It’s heartening to see that I’m not alone in decrying the loss of civility in political discourse. On the right, I proffer exhibit “A,” the following video featuring Joe Scarborough, pointing out Glenn Beck’s contributions to the decline in our… Continue Reading
A theme of this blog going back to its earliest days is my repeated and escalating sadness at the decline in the quality and timbre of political discourse in the United States. Congressman Joe Wilson, however, pushed the already-low floor… Continue Reading
The Concord Group is not a collection of paranoid alarmists nor are they insane. They are concerned with the government’s fiscal irresponsibility, and have been so since the Reagan Administration. Unlike a lot of other interest groups, they are truly… Continue Reading
John McCain is, for the most part, a class act and he proves it again: Senator McCain does not deserve boos and President Obama does not deserve derisive laughter from this crowd. It is one thing to think a policy… Continue Reading
Let’s say that deficit spending is like speeding while driving. You shouldn’t be doing it at all, but sometimes maybe you just can’t help yourself. George W. Bush was a leadfoot. So was Ronald Reagan and George Bush the Elder… Continue Reading
First of all, the Henry Louis Gates arrest is not, and never was, an incident of national significance. It says nothing of importance about the state of race relations in the country that someone apparently breaking into a house in… Continue Reading
Today, we have a good example of why conservatives were foolish and short-sighted to reflexively support everything the Bush Administration ever did. It was, at minimum, bad politics for Dick Cheney to meet with energy industry officials, and it made… Continue Reading
To be fair to the Presidents here, the booties are typically of very high quality in Italy. Update: ABC News insists that the photo does not show what it appears to show. Oh yeah? You guys are totally in the… Continue Reading
It’s almost as if neglect of the responsibility of filing tax returns (and paying taxes) is a qualification for service in the Obama Administration. I can’t say that this is a “take-a-swipe-at-Democrats” thing because I don’t recall an unusually-high number… Continue Reading
In the first of a rash of federal lawsuits filed against the federal Defense Of Marriage Act (1 U.S.C. and 28 U.S.C. 1738c) has just been made the subject of a strongly-worded motion to dismiss filed by the United States… Continue Reading