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 […]

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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.

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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

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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

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The Bar Exam, Post-Mortem

Well, we made it to the other side of the Texas bar exam intact. That was not a particularly fun experience. When taking the bar, a person definitely reaches a point where he knows very little law, knows this, and just can’t fit any more in his head without forcing out something truly important, like

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