Are members of the House of Representatives qualified to be President of the United States? Daniel Larison doesn’t think so. Thus he judges both Michele Bachmann and Paul Ryan as “unqualified” for the Oval Office. And he adds: Even if…
As Joe points out, Rick Perry is catching some flak for an ill-advised comment that he made yesterday about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Perry criticized Bernanke in a way that Perry’s critics can say intimates or threatens violence. John…
Forget for the moment Texas governor Rick Perry, who has yet to win anything outside of his home state of Texas. Michele Bachmann’s win in the Ames, Iowa straw poll, coupled with Tim Pawlenty’s withdrawal from the race, is further…
David Frum says that Michele Bachmann is “obviously” unqualified to be President of the United States. Really? Bachmann has served ably in the United States Congress and the Minnesota State Legislature. She has raised five biological children and 23 foster…
It’s hard not to sympathize with House Republicans and Speaker John Boehner, given the utter intransigence of President Obama and Harry Reid, and given the outright hostility of the legacy media. Obama and Reid, after all, have not negotiated in…
Is 32-year-old Norwegian murder suspect Aders Behring Breivik a “Christian extremist”? The New York Times thinks so. “As Horrors Emerge, Norway Charges Christian Extremist,” declared the Times in its Sunday print edition. The online version of the Times, likewise, asserted (on Saturday), “Christian Extremist Is…
If you cut through all of the political spin and media fog, here’s what’s happening in the so-called debt negotiations: Congressional Republicans are negotiating; Obama’s campaigning. They’re legislating (or at least trying to legislate); he’s grandstanding. They want to cut…
Jim references a fine piece by Spectator alum Phil Klein, who notes that tax hikes won’t balance the budget, but spending cuts will. “From a purely technical standpoint,” writes Phil, “it’s possible to put the nation on a sustainable fiscal…
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has written a good and quite temperate piece about how “gay marriage” threatens the institution of marriage. Douthat notes that to secure popular approval for “gay marriage,” gay journalists such as Jonathan Rauch argue…
In the wake of the “gay marriage” vote in New York, David Bass tells social and cultural cons to cheer up because, he argues, politically, we’ve done pretty well so far. Just “consider the numbers”: Thirty states have amended their…
