“Shoot Howard Dean.”
Was it:
(A) Some right-wing nut job from the NRA?
(B) A campaign aide to John Kerry, before the 2004 New Hampshire primary?
(C) Rush Limbaugh?
(D) A Democrat from Florida or Michigan, upset that their delegates can’t be seated at this year’s Democratic National Convention?
Nope, nope, nope and nope.
It was, according to the Los Angeles Times, […]

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John McCain and Barack Obama’s long-distance debate Wednesday over al-Qaida in Iraq highlights a key difference in the Democratic and Republican approaches to Iraq and the war on terrorism.
Republicans are focusing on the present and future.
Liberal Democrats are trying to win the argument they lost in 2002, over whether the war should have been waged.
Here’s […]

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The New York Times is reporting that William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review and among the most articulate of American conservatives, has died at age 82.

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The New York Times hit piece on John McCain last week would seem to put op-ed columnist William Kristol in a difficult position.
Should he continue writing even opinion pieces for a paper that would stoop so low?
The Times, you’ll recall, put out the allegation that McCain might have slept with a female lobbyist. That part […]

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Well, everybody might not be cheering on the New York senator, but those who want Pennsylvania to count in the 2008 presidential primary season should be.
If Sen. Barack Obama racks up his 11th and 12th straight wins in Ohio and Texas on March 4, it’ll be pretty close to over for Hillary Clinton’s bid.
The GOP […]

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A biology professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill told an embryology class last week that fetuses with Down syndrome ought to be aborted. Click here for full story.
He says it all the time, he says, to spark discussion.
Oh, I suppose “the enlightened” are apt to say, that’s OK then. Declaring that a whole […]

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Not that Pennsylvania conservatives have much to say about it (unless we all want to switch parties for the April 22 primary), but the recent trouncing Hillary Clinton has taken in the Democratic primaries poses a quandary for her non-fans: Would we like to see her lose now, or in November?
Recent polls show presumptive GOP […]

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OK. So we all know the games that are being played in Harrisburg on the property tax issue these days.
The Democrats seek to raise the state sales and income taxes to reduce or eliminate property taxes for everybody. Then former House Speaker John Perzel, R-Philadelphia, blindsides the easily blindsided House majority leader (Bill DeWeese, D-Greene […]

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The pundit class seems to have an on odd read on Rush Limbaugh’s opposition to John McCain.
Folks like syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman revel in believing that the radio host’s power has been diminished greatly by McCain’s success in the GOP primaries.
Yes, Limbaugh has called McCain a danger to the right, voting for him a surrender […]

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The Associated Press is reporting that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is about to bow out.
He plans to announce his decision in his speech today before the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
“If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and […]

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