Joel B. Pollak

In a long, languorous address to the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, former President Bill Clinton showed how much Democrats and the mainstream media have lowered the standards for President Barack Obama.  Using revisionist history and grade inflation, Clinton labeled

Once, he was the “Comeback Kid.” Now, he’s “Boilerplate Bill.”  Former President Bill Clinton told the delegates to the Democratic National Convention everything they had already heard over the past two days. Even the smears were old. The only interesting

First Lady Michelle Obama’s pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early years–about how a young Barack Obama

First Lady Michelle Obama’s address to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte tonight was a throwback, a reprise of the speech her husband gave in at the DNC in 2004, the speech that created his new identity as a

It was both fitting and proper that Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who leads the state with the worst bond rating in the nation, should have received a primetime speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention as the nation passed $16

The Obama cult of personality dominates the Democratic National Convention to such a large extent that it has replaced the donkey, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party–which is nowhere to be seen in Charlotte.  It is normal for presidential

When Republicans feature a Latina governor and a Latino U.S. Senator at their party’s convention, the mainstream media reports it as a desperate attempt to reach out to a voting bloc it is rapidly losing. When Democrats feature a Latino

Republican nominee for Vice President Paul Ryan addressed a packed crowd today at East Carolina University Greenville, NC. He was standing more than two hundred miles east of the site where the Democratic National Convention is due to begin tomorrow,

In 2008, an aggressive candidate Barack Obama told supporters to “argue with them, get in their faces.” In 2012, Republicans are taking a page from Obama’s book, holding a “counter-convention” outside the Democratic National Convention at the Time Warner Cable

Attention Los Angeles Times political reporters, New York Times columnists, MSNBC hosts and Democrat super PACs: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), running mate to presidential candidate Mitt Romney and chair of the House budget committee, told a radio host that he

When the week began, and the Republican National Convention bore the unfortunate burden (again) of coinciding with a hurricane near New Orleans, some thought that it was inevitable that President Barack Obama would upstage challenger Mitt Romney–not by campaigning, but

I was wrong; the Republican National Convention in Tampa was a big success for the party and its nominees. The RNC overcame Hurricane Isaac and the skepticism of the mainstream media to give Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan a boost,

Breitbart News editor Dana Loesch confronted Code Pink demonstrators who attempted to disrupt Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s speech accepting his party’s nomination Thursday night. When two demonstrators stood up to the left of the stage and heckled Romney, Loesch

The buildup to Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech as his party’s nominee for President at the Republican National Convention in Tampa emphasized themes of charity, diversity, and achievement in Mitt Romney’s private and public life.  Gov. Jeb Bush gave an address

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician connect with a nation quite like Paul Ryan did it tonight. Ryan has the simple charisma of sincerity. It helps that he is adept at explaining complicated subjects in clear, concise language.

I called Paul Ryan in the winter of 2010, as I was making the transition from Republican politics in Illinois to conservative new media with Andrew Breitbart. He answered from his car, as he was driving to his tree stand

Via National Review Online, via the BBC, and now at Breitbart News (how’s that for a threesome?), a report has emerged that Brazil has officially recognized a three-person unit as a civil union. The trio–two women and a man–have been

As Republican governors work hard to prepare Gulf states for the landfall of Hurricane Isaac, President Barack Obama is holding campaign rallies, content with the mainstream media narrative that bad weather is a GOP burden. In 2008, however, as Hurricane

If, as George Orwell once observed, the greatest enemy of any left-wing government is its previous propaganda, then Barack Obama’s most fearsome enemy is a small volume his campaign published in 2008: Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan