Why General McChrystal Must Be Fired – But President Obama May Not Be Able To
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | June 22nd at 02:52 PM |
President Obama should fire General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for a highly impolitic interview Gen. McChrystal gave to Rolling Stone magazine (of all places) mocking the Vice President and the U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan, among others, and making evident his disdain for the Administration’s civilian management of the war effort. Obama should fire him – but he’s painted himself into a corner | Read More »
The Face of Sanctions
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | June 1st at 03:13 PM |
News came Monday that the Israeli navy had boarded a flotilla of ships seeking to run Israel’s blockade of Gaza, setting off an incident that ended with the Israelis shooting a number of people on board the ship. The immediate controversy is over what happened on board: the Israelis say they were attacked upon boarding by assailants wielding knives and clubs. Who you believe depends | Read More »
Club for Growth Goes In For Angle, Hits Lowden
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | May 26th at 01:16 PM |
With Danny Tarkanian apparently fading, the June 8 Nevada Senate primary race to face Harry Reid is going to come down to conservative Sharron Angle against moderate, establishment candidate Sue Lowden. Lowden has already kicked up a fuss with the observation that in the days before health insurance, people who lacked money for care – at least in rural areas and small towns – would | Read More »
Of The Government, By The Government, For The Government
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | May 25th at 10:41 AM |
I noted this in RedHot yesterday – a great Mark Steyn column, as usual, on Greece and what it means: From the Times of London: “The President of Greece warned last night that his country stood on the brink of the abyss after three people were killed when an anti-government mob set fire to the Athens bank where they worked.” Almost right. They were not | Read More »
BREAKING: Democratic CT-SEN Candidate Richard Blumenthal Has Lied For Years About Serving in Vietnam
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | May 17th at 09:44 PM |
The NY Times has the story; the longtime crusading state Attorney General (he was Eliot Spitzer before Eliot Spitzer was), Richard Blumenthal has sometimes just implied it, but on other occasions (including one the NYT has on video) he’s said outright that he served in the Marines in Vietnam, when in fact he enlisted in a stateside Marine Reserve unit only near the end of | Read More »
Ron Kind (D-WI-3) Wants The Government To Track How Much Your Daughter Weighs
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | May 13th at 07:15 PM |
Hey, remember when we conservatives said that if you let the federal government into everybody’s healthcare, pretty soon it will stick its peering eyes and groping hands into our personal business? Welcome to “pretty soon,” thanks to Wisconsin Democrat Ron Kind. Kind has introduced a bill that would commandeer your health insurer to report to the federal government the body mass index (BMI) – i.e., | Read More »
BREAKING: Mullah Omar Captured?
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | May 10th at 08:16 PM |
That’s what best-selling novelist Brad Thor is reporting over at Big Government: Through key intelligence sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I have just learned that reclusive Taliban leader and top Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Omar has been taken into custody. If Thor’s sources pan out, this is excellent news, and a moment for real vindication for everyone – from the military brass to Republican | Read More »
No Quarter: How Left-Wing Blogs Seek To Destroy Us Rather Than Debate Us
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | March 19th at 03:13 PM |
If you have been reading or writing blogs for some time, you may recall the early, heady days of the blogosphere back around 2002-03. Many of us old-school bloggers started back then (I started writing baseball on the web in May 2000, and political blogging in August 2002; RedState wouldn’t be founded until the summer of 2004). The blog world was a small town in | Read More »
Supreme Court Decision in Hertz Case a Small Victory For Federalism
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | February 23rd at 11:35 AM |
A unanimous Supreme Court this morning, in Hertz Corp. v. Friend, No. 08-1107 (U.S. Feb. 23, 2010), held that a corporation’s “principal place of business” under the federal diversity-jurisdiction statute and the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) refers to the place where the corporation’s high level officers direct, control, and coordinate the corporation’s activities. Lower federal courts have often metaphorically called that place the corporation’s | Read More »
After Obamacare: What Do Conservatives And Republicans Want on Health Care?
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | February 4th at 06:42 PM |
Democrats trying to defend their flailing healthcare bills have tried, repeatedly, a two-pronged attack on the mostly united Republican opposition to the various plans floated by the Senate and House Democrats and the Obama White House. One is to suggest that Republicans are criticizing the proposed Democratic solutions without having any of their own – implying that there really is no other choice but to | Read More »
Scott Brown Goes To 11
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | January 15th at 08:19 PM |
Too good to check: Jim Geraghty hears that Scott Brown’s campaign has internal polls showing him up 11 points: I’m getting the sense that the folks hearing this are almost a little incredulous, but it seems every demographic and key group is breaking to Brown in the past day or two. Geraghty also notes conflicting reports that Martha Coakley‘s internal polls show her either even | Read More »
Martha Coakley: Terrible Prosecutor
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | January 14th at 04:53 PM |
It’s worth recalling, as the Massachusetts Senate election approaches, that Martha Coakley is not just some bland Democratic machine apparatchik. She’s a bland Democratic machine apparatchik with a long record as a prosecutor that includes some very ugly things. Exhibit A is the notorious case, familiar to readers of the Wall Street Journal over the past three decades, of Gerald Amirault. The case, discussed in | Read More »
Martha Coakley Disses Fenway Park, Shaking Hands With Bostonians. No, Really.
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | January 14th at 12:15 PM |
Given the serial fiascoes of the Martha Coakley for Senate campaign – veering from gaffe (her claim that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan) to comedy (misspelling her own state’s name in an attack ad) to ham-handedness (a staffer barrelling over a Weekly Standard reporter trying to ask about the Afghanistan gaffe) to outright panic in her communications with national Democrats, who are now tapping | Read More »
Democrats Divided on Abortion
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | November 10th at 12:59 PM |
“The health care bill, by virtue of its intrusive nature, makes neutrality impossible…Such a bill cannot be ‘pro-choice.’ It must be pro-abortion or anti-abortion.” A funny thing is happening on the way to the impending health care showdown, as the Democrats try to turn the newly-passed House bill into something that can pass both Houses of Congress: Democrats are divided over abortion, and their divisions | Read More »
Peter King Lays Out The Stakes
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | April 23rd at 04:25 PM |
The GOP has been in a defensive crouch for too long on the war on terror. But one of the Republicans who hasn’t been afraid to lay the stakes of the current debate about interrogation procedures is Long Island Congressman and possible Senate candidate Peter King. King argues that if the Democrats try to prosecute Bush Administration officials for approving coercive interrogation techniques against 9/11 | Read More »
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