BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from Townhall.com
Not long after the tea party sprang into being in the spring of 2009, America ’s elites started vilifying the movement. In an article worthy of a class-action libel suit, The New York Review of Books depicted the tea party’s first march on Washington as a parade of bigots.
Ex-president Jimmy Carter [...]

BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from weeklystandard.com
Voter interest in the November elections continues its staggered crescendo. For candidates and consultants the long opus nears its denouement. But non-politicos – who react to different rhythms – are just now beginning to stir.
As they listen more intently they will hear a familiar score – echoes of campaigns past with [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
The national Democratic Party’s hierarchy, led by the President himself, inaugurated a campaign a few weeks ago to put a negative face on the Republican Party and its candidates. The face they chose was that of House Republican Leader John Boehner.  And so began the Boehner bashing.
The President mentioned Leader Boehner an [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from townhall.com
For those of you who may have missed the official Mullings bio (which is mostly true, by the way), Dr. Robert Hill, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio 45750 once introduced me as “What you get when you get when you cross a political hack with a [...]

BY STEVE BELL
     The secret that was never a secret  is out—no appropriations bills will pass Congress and be sent to the President before the start of the 2011 fiscal year October 1. 
 

 BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from the weeklystandard.com
Many factors are contributing to President Obama’s decline in popularity since his historic election less than two years ago.  A stagnant economy with stubbornly high unemployment certainly caused part of the downward trend.  But there is more.
A White House out of step with many Americans on both public policy substance [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from the Feeherytheory.com
Erik Erickson has become famous for his visceral hatred of the Republican Party, and of course earlier this year he was immediately hired by CNN to represent the Republican view on various shows.  Erickson let the cat out of the bag when discussing the Delaware primary results last night.  He [...]

 
 BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
          I sent a letter to the President, obviously not for his benefit, but mine, on his repetitive rhetoric about taxing the rich, partly inspired by a letter someone sent me some months ago.  This isn’t my exact letter.  I edited and updated a bit, but it’s the thought that counts.
Dear Mr. [...]

 
BY FRANK HILL
Reprinted from Telemachus.com
‘Would John Maynard Keynes himself even agree with all this perpetual deficit-spending that has been going on for the past 40 years in America?’

BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from weeklystandard.com
Earlier this week, President Obama proposed another round of stimulus spending, aiming to boost the sagging economy and—he vainly hopes—his party’s slumping political fortunes.
The $50 billion ‘little brother’ of the $787 billion enacted two years ago is more of a campaign talking point for hemorrhaging Democratic candidates than a serious economic [...]