Those of you in Michigan, just to give you an illustration, you have the presidential campaign going on there now, the primary campaign, and you’re hearing from all kinds of people about how Michigan is a one-state recession, and we’re going to fix it. Romney‘s got his plan to fix it; McCain is offering his […]

Big success going on in Iraq. Nobody is talking about it, not only military success, but political success as well. Sixty insurgents were killed in an offensive, Al-Qaeda insurgents. One hundred ninety-three have been detained. Seventy-nine weapons caches have been found and captured. “Also on Monday, the senior US officials in Iraq issued their first […]

The November elections will not be a referendum on Iraq. The growing stability there — thanks to the troop surge that Democrats fought tooth and nail — slammed that door in their faces. Identity politics (woman, minority, religion, etc.) won’t decide the election, either. Ultimately, the politics of personality will give way to the issues […]

The media wants Huckabee, and the reason the media wants Huckabee is because they know they’re going to, down the road, be able to portray him as a nutcase, Bible-thumping evangelical who’s going to take his religion and God into the Oval Office — and they’ll use that to incite fear among liberals and progressives […]

The Pew Research Center reports that a growing number of African-Americans believe they’re worse off than they were five years ago. No surprise, given the doom-and-gloom coverage of racial issues these past years from the media. Less than half think their future is going to be any better. Two thirds say there’s a growing difference […]