It’s (almost) Halloween, when the dead walk the earth. In keeping with the season, Newt Gingrich‘s political career — which just about everybody thought was dead — has returned to haunt us, or at least annoy us. The New York Times reported Monday that the Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House would like to dissolve the Ninth [...]
On this past Sunday’s This Week, Martha Raddatz worried about the future of war-by-drone: “In — in one way, it — it makes war easier. It’s so clinical. The drones strikes are so clinical. No one dies from our side. No one dies from the American side. So is it easier for a president to go to war, to — [...]
I decided to do something a little different for this blog post, and share a pretty telling Mitt Romney gaffe during the last GOP debate. When Rick Perry cornered him about hiring illegal immigrants, Mitt Romney explained that he hired a landscaping company that happened to employ illegals. When he found out about this, he went to the landscaping company [...]
by Willie Trieger. Cross-posted from the Daily Pennsylvanian’s Red and Blue blog On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Israeli Defense soldier Gilad Shalit was released by Hamas after more than five years of captivity. Israel received Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners. On the surface, this looks like a terrible strategic move by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These released Palestinians include [...]
Let’s play a game I call six degrees of Mitt Romney’s lawn. I say a person’s name, and you guess how many steps it takes to link him or her to the front yard of the frontrunner. We’ll start with an easy one: columnist Gail Collins. Collins writes about Romney’s dog (and his trip on a car roof) a lot, [...]
Yesterday, news broke that Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s 42-year tyrant, was killed. Revolutionary fighters rushed Gaddafi’s 80-vehicle convoy that NATO previously attacked. After attempting to re-enter his compound, they saw him and another man shot him with a 9mm pistol to the head and chest. This means a lot of things for the United States. For one, the death paves a way for [...]
The Vice President lied. Big time. It’s disappointing when politicians I dislike lie, even more so when politicians I actually like do so. First, he confused simple categories of statistics. Politicians muck up statistics and statistical methods all the time, and I find it no less heinous when Joe Biden does it than when Herman Cain does. If you’re going to [...]
It’s pretty common knowledge that the Supreme Court is becoming more and more conservative. Whether or not you believe this is a good thing depends on where you land on the political spectrum. The truth is liberal presidents are simply less likely to appoint radically liberal justices. Obama had not one, but TWO chances to appoint someone to the Supreme [...]
The Republican electorate (or, at least, the media speaking for the Republican electorate) has been plowing through new candidates at a blistering pace. We’re forced — time and again — through the “Will he or won’t he?” ritual, only to see a candidates meteoric rise followed by a painful crash. Well, let me introduce you to the mystery flavor of [...]
Israeli-Palestinian relations have always been erratic, at the very least. Trying to resolve them is like defusing a bomb: in the end, this may prevent it from detonating, but all the while a hundred other units of dynamite are going off, one by one. In other words, there is no one central way of resolving Israeli-Palestinian tensions, no one bomb [...]
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