Message for the Commenters
…will continue the work of keeping us honest). 3. FrumForum.com will be retooled into an archive. The URL, frumforum.com, will redirect to the new site, but all the content and blog posts will be saved. The current homepage should be accessible via a new url: frumforum.com/homepage. All the…
All Good Things...
…larger and more technologically advanced platform. Tina Brown is one of the great media visionaries of our time. The opportunity to work with her--and learn from her--is deeply exciting. Starting Monday, my work will shift to the Daily Beast/Newsweek site. The Frum Forum URL will forward…
It's Time to Debate Birthright Citizenship
…Clause as requiring “consent” of the U.S. government. So, an Indian wanting to register to vote in Omaha, Nebraska was properly denied the franchise even though he was born in the state. According to the Court, birth was insufficient. Because he was born on an Indian reservation, he…
Heed McCain's Warning on Immigration
Someone should listen to John McCain. Asked by em> First Read
The Cordray Crisis
…when it's obviously not in session. It is engaging in this pretense in order to use its power over confirmations to negate an agency lawfully created by the prior Congress. Most fundamentally, the Senate here is further extending a weird quirk in its own rules--the quirk that allows individual…
MSNBC Joins the Anti-Romney Bandwagon
…inability to afford a riposte on his own behalf. In Matthews' hypothesis of the nominating contest going forward, he began echoing Gingrich's recent charge that the Massachusetts state health law signed by Romney had provisions for state-funded abortion. No less than four times over the course…
Santorum's Flawed Plan for Working America
…lowered rate of federal tax for manufacturing. A minute's thought will suggest why this is a poor idea. What is manufacturing anyway? Building a car is manufacturing, obviously. What about building a mobile home? What about building a non-mobile home? Assembling a computer out of…
Seriously, Why Won't Perry Drop Out?
…to South Carolina instead of back home to Austin. The question is: Why? Ostensibly, Perry got into the race because of two things, 1. he felt that the President needed to be replaced with a conservative and 2. Mitt Romney, a Bay State ex-progressive, is insufficiently conservative. …
