The Dumb Things I Heard Last Night a/k/a Charles Krauthammer Disappointed Me Last Night

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 9th at 07:22 AM  | 

There are a few dumb things I heard last night that need to be put down quickly. First and foremost was a silly discussion across several news networks that the race for GOP Conference Chair in the House between Jeb Hensarling and Michelle Bachmann was a race between the tea party and the establishment. To say that Michelle Bachmann is of the tea party and | Read More »

Why Does Obama Want an Israel Crisis?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 19th at 07:07 AM  | 

Charles Krauthammer has the top story at Human Events today. Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: Vice President Joe Biden was visiting, Jerusalem | Read More »

ObamaCare: The Only Exit Strategy

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 28th at 06:00 AM  | 

Charles Krauthammer has the top story at Human Events today. Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don’t need a Ph.D. to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs | Read More »