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Authors Stephen Mansfield and David A. Holland believe that in order to understand Sarah Palin, we must understand what she believes. They're right, and the Sarah they present is compelling for her very ordinariness. |
If Ahmadinejad insists on becoming a fixture of the UN stage, well, the least we can do is extend a helping hand. I'd wager a lot of Iranians back home would be delighted with the new setup.
Unemployment among the young has opened their eyes to the detrimental effects of Obama's policies.
Politicians ought to take a version of the Hippocratic oath to do no harm. If they had, Obamacare wouldn't exist and doctors wouldn't feel compelled to take political stands.
A FOIA request reveals contradictions in statements made to Congress, the Civil Rights Commission, and to the public. Some of these statements were made under oath.
When I saw that old Bill Maher video of Christine O'Donnell talking about her dabbling days with "witchcraft" and blood and Satanism, I thought, if I were being held to account for all the claims I made when I was twenty, well...
The two-party system is a popular scapegoat among those who feel disenfranchised. Yet 2010 shows that our system works.
The American universities, or at least a number of departments within them, became like GM long before GM became like GM.
Fake voting cards, ballot-stuffing, rockets, bombs as well as large number of women voters and a drop in violence since last year marked Saturday’s parliamentary election.
Why did America's conservative press ignore a novel which combines a full-blown send-up of New York’s left-wing intelligentsia with a serious exploration of religious faith?
A new documentary, featuring PJM's own Roger Kimball and Victor Davis Hanson amongst its interviewees, compellingly argues that only by attacking the causes of this still-bubbling crisis will we make it to shore.
It’s not a word that you hear very often, but recent events, such as the furor that greeted Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware Republican Senate primary, make me wonder whether it deserves dusting off and updating.
An accomplished young man is killed by police outside a Vegas Costco, and bystander accounts starkly contrast with official reports.
Unsuspecting sixth graders get taken on a trip to a mosque, where overt indoctrination is the purpose.
Apparently, to many in the tea party movement, "victory" has a different definition than the standard denotation ordinarily used in politics. (And don't miss Stephen Green's "Change that Matters.")
Like Oliver Stone, Democrat Rep. Maurice Hinchey seems to think Castro is cool. This makes Hinchey a fool, and unfit for Congress. UPDATED with reaction from George Phillips.
Why are so many educated and politically active Jews, including Israeli Jews, often the ones who fight against Jewish interests, even against Jewish survival? What mad gene drives them to do it?
Tim Kaine thinks a logo will save his world. Harry Reid makes a "pet" out of a Senate candidate. Both of these stories tell us a lot about today's Democratic Party.
The "Colorado Model" and George Soros' "Shadow Party" have both landed in Texas in the form of a shady activist with a plan: attack the GOP's largest stronghold and destroy its limited-government success story. UPDATED: Post about another shadow operator linked.
Indian leadership now has a chance to bring some quiet to the region. Let's hope they take the opportunity.
America Alone: as recent developments in Cuba, India, and Old Europe highlight, the trend of the world — even after the financial meltdown of September 2008 — is away from statism, except in the USA.
Christine O'Donnell's win leaves the Delaware Republican Party as a rump party. It will have to take visible action if the Republicans are to have a shot at taking the Senate seat.
With on-the-ground reports from CA, CT, FL, IL, MO, NV, PA, and VA.
O'Donnell's victory tonight may or may not mean that much in raw arithmetic come November. But it does scads for atmosphere: to the traditional horizontal divide between Republican and Democrat, add a vertical one: Washington insider vs outsider.
Is it possible to postulate the "Uncaused Cause" in physics to explain the beginning of the universe, thus proving the existence of a personal God?
In sum, you can have health care, or you can have ObamaCare. People have looked at the latter, David, and they don’t like what they see.
Neither candidate has addressed the unfolding multimillion dollar scandal, but one will eventually have to.
The new book by Congressmen Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy is the next best thing to a classic—it's a war cry.
As Dinesh D'Souza notes in his brilliant profile of the president in Forbes, 52% of America elected a dream, but they didn't know whose dream they were putting in the White House or what sort of personality would drive that vision.
On the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the nation longed for a presidential speech with just a tiny bit of George Patton and a bit less of Tony Robbins.
It isn’t a simple case of “why do they hate us?” as this flawed but engrossing documentary hosted by Pulitzer-winning author Lawrence Wright explains. It’s more about why they hate their own lives and why they think a supposedly noble death as a suicide bomber is their only escape.
James Lileks, Roger L. Simon, Lionel Chetwynd, Joe Hicks, Bryan Preston, Stephen Kruiser, Mattie Fein (pictured), and Ed Driscoll on today's show, hosted by Steve Green, the Vodkapundit!
This fight requires much more than a few moments in a voting booth.
Terry Jones may be an obscure pastor, but he’s evidently not stupid. While the Andres Serrano "Piss Christ" comparison remains apt, all this brings another figure to my mind: P.T. Barnum. (Updated.)
A campaign designed to put the onus for peace on Israeli citizens is getting deservedly ridiculed.
Despite a population becoming more and more dependent on government, former GOP Representative Pat Toomey's conservative message is resonating strongly in the Keystone State.
You'd be angry too, if both accountability and criticism were suddenly novel experiences at age 49.
Whether or not the Koran burning actually happens, the huge publicity given to Terry Jones, the pastor and provocateur behind the story, implies that extremism unfortunately works.
No, there are not a bunch of Confederate monuments in the Union states, and the few there are were not erected for "graciousness and reconciliation."
Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic lands the Scoop of the Year, in which an ancient and sclerotic Fidel Castro is quoted as saying, "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more." (And don't miss Roger L. Simon's take on Castro's remarks as well.)
Kickoff for the 2010 season! Plus: Chris Christie is THE MAN. About this, there can be no debate.
Voter fraud and a suspicious fire threaten the November elections in Texas’ largest city. (Author Bryan Preston joins the PJM and PJTV staffs today.)
Now I realize monster is a big word to call someone and I don't use it lightly. It's just the one that comes to mind — there is something almost inhuman about Soros. (And don't miss Roger Kimball's take on Soros.)
If Americans are saddened by Hitchens’ illness, it’s not only because he has cancer. It’s because one of the few journalists in the country still able and willing to cross the political divide has cancer.
As video from late April of 2008 illustrates, the network went from praising Rev. Wright's racism at the NAACP to the hilt, to declaring CNN a "Wright-Free Zone" when then-candidate Obama dropped by one week later. We don't know if anyone from CNN was on the JournoList, but the timing is certainly curious.
Or even Nixonologist-style: a modern-day equivalent of Woodward and Bernstein would have lots of fun tying together all of the strange stories that have circulated recently from the former home of Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham.
Radical Chic: The Next Generation. (Also see PJTV: J. Christian Adams: NAACP Lobbied Obama Administration to Dismiss New Black Panther Case.)
Republicans, take a lesson from Ronald Reagan: just plaster the country with the question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago, when the Democrats took control of Congress?" (And don't miss Roger Kimball's "The Magical Thinking of Barack Obama.")
Just last week, a Columbus newspaper assured readers there were no local Somali jihadist recruits.
Both nominees have shown an arrogant contempt for the law and a total disregard for the limited role of the judiciary in a democracy.
President Obama's economic policies have created a jobs gap — the difference between promise and reality.
At a time when Israel’s security environment is worsening, in no small part because of the Obama administration’s strategic weakness, Israel is being pushed hard by that same administration into making its security environment even worse.
It's not surprising that China’s rulers prefer that its people not learn the real history of the Party and the terrible destruction of the Maoist years, which is why getting this history to the people of China is so important.
The former chief of the Voting Section of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division is not the apolitical civil servant portrayed in the media. He is hyper-partisan and vindictive, and should be investigated for perjury.
Once known as "America's foremost cultural critic," Paglia's literary output has dropped precipitously while she has failed to engage on the number one women's issue in the world: Islam's treatment of females.
If the Obama White House really does have its own version of the Nixon-era "Deep Throat," and he or she wants to make a difference, why not come clean about who you are?
A tragic phenomenon which is taking a terrible toll on everyone involved.
Ed Driscoll's 20-minute, full length interview with David Limbaugh about his new, best-selling book, Crimes Against Liberty:An Indictment of President Barack Obama.
The notion that we are doomed and the Chinese fated to prosper is not written in stone. It is simply a matter of free will, theirs and ours.
Will Sarah Palin's endorsement help or hurt Carly Fiorina in her California Senate race with Barbara Boxer?
Vodkapundit Stephen Green and James Lileks take on Delaware, that exciting new hotbed of politics. Ed Driscoll interviews David Limbaugh and Blog World's Rick Calvert. Glenn Reynolds talks with pollster Scott Rasmussen. And more!
The Jewish people have been beset by an eleventh plague inside their own house: extreme left-wing intellectuals who urge they throw away their own interests, concerns, and even lives for the rest of humanity.
In her decision to mount a write-in campaign for her apparently lost senate seat, she has become the poster girl for that great politician's personality disorder — pathological narcissism.
Opposing the majority opinion has become the main function of the left.
Drinking the tea, crunching the numbers, then shooting the video.
All hail President Vercotti! He can guarantee that not a single issue of Forbes will be done over, for 15 bob a week.
Reps Darrell Issa and Aaron Schock send a letter to Earl Devaney, head of stimulus accountability, about government agencies failing to supply the sought data.
They want the campus to "see how they can use social media in a more positive and efficient way." Huh?
In July, far more than half weren't even trying to find work. Why?
Nobody in the Washington establishment has been able to figure out what just happened.
Netanyahu is poised to once again extend to the Palestinians significant, irreversible concessions without any tangible, reciprocal gestures demonstrating goodwill.
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act will get a constitutional challenge soon, without the nine months of discovery requested by the Obama Justice Department.
U.S. envoy George Mitchell takes a position inimical to Israel, disguising it as neutral.
The terrorist now subject to a "kill or capture" order was welcomed in D.C. immediately after 9/11. He is far from the only terrorist welcomed by the CMSA.
Manuel Jamines went after the responding police with his blade, but the mob wants the cops on trial for murder because he was "unarmed."
An illegal immigrant is an indentured servant, of less value than a slave since his employer has no pecuniary interest in him.
Police officers, at the direction of an imam, remove six Muslim women from the Islamic Center. Their crime? Worshiping peacefully.
England's Daily Mail reports that Carla Bruni's new tell-all "reveals that Mrs Obama replied when asked about her position as the U.S. president’s wife: ‘Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!’" Gosh, we never noticed. (And don't miss Roger Simon's "If Michelle hates it, does Barack hate it?")
The tea party operates outside of the jurisdiction set down by the other parties, be they Democratic or Republican, and threatens to upset the Beltway's whole apple cart.
Can the big-spending Bob Ehrlich convince Maryland conservatives to give him another shot?
How Bob Dylan checked out of the culture war.
We are witnessing, I believe, a struggle for survival, both within the regime and between the regime and the opposition. All those explosions — big explosions — at the natural gas pipelines running from Iran to Turkey, to Russia, and to Afghanistan cannot possibly be accidents.
Huxley meets George Orwell's Newspeak Dictionary and Tom Wolfe's "starting from zero" — soon to be playing at your local arthouse cinema in a new film starring Keira Knightley and Charlotte Rampling.
Part II of Phyllis' interview with Tapan Ghosh, founder of the Hindu Solidarity Movement.
Terrorism works: in Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's worldview, you can't yell fire in a crowded Internet.
Tea Party candidates mostly did well, which should help pull the GOP back to its roots.
The Wisconsin Senate race between incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold and Republican challenger Ron Johnson may be, in part, a referendum on the future of high-speed rail in America.
Kathleen Sebelius' chilling, Orwellian order that insurers not blame ObamaCare for rising rates was just the start. We must stop the re-education in November.
Democratic control is slip-sliding away, but the GOP has yet to seal the deal with enough voters to be feeling at all comfortable.
March 21, 2010, the day ObamaCare was passed, will be remembered as the day that the Democrats thwarted the will of the people and sealed their fate in November. (And don't miss Roger Kimball's "lesson for David Axelrod.")
Many Hindus believe it's dangerous to openly discuss their persecution by Muslims in India. But Tapan Ghosh, founder of the Hindu Solidarity Movement, isn't afraid to speak out.
In all the noise coming out of Delaware, we shouldn't overlook the prime directive: Stop Obama and repeal the damage he's done.
Again, an anti-gun group uses intentionally misleading language to claim that most Mexican cartel weapons can be traced to U.S. gun dealers.
A mother raising her family in the Golan Heights told me that "in Tel Aviv they teach their children not to step into traffic. Here we teach them not to step into minefields."
Since her mere presence challenges the Ruling Class left's accumulated perceptions of status, it's no wonder Sarah Palin has received the full Alinsky treatment.
Death, taxes, and whenever an American Communist or leftist dies, the New York Times will run a major obituary, and it will be misleading, incomplete, or very favorable to their life and record.
Muslim disloyalty in the military is becoming commonplace, but how prevalent is it in society — not to mention in the U.S. government?
Brainstorming the hottest episodes and zaniest plot twists to come from the star of the world’s most popular reality TV series.
The latest example may be the Civil Rights Division’s defense of a lawsuit filed by Shelby County, Alabama, challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Chicago street thugs held a press conference where they complained they were not getting their fair share of the goodies that make Chi-Town the "City that Works."
Britain's former PM stands by his decision to support the war to topple Saddam.
If we’re to truly effect fundamental and long-lasting change, we must identify, examine and challenge the basic premises responsible for the regulatory state.
Forget Mad Men and reliving the nostalgia of the 1960s, when did the left become obsessed with reliving and often reversing the progress of the last 150 years?
Obama touts his stimulus success at a sign company getting very few government contracts, a fitting backdrop for further investigation into the propaganda road signs.
The MSM might just be the only business that openly despises its potential customers; it shouldn't be surprised when those same customers tell them that the feeling is mutual.
Part II of Zombie's five-part series on the left/right divide over education.
An update to this morning's estimate of the crowd at Glenn Beck's DC rally.
The muted colors have been boiled down to a near monochromatic taupe in the new fall Restoration Hardware furniture catalog, but the "Depression Porn" atmosphere is seeped into every page.
A Top Ten-style video look at the Democratic, Bureaucratic, Gaffe-O-Matic senator from Nevada.
Did the late historian leave the Communist Party eventually? Yes, but only because they weren't radical enough.
The illusion that the Democrats are the party of the people continues. (Also read Ron Radosh: "A Tale of the Two Mezvinskys.")
“Rev. Wright is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
Posted today by Glenn Reynolds
 | I NEED TO QUIT GIVING THEM IDEAS: A week ago, I joked: “The new approach will be for them to just take your whole paycheck, and send you whatever’s left at the end of the month. . . .” |
| G.O.P. CONFRONTS SORE LOSER SYNDROME: “At bottom, they kind of resent that they work for the American people. They feel that they know better.” |
| PRESIDENT FREDO CORLEONE. |
| WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Why Won’t Our Brave Media And Government Officials Speak Up For Molly Norris? Because they’re cowards. |
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| IOWAHAWK: The Car, The Ditch, And The Slurpee. |
| ARE YOU BETTER OFF Than You Were Four Years Ago? |
| MARC THIESSEN: Rats! (A Tale of Government Intervention Gone Awry). “A few years ago, officials in Brooklyn, New York came up with a seemingly brilliant idea to deal with the rat-infestation problem in their borough: release opossums into the neighborhood to eat the rats. Once the rat population disappeared, officials surmised, the opossums would have nothing to eat and would disappear as well. Like most ham-handed government efforts at social engineering, this one backfired: the opossums showed no interest in the rats, taking instead to rummaging through trash for food. Meanwhile, they procreated like mad. Result: Brooklyn is now overrun with rats and opossums.” Wasn’t there a Simpsons episode along these lines? . . . . |
| REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over. |
| ESTIMATING CONSCIOUSNESS bit by bit. “Information theorists measure the amount of information in a computer file or a cellphone call in bits, and Dr. Tononi argues that we could, in theory, measure consciousness in bits as well. When we are wide awake, our consciousness contains more bits than when we are asleep.” |
| CHANGE: “Mexicans” Were Here “Long Before America Was Even An Idea.” And a savvy politician is always careful to point that out to Americans whose votes he wants. And who don’t know any history. |
| THE MULLET: Worse Than Witchcraft? Hell, yeah! |
| POLITICAL DECISIONS MATTER in state economic performance. Indeed. Plus this: “If California had North Dakota’s unemployment rate, it would have over 1.3 million jobs than it has today. That is almost the entire population of Sacramento County and 30 percent more than the entire population of Northern California’s Contra Costa County.” If only California could do as well as . . . North Dakota? Yep. |
| SPECULATION: What will the October Surprise turn out to be? |
