Obamamania took a big hit during the summer Congressional recess and Charles Krauthammer and Peggy Noonan, in their respective styles, have it pegged pretty well.  In a word, Obama has shown himself to be a pretty ordinary politician, even boring in Noonan’s terms.  And the American people have again demonstrated that they are very difficult […]

Watch closely over the next two months, for it will probably be the most critical period for the future of the country in the past sixty years.  Not since the power grab of the New Deal have we seen such a well-orchestrated attempt at such a massive power shift and wealth transfer as is represented […]

It has taken a few days to decompress and collect my thoughts on the election results, and I must admit that there really weren’t many surprises, because in hindsight this one was pretty well determined some weeks ago, particularly after the market meltdown that began in mid-September.  Many of us had hoped until the end that the […]

One wonders, if life and death policy judgments predicated on the point at which the sanctity of human life begins are beyond Barack Obama’s pay grade, what other life and death issues in this morally conflicted world does he consider beyond  his capacity?  Or, at a minimum, if he considers this judgment too close to call, why not give […]

If John McCain somehow defies the current odds and defeats Barack Obama in November, analysts might look at a particular moment as the turning point.  At no time and in no appearance has Obama revealed his worldview more vividly than in his appearance and speech before a reported 200,000 or more during his stop in […]

If the indictment of Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska doesn’t trigger a major turnaround and a cleansing of Republican Congressional leadership, then they are beyond hope.  This guy, Mr. Bridge to Nowhere, is the “poster child” for everything that went wrong with the Revolution of 1994 and the “earmark” culture spawned by the disastrous “K Street Project” that […]

So now we have a nominee of the Democratic Party and the main event can proceed.  The most hotly contested primary in electoral memory, which was destined to produce at least one of two history-making results, produced the one that almost no one would have predicted as recently as six months ago, and the Clintons, despite […]

This spectacle of a race for the Democratic nomination for President is unlike anything any of us have seen in our lifetimes and seems to be transforming the entire electoral landscape that we have known for at least 30 years in ways that will not become entirely clear for years to come.  I have never […]

John McCain’s almost miraculous comeback from near death as a viable candidate to the point of being the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee has put the American conservative movement in its most difficult spot since the rise of the right propelled Barry Goldwater to the GOP nomination in 1964.  How the movement responds to this challenge […]

I know I share the sentiments of many in the vapidity of the “audition” now in its thirteenth month that will ultimately decide who will succeed George W. Bush.  Newt Gingrich had the right idea last year with his in depth sessions with Mario Cuomo to illustrate how a meaningful dialogue could produce real value […]