By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 31st at 08:28 AM  | 

On May 16, Barack Obama bravely declared that he would debate John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee “anywhere, anytime.” “If John McCain wants to meet me anywhere, anytime, to have a debate about our respective policies in Iraq, in Iran, in the Middle East or around the world, that is a conversation I am happy to have,” said Obama to an adoring audience of “reporters” | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 30th at 11:27 PM  | 

Barack Obama’s campaign strategy of purposely distorting his opponent’s statements, then running for cover claiming that he is being “attacked,” was on full display today at a Springfield, Missouri campaign stop. “[A]nxieties seem to be growing with each passing day,” said Obama, taking a page from the oldest book that Democratic politics-as-usual has to offer (the one in which the sky is always falling, and | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 30th at 10:45 PM  | 

Republicans in Congress have been pressing the lower House’s Democrat leadership to consider realistic solutions to the energy crunch to no avail for weeks now. 50-mile-or-more offshore drilling? Off the table. Using a fraction of ANWR to provide America with years’ worth of fuel? Also off the table. Nuclear energy? Waaaay off the table. About the only thing Speaker Pelosi and her band of merry | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 30th at 04:27 PM  | 

The ACLU and (No-)ThinkProgress are up in arms over their utter ignorance the perceived double standard being demonstrated by Kansas Senator Sam Brownback’s (R) condemnation of the totalitarian ChiCom government’s wiring of athletes’ and journalists’ hotels with listening and recording devices. “Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of ’severe retaliation’ if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 28th at 05:02 PM  | 

“The only argument Reid could muster against Coburn…was a pathetic claim that the Senate does not actually spend federal money, but only authorizes funding.” “Senator Train Wreck,” also known as Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), was the subject of two not-so-fawning stories this morning — one in the New York Times and one in the Washington Post — addressing both his reputation as a stickler on | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 28th at 11:35 AM  | 

Please forgive me for going a bit off-topic here. This diary has nothing to do with politics, conservative or liberal; nor does it have to do with national security, economics, health care, or even law. Rather, this is a bit of a personal recounting of a couple of events in my life from the last year or so, and how a pair of the most | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 25th at 08:15 PM  | 

“The safe political choice” for some time now has been “to support some sort of retreat” in Iraq, John McCain acknowledged today in a speech to veterans and media. “Many observers said my approach [of advocating victory in Iraq no matter what the political cost] would ruin my hopes of becoming President,” he said. “My choice was not smart politics. It didn’t test well in | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 05:41 PM  | 

Real money saved at the pump, even for a time as brief as the summer season? It’s “a gimmick,” according to Democratic nominee Barack Obama, “that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say they did something.” Exemption from gas taxes just for Barack Obama | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 21st at 09:17 AM  | 

Members of the Democrat Congress are dusting off their handy rubber stamps (or unwrapping new ones, inscribed with the new Presidential motto, “Vero Possumus”) in preparation for the round of tax hikes their assumed President-in-Waiting is promising to send down the pipe next Spring in the name of “making the rich pay their fair share.” Not to let real facts get in the way of | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 17th at 10:21 AM  | 

A quick flip through the classified ad section of the Stuart News, one of the TCPalm family of newspapers, reveals an interesting job listing (see right; click for larger image). That’s right — Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), offering people money to support his candidacy. If that doesn’t send the signal that this one-term incumbent who beat the disgraced Mark Foley’s name in 2006 is secure | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 17th at 09:40 AM  | 

As far back as December 21, 1924, the wise and knowing New York Times was getting claims and analyses wrong with regard to evil and violent actors around the world. Look upward, and take in once again the title of this post. It is a real headline from a 12/21/24 Times article, in which a Times reporter explains that Hitler, released on parole from the | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 16th at 03:19 PM  | 

International newswire activity spiked two mornings ago when word came from Afghanistan that nine U.S. troops had been killed in an attack on a remote coalition base. “A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. troops since the 2001 invasion,” crowed the Associated Press. “Militants fired machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 16th at 12:29 PM  | 

The pure awesomeness in the video below comes to us courtesy of http://www.runcynthiarun.org/ (where should she run to? who knows?), a Web site dedicating to making sure you know to “Elect Cynthia McKinney, President of the United States.” What you’re watching is the rally at which McKinney and her running mate, Rosa Clemente, accepted their POTUS and VP nominations from “the most progressive, innovative political | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 15th at 10:27 PM  | 

RedState-endorsed Congressman Paul Broun, Jr. (R-GA), elected in 2007 to fill the rest of the late Rep. Charlie Norwood’s term, faced an all-out assault from his own party this primary season in the form of business-as-usual, big-government Republican Barry Fleming. Fleming has been attacking Broun from the left on fiscal policy, Constitutional authority, and social issues for months. Today, primary voters in Georgia’s 10th Congressional | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 15th at 08:56 PM  | 

President Bush may not have governed as a TrueConservative™ down the line for the last seven years, but this exchange with AP Radio’s Mark Smith highlights President Bush’s belief in those core conservative principles of Freedom and Choice. Shorter Mark Smith: “Why aren’t you emulating the Magi Emeritus, Jimmy Carter, and asking Americans to wear sweaters and eschew heat and air conditioning, and sit at | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 15th at 08:42 PM  | 

“Do you think Barack Obama says what he believes most of the time, or does he say what he thinks people want to hear?” asked the New York Times in a recent poll — and Fifty-One percent of respondents said Mr. “New Politics” Obama says “what he thinks people want to hear.” Further, Fifty-Seven percent said Obama “has changed his position on important issues in | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 13th at 03:14 PM  | 

Pennsylvania Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D) has made news for both accidental honesty and ill-timed, transparent duplicity in the last couple weeks. Now, in an attempt to control that damage and prevent further gaffes (which would cause damage to his apparently Keystone State-sized ego), Kanjorski is refusing to answer any questions about the statements that previously got him into trouble with the media, the voters, and | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 13th at 02:37 PM  | 

Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), who recently gained media attention for his videotaped admission that, due to “temptation to want to win back the Congress,” Democrats “stretched the facts” regarding their ability to actually end the war in Iraq, appears to be back for a video encore. This time, the Democratic Congressman appears in a video making two distinct statements regarding the ‘Surge’ strategy that has | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 13th at 09:48 AM  | 

Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) has been a fairly undistinguished member of the House of Representatives for nearly a quarter of a century. He is a career member of the Financial Services Committee who has made little or no name for himself since his first electoral victory, and has maintained incumbency through the funneling of pork back to his district. Even his Wikipedia entry says that | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 13th at 09:22 AM  | 

“Thank goodness this is a presidential election year. We really need new leadership. People will be voting on substantive issues in this election – the economy, health care, education.” -Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA-11) April 28, 2008 Wilkes-Barre, PA Source. Clearly the 2004 election, which saw so many voters cast their ballots for the candidate they thought best suited to keep the country secure, prosecute the | Read More »