It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn't sound very important. But it's evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

As the Supreme Court hears a challenge to Arizona's immigration law today, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholars are available for interviews.

Herman Cain's stance as a non-politician who refuses to obey the rules of the great game of politics is at least momentarily a political asset in a year when opinion about conventional politicians of both parties is near an all-time low.

Just as the political air is filled with talk of the inevitability of Barack Obama's re-election -- we are told that the kids at his Chicago headquarters are brimming with confidence -- in come some poll numbers showing him behind.

It has become obvious that the shooter of Gabby Giffords and thirteen others was crazy, the follower of no political movement, motivated only by the bizarre ideas ricocheting through his head.

Looking back on Obama's second State of the Union message, and looking forward to the congressional session and the 2012 elections, the numbers tell a story that should leave Democrats uneasy.

Obama's decision to campaign -- er, conduct official business -- on university campuses last week was not surprising. According to exit polls, there was no surge of young voters in 2008.