There’s one aspect to the rise and possible election of Barack Obama that I have not read a lot about: the form and function of a First Ladyship filled by one Michelle Obama. What exactly are we going to get from her if Mr. Obama is elected to the presidency? Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes at…
Category: Liberalism
Shocker: College Faculty Mostly Fund Democrats
This may come as a bit of a traumatic shock to readers of the this blog, but it’s become known to the Houston Chronicle that the vast majority of political donations made by Texas’ college professors go to left-wing candidates. Texas faculty member’s candidate of choice for president? Hillary Rodham Clinton. Faculty members have contributed…
Liberals, Taxes, and Pain
Sometimes I have a tendency to treat liberal as if it is a dirty word. And sometimes I skip the part about explaining why that is, yet again, because that dirtiness is so obvious. Since an apology is required for every misdeed in this day and age, well, I’m sorry for not spelling it out. …
What We All Want
A well-known commentator said the following yesterday in response to Barack Obama’s speech. Without peeking, who do you think the author is and does the statement stand on its own to definitively define the difference between conservatives and liberals? We all want opportunity for our kids. We all want a growing, expanding economy. The argument…
David Mamet, Former Liberal
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…
Switching Sides
Pete Abel says: Last week, I crossed party lines to vote for Obama in the Missouri primary. Last night, I noted that I’m increasingly likely to do the same in November. … Challenge me. Rebuke me. Never let me off the hook. Make me work for what I am starting to believe. Well, here goes,…
Morris on Clinton, Obama
When I wrote about what Dick Morris said about Hillary Clinton’s bullying, us-versus-them political tactics back in September, there was a bit of a negative reaction. Morris is biased, unreliable, even a kook, some said. True, but was he right? A refresher: Hillary emphatically comes from the “us versus them” school of American politics. Like…
Self-Important Mudslingers
Fred Thompson, straggling behind the Republican pack as he has been in recent weeks, has not attracted as much negative attention from the liberal crowd as the other, more popular candidates. But while he’s still ing 4th place, Thompson is polling reasonably well in South Carolina with 16% of the vote. That’s enough to get…
Is the Times A-Changing?
The NY Times recently brought William Kristol onto its editorial pages and the uber-geniuses on the left fairly fell into heart palpitations at the news. The hatred that liberals so often express against anything conservative is as visceral as it is vicious and the Kristol case is consistent with that kind of caustic commentary. It’s…
John Edwards’ 4 Steps
Edwards, running a reasonable 3rd in the Democratic primary polls, today published a 4 step program to a healthier America in the Boston Globe. But would following his recipe really make America a better place to live? The first thing we need to do is create more jobs and make sure those jobs pay enough for people…