Let’s Get Hannitized

Tonight in New York City, Talkers magazine will honor Sean Hannity for the outstanding community service of his Freedom Concerts. Should be an interesting evening!  more

Despite a string of high-profile endorsements, the latest Rasmussen poll shows Senator McCain leading primary challenger JD Hayworth by only seven percentage points, down from his 22 point lead in January.  more

In his speech at the San Francisco World Affairs Council Thursday, California GOP Senate candidate Tom Campbell wisely argued that America must send a strong message to the world and in particular its enemies that when one of our allies is attacked we will come to their defense.  more

In August 2009, defense attorneys at Gitmo showed their clients photos of CIA interrogators and other intelligence officials. FrumForum spoke with former high-ranking intelligence community officials all of whom called on Attorney General Holder to stop stonewalling and to investigate this threat to the safety of our agents.  more

For the past 20 years, I’ve been in contact with Clifford Olson, Canada’s most notorious serial killer.  more

My old boss Bob Bartley used to advise all economic forecasters: “If you give a number, don’t give a date. If you give a date, don’t give a number.”  more

FrumForum obtains exclusive advance excerpts from Senate candidate Tom Campbell’s foreign policy address in San Francisco. Read Campbell’s statements on Afghanistan, terror detainees, and Israel here.  more

Latest data point: Bart Stupak’s complaint’s in today’s Politico. In many times and places, men have braved death to stand up and fight for their beliefs. In the United States in 2010, nobody suffers such a fate – but your office may have to take a lot of phone calls at odd hours of the day.  more

Republicans still have time to unite opponents of the Senate health bill by providing a smaller, more targeted reform measure which could attract the support of moderate Democrats and disaffected progressives.  more

Sen. Dodd’s new financial regulation plan includes a proposal for a federal super-agency which could help close troubled banks. But giving the federal government these vast new powers will only create more problems.  more

My latest column for The Week argues that just as in 2000, when Yasser Arafat abandoned peace talks and went to war, today the inflated expectations of the Palestinian people will again prevent their leaders from making the realistic compromises necessary to achieve a peace deal.  more

Barack Obama filled out his NCAA Tournament brackets live Wednesday on ESPN. Obama probably didn’t let domestic political considerations affect his picks for the tournament. but considering how many of his fellow Democrats are staring electoral defeat in the face this November, maybe he should have.  more

Alas, there is sanity in the world. A federal judge has denied a request from Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers to push back his trial date until after the election.  more

Recently, Virginia’s legislature passed a law that (they hope) will “exempt” their citizens from Obamacare’s individual mandate. But the law seems unlikely to survive a close examination by the Supreme Court.  more

The Democrats have announced plans to use a procedural step called “the self-executing rule” or the “deem and pass” to shepherd the healthcare bill through the House before the end of the week. But what does deem and pass” actually involve?  more

Matt Yglesias makes an (apt) point today in comparing the social and cultural differences between the U.S. and Canada.  more

While the media focused their attention on the small colorful gathering of anti-health bill protesters Tuesday, at another location on the Hill, a small group of activists had set up a war room to better organize and mobilize the tea partiers.  more

Last Friday, Illinois GOP Senate candidate Rep. Mark Kirk attempted to rally the crowd during a speech and said of President Obama: “we are on the way to making this guy a one-termer.” Going after the president is a mistake Kirk should not repeat.  more

This St. Patrick’s Day is a good time to remember that Irishmen have served honorably in every army on the face of the Earth, distinguishing themselves in battle in every war since the Romans first tried to land on their shores.  more

There is an immutable reason why centralized socialist policies don’t work over time: government, unlike the private sector, has no incentive to maintain the fiscal discipline needed to stay on budget.  more