Can you believe he said that? I can’t. “A $10,000 bet?” My God. Mitt Romney’s unforced faux pas at last night’s debate in Iowa hurt. It really hurt. Playing into the rich-kid image isn’t the deadly part, it’s the amount of time it will take Mr. Romney to recover from the off-handed remark. A bad […]
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In the days of a President Obama and a surging (for now) Newt Gingrich, one can’t help but yearn for the early years of the republic when presidential candidates did not campaign for themselves, when others extolled the candidates’ public virtues in their behalf. Face it, Barack Obama was elected president because he was imbued […]
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Vladimir Putin may be talking trash about the U.S. these days, but he is clearly taking a page out of the U.S. political PR strategy book in doing so. Mr. Putin’s gratuitous attacks on the U.S. seem carefully designed to rile up his base of support within Russia, and the Obama Administration is taking the bait, with […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, Karl Rove
“When a man of [Newt Gingrich’s] self-confidence begins to feel on top of the world, bad things often happen.” — Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal opinion piece, December 8, 2011
Read the rest of this entry »King Bhumibol Adulyadej Has Mango Curry Breath
Why does history keep spitting out such small men as Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej? His Majesty has just jailed an American citizen, Joe Gordon, for translating and posting online excepts of a royal biography the King finds offensive. Mr. Gordon will sit in a dank Bangkok prison for 2 1/2 years. Not much we can do […]
Read the rest of this entry »Can You Pass a U.S. Citizenship Test?
Can you pass a U.S. citizenship test? The Christian Science Monitor is testing your knowledge. I dare you. (Okay. It’s easier than I thought.)
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“The problem is that there are still all those things to remember and that when you use glue and tape and paste all those things together to form an overall portrait of Gingrich, you’re looking at someone who is probably unelectable as president.” — John Podhoretz, NY Post, 12/08/11
Read the rest of this entry »Gov. Cuomo Succumbs to Class War Fever
The class war in America spreads. Its latest front is New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) has succumbed to pressure from the public employee unions to hike taxes on higher-income families. That’s bad enough — New York has a spending problem, not a revenue problem — but the second part of the Cuomo tax […]
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Speaking of unintended consequences, get this: The New York double-decker bus industry is under attack by the New York City Council. This is the second time it’s been in the cross hairs in a year. The first time it was for the sound amplified tour-guides make in residential neighborhoods, specifically the West Village. So the Council […]
Read the rest of this entry »The San Francisco Toy Tax
Been meaning to include this tidbit as a follow up to a couple of rants about San Francisco/California politics. While the Golden State sinks deeper and deeper into economic abyss, its legislators focus on things like banning circumcision, fining parents for truant children, and prohibiting “Happy Meals” at McDonalds. The problem with the latter is […]
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