VIDEO – CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS DEMONIZING THE TEA PARTY
VIDEO – CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS DEMONIZING THE TEA PARTY Read More »
Entitlements
WHY OBAMA HAS BEEN A BAD PRESIDENT
COMMENTARYMAGAZINE.COM Answering Jonathan Alter’s Challenge Peter Wehner 08.26.2011 – “Tell me again why Barack Obama has been such a bad president?” Jonathan Alter writes in his column. Alter tells us he’s not talking here about Obama as a tactician and communicator, and he’s not interested in hearing ad hominem attacks or about people’s generalized “disappointment.”
WHY OBAMA HAS BEEN A BAD PRESIDENT Read More »
THE PERILS OF CUTTING OUR DEFENSES
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Defining Defense Down Gary Schmitt & Tom Donnelly August 15 – August 22, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 45 In a classic case of closing the barn door after the horses have bolted, the newly appointed secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, and retiring Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Mike Mullen held
THE PERILS OF CUTTING OUR DEFENSES Read More »
KRAUTHAMMER – OBAMA, BAD LUCK? BAD FAITH?
Bad Luck? Bad Faith? by Charles Krauthammer (more by this author) Posted 08/19/2011 ET “We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. … But over the last six months, we’ve had a run of bad luck.” — President Obama, Decorah, Iowa, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON — A troubled nation wonders: How did
KRAUTHAMMER – OBAMA, BAD LUCK? BAD FAITH? Read More »
HERITAGE ACTION VERSUS THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Anti-Coopting Business Heritage Action versus the GOP establishment. Michael Warren August 15 – August 22, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 45 “I really think there’s two sides to politics,” said Mike Needham, the 29-year-old CEO of Heritage Action for America, at a Capitol Hill restaurant in April. “There’s getting
HERITAGE ACTION VERSUS THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT Read More »
THE SOFT-ON-CRIME ROOTS OF BRITISH DISORDER
AUGUST 16, 2011 In a civilized society people would be allowed to defend themselves with guns, not baseball bats. By JOYCE LEE MALCOLM As wild gangs of youths burned homes, shops and cars and severely beat anyone who tried to stop them last week, English people tried to defend themselves. Their desperation triggered a 5,000%
THE SOFT-ON-CRIME ROOTS OF BRITISH DISORDER Read More »
LESSON FROM EUROPE
AUGUST 16, 2011 Lesson From Europe (Take 2) No, social democracy doesn’t ‘work.’ By BRET STEPHENS ‘The real lesson from Europe,” wrote Paul Krugman in January 2010, “is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works.” Here are some postcards from the social
LESSON FROM EUROPE Read More »
LIBERAL SOCIAL POLICY AND THE RIOTS
AUGUST 15, 2011 Notable & Quotable From an editorial on liberal social policy and the riots. From an Aug. 14 editorial in the London Telegraph: Over the past week we have witnessed the culmination of the liberal experiment. The experiment attested that two parents don’t matter; that welfare, rather than work, cures poverty; you tolerate
LIBERAL SOCIAL POLICY AND THE RIOTS Read More »
THE BARBARIANS INSIDE BRITAIN’S GATES
AUGUST 15, 2011 All the young rioters will have had long experience with the justice system’s efforts to confer impunity upon law breakers. By THEODORE DALRYMPLE The youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would
THE BARBARIANS INSIDE BRITAIN’S GATES Read More »