Rick Perry's Little Trick
…Rick Perry himself. It goes by so fast you almost don't see it. Somebody must however be hoping you'll absorb it. For an aspiring "president of honor," it seems kind of a cheap trick.
Real Reaganites Don't Demonize Their Opponents
…of the current Republican nominating contest. Instead of hypocritical invective and mindless tribalism, Reagan offers a fundamentally optimistic and cooperative narrative of America. Though this speech has moments of anger, it is not, at heart, an angry speech. Consider some of these lines…
Welcome to the DC Party Scene
…at a Georgetown Cocktail Party, some bright, shining, positive and strange thing comes out of it, as when I introduced myself to a young man at the Frum holiday party. “Wait…” he paused for a second, connecting the dots. “Do you write about being unemployed?” I froze. A strangled…
Ron Paul Hates Government, Loves Pork
…voted for an appropriation in years — if ever. ... He may not have voted for any bill yet Paul was happy to take the money from riders he attached to bills that others voted for. What about as a principled gesture not accepting the allocations but rather putting it towards the deficit he…
Ron Paul's Useful Idiots
…But that still doesn’t go far enough in explaining why he overlooks all the many other flaws in his candidacy. It seems that for some people, opposition to the Iraq war and support for legal pot is more important than profiting off racist newsletters and calling for an end to all assistance…
Still No Justice for Lockerbie
…destruction program, despite having received $3.5 billion from Saddam Hussein in 2002 to ward off an American challenges to his power. Qaddafi’s apparent about-face seemed to be just the sort of ebb to state-sponsored terrorism that President George W. Bush hoped to inspire. And despite an…
Talking With the Left About Climate Change
…This was thanks to fellow F F contributor D.R. Tucker, erstwhile guest on the show, who sent my posts to the host, Betsy Rosenberg . As my segment started, following one with two members of Canada's Green Party, Rosenberg noted that the program was about to feature a Republican and so…
Brinkmanship Works
…civilized, generally, but extremely inefficient. in large cases lawyers will take positions on any manner of issues underlying the case, i.e., whether certain items are admissible evidence, whether certain arguments will dispose of the opponents’ case, whether a certain witness will be…
Boehner is Trapped by His Caucus
…but the room for mis-understanding, reinforced once again by campaign messages, is huge. Let’s see: “Republicans support a tax increase on working men and women, but refuse to increase taxes on billionaires.” “Republicans cut Medicare spending 27 per cent, forcing many…
How Dare The WSJ Blame The House GOP?
…Republicans grudgingly join in support. In the year-plus since then, Republican talkers have denigrated the holiday as ineffective and worse. The Journal was very much one of those denigrators, and it repeats the denigration in today's editorial: No employer is going to hire a…