One would suspect David Mamet, author of Glengarry Glen Roll and screenwriter of Wag the Dog, of having a liberal’s view of the world. Indeed, Mamet admits to having long done so. Now, in must-read/forward for anyone lamenting over a left-leaning loved one, Mamet writes in the Village Voice that he was wrong all those…
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Spitzer’s Last Crusade?
Yesterday Eliot Spitzer admitted that he was a client of a prostitution ring, today he’s said to be considering whether or not to resign as Governor of New York. America loves to build up and then tear down its idols. Witness Michael Jackson, Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears, and others who were catapulted to fame and…
Testing John McCain, Pork Buster
Robert Novak brightened my day by writing that John "I’m the Sheriff" McCain and his Republican colleagues will be at odds this week over the practice of earmarking, which big-name Republicans decry even as they rack up massive amounts of pork for the voters back home. Sen. Jim DeMint, a first-term reform Republican from South…
Smearing John McCain
For reasons known only to himself, Robert Farley compares an ad by John McCain to the Nazi propaganda film Triumph des Willens and wonders aloud if McCain is a liberal fascist. His reasoning: Both McCain’s ad and Triumph have cloud imagery in them. Why, that’s genius! I’m so jealous – I wish could make that…
Obama Adviser Favors Telecom Immunity; Barack Demurs
ABC’s Justin Rood reports that John Brennan, Barack Obama’s intelligence adviser, has gone on-record as being strongly in favor of granting immunity to telecoms that provided information to the national security apparatus in advance of a new law granting them that authority. "I do believe strongly that [telecoms] should be granted that immunity," former CIA…
No More Power
Doing his best Babe Ruth imitation, Jimmie called his shot. Now it’s happened: Samantha Powers has resigned her position as advisor to the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" during an interview. Presumedly Obama was involved in the decision. I would have thought better of him if he’d taken the hit and told…
Caucuses and Monsters
Michigan reportedly will be holding a caucus in order to re-enfranchise the state’s Democratic voters. Hopefully Michigan Dems will come to their senses and hold a proper vote. Seems that Barack Obama has figured out exactly how to win caucuses. It ain’t pretty, but it is the Chicago way, and it’s bad news for Hillary…
No Right to Home School
Michelle Malkin has this story about a California court that has issued an outrageously harsh – and grotesquely incorrect – indictment against the practice of home-schooling. From the LA Times: "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," wrote Justice H. Walter Croskey in a Feb. 28 opinion signed by the…
Clinton Doing What She Had To
Hillary Clinton has been projected as the winner – by a comfortable margin – in the Democratic primary in Ohio and is also putting it to Obama in Texas, especially among recently-decided voters. Currently her margin in Ohio is 14% with 73% of the precincts reporting. While there have been some irregularities in the vote…
Huckabee to Drop Out
Mike Huckabee’s spokesman has just told Fox News that he will be speaking within the hour and it is his intent to resign from the race for the Republican presidential nomination now that John McCain has all but won the nomination. More later. Huckabee’s resignation speech: "Ladies and gentlemen I called Senator McCain a few…