Palin’s Pregnant Daughter and the VP Vetting Process

After some unsavory rumors that Sarah Palin faking a pregnancy to protect her daughter surfaced, Palin revealed yesterday that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was five months pregnant but scheduled to marry the 18-year-old hockey playing father, Levi Johnston.  One hesitates to delve into the story of candidates' minor children, who are not public figures.  Now, though, the focus has ...

Democrats Attacking McCain’s Military Record: Is A Pattern Emerging?

Jim Geraghty is not buying the notion that Wes Clark's attempts to diminish John McCain's military service was done without coordination with the Democratic Powers that Be. After statements by a half-dozen high-profile Democrats and Obama surrogates, you cannot persuade me that there is not a concerted effort on the part of Obama Democrats to criticize McCain on his war record. ...

McCain Making Kerry Mistake on Vietnam?

Pat Lang, a retired Green Beret colonel, is somewhat bemused at how much is being made of John McCain's military experience. John McCain is an admirable man. There are many such who wore the uniform of the United States in adverse circumstance. Jim Webb, Chuck Hagel, Daniel Inouye, Bob Dole... Shall I go on? How many ...

Hillary Clinton Tried to Join the Army (Or Was it the Marines?)

Bill Clinton says his wife, Hillary, tried to join the Army in the mid-1970s but was turned down. ABC's Jake Tapper: "I remember when we were young, right out of law school, she went down and tried to join the Army and they said 'Your eyes are so bad, nobody will take you,'" he said, after heralding her record ...

George McGovern Now Conservative?

It's been occasionally remarked in recent years that George McGovern, who lost the 1972 election to Richard Nixon in a landslide because he was so ultra-liberal, became more conservative after leaving public life and starting his own business. A column in today's WSJ, "Freedom Means Responsibility," will certainly add another log to that fire. His thesis is ...

Senator Thomas Eagleton Dies at 77

Former U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton died Sunday at the age of 77. He was a leading advocate of environmental reforms and a vocal opponent of the war in Vietnam. Still, former three-term Sen. Thomas Eagleton had no illusions about how he would be best-remembered. "In my obituary, it will probably be, 'Tom Eagleton, United States senator for Missouri, for ...

Giuliani On Busted Terror Plot (Video)

Rudy Giuliani was on H&C tonight to weigh in on the news of today's foiled terror plot and the war on terrorism in general. And one thing is for sure, unlike lots of politicians, Giuliani isn't running away from President Bush or the war in Iraq; he calls the President's decision to go on the offensive after 9/11 "brilliant" ...

Voting for Gridlock

Ronald Bailey argues that those who favor small government should vote for gridlock this November. That is, they ought to vote for Democrats.Today I'm going to do something that I have never done—I will vote in Virginia's Democratic Party primary. Oh sure, I've voted Democratic—once. That was for George McGovern back in 1972. I was 18 years old. Since ...

Bad Reasons to Elect Democrats in 2008

Robert Kagan, whose foreign policy analysis I take seriously, has an interesting but wrongheaded op-ed in yesterday's WaPo arguing that a Democratic president might be good for the country. While there are reasons why that might be the case, the ones he adduces are quite odd, indeed. The Democrats need to take ownership of American foreign policy again, for their ...

Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs

Like "South Park Republicans," the concept of "conservative rock songs" is rather counterintuitive. Nonethless, the editors of the venerable National Review of compiled a list of the top 50. The New York Times lists all 50 and provides NR's reasoning, some of which is rather strained. And a few of the songs are by no means "rock," even by the ...