NASCAR, Guns and Barbecue
I can think of few ways to spend an afternoon more painful than watching cars race around a track. Over and over again. If there is one person I would have sized up as even more motor-sports averse than me, it would be Roger Simon. Yet Roger has just returned from a [...]
Did the bleat of the lamb excite the lion? Part Two
Michael Rubin, posting at the Corner, adds another level of sophistication to the discussion of Hillary Clinton’s claim that President Obama’s policy of engagement with Iran failed, not because it was inherently a bad idea, but rather because of the rise of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iranian society. He writes:
The [...]
Why Are Jews Liberals? Part Two
As John shrewdly observed last night, President Obama’s reference to Harry Reid’s commitment to “social justice” as grounds for absolving Reid of a remark that many consider racist, shows how liberalism can trump race when it comes to racial politics. This observation put me in mind of Norman Podhoretz’s brilliant book, Why [...]
Democrats’ Narrative Isn’t Selling
Scott Rasmussen finds that for the first time, a plurality of voters say the Democrats’ stimulus bill has hurt the economy:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 30% of voters nationwide believe the $787-billion economic stimulus plan has helped the economy. However, 38% believe that the stimulus plan has hurt the economy. This [...]
Biting Observation
An online story notes the following about government-supplied food stamps:
Nearly half of Americans, and 90 percent of blacks, now receive food stamps at some time before reaching 20, according to an analysis of 30 years of national data that sociologists at Washington University in St. Louis published in early November.
By a remarkable coincidence, nearly half [...]
Who’s the Narcissist?
Barack Obama’s narcissism has frequently been commented upon, but Glenn Reynolds makes an interesting and potentially important observation:
I think Obama’s “charisma” was based on voter narcissism — people excited not just about electing a black President, but about themselves, voting for a black President. Now that’s over, and they’re stuck just with him, and emptied [...]
