Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
JENNIFER RUBIN: Something Is Missing. Actually, I think I this is a law-professor thing. In the classroom you discuss all sorts of things without getting heated up, and you try to minimize the effect of any distractions on the lesson plan. I’m not sure it translates that well to the Presidency, [...]
From On High (Free subscription) | yesterday
Much is still being made of that brief remark made by President Obama when he learned of the massacre that had taken place on the Ft. Hood Army base on Thursday. The one in which he expressed his profound right after giving a shout-out to someone nobody's ever heard of and after making a pledge to those in attendance that Indian affairs "were a top priority for us." An address in which caring...
All That Is Necessary (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hasan's political beliefs are clearly significant in hindsight -- but it's absurd to think the Army somehow should have known he was dangerous. Our society doesn't take action against people for thinking wrong thoughts, or for giving voice to them.
Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The first rule of foreign policy, as in medicine, is "do no harm." This means that is you're Barack Obama and you're unschooled in diplomacy, as you are in all matters governmental, you should proceed cautiously. Instead, the Obama team has badly blundered in the Middle East, and is in fact doing harm there rather than good. As always, it must be kept in mind that this Administration has...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Jennifer Rubin scoffs at Marc Ambinder's sycophantic question. (Via Instapundit , who thinks O's coolness is "a law-professor thing." By the way, that hyphen is a law[-]professor thing.) Rubin says: [T]he affected “cool” of the president is getting rather creepy as a style of governance.... This was on display in an unfortunate and highly visible way this week. ... [T]he president’s...
Pundit & Pundette (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
With unemployment reports "worse than expected," Speaker Nancy Pelosi urges members of the House to get out their shovels and dig that hole deeper. Jennifer Rubin thinks they should have voted yesterday:The numbers are staggering in the aggregate: “Unemployment rose by 558,000 to 15.7 million, the government said. Of those, 5.6 million had been out of work longer than six months, representing...
Sense of Events (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Hot Air cites a Washington Post piece on the administration's multiple fumbles in the Israel-Palestinian peace process. Saith the Post, Daniel Levy, a veteran Israeli peace negotiator now at the Century Foundation in Washington, summed up the administration’s efforts in recent days as “amateur night at the Apollo Theater.” He said the administration did not game out the consequences...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
. . . and Rahm Emanuel and Anita Dunn and David Axelrod. Fox News pulls huge election day ratings. Mr. President, White House aides, they couldn’t have done it without your support, er, condemnation. On election night this week, Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time), Fox News grabbed [...]
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
AITH talks with the folks behind NEVER SLEEP AGAIN.
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
We will have more reaction later this morning. But for now, here's a round-up of bloggy goodness, assessing the still-incomplete results from tonight. First up, the always essential Ambers: Yes, independents are moving to the GOP. That's a big headline....
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
. . . for only the second time in the history of the Commonwealth. I am with Jim Geraghty on this one, preempting the networks. UPDATE: FoxNews makes it official! UPDATE (from Bruce): Now the question is — will the GOP take command of the VA Legislature? UP-UPDATE (from Dan): Jennifer Rubin indicates that the GOP will pick up [...]
To God and my country (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Jennifer Rubin on the effect of Obama's dithering over Afghanistan: This is perhaps one reason, an important one, why Obama is seen increasingly as a smaller-than-life president after a larger-than-life candidacy. Certainly, much of his rhetoric bordered on self-parody during the campaign. But if he was talking about receding oceans and a we-are-the-world moment in time, he was at least talking about...
Dad29 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Jennifer Rubin comments on HRC's string of State-Stupid Remarks. Best adjectival construction: ... she will have to climb out of some of the holes the Obami have been digging ... HT: JustOneMinute
Sierra Faith (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Jennifer Rubin gets an email: As I drove up to George Washington Middle School and caught site of the 1,000-plus people waiting in line for the H1N1 vaccine, I was filled with only two thoughts. “There is no way I am getting in that line” and “Is this how it is going to be [...]
Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Subject: txt 1st hcare crpt reps libs bbro - Considering how much cash trial lawyers pour into Democratic party coffers every year, it seems only fitting that they would receive some golden nuggets that benefit them at the expense of everyone else. Jennifer Rubin writing at Commentary Contentions : A friend points out a little nugget of absurdity and political mendacity in the Pelosi health-care bill....
Videos