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- Obama's Governing Style - February 18, 2009
- Regarding the Cabinet selection, he famously said he "screwed up." But from a management perspective, the unanswered question is: How did he "screw up"? Did...
- Our Clever President - February 11, 2009
- It can't be good that the president is making his vice president the public butt of his snickering after only three weeks in office. Not that it is Biden's fault....
- Obama's Defense Budget Mystery - February 4, 2009
- "'Business as usual is no longer an option,' according to one of the internal briefings prepared in late October for the presidential transition, copies of...
- Obama's Blank Screen Deception - January 28, 2009
- And it is working. Many of my fellow conservative commentators are embarrassingly eager to search Obama's words, groveling for hopeful signs that he is not a...
- Economic Crapshoot Ahead - January 21, 2009
- Rarely has so much hung on contested economic theories and ambiguous historical references. The first question is whether fiscal stimulus can ameliorate an...
- A Truncated Presidential Honeymoon? - January 14, 2009
- In the past two weeks, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Jay Rockefeller and John Kerry and Rep. Barney Frank, among others, have...
- Being President 101 - January 7, 2009
- Team Obama lost no time Sunday afternoon turning that embarrassing incident into a classless finger-pointing exercise, as they backgrounded Richardson's...
- Now Sits Expectation In the Air - December 31, 2008
- There are media reports that he is smoking more than usual. Who could blame him? For many of the rest of us, we wake up at 2 in the morning worried about our...
- A Disturbing Book Worth Reading - December 24, 2008
- I discuss some of the findings of Tobin and Ybarra's study in my latest book ("American Grit -- What It Will Take To Survive and Win in the 21st Century"),...
- Clinging to Hope - December 17, 2008
- "So I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown." ...
- Liberals Leave the Watchtowers of Freedom - December 10, 2008
- Of course, what would have been heaven for us would have been hell for the political opposition. But if we Reaganites didn't have such a technology, our...
- Will Obama Really Be a Centrist? - December 3, 2008
- The mainstream media, still warmed by the success of their work electing Obama, comfortably headlined an article on the topic in the National Journal: "The...
- Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities - November 26, 2008
- He proposes setting up a board to establish standards for health care delivery in the United States that would be modeled on how the Federal Reserve Board and...
- Who's Going on the Presidential Honeymoon? - November 19, 2008
- I have been on only one honeymoon, with my wife 24 years ago last week. It was very much voluntary, and I didn't need to fake my tender love and devotion. But whether...
- To Battle Stations - November 12, 2008
- If you are on the losing side, then you may find convincing the advice of Alcuin of York, the great English scholar and top adviser to Charlemagne: "Nec...
- Forging a Conservative Agenda - November 5, 2008
- Conservatism always has been and always will be a force to reckon with because it most closely approximates the reality of the human condition, based, as it...
- Is Obama Secretly Sensible? Don't Bet on It - October 29, 2008
- But of course, throughout history when dangerous, radical men have offered themselves up for leadership, their moderate supporters have rationalized their...
- The Birth of the Me-Too Conservative - October 22, 2008
- "Let me warn the nation against the smooth evasion which says: 'Of course we believe all these things. We believe in Social Security; we believe in work for the...
- McCain's Next Duty Call - October 15, 2008
- Obama's first election was described recently by Martin Fletcher, a foreign correspondent for NBC News, in the British newspaper The Times (not on NBC): "Mr...
- Bafflement - October 8, 2008
- Moreover, by Monday, experts were divided on why the markets were going down and what should be done about it. I was in a hotel room in Santa Fe, N.M.,...
- Yet Freedom - October 1, 2008
- Unemployment went from 3 percent in 1892 to 18 percent in 1894 -- not returning to single digits (6.5 percent) until 1899. Many out-of-work middle-class citizens...
- Media Campaigns Hard for Obama - September 24, 2008
- And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to the...
- Finance, History and Politics - September 17, 2008
- And yet both the Obama and McCain campaigns jumped out of the box Monday with the assertions that they don't want a taxpayer-funded bailout, and they both...
- The GOP Resurrection - September 10, 2008
- Until last week, Sen. McCain was running as the boring candidate of experience and was unable to substantially replace Bush as the image of the party. With...
- It's Still the Economy, Stupid - September 3, 2008
- That is why, for instance, President Clinton capitulated to Newt Gingrich's Republican Congress in 1996 and signed the Republican welfare reform bill (after...
- Gosh, I Love the Liberal Media - August 27, 2008
- I'm all in favor of trying to make change my friend, although it's not likely to be a lasting relationship. But I confess that a little stability can be a comfort,...
- Lessons From a Dance Slav - August 13, 2008
- America's aggressive diplomacy in this regard was heightened recently when -- at the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, this year -- it pressed for Georgia's and...
- He Is Who He Is - August 6, 2008
- Certainly, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's name is funny. Many on the left have had great fun with President Bush's last name. But we all have found our names...
- The Destroyer of Worlds - July 30, 2008
- For instance, in Hindu, the god Rudra, who is also known as Lord Shiva, is the third god in the Hindu trinity. He destroys worlds. Specifically, he destroys the...
- The GQ Statesman - July 23, 2008
- When he does submit himself to the occasional press interview, his actual words read in print must make his handlers as nervous as his visual images make Republicans...
- Tacking to the Center Is Tacky - July 16, 2008
- Who can forget Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, when he came out for tax cuts, lower social spending and more military spending in the primary, only to back away from...
- The Obama Glissade - July 9, 2008
- As a conservative, of course, I like all his changed views except for the fact that he doesn't believe his current iteration of principle any more than he believed his...
- Formed on the Anvil of His Captivity - July 2, 2008
- This is the same Gen. Clark who, while leading the bombing campaign against Serbia from his desk, was reprimanded by President Clinton's secretary of defense, William...
- Was Iraq Worth It? - Washington Times - June 25, 2008
- Western Democracy in Decline - Washington Times - June 18, 2008
- Memorial Day 2008 - Washington Times - May 28, 2008
- Race and the 2008 Election - Washington Times - May 14, 2008
- Economic Questions for the Candidates - Washington Times - April 30, 2008
- Rising Euro-Muslim Tensions - Washington Times - April 23, 2008
- We Are All Global Alarmists Now? - Washington Times - April 16, 2008