Cheri Jacobus has a very good piece in The Hill today extolling the non-candidacy of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. “Mitch Daniels is the rare political candidate who looks better and better the more he comes into focus, rather than forcing us to reluctantly accept major flaws upon closer inspection,” Jacobus writes.  And , indeed, she […]

Tawana Brawley isn’t a name you read much about these days. But there it was today in the New York Daily News attached, as it forever will be, to the man who made her infamous, the less than Rev. Al Sharpton. For those too young to remember, or who have successfully repressed memories of the times, Sharpton […]

The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released dubious statistics two weeks ago claiming that the “average salary offer to all Class of 2011 graduates” is $50,462 . These pages called bullsh*t, as did every single reader responding to the post. The number simply didn’t mesh with reality. Friday’s New York Times story, Outlook is […]

I’m liking Leon Panetta more and more.   The CIA Director is reportedly cracking heads within the Obama Administration to stop the constant leak  of details to the news media about the Osama bin Laden raid, even threatening prosecution for those doing it. Panetta — and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen — rightly point out that the […]

Pete King has to stop it. He’s a good congressman. A solid, conservative congressman, and the senior member of New York’s Republican delegation. He’s  chairman of the Homeland Security Subcomittee. He has a big, big job. And he’s a mystery novelist, maybe not John le Carré, but a published author nonetheless. How many members of Congress […]

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http://youtu.be/CSG807d3P-U I don’t know how You Tube does its targeting algorithms, but here’s what was just recommended to me by the company for having watched an online Carl Paladino video six months ago (“If you liked this Carl Paladino video, you’ll love this.) Amazing.  Just what I always wanted. The ad, for Levis, is a bit risqué.  It […]

I’ve always defended the Post Office when people disparage it.  Maybe the lines are long, and, yes, once in a while a postal worker goes, well, you know, but the fact that it can move hundreds of millions of pieces of paper from point A to point B, across millions of square miles in just […]

Newt Gingrich may be a hell of a nice guy up close and personal, but his public persona suggests otherwise.  That’s always been his problem as a political figure.  As smart as he may be, he is just plain unlikable. Watching Gingrich try to smile in television interviews — he began attempting the feat a month ago […]