizing it as lofty but empty rhetoric. Four years later, I think it’s time we acknowledge some of the areas where Obama has actually delivered on these promises.
4:59 PM 06/22/2012
The government-managed auto bankruptcies broke dangerous new ground when they overrode hundreds of years of precedent to make unions whole at the expense of senior secured creditors. Emboldened by that political exercise, unions are now attempting to interfere with the bankruptcy of American Airlines, a company that desperately needs an honest restructuring that frees it from unsustainable union obligations.
12:03 PM 06/27/2011
If I’d told you three years ago that conservatives would be leading the left in the realm of online politics, I would have been laughed out of the room. Now we’re dominating so thoroughly that the left is running scared -- literally.
9:54 AM 06/14/2011
Arianna Huffington’s recent mega-payday from AOL was powerful evidence of the tight connection between the hard-left netroots and the online establishment. And AOL isn’t the only web giant to provide apparently favorable treatment to the left. Google has been accused of blocking certain right-wing websites or lowering their standing in search results, and its YouTube subsidiary seems to remove files uploaded by conservatives far more often than offensive content posted by liberals.
4:35 PM 07/30/2010
Last week in Las Vegas, an ideological showdown occurred in the political backyard of embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as the left-wing Netroots Nation Convention and conservative RightOnline Conference squared off for the third year in a row.
