The Hackensack

Downfall parodies never get old. This is the funniest yet. BTW, I caught the last hour or so of Downfall on satellite a few years ago. It w...

President Obama made an appearance at the cis-Hackensack outpost of Fairleigh Dickinson University 1 to raise campaign funds for our govern...

Beautiful day here in North Jersey. The sun's out, and the Giants just routed the Raiders. Here's the Financial Times on Obama'...

On his Atlantic blog, former Carter speechwriter James Fallows snarks , Yes, that Olympic rejection really makes Obama look weak... Talk a...

Longtime readers may remember this post about Van Jones from last fall ( "A Green New Deal?" ). At the time, I didn't know he...

On the Atlantic 's Business Channel, Chris Good posts about the return of Bobby Jindal , noting that, given his expertise in health care...

From what appears to be Ross Douthat's penultimate post on his Atlantic blog, before his move to the New York Times op/ed page ( ...

The Wall Street Journal explains the Obama Administration's new plan to buy bad assets off of the books of banks ( "U.S. Sets Plan...

In a recent post ( "More Obama Supporters Concerned by the President's Recent Actions" ) we noted that Warren Buffett and Jim ...

Since one of President Obama's three main policy priorities is reforming health care, and since progressive pundits often make invidious...

Last week we noted the concern expressed by two supporters of President Obama, Jim Cramer and Stewart Taylor, about the President's rece...

Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged has come up a lot recently in commentary about Obama administration initiatives (e.g., this column by R...

From Stewart Taylor's essay in the National Journal ( "Obama's Left Turn" ): Having praised President Obama's job per...

From Jim Cramer's open letter to the White House yesterday: I favored Obama over McCain because I thought Obama to be a middle-of-the-r...

In a couple of recent posts (e.g., "Lessons from Brooklyn's New Economy" and "An Atypical Perspective on Health Care in ...

This week, the New York Times published an interesting article on the burgeoning culinary movement in Brooklyn, one similar to the movement...

In today's Washington Post ( "Where's Bobby" ), Kathleen Parker writes about the contrast between the Bobby Jindal who ga...

Smart piece by Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute in its magazine City Journal : "Jindal's Missed Opportunity" (Hat Ti...

Last month, the New York Times Magazine published a sprawling cover article by David Leonhardt on how the Obama administration might "...

In an op/ed column in last Friday's Financial Times , Turki al-Faisal (photo above), former Saudi intelligence director and ambassador t...