Month: July 2010

Call me late to the party, but I heard what has apparently become the song of the summer, Billionaire,” for the first time this past weekend.  Actually, I heard it three times this weekend, including twice in...

I’m pretty sure that Lindsey Graham was going to get a primary challenge anyway, but voting for Elena Kagan in committee definitely assures one. He has four years to prepare for it and a lot of things will have changed by...

Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, asks the following question of our African American President with the funny name: President Obama: Why Are We in Afghanistan? I assume Mr. Bandow, as a Senior Fellow at the...

I have no problem with bi-partisanship or even post-partisanship. I think they are lovely ideas, and that it is beneficial to the nation for both parties to find areas of agreement. Although the span of such areas of agreement...

Juan Cole makes a good find in his rebuttal of Sarah Palin’s ‘refudiate’ tweet in opposition to the building of a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center. He pulled up language from the Treaty of Tripoli...