Carl Scott

As a result of a couple comments at the House Judiciary Committee hearing last week, we perhaps begin to see the first sustained public discussion of whether Obama should be impeached. An NRO writer aptly named Jonathan Strong plunged into it Thursday. And yet, as few conservative pundits seem to . . . . Continue Reading »

Judging solely by facebook “shares,” the most popular post I’ve done on pomocon was a recent one that compared Obamacare to a so-bad-it-cannot-be-revised undergraduate paper. I felt especially duty-bound to mock our President because he used the marketing language of . . . . Continue Reading »

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That’s “What Would James Madison Read?” Well, presidency scholar Benjamin Kleinerman says it would be The Contested Removal Power : I would venture to say that this is one of the few books emerging out of American political science in the last thirty years which James Madison . . . . Continue Reading »

One: Liberalism’s Inevitable March Suffers a Serious Set Back I guess today is TNR day on pomocon! That’s because the source of this argument, TNR editor Franklin Foer , is more important than the argument itself. Still it’s no slouch argument: Liberalism has spent the better part . . . . Continue Reading »

Amity Shlaes, author of a fine book on FDR and the Depression, The Forgotten Man , and a biography of Calvin Coolidge I haven’t gotten to yet, has a long and quite educational review of Scott Berg’s new biography of Woodrow Wilson over at The National Interest . I had my suspicions about . . . . Continue Reading »

I’m but one of a ten-thousand strong army of conservative hobbyist pundits. I’m not a reporter, nor any sort of investigator. But there are bloggers out there who are more of the investigative type, who know the web well, and they should look into this story , of death threats issued by . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, it’s that time of year again, the paper-grading season. I thought I’d share a particularly amusing/appalling incident with one of my students, as captured in this email of mine: Dear Barry, As I explained in the last email, the problems with your paper are not merely superficial, . . . . Continue Reading »

Albuquereque Voters Defeat Anti-Abortion Referendum . 55 to 45%, with heavy turnout. I had some hopes for a closer outcome. Stoked by some over-optimistic social conservative reporting, no doubt. Still, is 55 to 45 a “huge” victory for pro-abortion forces, or is it yet more evidence of . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a report on a working draft of a Kabul-Washington deal on the U.S. Afghan mission after 2014: Taken as a whole, the document describes a basic U.S.-Afghan exchange. Afghanistan would allow Washington to operate military bases to train Afghan forces and conduct counter-terrorism . . . . Continue Reading »