Politics Roundtable

Scott wrote yesterday about President Obama’s attempt to enlist Jesus in his campaign for higher taxes: “But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.’” In drawing this equivalence, Obama implicitly substituted the ...

We’ve been following the story of the Church’s response to the assault perpetrated by the Obamacare regulation on “preventive care” with a religious exemption so narrow that will require most Catholic institutions to comply. In the new issue of the Weekly Standard Jonathan Last provides

Liberals tell us that the most important principle is the separation of church and state. That applies, of course, only until liberals want to enlist the church in support of the state. The state, in their view, is the real church. So Michael Ramirez envisions our president ...

Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress have set a new standard of irresponsibility: for the third year in a row, Harry Reid announced that he would not allow a vote on a FY 2013 budget to come to the floor of the Senate. “We do not need ...

The administration trumpets the fact that nonfarm payrolls increased by 243,000 in January, dropping the unemployment rate to 8.3%, only .5% higher than when Barack Obama took office. This is what counts as good news in the beleaguered West Wing!

But how good was today’s news, really? What ...

Another great story from the Daily Mail:

Students step over ‘rivers of urine’ after green bathrooms plan for waterless urinals turns a high school yellow… and it will cost $500,000 to fix

Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure ...

O’Sullivan’s First Law, named for John O’Sullivan, former editor of National Review, speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher, and author of the fine book The President, The Pope, and the Prime Minister, goes as follows: Any institution that is not explicitly right wing will become left wing over time.  ...

President Obama advertised some big endorsements for his tax-the-rich more policies and class warfare reelection strategy yesterday. In a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast — text here, video below — Obama made the case that Jesus, Muhammad, Moses and Plato (?!) are all on ...

Eric Holder appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today, and received what can charitably be called a hostile reception. He was grilled by Republican members over everything from Fast and Furious–the intended subject of the hearing–to the Marc Rich pardon. I haven’t had time to ...

I haven’t yet read Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, but fellow Minnesotan Eric Falkenstein has. The self-described son of Beatnik parents, he pens not so much a review as an appreciation, and couples it with a nice skewering of the New Class:

Murray argues the well-off should set ...