Category Archives: Politics

Joe Queenan writes in the NYT: There are three kinds of revisionism. Marshaling cunning arguments to prove that James Polk is a vastly underrated president is tendentious but doable. Trying to convince skeptics that James Carter is a vastly underrated … Continue reading →

BigHeadDC reports: "“A federal grand jury has indicted prominent attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs on criminal charges that he and other lawyers engaged in a scheme to bribe a judge,” the AP reports. Scruggs is the brother-in-law of Sen. Trent Lott, … Continue reading →

Perry Bacon writes for the Washington Post: In his speeches and often on the Internet, the part of Sen. Barack Obama‘s biography that gets the most attention is not his race but his connections to the Muslim world. Since declaring … Continue reading →

Dennis Prager writes: One of the most widely held beliefs in the contemporary world — so widely held it is not disputed — is that, with few exceptions, the world hates America. One of the Democrats’ major accusations against the … Continue reading →

From the Times of India Nov. 29: Huma Abedin, who is now 32, is the only daughter of parents of pre-partition India. Her father Syed Zainul Abedin was an alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University and came to the United States … Continue reading →