Yeah. Right. I like Alan West (though he disappointed me on several of his votes during the debt-ceiling debates). But if you think Herman Cain is naive, imagine a Republican politician who actually believes that the reason Obama is able to avoid serious criticism is that the press is afraid of him rather than completely ideologically wedded to man. Hell, Obama started his political career in the home of a

Both Stacy McCain and Tina Korbe raise the question. To which the answer is suprisingly simple: we’ve been told since early on that Santorum isn’t first tier; and consequently, he’s never been treated as more than a foil in debates — often to Ron Paul, sometimes to the newly-minted fiscal conservatives who’d previously backed bailouts — even though his performance on substance has been routinely solid, from a conservative point

Andrew Malcolm, IBD: Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced today a new military cooperation agreement that will see up to 2,500 U.S. Marines based and training there. There will also be U.S. Air Force units flying in and out and training for six months at a time with Aussie counterparts in the north. Oh, and you might notice U.S. warships making more regular calls at Australian ports, perhaps including some

Newsmax: The Obama administration said Tuesday that a balanced-budget amendment heading for a House vote this week could impose serious risks on the economy and force cuts to essential programs such as Medicare and Social Security. The White House, in a statement, said it strongly opposed the balanced budget amendment being considered by the House. Instead, it said members of Congress should “move beyond politics as usual and find bipartisan

“Egyptian women fret as ‘modesty’ becomes election issue”. Gee. Who could have ever seen this coming? Over to you, Bill Kristol! — or are you too busy these days telling us rubes how to vote in the GOP primaries to revisit this last very public whiff of yours…? (h/t Allah)

Because honestly, who needs transparent representative government when a group of lawmakers can get what they want pushed through a “Supercommittee” that is itself an abomination of the legislative process? Thanks, Speaker Boehner! We couldn’t have created such a permanent governing class without you! Now. Get your asses in line and support Romney, TEA Party pains in the ass! The GOP has tax revenues it would like to manage for

This illustrates precisely why we can’t count on politicians and bureaucrats and regulators to police themselves. It likewise shows how, once you expand government, it is nearly impossible to contract it without a complete and, dare I say, fundamental transformation, of the political culture. Which is what the TEA Party proposes. Not coincidentally. Cato: Perhaps no failure was as avoidable as that of the Bernie Madoff scheme. After all outside

Let the defensiveness and spinning begin! A teacher who took her students to see Occupy Denver said she brought her class to see what was happening. “We came to observe,” said teacher Celia Bard when questioned by a blogger in a video posted on YouTube. — And by “observe,” she means have students shout, along with the Occupy Denver group leader (himself very concerned about the precious bodily fluids of

And with this, the SCOTUS has become officially politicized, and has lost its mandate, so far as I’m concerned. We live in tyranny.

When the erstwhile establishment feminists have lost a post-feminist feminist Journalism professor willing to tell them so in the NYT, well, that can only mean one thing: CAT FIGHT! After all these years, we are again debating the definition of unwanted sexual advances and parsing the question of whether a dirty joke in the office is a crime. Conservatives have mocked the seriousness of sexual harassment; liberal and mainstream pundits