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The Bullet That Would Have Killed Ronald Reagan
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn Sunday, Feb. 6, Americans will celebrate Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday. His presidency changed the world, and I easily consider him the greatest president of my lifetime. But had things gone differently, there would have been no "Challenger speech," and no call for Mr. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." And so this 100th birthday might well have come and gone with little fanfare. We were very close to such a fate -- closer than we realize. I'm talking, of course, about the assassination attempt on President Reagan early in his first term. Most Americans don't know how close ...
On Joe Scarborough's Takedown of Sarah Palin
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI hope Joe Scarborough likes getting e-mails, because his Politico column on Sarah Palin is sure to provoke some angry ones. Here are a few immediate thoughts on the controversial column: - Scarborough refers to Palin as "a reality show star," but is she really? Now that we have all seen her TLC program, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," I'm not so sure that is a fair classification for it. When people hear the term "reality show," they likely think of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" or "The Osbournes." Calling "SPA" a reality show is not entirely inappropriate, but I would argue that it is also a ...
Takeaway From 2010 Elections: Serious Conservatism Is Back
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyFrom its beginnings, a tension existed in the heart of American conservatism between winning hearts and minds -- and winning elections. A slogan from the 1964 presidential campaign hinted at this dichotomy. "In your heart you know he's right" implied that although we believed in Barry Goldwater, we knew you might not – at least not enough of you, not yet. By 1980, a majority of Americans certainly did rally to the side of the conservative star of the Goldwater campaign, but Ronald Reagan's eight years in the White House did not lay to rest the intramural Republican tug of war between ...
Opinion: Onward Toward an Entitlement Society
By Marty Robins - AOL News(July 22) -- The most recent debate in Congress and among commentators over the extension of unemployment benefits caused a lot of nasty back-and-forth about the merits of doing so. Would it discourage people from looking for work, extending the jobless problem? Should the extension be paid for with cuts elsewhere? Will it help boost economic growth? Have there been enough extensions already to get us to 99 weeks of benefits? But while one can rationally argue pro or con on these issues, there's a deeper question that we need to try to answer: Are we, by having the government doing so much ...
Gen. McChrystal Isn't Alone: 31 Other People Summoned by Obama
By David Knowles - Politics DailyGen. Stanley McChrystal is headed to the to the presidential woodshed -- a place that has seen its fair share of use in the first year and a half of Barack Obama's administration. In fact, the words "summoned to the White House" have been used frequently during Obama's tenure, whether in an attempt to woo political opponents, scold corporate executives, lavish praise on allies, or simply to hear another point of view. Here's a list of who's been called for a private audience, and what they've been summoned for: I. Summoned to the Woodshed Gen. Stanley McCrystal: Following the release of ...
America the Polite?
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyI completely agree with Melinda about the shameful incivility that's on the Internet. People who make spiteful and ignorant comments about a person who has just died are the lowest of the low. I also bet Peggy Noonan is on target with her suspicion that Americans are despondent over having lost control of the country to vulgarians and crooks. I'm plenty despondent over both those developments. ...
What Should Obama Say in His Nobel Speech?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsOn Dec. 10, President Barack Obama will be in Oslo, Norway, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. His highly anticipated acceptance speech comes just days after he announced his decision to sent 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. So, what should the president say? Just as there are varied opinions as to whether Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, there is no shortage of advice on what the president should say to his audience in Oslo and across the globe. At Mediaite, Rachel Sklar says she believes the president should shift the focus away from himself and even suggests the wording he ...
Top 10 Most Annoying Republicans
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAll this talk about Sen. Arlen Specter's defection -- and the instant karma that ensued -- got me fantasizing about other Republicans who ought to follow him out the door. The following list is by no means comprehensive -- and I do reserve the right to amend it -- but for now, these are the 10 Republicans who annoy me most ... 1. Kathleen Parker - If you've heard of Kathleen Parker, it is probably because of her now-famous early criticisms of Sarah Palin. The defining column came in September 2008, when she condescendingly wrote: "Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she ...
Irony Alert: Kathleen Parker on Media's Palin/Kennedy Double Standard
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyKathleen Parker's September 26 column -- which called on Sarah Palin to step down from the presidential ticket (and suggested she use the excuse that she wanted to spend more time with her baby) -- rightly angered many conservatives. A later column which implied that John McCain picked Palin as his running mate because he was sexually attracted to her, cemented Parker's permanent status as the Maureen Dowd of the Right (or possibly even an Arianna Huffington turncoat).Regardless, many conservatives would agree that the most unfair -- and, yes, "sexist" criticism of Sarah Palin -- was actually ...
Neil Cavuto Diagnoses McCain
By David Knowles - Politics DailyVia our friends at Crooks & Liars, here's FOX's Neil Cavuto trying to explain why John McCain is losing this race. In today's Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan offers her own assessment. Read it here. ...
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