Looks Like the Last Straw for Mary Landrieu
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Looks Like the Last Straw for Mary Landrieu
Scott McKay, Am. Spectator
Over the weekend the latest in the rolling scandal surrounding Mary Landrieu’s practice of charging taxpayers for her campaign travel throughout Louisiana made its way into a sluggish and indifferent local media.
Dems Now Have 51% Chance of Keeping Senate
Chris Cillizza, Wash Post
Democrats are now (very slightly) favored to hold the Senate majority on Nov. 4, according to Election Lab, The Post’s statistical model of the 2014 midterm elections.
A Sea-Change Going On in Colorado?
John Fund, National Review
National media types have gone into overdrive to focus on the Kansas governor’s race where GOP incumbent Sam Brownback is struggling to win re-election after enacting a conservative agenda. But Brownback is within the margin of error in recent polls. That might not be the case about another governor in a larger state who is trouble for enacting a liberal agenda. The latest Quinnipiac University Poll finds Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper trailing his opponent, former GOP congressman Bob Beauprez, by 10 points.
Why Is Obama Arming Syrian Jihadists?
David French, National Review
We can’t delegate our warfighting to jihadists. The New York Times piece that Rich Lowry links to below makes for singularly depressing reading, and it illustrates that the Obama administration has learned nothing. We’re barely removed from a Libyan conflict featuring American air strikes in support of a rag-tag jihadist army, and now Libya is a jihadist playground, where our former “allies” kill our own ambassador and gleeful terrorists YouTube themselves swimming in our diplomats’ pool.
