Sometimes a seemingly random word or two can be very instructive, if you want to know what a person really thinks. That is the reason I (and so many others) paid quite a bit of attention to a couple of … Continue reading →
…recants from his recent piece criticizing the President’s budget as way too liberal. Now he’s back in the Obama saddle again, and all it took was a little phone call from “four senior officials” of the Obama administration. And a … Continue reading →
I’ve been wanting to write about other things besides Obama. Truly, I have. But I keep coming back to that topic because it seems vital to get it right—and now, before things slide out of control. Speaking of sliding out … Continue reading →
My new article is up at PJ: “The Persistence of Obama Love.” [NOTE: Why the weird painting? It’s surrealist Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory,” his most famous work. Plus, what we’re going through is starting to seem surreal, don’t … Continue reading →
What important military defeats has America ever known? If you don’t count the South in the Civil War, we have a single one: Vietnam. The consequences of that defeat, in a land so far away, were easy for Americans to … Continue reading →
If you ever had any doubt, it’s becoming more and more clear every day that Obama meant every single radical thing he ever said. Including that one about bankrupting the coal companies. Don’t recall it? Well, let me refresh your … Continue reading →
It remains to be seen whether these folks will actually end up blocking some of the worst excesses of Obama’s spending proposals. But I hope so; we could certainly use a few profiles in courage right now. Candidates for the … Continue reading →
Iceland. It makes tulipmania look sane.
Continue reading →…nobody knows. I’ve been polling some of my liberal friends who voted for Obama, asking their opinion about what’s been happening lately in the financial sector and his effect on the economy. Every one of them has responded in much … Continue reading →
It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that McDonald’s has been doing well lately. There’s no mystery as to why: it food is relatively cheap, and people are pinching pennies. I’ve never been much of a McDonald’s fan myself. I … Continue reading →
…got a bad rap, if history’s any guide.
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