Their headline is accurate enough — “Barack Obama makes the sale.”  Obama did put his prestige on the line to twist arms in his own party, and had his efforts failed, the President’s influence would have been serious…

The defeat last night of the OmniPorkulus bill, as the Boss Emeritus calls it, gives us a chance to revisit the long-held — and long-true — belief that both parties are equally addicted to pork-barrel spending.  That certainly p…

How often do omnibus spending bills go down to defeat?  Approximately … never, as Dave Weigel reminds us, and pork is usually the reason why.  Not only do Omnibus Bills appear only when the budgeting process has failed and fundin…

Aaron Worthing at Patterico’s Pontifications recently wrote a post about an interview in GQ with Winona Ryder — who is Jewish; who knew? — in which she offhandedly charged that, “like, fifteen years ago,” she was at a…

I know the basics of his bio — accomplished CEO, talk-radio host, Cancer survivor — but not much more beyond that. Even so, it got my attention a few days ago when he won Red State’s 2012 “tournament,” topping Mike …

Present for the event to lend it some added gravitas: Al Sharpton. Conspicuously absent: Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Boehner, all of whom were cut out of The One’s negotiations with Senate Republicans. (McConnell, as you’ll see, is…

And almost as quickly as he dropped the hint, he picked it back up and put it in his pocket. “I felt like momentum was growing for START,” Corker said, adding that since Reid announced he was holding votes on DADT and DREAM, it has h…