Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against convicted terrorist Jose Padilla in his lawsuit against former Bush Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo. Padilla claimed his constitutional rights were violated when President Bush designated him an “enemy combatant” and ordered his detention by the U.S. military, allegedly at the [...]
As the campaign season gets into full swing, voters can expect a deluge of polls. Every major media outfit and several independent polling organizations will provide almost real-time information on every twist and turn in the political landscape. The polls will not only cheer or frighten partisans on all sides, they will likely have a [...]
Two weeks ago, I sat down with the Dallas Morning News editorial board. Their first three questions were: (1) “Is it good to be a moderate?” (2) “Do we need more compromise in Washington?” and (3) “How will you be bipartisan and work across the aisle?” At that point, I laughed out loud and told [...]
Editor’s Note: Katrina Trinko, the National Review author who reported the claim first made by this article, has retracted the story that Elizabeth Warren may have plagiarized in her 2006 book All Your Worth: I took down my earlier post on Elizabeth Warren plagiarizing from the book Getting On the Money Track. On Amazon.com, the [...]
Miriam Goderich, who helped edit a 1991 booklet for Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which erroneously stated that Obama had been born in Kenya, has issued a press release–first reported by her own client at Political Wire: “You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client [...]
Today, the respected Marquette University Law School released its latest survey on the Wisconsin recall. In just a few shorts weeks, Gov. Scott Walker has expanded his lead from a virtual tie to a solid six point lead. A new Marquette Law School Poll shows that with three weeks to go until the recall election Governor [...]
Just two weeks ago, the battle for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska was between state Attorney General Jim Bruning and state Treasurer Don Stenburg. Neither inspired the growing base of conservative voters. They were, to be charitable, standard conservative-ish career politicians. Mama Grizzly, Sarah Palin, shook up the race with [...]
Despite an avalanche of irrefutable evidence that demonstrates beyond any doubt that Elizabeth Warren has no proof to back up her phony claims of Native American ancestry, the embattled Massachusetts Senate candidate doubled down and repeated her heritage lie on CNN today. “You know, I’m proud of my Native American heritage,” Ms. Warren stated this morning [...]
Heeding the journalistic adage to “follow the money,” the Washington Post has found that every one out of six of President Obama’s top fundraising “bundlers” who have hauled in $500,000 or more publicly identify themselves as gay. The implications are clear: as Obama’s campaign continued to struggle to haul in large donations, his team needed [...]
If a key U.S. intelligence agency enters into a deal with a major email and search- engine provider, and you request confirmation of this deal, the government doesn’t have to answer you one way or the other. So says a federal appeals court. And the court is correct. Several years ago the media picked up [...]
- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984