Karl Rove, the Podcast
On Friday, I interviewed Karl Rove. We talked about his new book, Courage and Consequence, and his years in the Bush White House. We also touched on the small role that our site played in some of the events about which he writes. Yesterday we broadcast the interview on our radio show. [...]
A salute to Scott Brown
As Barack Obama completes his first year in office, observers may wonder how his hope and change thing is working out. Tonight, Massachusetts voters provided the answer. Americans are hoping for change, alright, but the change they desire is change from the leading policies of the Obama administration.
Massachusetts is a heavily Democratic state, arguably the [...]
On Going Rogue
No one really knows what’s inside Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue, which hits stores Tuesday. The AP has obtained a copy, and published this story, which suggests that the book is a gauzy, campaign-heavy memoir that “follows Palin from childhood to her departure last summer as Alaska governor” — and not much else. Palin, we are [...]
Fear of The Mother
In his eye-opening, astute new book,
The Persecution of Sarah
Palin, Matthew Continetti argues
that the “story of Sarah Palin is the story of American political
journalism’s intellectual bankruptcy,” and while Continetti’s
narrative does include plenty of lesser-known biographical detail
it also contextualizes Palin into [...]
Another Clinton Scandal
WASHINGTON — I have been defamed by Taylor Branch, and he
will not reply to my repeated calls for clarification. The
defamation takes place in his new book, The Clinton Tapes:
Wrestling History with the President. The
defamation he printed comes from the Boy President himself, so
perhaps [...]
Whose Dreams?
In the run-up to the election, Jack Cashill framed a speculative argument that Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father. Cashill first ventured his thesis in “Who wrote Dreams From My Father?” Cashill cited Obama’s sophomoric stabs at poetry from his days at Occidental. Obama’s sophomoric poetry doesn’t provide much [...]
