A Windy City Political Travelogue

If there’s a dearth of material here this weekend, it is because my wife and I are off to Chicago, Illinois for a Sunday wedding. Given that I haven’t been to the Second City in almost two decades, and that Joanna had not been at all, we wanted to at least take advantage of the [...]

Objection! Hearsay!

Assigned Reading: White House: Sotomayor Says She Chose Word Poorly (FROM: Associated Press) I don’t know which word (singular) Judge Sotomayor might have admitted to choosing poorly; for all I know, it might be a typographical error on the part of the AP. What I do know, however, is that the White House, president and [...]

Sotomayor and the White House’s ‘Journalistic Fatwa’

By Rick Saunders America’s Right Where to start? Must measure the words carefully . . . exceedingly carefully . . . definitely, definitely very carefully. Here goes: Mr. Obama has nominated to the United States Supreme Court a judge from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Sonia Sotomayor, to replace the retiring [...]

A Healthy Round of ‘Devil’s Advocate’

By Robert Wallace America’s Right Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is to play Devil’s Advocate to my own conservative perspectives as well as to some of the moves that I see Republicans making for politics rather than principle. So here goes with my first installment of Devil’s Advocate. Gitmo and the [...]

The America’s Right ‘Identity Politics Pop Quiz’

Name: ______________Date: ______________ POP QUIZ — IDENTITY POLITICS Instructions: Below, you will find several questions and statements about race and discrimination at American institutes of higher learning. All statements have been reproduced verbatim and have been penned by minority students, though any reference to a specific race or ethnicity have been redacted. The questions are [...]

Score One for Voter Intimidation

Assigned Reading: Malkin: Why is the DoJ Protecting New Black Panthers?(FROM: Michellemalkin.com) Thankfully, Michelle Malkin is more on the ball than I am. After all, I may have been the first one to report on the lawsuit in question when it was filed on January 7, 2009, but despite working in the courthouse and covering [...]

The Heart of the ‘Torture’ Argument is Not About Torture

It took a liberal to remind me of the left’s preferred tactic — re-shaping a lost argument for the sake of public consumption In the wee hours of this morning, a good friend of mine made a comment on the piece which involved Keith Olbermann’s interview of a popular right-leaning radio talk show host who [...]

Second Amendment: 1, Criminality: 0

“Let’s get it on!”: The final words of a moron From a San Antonio, Texas television station Web site: The robbery suspect entered the Babcock Square Pharmacy around 9 a.m. at 5824 Babcock Rd. Inside were the owner/pharmacist, his wife, and an employee. The employee saw the man had a gun and told the pharmacist, [...]

‘It was Torture’

Popular talk radio host undergoes waterboarding, changes his mind on nature of technique Saying that I’m not much of a Keith Olbermann fan would be understatement of the year. Olbermann, Dan Patrick and Craig Kilborn were just about as good as it gets when it came to sports broadcasting, but the post-Sportscenter incarnation of this [...]

‘Green’ Spokesmouths Need to Curb Emissions

The farcical global warming movement must now take a back seat to other, more pertinent concerns facing their beloved planet Earth Okay. Ha-ha. It was funny and entertaining and at least perceived to be meaningful while it lasted. The concerts were nice. The idea that we all turn off our lights for an hour was [...]

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