As Mitt Romney was welcomed in Israel, the Obama administration struggled to explain its position on Israel’s capital. White House spokesman Jay Carney refused to identify Jerusalem as the capital city during a press briefing on Thursday, and the White
The media is still playing up Mitt Romney’s criticism of the London Olympics–even ahead of today’s big economic news–and now they’re playing up his attempt to walk it back. (The UK Daily Mail is calling Romney’s change of heart a
The left-wing press in Britain is having its fun recounting–and inventing–media gaffes by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. But this particular controversy lacks that particular element of coordination with the domestic media that gives an Obama campaign meme the juice
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney committed the cardinal sin of telling the truth when he answered a question from NBC’s Brian Williams about Britain’s readiness on the eve of the Olympic Games. It was only a year ago, for example,
Joel Kotkin is the geographer and writer who first raised the alarm about the Obama administration’s “war against suburbia,” which is the subject of a new and extensive analysis by Stanley Kurtz in a book to be released next week. Kotkin
I spent most of my time at Harvard College (1995-1999) in a decidedly radical frame of mind. I took classes with Cornel West, organized demonstrations, and engaged in polemics with Tom Cotton, one of the campus’s few conservatives (now leading
President Barack Obama, speaking to the National Urban League on Wednesday evening, sounded a call for gun control–and revealed his apparent ignorance about the U.S. military in the process. Obama told the audience that “AK-47s belong in the hands of
“You didn’t build that.” President Barack Obama’s assault on the ideal of individual success exemplifies the difference between the two candidates, and two parties, in the 2012 election. His defenders claim he was taken out of context–that Obama was not
President Barack Obama may believe “you didn’t build that,” but 72 percent of Americans disagree, according to a newly-released poll by Rasmussen. According to the poll, 72% “believe small business owners [are] primarily responsible for success of their business,” while only
Sam Stein at Huffington Post makes much of the fact that former Obama administration “car czar” Steve Rattner is now slamming Republican contender Mitt Romney for his management of his personal finances, when Rattner once defended Romney’s record on Bain
Israelis, used to confronting the specter of terrorists killing themselves as they murder innocent civilians in crowded places, are now wrestling with another grisly form of self-destruction: self-immolation. No fewer than five Israelis have set themselves on fire in the
Former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz has come from behind to take a lead over Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican runoff primary for U.S. Senate in Texas. Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling, a left-wing pollster, called the
This morning, National Public Radio touted its own poll, conducted jointly by Democrat pollster Stan Greenberg and Republican pollster Whit Ayres, by claiming that the majority of voters “favor amending [Obamacare] rather than repealing it.” The poll, which showed Barack Obama with a
I don’t mean to pick on Elton John. He’s certainly shown greater political tolerance than some of his fellow Hollywood mega-stars–whether playing Rush Limbaugh’s wedding or colliding with Eminem at the Grammys. Yet his comments in an interview about his
The Romney campaign is taking full advantage of the opportunity provided by Barack Obama’s “You didn’t build that” gaffe, launching a web video focusing on the story of a small family business in Hudson, New Hampshire. The owner of Gilchrist
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Iran for a terror attack on an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria today that has claimed the lives of seven Israeli civilians, vowing that Israel will respond. The attack comes on the eighteenth anniversary of
As the Obama campaign and the media continue to press Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns, and to suggest–without a shred of evidence–that he is a “felon,” it is worth noting how much critical information Barack Obama
Charles Krauthammer pointed out yesterday on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier that President Barack Obama is running on “fear of the other”–an ironic tactic, he said, given Obama’s infamous “bitter clinger” statement about rural Americans at an elite fundraiser in San
National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson, despite being one of the more fair-minded NPR reporters, failed to point out in her report today on the presidential election that the supposedly “non-partisan” economist who trashed Mitt Romney’s jobs proposal is a confirmed
While Democrats continue to accuse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of being a felon until proven otherwise, it’s useful to remember an apparent felony that was allegedly committed by Barack Obama’s White House in 2009: the attempted bribe of Democrat
A year ago, President Barack Obama called Republicans “hostage takers” for staying true to their mandate and refusing to agree to tax hikes as part of the debt ceiling deal. Now, the Washington Post reports that Democrats are explicitly threatening to
Last night, we published a column by “Virgil” on the controversies about Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and his personal finances. Virgil’s analysis–i.e. that Romney is losing the media narrative, and the campaign–is inaccurate, and his ad hominem swipes
