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Sarah Palin, Donald Trump Winning the GOP 2012 Blog Primary
Tweet Share on Facebook March 30, 2011 Comment (29)Sarah Palin has taken a commanding lead in blog coverage of the GOP 2012 primary, according to a new New York Times report, with Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Michele Bachmann following distantly behind her. Traditional media, by contrast, tend to cover a slightly more staid and perhaps more plausible set of potential candidates. I wonder if this divergence isn’t in part a reflection of how the never-ending search for Web traffic is affecting coverage of the race. Call it the blog primary, or perhaps the SEO primary.
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Jon Huntsman Could Be Obama's Worst Fear for 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2011 Comment (9)Last weekend, my dinner partner, a self-described "Theodore Roosevelt Republican, very disturbed and discouraged by the Tea Party movement," detailed for me the reasons Jon Huntsman Jr. could not win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. "He is intelligent, attractive, has proven leadership credentials as a businessman and former governor, and would be best suited to take on Obama in a general election. So, of course, our party won't nominate him."
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We Must Secure the Ballot Against Voter Fraud
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2011 Comment (2)Down in Texas, citizens who say they “were shocked by what the discovered” while volunteering as poll watchers in 2009 have created a group called True the Vote to preserve the integrity of U.S. elections.
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Libya is More Like Kosovo Than Iraq or Vietnam
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2011 Comment (19)No one wants "another Vietnam," the buzzphrase for a protracted conflict with no clear mission or definition of success. And no one (anymore) wants another Iraq, which has turned out to be far longer, and far more expensive, in terms of both human lives and money, than one assumes the Bush administration had anticipated. Nor does anyone want another Bosnia, where the international community dithered for a year while former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic slaughtered his own countrymen.
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From Red Dawn to Homefront, Paranoid Nonsense Thrives
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2011 Comment (5)In the mid-1980s, I embarked on a cross-country road trip from California with a friend who was to attend law school in Virginia. Along the way, after checking into a roadside inn, we settled into our room with a short case of beer and watched a film called Red Dawn.
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Obama's Libya Speech Put the Best Possible Face on His Policy
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2011 Comment (9)The Nobel Peace Prize winner came face to face with the nation to justify a third war in a short span of time for the United States—this one in Libya.
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Is Birther Donald Trump a Democratic Sleeper Agent?
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2011 Comment (35)I’m becoming concerned that a certain political figure in the 2012 presidential field has a sinister, hidden agenda. We all like to laugh and be dismissive--but it’s increasingly hard to ignore the questions about his birth certificate. One has to ask: Is Donald Trump, seemingly a “birther” running for the GOP presidential nod, really an Obama sleeper agent?
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Obama's Libya Policy Isn't So Much Failed as Foolish
Tweet Share on Facebook March 28, 2011 Comment (13)If the past is a reliable predictor, most Americans will not be watching tonight when President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the National Defense University to talk about our recent attack on Libyan air defense systems and other targets.
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From Geraldine Ferraro to Michele Bachmann--How Far Women Have Come
Tweet Share on Facebook March 28, 2011 Comment (4)It was truly an exciting moment in history, and one that I assumed, in my collegiate naivete, was the beginning--finally--of what would surely be true equality for women in the workforce and in politics. Yet the death last week of Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1984, reminds us that we are far from achieving basic parity between the sexes, even more than a quarter century later.
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3 Reasons Obama Should Keep His Libya Speech Brief
Tweet Share on Facebook March 28, 2011 Comment (8)President Obama announced late on Friday that he’d be addressing the nation tonight about the situation in Libya. The last time he gave a major speech was the State of the Union address, in which he spoke for over an hour, and before that, at the memorial service in Tucson, for over half an hour—a record as far as eulogies by presidents go. (Bush, Clinton, and Reagan all spoke to our country for an average of six to nine minutes during times of national tragedy, and the gold standard of elegies, the Gettysburg Address, clocked in at only two minutes.) You can see why I think there’s a good chance his speech tonight will go too long. Here are three reasons why he should keep it short:
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