Harry Reid Among The Race Hypocrites

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  January 11th at 10:30 AM  | 

By now most of you have seen Harry Reid’s reported remarks, from a book on the 2008 election, enthusing that Barack Obama could be a successful presidential candidate because he was “light-skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” The real story here is the Left’s hypocrisy: Reid has committed a sin that would be unpardonable by anyone but a Democratic | Read More »

It’s Blago Time! [UPDATED]

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  April 2nd at 04:26 PM  | 

Fitzmas in April for the man Barack Obama endorsed for re-election in 2006? The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago said Thursday it will release news late in the afternoon about a “significant criminal matter” that will include a court filing. A written statement gave no information on what the subject might be, but in early January, federal Judge James Holderman gave the office three additional | Read More »

Corrupt Democrats Play To Type

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  January 6th at 02:41 PM  | 

I argued during the general election campaign that the single most scandalously under-covered story of the campaign was Barack Obama’s thorough immersion in machine politics in Chicago. And I confidently predicted, on November 3, that Obama, if elected, would continue to be haunted in office by those and other ties to his Chicago past. But even I didn’t imagine that the continuing saga of Chicago | Read More »