So, there was a big to-do a couple of weeks back concerning the McCain campaign’s decision to kick Joe Klein off the campaign plane–presumably, because Klein has written not-so-flattering coverage of the campaign. Needless to say, this brought all sorts of scorn from the other side of the partisan divide. Wonder what the scornful will make of this: The Obama campaign has decided to... 

The other day I went to a Hollywood luncheon crammed with producers, directors, writers and other film industry notables. One of them, Larry Gelbart of “MASH” fame, spoke, telling the group that since capitalism has failed, why don’t we try socialism? Try socialism? Take a sip of it and see how it tastes?  It doesn’t work that way. There’s an old saying that you can’t be half-socialist... 

Pierre, SD – My son and I are on ground where one of my heroes — the legendary Joe Foss, U.S. Marine, America’s leading ace in aerial combat, Medal of Honor recipient, mentor and friend  — once stood beside me. We’re hunting — and exercising our Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms.” We will be back home in time to vote in hopes that this “right... 

If Barack Obama is not a socialist, he does the best imitation of one I’ve ever seen. Under his tax plan, the top 5 percent of wage-earners have their income tax rates raised from 35 percent to 40 percent, while the bottom 40 percent of all wage-earners, who pay no income tax, are sent federal checks. If this is not the socialist redistribution of wealth, what is it? A steeply graduated income... 

Is Robert Gates hoping that if Barack Obama is elected president, he will keep him on as Secretary of Defense? It sure looks like it. Last week, while speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Gates tacitly endorsed Obama’s famous identification of Afghanistan as the central front in the war on terror. After a few brief and perfunctory remarks about Iraq, Gates spent most of his address talking about... 

If he’s elected next week, Barack Obama won’t be our first black president: Toni Morrison labeled Bill Clinton our “first black president” in October 1998.  (We have seen no reports that she retracted that label as a result of the South Carolina primary campaign). And never mind all the nonsense floating around the internet.  Barack Obama wasn’t born in Indonesia, or Kenya or wherever. ... 

In the early months after the September 11 attacks, Democrats began to complain that the Bush administration was muzzling them. They whined about not being able to criticize the administration’s policies or risk being called “unpatriotic” or “undermining the war effort.” Of course, the Bush administration did no such thing. There was legitimate concern that newspapers... 

In July 2007, pollsters for the New York Times and CBS News asked respondents to name the issues most important to them as they considered which candidate they would support for president. The top choice for both Republicans and Democrats was national security–Iraq for Democrats, terrorism for Republicans. That was then. Today national security has virtually disappeared from the presidential... 

We have a choice between two futures. For the first, fast forward 23 days.  It’s November 17.  Congress convenes for a special session with a veto-proof Democratic majority Senate, an expanded Democrat majority in the House and a Democrat in the White House.   The sole item on their agenda is to pass the $300 billion government spending package promised by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi back in October.There... 

  Obama’s Indonesian school registration listing him as Muslim. Click to enlarge With Colin Powell now repeating the lie that Barack Obama has “always been a Christian,” despite new information further confirming Obama’s Muslim childhood (such as the Indonesian school registration listing him as Muslim), one watches with dismay as the Democratic candidate manages to...