To truly understand the depthless awfulness of the just-posted “interview” that Slate’s Jacob Weisberg conducted with Rachel Maddow, one needs to turn to religion. Simply saying that Weisberg interviewing Maddow is like Tiger Beat interviewing Justin Bieber is just not enough anymore. It misses the bigger picture. (more)
We are now very used to observing the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death — the forty-eighth one ticked past last Tuesday. Were it not so tragic, our novelty-hungry culture would long since have rendered it banal. (more)
It’s time for another Maureen Dowd column. This time, I think I’ll write it for her. (more)
For decades the liberals in the Democrat Party have treated women and minorities as property. Politically speaking, blacks, women, gays, Hispanics and Jews were owned by them. (more)
The institutional left in America has wasted pages and pages attempting to tar tea partiers as anti-government quasi-anarchists who have abused the freedoms granted to them under the Constitution to advocate for a radical, possibly violent overhaul of the present system, without so much as a scrap of an idea about what the replacement should be. How ironic, then, that there is a movement on the left which is presently making a nuisance of itself, and which fits all of the descriptors outlined above. (more)
The only thing I found shocking about New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s sad, juvenile post about 9/11 is that conservatives were shocked by it. Less than a week ago, I wrote a piece for The Daily Caller exploring how liberalism is a religion, one that considers conservatives to be Satan. Why is anyone surprised that Krugman, the pluperfect left-winger, is acting like the axioms of his religion are more important than decency? When the devil appears, you toss holy water and ask questions later. (more)
A few weeks ago, I wrote in The Daily Caller that the media has become a bunch of girly men. When Sarah Palin’s non-campaign campaign bus ran a couple red lights, the fourth estate acted like Palin had used her RV to crash the gate at Disney World. (more)
The Financial Times recently ran a fascinating report about the inner-workings of the successful online dating website Match.com. Like many social networking websites, Match.com is powered by a sophisticated algorithm — or mathematical function — that uses a number of variables to bring people together in the virtual world. In this case, Match.com is bringing single people together for the sake of meeting online and then, if all goes well, dating in the real world. (more)
In a couple weeks, America will mark an important anniversary: the day that this country was attacked by an arrogant, uncomprehending enemy. I speak, of course, of the September 1, 2009 publication of the book “The Death of Conservatism” by Sam Tanenhaus. (more)
Throughout the debt crisis debate, President Obama has clung to a tried-and-true political slogan of the left: The rich can do more. He has insisted on what he calls a “balanced approach,” which in fact is a proposal to raise taxes only on the rich while leaving the rest of the population’s tax rates untouched. (more)
The events of the past few days have unmasked modern British politics as the Faustian bargain that it has always been. The illusion of a third way — the notion that somewhere between freedom and totalitarianism is a perfect balance where there exists both universal healthcare and free markets, guaranteed entitlements and individual liberties — is unraveling at an alarming, if not unsurprising, rate. (more)
“What happened to Obama?” The title of liberal professor Drew Westen’s unintentionally humorous essay in Sunday’s New York Times is not so much a question as a lament. And while the mainstream media’s narrative during the debt crisis has been how negotiating with Tea Party conservatives is like negotiating with terrorists, Westen’s piece inadvertently reveals how negotiating with at least some liberals is like negotiating with children. (more)
Default Day looming, partisans right and left are in ill humor over the prospect of a grand, bipartisan budget deal. They’re right to grumble. The real debt ceiling isn’t measured by a number on a piece of legislation, but by the faith and credit of the American people in our two great political myths. (more)
I am a bleeding heart libertarian. Like libertarians in general, I believe in free markets, private property, strong civil liberties and limited government. But unlike standard libertarians, and like progressives, I believe in social justice. I believe, in other words, that the legitimacy of political and economic institutions depends on their being justifiable to all persons who are subject to them, including, and perhaps especially including, the poor and vulnerable. (more)
From a dirt poor farm in Mississippi to a Gold Coast Chicago penthouse, Oprah Winfrey worked hard, took risks and built a media empire. Her brand is instantly recognizable. She’s a businesswoman par excellence, and a generous philanthropist. (more)
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. (more)
Victor Davis Hanson writes at Pajamas Media of the cradle-to-grave-welfare-state disaster that California has become. In specific, he writes of California’s underground economy and of the widespread unemployment in the San Joaquin Valley. Like me, Hanson has watched unfettered illegal immigration, generous entitlement handouts, and one-party Democratic rule destroy the state. (more)
Some liberals are trying to give all of the credit for the death of Osama bin Laden to Barack Obama and his enlightened leadership. But if we had fought the war on terrorism the way liberals wanted us to fight it, bin Laden would still be alive today and we wouldn’t have the first clue of how to find him. (more)
When Congress was debating Obamacare, the left needed cover against those who pointed out that the bill, in many places, would lead to health care rationing. The media happily provided that cover. (more)
A schism of Grand Canyon proportions has opened up between those who possess rational thought and those on the left. (more)
