Victor Morton

Conservative Catholic has kind words for court pick

A prominent Catholic conservative who regularly criticizes liberal co-religionists for weak stances on abortion said Thursday he will be quietly rooting for Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed to the Supreme Court and said she may even be an improvement over retiring Justice David Souter.

May 28, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Conservative bloggers and political activists have been up in arms since the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) endorsed Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on May 12 for that state's open Senate seat.

May 26, 2009

Inside Blogotics

When President Obama picked Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. to be U.S. ambassador to China, talk about his qualifications focused on such cultural matters as his fluency in Mandarin, his time as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan and his adopted Chinese daughter.

May 19, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Poor President Obama. Without his teleprompter, he can trip over his words in two languages.

May 12, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek notes that Texas Democratic state Rep. Jessica Farrar has "quite a resume," including an award for Planned Parenthood and opposition to ultrasound legislation. But that's not what Mrs. Stanek ran with last week.

May 5, 2009

Ex-Vatican ambassador spurns Notre Dame

A former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican has turned down the University of Notre Dame's highest award, citing the school's simultaneous honoring of President Obama and its public justifications for doing so.

April 28, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Among conservative bloggers and media critics, CNN's Susan Roesgen and her coverage of the tax day "tea party" protest in Chicago is about as popular as measles.

April 21, 2009

Inside Blogotics

First, President Obama commits a foot-in-mouth Bushism, then the liberal mainstream media doesn't notice. It's a script that never ceases to provide fodder for conservative blogs.

April 14, 2009

Inside Blogotics

When President Obama met King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during the Group of 20 summit in London last week, he made a deep bow from the waist, to which the reaction in conservative blogs was (paraphrased) "We fought a king in 1776, for this."

April 7, 2009

Inside Blogotics

The headline was obvious: "Keith Olbermann: Twitt."

March 31, 2009

Inside Blogotics

The Connecticut Working Families Party sent a few dozen people in a bus to protest Saturday at the homes of American International Group Inc. executives, to show people how rich Wall Street types live. Steve Gilbert at Sweetness and Light did the tough investigative job of mouse-clicking.

March 24, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Salon's Glenn Greenwald is becoming less enamored of President Obama as we get more proof that presidents, of whatever party, like to expand executive power, and the eight years of President Bush's doing this were not some aberration changeable by a different surname following the word "president.

March 17, 2009

Abortion a ‘choice,’ Steele tells GQ

In remarks sure to cause consternation among the pro-life Republican base, party Chairman Michael S. Steele called abortion "an individual choice" during a GQ magazine interview, though he also said the Supreme Court "wrongly decided" the 1973 case that struck down state limits on abortion and made it an individual right.

March 12, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders is "the Al-Qaeda of the Netherlands." CNN called Mr. Wilders that.

March 3, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Don't look for another John McCain appearance on "The View."

February 24, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Republican commits news via his Twitter posts, and liberal bloggers didn't laugh.

February 17, 2009

Inside Blogotics

A video making the rounds of the conservative blogosphere last week showed Nancy Pelosi making a statement that "if Sarah Palin had said...would be taken as proof that she was unsuited for national politics," said Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.

February 10, 2009

Inside Blogotics

The Big Heat

February 3, 2009

Inside Blogotics

For most conservative bloggers, the worst part of last week's inauguration ceremony — apart from who was inaugurated and what will follow — was the benediction by the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery.

January 27, 2009

Inside Blogotics

Noel Sheppard at his Newbusters blog noted that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild Chief Executive Officer Joe Francis have asked Congress to bail out their industry, too.

January 19, 2009