John Hayward

40 state governors have proclaimed Feb. 6 “Ronald Reagan Day,” in honor of his birthday.  (The supporters are a bipartisan group, but all of the governors who refused to join in the proclamation are Democrats.)   Grover Norquist has a

In response to Jay Carney: “Uh… er… … … “: Joel, it’s amazing that Carney doesn’t seem to have been ready for this question.  Like most of those which flummoxed Chuck Hagel, it seems predictable that someone would ask why

In response to Necktie Outrage, the New War on Women: So the necktie is now supposed to be a symbol of male oppression?  Well, at least the patriarchy is well-dressed.  Although here in Florida, wearing a necktie during the summer

Boy, those guys over at the Congressional Budget Office are a cheery lot, aren’t they?  1.4 percent GDP growth for the coming year, unemployment above 7.5 percent, ObamaCare’s cost up to $1.3 trillion, 7 million people losing their insurance… they

In response to NY Times Seeks Help for “Premature Austerity”: “Premature austerity?”  One increasingly gets the impression that merely thinking about austerity is now entirely synonymous with the deed itself.  Somehow an American government that spends over three and a

In response to President Mario Mendoza: Hey, look on the bright side.  At least Biden didn’t complain about the Portuguese death camps.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie showed up on Letterman last night, and had people rolling in the aisles with fat jokes, including a hilarious gag with a donut.   He’s dead to some conservatives because of his eleventh-hour embrace of

In response to Media Protect Obama as Record Energy Prices Hit the Poor: Yet another example of Trial By Media – and, for anyone who remembers the pump panic of the Bush years, an amazing example of it.  I still

Today we’ve got two stories about national security that provide a nice contrast: the drone strike program Obama has been keeping secret, and the cyber-war program that was suspiciously “leaked” last summer, just in time to polish up the President’s

In response to Time to get hip: I remember the precise moment when I first began having grave doubts about the Romney political machine, and the overall conservative view of the electorate: when Obama political technician Jim Messina talked about

In response to This R3VO_’ution Doesn’t Seem to Have the Love I Was Promised: Looks like Rand Paul didn’t waste any time getting that much-needed distance from his father: “Chris Kyle was a hero like all Americans who don the

In response to The Jung and Restless: Another thing I find interesting about the credential fetish is that it elevates potential over actual achievement; we are supposed to get excited about the marvelous educational and political backgrounds of the elite,

In response to More Work Remains To Be Done!: Debra, isn’t this also the same canned statement that always includes a line cautioning us against “reading too much into a single unemployment report?”  I guess it’s important not to read

Perhaps having read our earlier discussion about Rand Paul’s prospects for higher office, and his need to distance himself from his father’s eccentricities, the elder Paul decided to give his son something else to sprint away from. “Chris Kyle’s death

Thankfully, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has informed an anxious nation there is “no indication at all” that Beyonce’s halftime show caused the Super Bowl blackout.  It used enough energy to electrocute a Japanese movie monster, but the show apparently had

The New York Post joins in on the merciless mockery of Obama’s skeet-shooting photo, including a couple of golden quotes from Team Obama: “For all the skeeters, POTUS [president of the United States] shoots clay targets on the range at Camp

In response to Unlike Ron, Rand Talks Tough On Iran: Larry, I think Rand Paul is indisputably a more serious candidate than his father – as the conventional wisdom has it, Rand is far better at “retail politics.”  The challenge

In response to Help Wanted: TO SELL FREEDOM: Sonnie, have you considered sending one of these job applications to Matt Yglesias?  Act quickly, and include a copy of Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech.  You might just be able to

In response to Stop getting into the wrong argument!: Speaking for myself, David, I wasn’t planning to let Skeet-gate distract me from any of the really important issues.  But it’s hard to resist having a bit of fun with it.

In response to Starting a Small Business is Hard, Whines Obama-Worshiping JounoLister: What a beautiful, heartwarming story for us to contemplate on this 100th anniversary of the income tax!  It used to be said that a conservative was a liberal

Today is the 100th birthday of the income tax.  It’s not a happy birthday.  Whether or not we needed a government many times the size of the one that existed when the first 358,000 people filed form 1040 is a

In response to White House Warns: Don’t Photoshop Obama Gun Pic: It figures they’d release their big skeet-shooting photo with a snotty demand that Internet bullies may not steal their lunch money.  Does anyone know if George Bush ever successfully

I was willing to take the word of the unnamed friend of an anonymous witness on faith, because I am now an associate member of the Washington journalistic community, but at last – weeks after Barack Obama’s risible pander to

Jonah Goldberg’s perennial “Groundhog Day” column at National Review makes the case for Bill Murray’s movie as one of the great moral fables of the modern era.  It’s become a staple on top-20-of-all-time comedy lists.  But it might just also

In response to The First Rule of Washington Club is Do Not Criticize Washington Club: Once a Beltway Brahmin – Hagel, Kerry, Hillary Clinton – your sinecure is forever safe. The ultimate example is Jamie Gorelick, the unremovable Typhoid Mary