Archive for December 23, 2009

Q: How do we know the following take from Bill Kristol is correct: First: the reaction to the deal-making. One friend e-mails, “uncharacteristically, I’m getting calls from relatives who want to talk about all the unseemly deals being cut to get the health bill through…that seems to have hit a nerve, as much as the [...]

Our friends on the left continue to call it the “lie of the year” but for some reason these non-existent death panels are being protected by specific and extraordinary legislative language: “it shall not be in order in the senate or the house of representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that [...]

Here is a story I never expected to be reading: Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has apologized to the American Jewish community for ‘stigmatizing Israel’ and asked for forgiveness for his actions, the JTA reported on Monday. “We must recognize Israel’s achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive way to help [...]

…so maybe you could drop the moral superiority business on the most Republican war ever fought that you had no part in fighting or winning 145 years ago. Kathleen Parker pushed that smear herself back in August during an especially insulting segment on why Palin fares well in the south while Obama doesn’t, but it’s [...]