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- Pondering the Fort Hood Massacre - November 7, 2009
- It makes no sense to see Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as represented in at least one family account, as the victim of "harassment" by fellow soldiers (and therefore a...
- Obama and his 'Enemy' Fetish - October 20, 2009
- One element in last summer's Obama ruckuses -- there's always an Obama ruckus going on, it seems -- was a few placards at tea party rallies comparing the president to a...
- Political Delusions - October 13, 2009
- Plutarch tells us that, back in the fifth-century B.C., when the citizens of Athens were voting on whether to ostracize -- i.e., throw out -- Aristides the Just, one...
- Another Bronx Cheer for Politicians - September 16, 2009
- It helps to read history. We know, or should, that American life shows us nothing like the social and political conniptions that Germany experienced in the 1920s, France...
- Obama Has Failed to Answer the Difficult Questions - September 5, 2009
- They're all over him -- swarms, flocks, flights of critics taking apart President Obama: his style, his motives, his modus operandi, assuming he has one. Charles...
- The Kennedy Legacy - September 1, 2009
- The end of Ted Kennedy's long sojourn among us, splendidly splashed by the media, opened the renewed discussion of whether it's time that big government, in the Kennedy...
- Obama's Blunder - August 25, 2009
- If the left wing of the left wing of the left wing in American life doesn't control most of the Obama farmstead's best and richest acreage, it could be time for new...
- Too Much Hubris - August 11, 2009
- Did! Didn't! Did, too! Didn't either! Oh, what a wondrously enlightening health care debate we're having. Democratic hotshots, from the White House on down, blame the...
- Clink, Clank, Clunker - August 4, 2009
- You can't make this stuff up. First, the name of the program -- Cash for Clunkers. Then the origin, the fountainhead -- to wit, the U.S. Congress. Then the results:...
- Time For Recess - July 29, 2009
- According to a recent poll by Political Strategies Inc./POLITICO, only a quarter of Americans "trust" Nancy Pelosi. Mrs. Pelosi, reacting to a question about the poll,...
- Who Can Lead The Republicans? - July 7, 2009
- Sarah Palin wants to run for president? Quick -- get the butterfly net. Who in his -- or her -- right mind would want to strut into the economic Hiroshima that the...
- Who's Laughing Now? - June 30, 2009
- There was symmetry in the news that barraged us one day last week -- Michael Jackson, not to mention Farrah Fawcett, had died, and the governor of South Carolina had...
- Thank You For Not Blackberrying - June 23, 2009
- While Congress labors and sweats over health care reform, let us turn to larger matters, pertaining to the ways we live together. Pertaining, specifically, to the...
- Obama Tries to Skip the Details - June 17, 2009
- It's only money, we like to say, when we know we shouldn't be pulling out our wallets, but. The 'but' is a big one when it comes to health care reform: huge, immense,...
- The View from California - May 27, 2009
- The coming contest, fight, whatever, over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to our country's top court gains context from the California Supreme Court's 6-2 decision...
- 'Empathy' and the Court - May 6, 2009
- The President wants an empathetic jurist to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. He will likely get such a one. What the country will get in that event is one...
- The Gay Marriage Fantasy - April 8, 2009
- Such is the supposed effect of the Iowa Supreme Court's declaration last week that gays and heterosexuals enjoy equal rights to marital bliss. Nope. They...
- Agree with Obama or You're an 'Ideologue' - March 11, 2009
- Now an ideology isn't the same as a philosophy: It's a structure of pure ideas that someone or other has concocted out of thin air to suit himself. Lenin was an...
- President Obama Has Overreached - March 3, 2009
- Our leader wants the country to be run by its national government. "Run by" isn't the same as "owned by. " The latter is inessential. A pliant Democratic Congress needs...
- God And Mr. Darwin - January 28, 2009
- Proponents of the idea that an "intelligent design" informs the universe breathed more easily when the board voted to allow arguments having to do with the...
- The Comparative Insignificance of Politics - January 20, 2009
- We'll see how it goes. For conservatives some pleasant surprises could lie ahead, for liberals some frustration and disappointment (and thus, for...
- Those Poor, Poor Terrorists - January 15, 2009
- On MSNBC's Morning Joe, an editor for the Financial Times can't see why there's any problem with showing how moral we are by going after those connected with...
- Bush and the Firing Squad - December 30, 2008
- A popular cliché has it that "history will judge" whatever at a given moment requires judging. On that expectation the whole flap about Bush and his merits may impress...
- Bernie And Jesus - December 23, 2008
- Merry Christmas and Holy Christ-Mass, to the formal discomfort of many on both sides of the equation, seem entangled beyond efficient separation, although...
- Myths of the Assembly Line - December 17, 2008
- The UAW, whose sit-down strikes had already overwhelmed General Motors' and Chrysler's resistance to unionization, wanted Henry Ford on the dotted line....
- He Who Pays The Piper - December 9, 2008
- There comes to mind a cautionary slogan I first heard in the '60s: He who pays the piper calls the tune. Indeed, and why not? Is government, in the end, a...
- Thanksgiving 2008 - November 26, 2008
- How did we get where we are and what does it mean? The second question is, likely, the more troublesome of the two. What next? The terrifying word "depression" crops...
- Calling Things By Their Right Names - November 19, 2008
- The voters of California, Florida and Arizona on Nov. 4 saw no such reasons. They enacted formal bans on so-called gay marriage. Thus, the scattered if...
- Advice for Conservatives in the Age of Obama - November 11, 2008
- 3. The exercise of power tends to sober. It sobers conservatives; it sobers liberals. Barack Obama will find in due course he doesn't even want to enact the whole...
- The Party of Happiness - November 4, 2008
- What is with us anyway? Wiped out and stomped on, we somehow smile. It is a bit like St. Paul, writing to the Corinthians -- "as chastened, and not killed;...
- The Great National Dice-Roll - October 28, 2008
- Say this for McCain in the comparative experience department: He's been around long enough to do a few things and think a few thoughts. Compare him to...
- The Obama Moment - October 21, 2008
- It becomes harder every day to envision circumstances in which McCain wins this one. To be sure, you never can tell; but, secretly, you know already. You...
- Ready to Lead? - October 14, 2008
- It's what officers do. It's what McCain is in this thing for in the first place -- to lead. It's his last hope -- to be seen leading at a time of stress. ...
- Religion, Maher Style - October 8, 2008
- He's got the notion, from talking to Muslim spokesmen, and pointing to acts of Muslim terrorism, that attachment to the supernatural dimension of life leads...
- Happy Days For Obama - September 30, 2008
- If I correctly read human nature, I see my fellow Americans as ready for a brand-new version of the same-old same-old. I see them ready, that is, for...
- Big, Big Government - September 23, 2008
- Anyone notice there's a presidential election going on? Both parties desire credit for resolving the present financial mess. Certain members of both parties actually...
- Hands Off The Marketplace - September 16, 2008
- Bush-hatred -- the operative emotion on the political left -- is going to fix on, who else, George W. Bush as the unique source of our discombobulations. ...
- Pushback Time - September 9, 2008
- Womanhood? With some voters, yes -- that's the answer. It was time for a woman on a national ticket. That doesn't explain, nevertheless, the raptures into which men have...
- The Moose is Loose - September 3, 2008
- I am especially eager to see how the Obama camp plays the issue of experience. On Friday the 29th, the day of the Palin selection, Obama acolytes knew for a fact that,...
- The Senator Who Won't Go Away - August 27, 2008
- Old political hacks -- the type Joe Biden typifies to a T -- just keep running for president, or, failing that, hang around Washington to annoy us by their...