President Obama has often been compared to Jimmy Carter. But lately it occurs to me that there’s a lot of resemblance to presidential candidate Mike Dukakis, who failed a basic emotional test in his response to a hypothetical asked during … Continue reading →
…it’s in some big kind of trouble. Herbert is ordinarily one of the most stalwart supporters of whatever the left might be dishing up at the moment. But his relatively clear-minded and well-reasoned opposition to the Cadillac health insurance tax … Continue reading →
Now that it’s nearly a year into Obama’s presidency, I find myself having a recurrent experience: I’ll go back and read something from the past, but now with the perspective provided by the passage of time I experience an “aha!” … Continue reading →
Among all the other disturbing trends of the Obama era, we have the specter of an MSM that has completely abdicated its duty to report fairly and to (remember this quaint phrase?) question authority. Many have pointed out that this … Continue reading →
There’s a great deal of anger on the part of voters about the direction Congress and this administration are taking and will be taking in the time left them before the elections of 2010 and 2012. Here are some possible … Continue reading →
I was thinking today that the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) serves no useful purpose anymore. It’s not allowed to tell the truth. Instead, it has become the tool of a Congress willing, eager, and all too skilled at tailoring legislation … Continue reading →
Here’s an excellent summary article of where we stand on health care today. It’s not a pleasant prospect, although well worth reading. And here’s another, which includes this thought: In true Jacksonian fashion, the country fired the Republicans in 2006 … Continue reading →
Freud spent a lot of time wondering, “what do women want?” And on this blog we’ve also spent a great deal of time—and no small number of posts and comments—on the modern-day version: what does Obama want? There are other … Continue reading →
In reference to this post of mine on the current Democrat agenda to pursue unpopular policies in the face of strong public opposition from the majority of Americans, a number of people have directed me to some well-written, sobering, and … Continue reading →
I have a question, and Google hasn’t given me an answer yet. So I’m throwing it out here for my very erudite commenters to tackle: If Democrats lose seats in the 2010 Congressional elections, and then enough representatives vote to … Continue reading →
I don’t listen to many radio talk shows. Sometimes, though, when I’m in the car and bored, I tune one in for a while. So the other day I was listening to someone (Rush? Hannity?) for a few moments and … Continue reading →
It is interesting that two analyses of Obama’s newly-announced Afghan policy conclude with essentially the same thought. In the WSJ, Eliot A. Cohen ends his essay with these words: As a wartime leader [Obama] will tend many wounds, but the … Continue reading →