Pete Wehner, who used to work in the White House (he was on Karl Rove’s staff, number one behind Rove) has a piece today on Huckabee. It’s at National Review Online, and he also wants to take issue with the first two paragraphs of Huckabee’s essay that he wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine, particularly the […]

How about this AP headline: “Romney Fires Landscapers Over Illegals –– Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday fired a landscaping company for using illegal immigrants to work on his lawn a week after a tussle with rival Rudy Giuliani over this issue.” You know what struck me about this? Not that he fired an […]

Democrat debate on NPR, yesterday in Des Moines. The moderator Robert Siegel had this exchange with the Sen. Biden. SIEGEL: Clearly, many Muslims hate the US enough to want to do us grievous harm. Would you speculate on the reasons for their hatred of us, Senator Biden, why? BIDEN: The reason we are disliked so […]

Democrats… play the class-envy card We have great economic news out here today, this is tremendous. “Employers added about twice as many new employees last month than expected.” It’s always a surprise when the economy does well. This is Reuters that happens to be reporting this. “Factory orders edged up. The government reports on Friday […]

Yesterday in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Representative John Murtha held a video conference with reporters to talk about his trip to Iraq, from which he just returned. MURTHA: I — I think — I think the surge is — is working. What? What did he say? MURTHA: I — I think — I think the surge is […]