Arianna Huffington tried to tell the “This Week” panel that the Komen Foundation was “politicizing” abortion by removing funds from the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. George Will responded by asking her to explain the logic that it is politicizing abortion
Two years ago the United States Supreme Court decided the landmark case of Citizens United v. FEC. The Court reversed an anomaly in campaign finance law by restoring the First Amendment protection of political speech. Over the past two years
With members of the mainstream media now hurling charges of using racially coded language against GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, Big Government has uncovered a private memorandum written over three decades ago that offers a unique glimpse into Mr. Gingrich’s
Michael Barone has a thoughtful piece on the Iowa caucus in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. He writes in “As Iowa Goes, So Goes Iowa” that the Iowa caucus often doesn’t decide who wins the primary, let alone the general election.
From NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard: During a fascinating Right vs. Left debate on ABC’s This Week, after Reich predictably pined for higher income tax rates to solve all that ails us, Will struck back with the line of the weekend, “You
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Dana Loesch appeared with Donna Brazile, George Will and Jonathan Karl on ABC News’ “This Week.”
Big Journalism editor and CNN analyst Dana Loesch responds to George Will’s statements this weekend likening Mitt Romney to Michael Dukakis.
Obama likes Golf, round ball aka Basketball, and hanging out with the guys having a beer summit. Is there what one might call a jock mentality in the White House? Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White
I’m joining the roundtable on ABC’s “This Week” tomorrow morning, along with George Will, Jonathan Karl, and Clarence Page.
– Lee Stranahan covers the liberal response to GibsonGate: Yes, one blogger wrote about it. One. And it’s a good post. Hits on the right points. Read it… The author says… I don’t know exactly what else Gibson could have
Steve Rattner protested when George Will said he had likened Tea Party congressmen to suicide bombers, but the video proof from MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” shows that he clearly said the reps were “strapped with dynamite standing in the middle of
A roundtable with nothing but beltway insiders speculating about Sarah Palin.
So. With yesterday’s farcical Senate theater, the brain-trust begs a very basic question: “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., who presided over the hearing [said] ‘Businesses should make a profit. That’s what drives our economy. But do these profitable
Teach for America has been a breath of fresh air in some of America’s worst schools. The program, founded 20 years ago, recruits the best and brightest college graduates to commit to being teachers for at least two years in
This morning on Talk Radio Network’s nationally syndicated, “America’s Morning News,” George Will told co-hosts John McCaslin and Amy Holmes that he is happy to see Glenn Beck leave the Fox News Network. Will said that Beck’s “drift into more
This morning on Talk Radio Network’s nationally syndicated, “America’s Morning News,” George Will told co-hosts John McCaslin and Amy Holmes that he is happy to see Glenn Beck leave the Fox News Network. Will said that Beck’s “drift into more
I greeted Ronald Reagan’s counter-revolutionary ascent to the White House while I was still a Liberal. An embarrassing confession, I know. However, Reagan himself had, at one time, been a Liberal himself. On June 5th, 2004, this editorial by Ronald
There’s been a lot of chatter about Mike Pence and a potential Presidential bid by him. From National Review to the Washington Examiner, to George Will to others at the Washington Post, even to Erick Erickson’s post on RedState, people
George Will in today’s Washington Post: By the time Huntington’s book appeared, American had had four of what he called “periods of creedal passion” – the Revolutionary era (1770s), the Jacksonian era (the 1830s), the Progressive era (1900-20) and the
George Will in today’s Washington Post: Unlike most of the 111 that preceded it, the 112th Congress must begin the process of restoring the national regime and civic culture the Founders bequeathed. This will require reviving the rule of law,
The public reaction to the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) overreach and lack of even minimal sensitivity should stand as a lesson to those who believe the government always knows best and think Americans are a malleable bunch who will ultimately
George Will in today’s Washington Post: The theory – perhaps by now it seems like a quaint anachronism – on which the nation was founded is, or was: Government is instituted to protect preexisting natural rights essential to the pursuit
In the “Greenroom” segment on “This Week”, the round table discuss the Juan Williams story.
A good looking, fun loving guy sits down and writes a few blog posts about how to ensure the Republican Party wins both houses in a 2010 landslide, and beat Obama’s ass in 2012… he figures his job is done.
Anyone watching today’s installment of ABC’s morning news program This Week had to feel some measure of pity for out-spoken left wing elite Bill Maher making his first appearance on the show as a round table guest. The condescending comic
Marc Ambinder poses this question in his April 23 article in The Atlantic : “Have Conservatives Gone Mad? ” Ambinder lays blithe and, according to no less a source than himself, undeniable claim to the liberal journalism’s monopoly on political
Heaven help Richard Kim. That’s not my wish, it’s his–expressed in a piece entitled “Loose Tea” he wrote for the venerable left-wing magazine, The Nation. Honoring the liberal playbook by attacking the Tea Party on everything except substance, Kim starts
It’s time for your weekly dose of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your home for conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition,
Ironically enough, the medicine applied by our state as the antidote for our ills has proven to be poison. The welfare state is killing our nation. Today entitlement spending makes up nearly half of our budget. Long term, we know
The Poker Players Alliance — a million-member strong grassroots organization that defends poker rights — cosponsored the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for the second consecutive year. Poker players, still reeling over past efforts to ban online and other forms
“It may be the Devil, or it may be the Lord. But, you’re gonna have to serve somebody.” – Bob Dylan [youtube f5M_wtqrIPo nolink] “Rule #7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” – Saul Alinsky, Rules
From El Rushbo: Do you remember that NEA phone call? I think it was back in August, the 21st or the 25th, and it featured basically a coordination from the White House to the National Endowment for the Arts to
From El Rushbo: Do you remember that NEA phone call? I think it was back in August, the 21st or the 25th, and it featured basically a coordination from the White House to the National Endowment for the Arts to
On August 25th 2009, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke the story of a conference call he attended with other “rising artist and art community luminaries“: On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to
George Will in today’s Washington Post: “Did the White House initiate the conference call-cum-political pep rally? Or, even worse, did the NEA, an independent agency, spontaneously politicize itself? Something that reads awfully like an invitation went from Sergant’s NEA e-mail
Newsbusters: Lou Dobbs attacked CNBC’s Larry Kudlow during the Jan. 14 broadcast of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” for commenting on a dinner meeting of conservative pundits at the home of Washington Post columnist George Will on Jan. 13. Kudlow was not