Category: Politics

  • Just What Is Obama’s Connection to Bill Ayers?

    As many people have already discussed, Barack Obama has extensive connections to Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, former members of the terrorist group Weather Underground. Power Line has more details on the topic, thanks to the investigative work of Stanley Kurtz for the National Review. The most notable paragraph: The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship…

  • Heller Finally Gets His Permit

    Details here: Heller gets his gun permit. More coverage: SFGate [ed.: link updated to an archived link because the original was broken] SCOTUSBlog

  • Byron York on the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency

    Byron York has more good points [ed.: link updated to an archived link because the original was broken] on the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency on National Review Online. Worth a read.

  • Obama: When life begins is “above his pay grade”

    Obama says the question of when babies obtain human rights is “above his pay grade.” [Ed.: link updated to an archived link because the original was broken.] This has to be one of the very most ill-advised things any major candidate has said, thus far in the election cycle. Even aside from the fact that…

  • Dean on Racial and Gender Diversity

    Howard Dean says non-whites and women are more successful in the Democratic Party than “in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party.” It’s hard to say whether or not that’s true, of course, given the (recent) historical preference of those groups for the DNC over the GOP, which also frequently results in…