Dorothy Rabinowitz has got a new op-ed out in today’s WSJ. Praytell, let’s see if we can figure out who she’s talking about:
To hear [The President] speak now on matters like the national defense is to recognize that the leader now in the White House is in every respect the person he seemed on the [...]
Quoted from Obama and the Politics of Crowds:
On the face of it, there is nothing overwhelmingly stirring about Sen. Obama. There is a cerebral quality to him, and an air of detachment. He has eloquence, but within bounds. After nearly two years on the trail, the audience can pretty much anticipate and recite his lines. [...]
Peggy Noonan continues to make sense (or, rather, she’s started making sense again after she went around the bend for a bit). Today’s evidence:
A great moment: When the press was hitting hard on the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter, he did not respond with a politically shrewd “I have no comment,” or “We shouldn’t [...]
In an op-ed today in the WSJ on reworking sentencing for child porn, which certainly should be punished pretty harshly, but the logic of this guy on why people would create child porn is just laughable:
But Ernie Allen, who heads the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, argues the sentences are simply “catching up [...]
I damn near dropped my WSJ on the train this morning on the ride in when I read Thomas Frank’s excellent column on the OpEd page, “The GOP Peddles Economic Snake Oil.” Apparently the WSJ is now running this most excellent columnist every couple of weeks (pseudo-archive here) under the title, “The Tilting Yard.”
He is [...]
For years, the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web column has been required reading for me…but over the last couple of months, I’ve noticed that James Taranto, the column’s editor has taken on a more strident, pro-Bushian-worldview way of thinking. Granted, it appears we’ll be voting for different candidates in the election, but I’ve [...]