In an effort to brand himself the flag bearer of renewed small government Republicanism, Jim DeMint recently said, "We have to have a remnant of the Republican Party who are recognizable as freedom fighters. What I’m looking to do as a conservative leader in the Senate is to identify some Repub… Read full post »

Sorry to mislead the few good folks reading this post.  The War That Gets Too Little Attention isn't REALLY happening with Afghanistan or really in the end with Afghans.  It’s with everyone else.  Afghanistan has been the site of proxy wars in the past and it is once again. … Read full post »

I recently spoke to Robert Bluey of the Heritage Foundation.  Robert is head of online services for the prestigious conservative think tank.  Robert has noted that right now the GOP is looking a bit enviously upon the online outreach machine that Barack Obama has put together.… Read full post »

Since the 1990s, conservatives have regularly used the term "San Francisco values" to describe the "other America" that they perceive as being deeply flawed.  San Francisco is probably at the top of Sarah Palin's list of un-American places in the lower 48.  These values are charac… Read full post »

There's only one group that hates the liberal media more than the agrieved conservatives...and that's the liberal media itself.  The amount of neurotic self-flagelation is impressive. 

On CNN, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Kitty Pilgrim, and Howard Kurtz have virtually become unhinged at the libe… Read full post »

An interesting point that has regularly emerged on skewz is that the assertion that the recently passed $700 billion financial stabilization package is a bailout of Wall Street.  What the press does not seem willing or able to communicate is that Wall Street really does not exist any more. … Read full post »

Charlie Gibson on numerous occasions over the past year has overtly expressed his sympathies for the McCain campaign from bemoaning the disparity in fund raising to using GOP talking points during his pathetic attempt to moderate a Democratic primary debate.

That being said, if Gibson wants to ask pe… Read full post »

William Ayers will be the focus of "dubious associations" as Bill O'Reilly puts it when it comes to Barack Obama.  But a more concerning association exists between one of John McCain's lead campaign managers and the Russian underworld. 

In 2006, Davis set up a meeting between Senator John… Read full post »

I only have a few minutes here but this story at Fox caught my attention and the poster's comment at Skewz also seemed interesting as well.  It's inconsistent that this new organization go out of its way to dispell blogosphere myths about Sarah Palin while it had an active hand in… Read full post »

The media often exalts the Internet savvy of the Obama campaign.  The campaign's use of social networking sites such as Facebook and tools such as text messaging have empirically improved the campaign's ability to organize at the grass roots level and improve turn out in the early caususes durin… Read full post »

Peggy Noonan comparing Barrack Obama's speech tonight to a Nuremberg rally is right up there with the crazy narrative cranked up by Frankenstein Charles Krauthammer last night on Fox News when he compared Democratic convention goers with crowds in Pyongyang. 

Do these hit the same talking point… Read full post »

The right wing blogosphere sarcastically refers to Barack Obama as "the Messiah" or "the One."  It's a reference to the right's perception that liberals  are slavishly pinning their hopes and dreams on Obama who fancies himself the savior of the left. 

The grade school refrain of "it… Read full post »

How in the world has this guy won any journalistic awards.   In today's coverage of Senator Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic convention, he suggested that members of the audience holding up signs saying "John McCain More of the Same" signs looked "eerily like Pyongyang."  What?! Ex… Read full post »

The biggest narrative during Barack Obama's world tour was that he was getting too much press attention and that the liberal media was biased toward an Obama coronation. 

But being able to pull nearly 300,000 people for a speech by someone who isn't even president yet, IS news.   Howe… Read full post »

People from outside the United States may be shocked to learn that Hollywood is a "wedge issue" that divides the left and right in this country.  Historically, so the story goes, the entertainment business has been a strong supporter of liberal policies and positions.  The right has disdain… Read full post »

The main business of the US press is to insult the intelligence of the American public, and to that end their professionalism drives them aspire and achieve ever greater success each year.  Very few news events are completely episodic, especially when it comes to foreign policy and the actions o… Read full post »

The fresh church shootings in Knoxville, Tennessee is full of perplexing ironies.  All of the amp'ed up political rhetoric since the 1970s that has increasingly divided the country into liberal and conservative camps seems to have finally spilled over into a hate crime that is exclusively based… Read full post »