See What I Mean?
The New York Times this morning has a front-page story on the difficulty of balancing New York State’s budget, which is gushing red ink. The governor, David Paterson, called the legislature into...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
COMMENTARY contributor Noah Pollak makes the convincing case that Iran and Syria have largely prevailed in using asymmetric warfare with surrogates against Israel: “It allows Iran and Syria to take...
View ArticleThe Consequences of Being the 60th Health-Care Vote
Senate Democrats from less-than-pristine Blue States are banking that their constituents won’t mind that they voted with their party leadership for a controversial health-care power grab. But that may...
View ArticleNew York: The Carpetbagger State Welcomes Harold Ford
You would think that out of the nearly 20 million people who live in the Empire State, the two major parties would be able to find at least two distinguished citizens fit to represent New York in the...
View ArticleTennessee Harold Ford’s Not Your Ordinary “Joe”
Harold Ford isn’t scared of Chuck Schumer or Barack Obama, let alone Kirsten Gillibrand. That’s nice, but is it enough to supply the former up-and-coming African-American star of Tennessee politics a...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
It’s about time someone took it to Meghan McCain: “She’s an über-cool politics chick with lots to say of the conventional-thinking NYTimesish variety, and she’s got credulous lefties lapping up her...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Uh oh: Eliot Spitzer is back in the political ring, “acting as an unofficial adviser to New York’s current governor, the hapless David Paterson, whose campaign for re-election is basically in the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
The day after the health-care summit: “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is...
View ArticleRE: RE: Like 2006 All Over Again
Rick Klein of ABC.com surveys the landscape and concludes: An obscure congressman is fending off odd allegations being vetted by the ethics committee and is creating yet another vacancy. Then there’s...
View ArticlePaterson, Spitzer, Sharpton — An Eternal Golden Braid
New York Governor David Paterson attempted to suppress an investigation into an aide’s alleged beating of said aide’s girlfriend, and lied to an ethics panel about the free tickets he scored to the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Congressional candidate Doug Pike explains why he’s dumping J Street and sending its money back: “I am also troubled by J Street’s position that Israel needs to end construction of any new housing...
View Article