American Federalist Journal
Friday - January 27, 2012


Obama's Misstatements on the Union
David Limbaugh  Google Blog Search

Only a president long shielded from criticism and accountability could make the kind of State of the Union speech President Obama did Tuesday night. It's hard to know where to begin, given his repetition of tired ideas from his previous SOTUs, ...



Romney Should be Proud
Mona Charen  Google Blog Search

It's as predictable as vultures at a carcass. When a wealthy Republican is running for office, the press will make his wealth a handicap. Recall that when George H. W. Bush was running in 1988, he was derided as a "preppy." George W. ...



The High Cost of Being a Tiger Mom
Maggie Gallagher  Google Blog Search

American women are both incredibly dogmatic and anxious about our mothering. When Amy Chua described her intense efforts to push her two daughters into high achievement in school, in music and, hence, in life, she caused an uproar among many ...



State of the Union Flop
Charles Krauthammer  Google Blog Search

Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama's game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, tamer of the rising seas — offered ...



Romney: The Last WASP
Rich Lowry  Google Blog Search

Mitt Romney summoned all the righteous indignation he could muster after a Newt Gingrich ad called him "anti-immigrant." Romney blasted the ad shortly afterward in an interview: "It's just ...



Obama's Vision for a Spartan America
Jonah Goldberg  Google Blog Search

President Obama's State of the Union address was disgusting. The president began with a moving tribute to the armed forces and their accomplishments. But as he has done many times now, he celebrated martial virtues not to rally support for the ...



40 Years After The 1972 Campaign, "Dirty Tricks" No Longer Matter To MSM
Hugh Hewitt  Google Blog Search

The president and the Chicago Gang as well as their allies in Big Labor want the GOP nominee to be Newt ...



Newt Declares War on Media
Larry Elder  Google Blog Search

The Republican re-embrace of former Speaker Newt Gingrich says a lot about whom he sees as his opponent -- and it isn't just President Barack Obama. It's the ...



Is Anybody Serious?
Thomas Sowell  Google Blog Search

The Republican candidates' circular firing squad now seems to be using machine ...



Unlike Obama, GOP Candidates Talk Seriously About Governing
Michael Barone  Google Blog Search

You know politicians are serious when they move from campaigning to governing. Something like that may be happening on the Republican campaign trail -- but, unfortunately, not at the Obama White House. Campaigning clearly carried the day for Newt ...



Fidelity and the Presidency
Victor Davis Hanson  Google Blog Search

The news media seem obsessed with the serial affairs of a younger Newt Gingrich back in the last century. The anger of his second of three wives mysteriously became national news on ABC's Nightline on the eve of the South Carolina primary. ...



Schools of Education
Walter E. Williams  Google Blog Search

Larry Sand's article "No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read" -- written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. -- blames schools of education for the decline in America's ...



Obama's Green Robber Barons
Michelle Malkin  Google Blog Search

Had enough of fat cat Barack Obama, his jet-setting wife and his multi-millionaire Chicago consigliere/real-estate mogul Valerie Jarrett attacking the "rich"? Well, brace yourselves. You'll be hearing much more from the White House ...



Bush Derangement Syndrome a Problem for Obama?
Austin Bay  Google Blog Search

Should war with Iran erupt, you can bet the 2012 election that the Obama administration hopes the national press will conveniently forget Ambassador Ryan Crocker's September 2007 reply to Rep. Tom Lantos' belittling question regarding ...



Newtzilla Conquers All?
Jonah Goldberg  Google Blog Search

Newtzilla is back. Six weeks ago, during the last Newt Gingrich surge, I wrote here that "conventional weapons are useless against Newtzilla. . . . Everything bad about Gingrich — the flip-flops, the wives, the ego ...



The Perils of Obama's Foreign Policy
Victor Davis Hanson  Google Blog Search

The mystery remaining about the Obama administration's foreign policy is not whether it has worked, but whether its failures will matter all that much. That is no rhetorical question, given that it is hard to permanently damage, in just three ...



The Question Is Not 'Electability,' but 'Re-electability'
David Limbaugh  Google Blog Search

Republican internecine squabbles this primary season seem to turn on the vying candidates' respective electability against incumbent Barack Obama. But if even uber-liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has finally awakened to President ...



Evangelicals and Romney: Should Theology Matter?
Dennis Prager  Google Blog Search

As an American, a Republican, and a fiscal and social conservative -- and though I have endorsed no Republican candidate -- there is one thing that would disturb me greatly if Mitt Romney were not the Republican nominee: if Romney's Mormon ...



Just Attack the Media and We're At Your Feet
Mona Charen  Google Blog Search

So the message South Carolina voters sent was -- "Anything goes so long as you attack the media." Whatever you think about Mitt Romney's shortcomings as a candidate -- and I agree with Mark Steyn, who said of his stump speech, ...



Gingrich: The Republican Clinton
Rich Lowry  Google Blog Search

The South Carolina primary ended the Thursday before the voting, at around 8:05 p.m. That's when Newt Gingrich stopped berating CNN's John King for asking him about his ex-wife Marianne's allegation that he wanted an "open ...