“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” So said Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser back in 2004. Conservatives, in a rush to tag Clinton as a Marxist, sometimes strip out the context; she…
For those of us whose NFL teams were eliminated during the playoffs (why, Brady, why?), the Super Bowl is an excellent opportunity to drink like Hemingway characters at a bullfight. Fortunately, Spectator intern emeritus and accomplished imbiber Matt Naham has…
Turns out the economy isn’t really that bad after all! President Obama fired off his State of the Union address with a mendacious litany of bright spots for America: The lowest unemployment rate in over five years. A rebounding housing…
I’ll give his soaring harangue this—it’s certainly not lacking in gumption: Already, because of the Affordable Care Act, more than 3 million Americans under age 26 have gained coverage under their parents’ plans. More than 9 million Americans have signed…
After years of IRS bullying, intimidating Justice Department lawsuits, coercive new health and climate regulations, aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers, attempts to shut out unfriendly media outlets, and campaign tactics culminating in an ad that nearly accused Mitt Romney of murder,…
This year is shaping up to be a good one for the right. Barack Obama is arguably at the nadir of his presidency. Obamacare is collapsing and vindicating Republicans in the process. The GOP’s chances of taking back the Senate,…
Yesterday was one of the coldest Washington days in recent memory, with wind chills below zero and the city crushed under a blanket of snow (only four inches, but that’s an ice age by D.C. standards). Yet the demonstrators at…
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank is once again running in slow motion down Pennsylvania Avenue holding the torch of banal conventional wisdom over his head while the Olympics theme plays in the background. His latest column spends several paragraphs mocking…
Rachel Maddow is smirking today. That, of course, doesn’t distinguish this from any other day. Maddow’s smirk has become part of her now-predictable style, along with the chirpy delivery, the dressing-up of partisanship as wonky pragmatism, and the endless repetitious snark…
There are very few senators who conservatives would agree regularly fight the good fight. After this year, there will be even fewer: Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn confirmed Thursday night that he will not serve out his full Senate term and…
