For all the similarities between President Obama in 2012 and President Carter in 1980 – and there are many – a nagging truth for Republicans is that Jimmy Carter tends to be defined by reference to President Reagan as much as by reference to Carter himself. In 1980, Carter didn’t have much to brag about, […]

Via Ed Morrissey at HotAir: What does every 10-year-old girl want for her birthday?  A big party and lots of room to have fun.  My own 10-year-old granddaughter had her campout/sleepover birthday party at our house three months ago.  Fortunately, we’re not farmers in Fauquier County, Virginia — where we would have had to apply […]

You’ve probably already seen it:  The Joe Soptic ad is a classic “smear” meant to reinforce the Obama campaign’s portrayal of Eeeeevil Mitt Romney as a heartless corporate raider who doesn’t care about you, or whether you die of cancer. The ad is ridiculous and basically indefensible, because it’s stuffed with lies.  Did anyone expect […]

These days, I welcome almost any expression of bi-partisanship in Washington, even if it’s cheap grandstanding that accomplishes almost nothing.  In today’s offering, proud Americans across the political spectrum are busying themselves expressing righteous outrage over something we can all agree on:  U.S. Olympians should not be wearing uniforms made in China. Reports the AP: Republicans […]

It does not seem that long ago that I’d spend summer afternoons sitting at my kitchen table scouring an actual paper copy of Newsday for baseball box scores and tracking this statistic and that. But it was. In fact, it was really long ago.  This unhappy grim truth dawned on me tonight when I turned […]

John Fabian Witt, a Yale law professor and law historian, wrote a fabulous and insightful piece for Balkaniztion.com that is a must-read on the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling.  (It’s so good that I am posting it now, even though it’s about a week old.) Based on Roberts’s training and intellectual lineage, Witt writes, “it should […]

It is a pleasure and an honor to be writing in this space alongside my friend Bill O’Reilly.  For me, this opportunity is reminiscent of those uniquely “baseball” moments when the minor leaguer is hurried up to the big leagues to fill a roster spot and finds himself playing ball alongside superstars he’s admired since […]