It’s not that our president is a snob, though he may be that too.
(Editor’s Note: Paul Ryan, who will reportedly be Mitt Romney’s running mate, wrote in our May issue: “It is so rare in American politics to arrive at a moment in which the debate revolves around the fundamental nature of American democracy and the social contract. But that is where we are.” Hear hear!)
(Editor’s Note: Paul Ryan will be Mitt Romney’s pick for VP, according to multiple reports, including one by the Associated Press. Ryan, of course, is a man who needs no introduction. But if you’re looking for a little refresher, this 2010 profile is a good place to start.)
Romney should keep rolling out ads about Obama’s war on religion.
Papering over U.S. debts and trade imbalances will take more bills than we can print.
Republicans face the music — and their star attractions could lose their singing license.
In which I read an awful (but bestselling) bondage romance novel… so that you don’t have to.
Montana’s governor plays the cowboy back home, but the standard-issue lefty abroad.
The new focus on drug cartel violence ignores the drug trafficking at its core.
Meet the woman who’s making Debbie Wasserman Schultz sweat big campaign bucks.
(Editor’s Note: As the polticial commentariat bubbles with speculation about Mitt Romney’s choice for VP, this article from 2000 brings two reminders. First, of the stakes involved; and second, of the unpredictability. That Dick Cheney would be chosen was not yet a blip on the radar — though the essay does mention the advantages of choosing someone “old and/or sickly.”)
His selectors should also be thinking beyond November.
Carbonite takes a loss dropping Rush but sticks with leftist Ed Schultz; and the castigation of Olympian Peter Vidmar.
Who knew that Dirty Harry was this dirty!
Two new books, including a memoir, offer an inside peek at Marco Rubio’s rise.
Americans’ income mobility may be falling, but an undue focus on the fact misses the bigger picture.
Is the family still a bastion of freedom?
Once again, the Democratic races were about race.
Mitt Romney’s tax plan is a winner, and, lacking a serious rebuttal, President Obama settles for fabricating charges.
Obama receives preventive care his HHS bureaucrats deny Medicare patients.
Mitt Romney shouldn’t be invoking this Pulitzer-winning purveyor of nonsense.
The corrupt Obama-Holder Justice Department earns another rebuke.
Only if it’s a white conservative Christian who opposes it. Otherwise…
An outdoor job for Gov. Palin in the Romney administration.
Four hundred years of diverse history.
A very special host, extremely special aviators.
Assault on Chick-fil-A — a finishing touch in America’s Obama-era refresher course in leftism.
Some political gaffes have a life of 24 hours. Others last a lifetime.
The politics of personal pique.
One recognizes truth, while the other doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
An insider’s account of Washington’s bailout of Wall Street’s big money men.
The drought should mean an end to the ethanol subsidy — the last thing the EPA and Obama will ever surrender.
Will we see this key Romneyite on prominent display in Tampa?
The most underreported story of the summer.
Our task is now less political than cultural — though for the young the trap has already been set.
Either way, it suggests an abdication of responsibility.
The Talmud, outdrawing the Jets and the Giants at the Meadowlands.
Sportsmanship and manners triumph at 16th Street tournament.
