Is Rick Perry A Secret Islamist?
Commentary's Alana Goodman defends Rick Perry against the "anti-sharia community": The back-and-forth within the anti-sharia community about whether or not Rick Perry is a “fifth columnist” candidate continued this week, with Center for Security Policy’s Dave Reaboi and Ace of Spades both coming to Perry’s defense. READ MORE >>
Obama's Public Opinion Dilemma
The Ultimate In Neoconservative War Reportage
Ann Marlowe, reporting from Libya for the Weekly Standard, is apparently calling in airstrikes: I helped call in my first NATO strike yesterday. We were being shelled. A commander I was driving with asked me whether I had NATO’s number—NATO, here, is always being referred to in the third person masculine. READ MORE >>
Will No One Rid Me Of This Meddlesome Candidate?
David Brooks' column today appears dedicated to the proposition that other people should start criticizing Rick Perry: He does very well with the alternative-reality right — those who don’t believe in global warming, evolution or that Obama was born in the U.S. READ MORE >>
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-- A depressing preview of Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech tomorrow. -- Tweets outrace quakes. -- Dick Cheney and spontaneous combustion. READ MORE >>
I Am Not As Cool With Marco Rubio
I was not in the room for Marco Rubio's address at the Reagan Library last night, but having read the text, I came away with a different reaction than T.A. Frank, who wrote a dispatch for us. Tom came away impressed with rhetoric like this: READ MORE >>
Are Obama And Bush Really The Same?
Why Right-Wing Anti-Science Matters
Mitt Romney used to unequivocally believe that the world is warming: "I believe that climate change is occurring — the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore." Now straightforward climate science skeptic Rick Perry has overtaken him, and Romney is less sure: READ MORE >>
Republicans In Charge Of Budget, Obama To Blame For Results
Jennifer Rubin has a post, entitled "Obama's Dismal Economy," arguing that the economy is bad, it's Obama's fault, and that Republicans are making the economy better with wise fiscal stewardship: The Wall Street Journal reports: READ MORE >>
Don't Confuse Matt Damon
I have mixed feelings about movie stars who get involved in political causes. On the one hand, it's a little sad that people need a movie star to make them interested in politics. Nobody should care what movie stars think. READ MORE >>
