Will Hagel speak truth to power to Senate?
Roll Call’s David Drucker had it right on Jansing & Co. when he said that Chuck Hagel’s Senate confirmation is highly likely, but not a given. One question, said Drucker: Visit NBCNews.com for...
View ArticleThe Obama snuff memo
NBC investigative reporter Michael Isikoff reported today on a 16-page memo which the administration submitted to Senate committees to explain the legal reasoning that allows the Obama adminstration to...
View ArticleWhy won’t D.C. fix the sequester now?
In preparation for today’s column, I talked with staffers who work for Democrats and Republicans this week and asked them a simple question: Why can’t Congress act now to pass a bill to make the...
View ArticleObama rejects flexibility, prefers meat cleaver
As Roll Call reports, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opposes giving President Obama flexibility in administering sequester cuts. The bottom line of the latest news: Both the House and Senate are not...
View ArticleObama: “What more do you think I should do?”
During his press conference today, President Obama said that if the economy goes sour, it’s the fault of Republicans who wouldn’t give him another tax increase, and insist on enforcing the $85 billion...
View ArticleTorture and killing, apples and oranges
I don’t respond to emails in which readers include bleepable words. I am not pure when it comes to swearing, believe me. I just figure that anyone who sends a stranger an email with expletives doesn’t...
View ArticleFree speech on the side, not the back, of the bus
This week City Hall leaders — Hizzoner the mayor,District Attorney George Gascon and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu – held a press conference to denounce ads purchased by blogger Pamela...
View ArticleRock-in-a-river laws
Choice has long been a mantra of the left, but then when Democrats get elected, they quickly decide that they’re so swell they can take away choice from others. San Francisco City Hall loves passing...
View ArticleInstead of a new bubble law, try enforcement
So what does the ACLU think about Supe David Campos’ proposal to replace San Francisco’s 8-foot “bubble zone” around reproductive health clinics with a 25-foot buffer zone? ACLU attorney Michael...
View ArticleFeinstein’s gun-packing history
Gun enthusiasts love to point to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s history with guns as evidence of the Senator’s hypocrisy. Feinstein used to have a concealed weapon permit. She said in 1995 that she used to...
View ArticleTax Freedom Day 2013
The Tax Foundation announces 2013′s Tax Freedom Day® on April 2. What does it mean? ”Tax Freedom Day® is the day when the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay off its total tax bill for the...
View ArticleDem guru disses construction jobs, sort of
On March 19, Democrat guru Chris Lehane and GOP graybeard Steve Schmidt appeared before the Commonwealth Club to discuss climate change. You can listen to the event here. Lehane also works as a...
View ArticleBig Man on Campus taken down a rung
Democratic operative Darry Sragow told a 2012 USC class that the California Republican party is “really stupid,” “racist” and the last “vestige of angry, old white people.” Student Tyler Talgo didn’t...
View ArticleFlyers’ taxes weren’t furloughed
White House spokesman Jay Carney used the fairness argument Wednesday when he talked about the FAA furloughs for Air Traffic Controllers. And it’s not just the FAA. The same dramatic, steep cuts in...
View ArticleFrequent flyers are frequent grousers
The Democrats were happy to bash Republicans last week before pushing through a bill that ended air traffic controller furloughs under the sequester. (I wrote about the issue in this column.) Last week...
View ArticleNewsom says many pols in the closet on legal pot
In 2010, no Democrat who won statewide office supported Proposition 19, the measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana under state (not federal) law. But after Colorado and Washington voters...
View ArticleEric Holder’s media mess (with video)
I was on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday with Howie Kurtz, Dana Milbank and Lois Romano discussing the Eric Holder mess. I cannot stress enough how unnecessary the search of Fox News’ James Rosen seems...
View ArticleCivil liberties and double standards
We conservatives like to needle liberals — those some, not all – who hold Barack Obama to an easier standard than they held for George W. Bush on such areas as civil liberties and the War on Terror....
View ArticleWomen’s health takes back seat to “women’s health issue”
In May the Assembly overwhelmingly passed AB926, a bill that allows researchers to pay young women to donate their eggs to research. Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, who sponsors the bill, sees egg...
View ArticleThe accused killer who won the lottery
One of the best political events in Boston used to be former state Senate president Billy Bulger’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade breakfast. Bulger is a witty man with a wicked sense of humor, which clearly...
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