I was wondering yesterday what might be going on behind the scenes with Obama economic experts such as Larry Summers and Paul Volcker. Are they fully on board the Obama express? Well, it seems Volcker has surfaced recently with some … Continue reading →
Guess what? Surprise, surprise: applicants won’t have to show a picture ID to register for health care benefits. Of course, it’s the Democrats in the Senate who struck down this particular provision, not Obama, but it fits in with the … Continue reading →
Here’s one of the many differences between Obama and Reagan, both considered effective orators. In Reagans’ farewell speech he said: And in all of that time I won a nickname, “The Great Communicator.” But I never thought it was my … Continue reading →
[WARNING: the following post may put you a bit off your feed.] On this thread I noticed a discussion in the comments section about chicken. Inquiring minds wanted to know whether we eat female birds only, or males and females … Continue reading →
With all the news swirling around lately it seems that Obama’s approach to the financial crisis, a topic that was the main focus of the early months of his presidency, has gone on the back burner. But as his more … Continue reading →
Bret Stephens thinks so, anyway. And if you look through the comments section to his article, you’ll notice how few of the commenters seem to have a clue what neocons actually stand for. No surprise there. [ADDENDUM: Dr. Sanity has … Continue reading →
The always-fascinating Richard Fernandez muses on whether we are witnessing the dying of the Left: Some months ago it became evident that blunders were piling on so fast, and they were of such enormity that they fed each other, like … Continue reading →
The reaction of no small number of pundits on the Left to the Polanski case is to recommend that we let bygones be bygones. After all, he’s a famous artist, has lived a long life, the offense occurred ages ago, … Continue reading →
I’m not a Hillary Clinton fan. But I must say she has surprised me with the depth of her subservience to the Obama foreign policy vision, and her ability to compromise whatever integrity she might have had left as she … Continue reading →
Michael Totten makes a rare detour from Middle Eastern venues to write an insightful piece about US sanctions on Honduras. Totten points out what the Obama administration seems not to have even considered—the consequences of its threats: Sanctions are supposed … Continue reading →
…but Kate Harding has saved me the trouble by writing essentially what I was thinking, and probably doing a better job of it than I would have. I will add that the attitudes of those who would whitewash Polanski’s sorry … Continue reading →
Watch this; it’s spooky-scary. Obama’s fixed smile is described thusly (the nearly-fixed head position, which in my opinon is even more revealing, is not specifically mentioned): Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a … Continue reading →