High Moral Fiber
Eliot Spitzer’s not alone. The chief of Tehran’s police was arrested Monday when caught—literally—pants down in a brothel, in the company of six equally naked prostitutes (h/t: Gateway Pundit). As the...
View ArticleMore About the Goofball
Yesterday I wrote about Thomas P. M. Barnett, the author of the Esquire profile of Admiral Willam Fallon, head of Centcom, who resigned following the article’s publication. I have long known that...
View ArticleFreedom Fighter Called “Terrorist” by INS
Karen DeYoung published a story in the Washington Post that ought to embarrass anyone making decisions about who deserves permanent residence in the U.S. Saman Kareem Ahmad is an Iraqi Kurd who worked...
View ArticleThe Only Sin
The only mortal sin in politics is hypocrisy. Conservatives, especially social conservatives, have been easy targets for their sexual peccadilloes (which the media contrast with their public advocacy...
View ArticleThey Aren’t Thrilled With The Remarks?
Well what explanation could the Obamaphile punditocracy come up with for the Great One’s gaffe? There really is none. One gamely offers the contrite approach, as if acknowledging that Eliot Spitzer...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Uh oh: Eliot Spitzer is back in the political ring, “acting as an unofficial adviser to New York’s current governor, the hapless David Paterson, whose campaign for re-election is basically in the...
View ArticleThe Gray Lady Discovers It’s 2006 All Over Again
Even the Gray Lady must recognize the trend: The ethical woes facing Democrats are piling up, with barely a day passing in recent weeks without headlines from Washington to New York and beyond filled...
View ArticlePaterson, Spitzer, Sharpton — An Eternal Golden Braid
New York Governor David Paterson attempted to suppress an investigation into an aide’s alleged beating of said aide’s girlfriend, and lied to an ethics panel about the free tickets he scored to the...
View ArticleStrange Herring
Porn star drops out of Louisiana race, compares herself to Sarah Palin. Would have been worse if it had been the other way around. Germans fine Catholic bishop $13K for denying Holocaust. I always...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Doesn’t sound kosher: “Decoy Jews.” Doesn’t sound like a problem easily fixed: Noemie Emery on the oil spill writes, “Initially, the diagnosis was that Mr. Cool perhaps had an emotional deficit — the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Bill Clinton sounds like he swallowed a eugenics textbook. “[T]he most delicious part of that [slur on the Russian immigrants to Israel] performance was his extraordinary—no, his fantastical, his...
View ArticleParker-Spitzer — You Gotta Be Kidding
I haven’t been motivated to watch CNN’s new talking-heads show hosted by Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker. Howard Kurtz’s column reviewing his own network’s show and the work of his colleague at the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Stu Rothenberg doesn’t think much of the Dems’ Chamber of Commerce gambit: “This is what we call the political version of ‘jumping the shark’ — a desperate-looking charge that a campaign or a party...
View ArticleSchneiderman’s Partisan Fishing Expedition
Liberals are still seething over the way the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Citizens United decision in the Montana campaign finance law case where state restrictions on political spending were rightly...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer Wants Back in Politics
The New York Times is reporting, in its lead article this morning, that former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was forced to resign after his liaison with a high-priced call girl became public...
View ArticleWhy Everybody Hates Eliot
Earlier today, MSNBC’s Morning Joe program provided a public service when it supplied us with an answer to the question that had been bothering me for the last day: why is it that the liberal political...
View ArticleA Penalty for Polluting the Public Square?
In recent weeks there’s been a lot of self-congratulation on the part of some pundits who believe the relative acceptance of scandal-ridden politicians by the voters is a sign of maturity in the...
View Article“Empty”: Eliot Spitzer’s Creepy New Ad
The best thing Eliot Spitzer has going for his race to be New York City comptroller is that voters don’t pay enough attention to the job to be overly concerned about the potential damage someone as...
View ArticleLet Us Now Praise Public Morality
By the time New York’s Democrats voted in their primary this week, the issue that transfixed the chattering classes earlier in the year had virtually disappeared. As it turns out, both of the disgraced...
View ArticleThe Media and the End of President Christie
For supporters of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, it’s difficult to look at this past week’s events in any but catastrophic terms. A week ago, Christie was still basking in the glow of his...
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