Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign probably thought it was being very clever using Gen. David Petraeus’ image in a new ad this week. For the Republican candidate, it was the best of all worlds — Giuliani got to bash MoveOn, smear Hillary Clinton, and associate himself with a decorated general, all at the same time. What […]
There are two principal knocks against Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign: 1) he doesn’t know (or care) much about policy, and expects to get by on vague generalities and platitudes; and 2) running for president is really hard, and Thompson is too lazy to excel. On the first point, Thompson seems to be doing his level […]
Chasing Attorney General rumors has proven to be rather pointless. Initially, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff was practically already prepping for his confirmation hearings. Then, the White House leaked a short list, sans Chertoff, and Ted Olson was the likely nominee. Now we have a new front-runner for the job: Michael Mukasey, a […]
With the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks having just passed, there was quite a bit of talk this week about why we haven’t been attacked again since. Truth be told, the claim, on its face, is rather misleading. We were attacked, about a month after 9/11, when someone sent weaponized anthrax to two Democratic senators […]
MoveOn’s “betray us” ad was condemned in conservative circles for its “strident” rhetoric, which some Republicans have decided to match with even more over-the-top language. At a crowded rally at a VFW hall in Hudson, NH last night, McCain — again — used the MoveOn “Betray Us” ad as a emotional crowd-pleaser. It was a […]
If you’ve had to deal with the student-loan system recently, you know how bizarre it is. The situation is pretty straightforward. When Clinton was elected in ’92, the student-loan system was burdened by a layer of unnecessary bureaucracy. Higher-ed students would get a loan from a private lender, but the federal government would set the […]
The story of the Jena Six is one of the more painful examples of racism in recent memory. In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a “whites only” shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn’t sit beneath […]
Rank-and-file Republicans clearly aren’t satisfied with their already-enormous presidential field. Shortly after Fred Thompson’s announcement, activists started wondering whether David Petraeus might be available. Or maybe Jeb. Or even Newt. Well, wait no more. The savior of the Republican Party has arrived. After two previous runs for U.S. president, former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes has […]
For most of the afternoon yesterday, the Huffington Post ran this headline at the top of the page, with pictures of the GOP’s top-tier: “A President For All White People.” Given the circumstances, the headline was only slightly hyperbolic. Three of the four leading Republican presidential candidates turned down invitations to a PBS debate this […]
Alan Greenspan has a few things he’d like to get off his chest. Alan Greenspan, who served as Federal Reserve chairman for 18 years and was the leading Republican economist for the past three decades, levels unusually harsh criticism at President Bush and the Republican Party in his new book, arguing that Bush abandoned the […]