Mike Huckabee came to Washington on Wednesday to promote his new book A SImple Christmas. This was part of a book tour that will encampass 64 cities.
Along with maybe 15 to 20 journalists, I met Huckabee at an event hosted by the American Spectator. The question on most [...]
A Boston TV station discovered that Barney Frank was present in 2007 when police raided his boyfriend's home in Maine and confiscated marijuana, bongs and marijuana plants. Somehow this didn't come out until now. In the TV interview below, Frank professes ignorance of the contents of his boyfriend's house--he was' [...]
According to the Washington Post, the House is expected to vote on the Democrats' health care takeover bill at around 10:00 tonight, eastern time. The Post says that both parties are keeping their vote counts close to the vest, but an hour or so ago Republican Whip Eric Cantor' [...]
Reporters are interviewing friends and acquaintances of Nidal Malik Hasan, and troubling facts are beginning to come out. Troubling, but frankly not very surprising:
His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan's "anti-American propaganda," but said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing [...]
Our friend Monical Showalter writes regarding the victimization of the heroic Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (of Generación Y) by one of the dictators with whom Barack Obama takes no issue:
Yoani Sanchez, the adorable and vividly good Cuban blogger who blogs about Castro's island hellhole from inside Cuba, using [...]
At this moment, the House of Representatives has begun to debate Pelosicare. Unexpectedly, the Democrats' leadership is struggling to find the 218 votes needed for passage. The immediate hurdle is abortion. The Democrats' House bill provides for federal funding of abortions, and the pro-life movement has mobilized in support of [...]
President Obama's radio address today is on the Fort Hood massacre. Byron York has the full text.
Yesterday, Obama warned us against jumping to conclusions. Now, as we predicted, it's pretty clear that Obama has no intention of coming to any conclusions, ever. He ponders the deep mystery [...]
Stephen Hayes invokes Jeane Kirkpatrick's classic 1979 essay on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy in his his Weekly Standard article of the same title on Barack Obama's foreign policy. Hayes updates the the continuing saga of the Obama administration's appeasement of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By contrast with [...]
Visiting a friend in Boston in the fall of 1968 I caught a live show with James Taylor opening for Joni Mitchell in a basement dive with benches for seats. It was an incredible show for the price of the $3.00 ticket. Taylor's debut album on Apple hadn't even been [...]
