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The Jeremiah Wright Contradiction
To understand why Barack Obama finally decided to sever his ties with pastor Jeremiah Wright, one only needs to reach for a copy of Dreams from My Father .
After meeting Wright for the first time, Obama recalls thumbing through a church brochure, reviewing the guiding principles of Trinity United. He described one particular passage […]
Walking the Road that Buckley Built
Conservative writer and PGN contributor Michael Johns argues that modern conservatism owes much of its success to William F. Buckley, Jr., who built conservatism as an alternative to the Great Society’s vast expansion of federal governmental control and built conservatism as the most consequential political and intellectual movement of modern times.
The Four Options for the Democratic Nomination and the Best Plan Going Forward
There are essentially four options left for the Democratic nomination. They depend upon three factors: who wins Pennsylvania, who wins Indiana, and whether Florida or Michigan get revotes.
The possibilities
1.Clinton wins Pennsylvania, Indiana and Florida and Michigan get revotes.
Outcome: Clinton wins
2. Clinton wins Pennsylvania, Indiana and Florida and Michigan do NOT get revotes.
Outcome: Clinton will win […]
The Math of the Delegates: It’s Going to be Close. Really Close.
More coverage at Thoughts on the World and The International Relations Blog
So it’s come down to this: an all out fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. Let’s take a quick look at the current numbers:
Obama: 1402 pledged (non-super) delegates
Clinton: 1240 pledged (non-super) delegates
Keep in mind, 2025 delegates are needed […]
The Coattails of Barack Obama
While the media spins Hillary’s attempt to make herself look Presidential through her allusion (or illusion) that the Big Girl would consider Barack Obama as a VP running mate…(although her recent Super Tuesday II delegate win was just slapped down by Don’t Think So Wyoming)…
….the rest of us can take a break from this Dream […]
Hillary Clinton’s Tax Return
Well, it’s not her tax return, but Hillary Clinton’s presidential financial disclosure report will just have to do for now.
The magic couple pulled in a sum in excess of $45 million, not including earnings in 2007 or 2008.
The Assets and Income are an interesting read. Bill’s income from the Arkansas Public Employee Retirement System […]
Power to the People
“Why are children who are supposed to be protected by the Jessica Lunsford Act actually being harmed grievously by the same law? Why are the children of registered sex offenders being tormented, abused and trying to commit suicide because of the Jessica Lunsford Act?”
Why indeed?
Activist George Crossley examined this important issue Saturday, March 1st on […]
Obamacans Looming Large in Texas?
Obama and Clinton are currently virtually tied in Texas…
From CNN:
In the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Monday, 50 percent of likely Democratic primary voters said Obama is their choice for the party’s nominee, while 46 percent backed Clinton.
But taking into account the poll’s sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for Democratic […]
Cleavage vs. Climate
What if the sun rose one brilliant morning and never set?
Just stayed up in the sky, blazing brilliant, melting the polar ice cap into blue nothingness, erasing the coastlines into a Dali-esque reconfiguration of nature’s win over man?
Would it dawn on the media about that time to begin questioning the presidential candidates about global warming […]
Massachusetts: An Interesting Primary to Watch
In case I haven’t told everybody yet, I live in Massachusetts (as do, I believe, many other Political Grind-ers). Meaning, I vote on Tuesday. So, who cares? Well, you should. Massachusetts could reveal many things about what an Obama presidency would be like.
A background
In November of 2006, Massachusetts held a gubernatorial election at the end […]
Dear Governor Crist
Across elementary schools nationwide, when the bell rings, kids tear out of the building like nobody’s business.
It’s so great to go home.
One particular afternoon, a couple of Florida kids wished the bell had never rung.
Moments before dismissal, the school administrator had come across a neighborhood mom distributing pictures of their dad to parents waiting for […]
The Burden Of Freedom Takes The Heart Of A Lion
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” - Thomas Jefferson
We Americans are sensitive about our liberty - it was won at a high cost and throughout our history good men and women have died far from home to protect it. […]
The Case Against Ethanol
I’ve long been an opponent of ethanol as a viable source of alternative energy for America. At best it’s a short sighted and inefficient attempt at energy independence at worst its just another way to subsidize corn. Over at Scientific American the recently published an article showing the results of a five year study on […]
Bland Impromptus - Elections, Primaries….
In honor of one of my favorite (can there only be one? not the case anymore) reads, Impromptu’s by Jay Nordlinger at NRO - I’ll make a stab…
Katherine Jean Lopez at the corner at NRO wrote of Bill Clinton’s game face regarding Hillary Clinton’s success rate to date….interesting, but one thing stuck out creating a […]
