Philip Klein
Earlier today, gossip site Gawker posted emails and a shirtless photo that Rep. Chris Lee sent to a woman on Craigslist. Now, just hours later, the New York Republican has announced his resignation.
Poltifact rules President Obama’s claim during his Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly that “I didn’t raise taxes once” as “false.” Yet it’s worth noting that if O’Reilly were interested in conducting a good interview rather than mere publicity, he…
Via Deadline London, here’s a publicity photo of Meryl Streep in the role of Margaret Thatcher for a film that is currently being shot in London.
A lot of conservatives and Republicans are reluctant to talk about ways to reform the national health care law while legal challenges and repeal efforts are still pending, but in the Wall Street Journal today, Mitch Daniels considers the question,…
There’s an argument that’s circulating among liberals that the challenge to the constitutionality of the health care law hinges on mere semantics. “Despite the overheated rhetoric that’s been tossed around in this debate, I don’t believe our forefathers risked their…
All indications are that Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is likely to seek the presidency. A source close to Barbour told CNN last week, “He’s running until he says he’s not.” The knocks on Barbour are pretty obvious. He faces obstacles…
I take John’s point that the Muslim Brotherhood has managed to prosper under Mubarak, but the problem with these types of arguments is that we can’t say what would have happened had he not been in power. If, after the…
One last point on Israel. Jim writes that with regard to aid to Israel, “we’re not just talking about military aid. We are talking about economic aid.” But actually, while Israel used to receive economic aid, the Bush administration agreed…
The crisis in Egypt has exposed the divisions that separate neoconservatives from other hawkish conservatives (I’m not exactly sure which label to put on this latter group). People often confuse these two groups as one in the same, because they…
I’d be open to cutting — or even eliminating — U.S. aid to Israel within the broader context of eliminating all foreign aid, and so I thought it was a bit unfair that Sen. Rand Paul was being condemned for…
