Another striking nugget from the poll Joe flagged: In contrast to glowing reviews for the president, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) draws more negative than positive evaluations of the way she has handled the tragedy. About 30 percent give her positive marks, while nearly half – 46 percent – disapprove of her actions. About [...]
According to the latest ABC/Washington Post poll, the President’s approval rating is up to a robust 54%–and rightly so, after his superb Tucson speech last week. Taken together with the legislative successes of the lame duck session, his recovery since the November election debacle has been dramatic. There are also indications that the public attitude [...]
Ashley Westbrook Turton, 37, was a fierce advocate. She was a mother, a public servant, a daughter, a Democrat, a sister and, yes, a lobbyist. She was a demure southern belle with a sometimes R-rated vocabulary. She was a debutante who loved the Grateful Dead so much she went to a concert shortly before giving [...]
I must disagree with Massimo’s attempt to respond to my column below. He accuses me of “fear-mongering” about the mentally ill, which is a bit over the top. I was simply raising an issue that needs to be addressed. All too often political correctness is used as an excuse for us not to deal with [...]
The Republican National Committee has decided to turn the page on Michael Steele’s tumultuous chairmanship by installing Steele’s former right-hand man. After seven rounds of balloting, Reince Priebus, chair of the Wisconsin GOP and the committee’s former general counsel, notched 97 votes of 168 votes, eclipsing the 85 needed to win by a sizable margin. [...]
For the better part of two decades, “mainstream media” has been mostly an epithet. For conservatives, it described the cabal of secret lefty elites, who slanted news reporting in favor of their Upper West Side agenda. For liberals, it was the corporate club of lazy, self-important stenographers who happily carried water for whomever held power–and [...]
The choice of (another) prominent Clintonite, the centrist policy wonk Bruce Reed, to be Joe Biden’s new chief of staff is the latest signal that Barack Obama plans to emulate Bill Clinton’s post-1994 move to the middle rather than dig into a liberal bunker. It may be that Obama simply believes this is the only [...]
Jared Loughner deserves no sympathy. The same cannot be said about the 2.4 million adult schizophrenics in America or the roughly 55 million other adults with mental illness. In the wake of mass killings there is always the danger of a fear-fueled backlash against the innocent—remember the Sikhs attacked after 9/11? Amid generalizations and misstatements [...]
