Political Commentary for Reasonable People
It was a love fest in Jerusalem Sunday at a morning meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and future Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Netanyahu may be the Israeli-born son of one of the Jewish State’s toughest pioneers, and … More…
There’s a big controversy over remarks President Obama made about entrepreneurs on the campaign trail a few days ago, and it goes to the heart of the differences between him and his Republican opponent, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
The … More…
Never look a gift tax in the mouth, especially if it may have just saved your presidency.
That’s what you’d think President Obama’s reaction would be to the life line (sorry for the mixed metaphors) Chief Justice John Roberts extended … More…
President Obama and his re-election team must have started the week with great trepidation as the Supreme Court prepared to release decisions on immigration and health care reform, his signature domestic program.
But the president won two big victories at … More…
President Obama and his re-election team must have celebrated this morning when the Supreme Court threw out most of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB1070, by a 5-3 majority, with only conservative Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissenting.… More…
President Obama has caught a couple of breaks after a bad few weeks in which he lost ground to Republican opponent Mitt Romney.
Last Friday, the president announced a new immigration policy that would accomplish some of the same things … More…
In the end, it wasn’t even close.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker defeated Democratic challenger Tom Barrett by 53%-46%, just about the same margin by which he prevailed in 2010. But the spread was much higher than many pundits had predicted, … More…
There’s some hope that the expected long, nasty campaign between President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may not be quite as ugly as pundits had thought.
That’s emerged after The New York Times reported that Republican operatives presented … More…
The Beltway media are predictably bemoaning the primary defeat of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana to insurgent Richard Mourdock, a severe conservative backed by the Tea Party and the Club for Growth. Mourdock, Indiana’s state treasurer, walloped Lugar by … More…
Americans don’t pay much attention to overseas elections and we don’t think we have much to learn from other countries– especially France.
But I believe our two presidential candidates can draw some lessons from the results of Sunday’s second round … More…
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