First Principles

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen posted a particularly mind-numbing article today, angry that Obama isn’t angry or mean enough to counter the unforgivable meanness of Sarah Palin.  (Maybe he feels better after Obama’s unfortunate “pig wearing lipstick” comments today.) Yawn.  Hysterical liberals upset that their emperor is naked is the sun rising in the east.  […]

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As much as I hate graffiti, I can’t deny that when I saw this in an outhouse a few weeks ago I found it so amusing that I just couldn’t help pulling out my camera. This was taken several weeks ago.  I now can’t help but to think how precient this particlar vandal may have […]

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It wasn’t flashy.  It wasn’t soaring.  The was very little red meat.  But it was solid as a rock.  Compared to the flighty and empty rhetoric of hope and change, that’s huge.

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If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.

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Barack Obama’s speech today in Germany was, even before he gave it, the epitome of chutzpah in action.  He’s not the president yet, and yet here he was, acting the part. Who is this junior Senator, whose accomplishments to date have all been verbs with only one subject (himself) and no object?  He organized.  He […]

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After skewering the origins and logic of hippy bumper stickers “Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism” and “Patriotism is the Last Refuge of Scoundrels,” the New York Post’s Ralph Peters takes on Obama’s campaign sloganeering: My fellow Americans, there is nothing audacious about hope. Hope is what makes people buy lottery tickets instead of […]

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No – it’s a disgrace that goes by the name of Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge.  And how do you even begin to describe the awfulness of this picture? First of all, the only difference between Che and Hitler or Stalin is scope – all were murderers in the name of tyranny, but […]

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From the Weekly Standard: When Obama delivered his famous (and effective) “just words” rejoinder to Hillary Clinton’s barbs, the speech inadvertently revealed the emptiness of Obama’s rhetoric. “All men are created equal” was indeed more than just words. It was more than “just words” because the men who signed the document that made that claim […]

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I saw this column from a disaffected Hillary supporter in the Seattle Times today, complaining about the Clinton campaign’s “race baiting.”  The silliness of the article was boundless, but this line in particular caught my eye: When a kid [sic], the sight of black people being mowed down with water hoses in Alabama made a […]

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When I first heard about Barack Obama’s radical church, I was troubled. But as a friend of mine put it, I initially “scoffed” at the idea that it would make much of a difference in the election. Besides – even though I wouldn’t vote for him, I respected that he wasn’t overtly playing the race […]

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