Message for the Commenters
…fact, we will be getting our own Andrew Sullivan-style blog. As of my most recent meeting, the url will be: http://www.thedailybeast.com/davidfrum. This blog will be updated as frequently as FrumForum always was. 2. This new blog will have comments! I strongly encourage all our regulars to…
All Good Things...
…theories on cable TV. Three years later--not so much. OK, maybe we can't claim all the credit. But we won't refuse some fair share. Now like all good things, this adventure is coming to an end. I've been invited to move my blog and print journalism to the Daily Beast/Newsweek, a…
It's Time to Debate Birthright Citizenship
…(my view), we can all agree that such a far-reaching change in the INA should have been the subject of vigorous two-party debate. That did not occur because the Democrats had huge majorities in both houses of Congress, Republicans did not offer a coherent opposition to the bill, and there…
Heed McCain's Warning on Immigration
Someone should listen to John McCain. Asked by em> First Read
The Cordray Crisis
…further extending a weird quirk in its own rules--the quirk that allows individual senators to delay votes on appointments--in ways that allow the Senate minority to impose its will on the whole US government. Over the past three decades, we have lived through a prolonged cycle of partisan…
MSNBC Joins the Anti-Romney Bandwagon
…Romney was at least charted for the top three---a squeaker of a victory or a third place finish in a closely bunched spread---"Hardball" host Chris Matthews began rallying to the defense of the bombarded Newt Gingrich. Matthews upbraided the insidious Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future at the…
Santorum's Flawed Plan for Working America
…of upward mobility and the stagnation of middle-class wages even before the financial crisis of 2008. So what's his plan? Santorum has proposed a special lowered rate of federal tax for manufacturing. A minute's thought will suggest why this is a poor idea. What is manufacturing anyway?…
Seriously, Why Won't Perry Drop Out?
…knows something that we don't, or some political consultants are making a nice profit out of lying to the Texas governor. The Anybody-but-Mitt crowd probably should pick up the phone and holler at the Perryites that it's time for the man to go back home.
