When Obama took office I said to my conservative friends, “He will initially get some “traction” as an apparently efficacious president by pushing his domestic agenda. He will run aground on international affairs, an arena wherein he is a babe in the woods.”
It can’t bode well for his international performance that his debut on the [...]
The Corner on National Review Online
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
What About the Next Time? [Victoria Toensing]
“All volunteers step forward. We have a person in custody who is high-ranking al-Qaeda. He taunts that an attack on United States soil is imminent but laughs mockingly when we ask for specifics. We need interrogators.” [...]
IBD brings a few uncomfortable recent events to the level of consciousness:
(This is lifted en masse from Mrs. Palin’s Facebook page:)
Some Useful Commentary on the Health Care Debate
As Americans spend the next few weeks discussing health care reform, I thought it might be helpful to share some articles (and one panel discussion video) that I’ve found especially insightful.
Washington Post editorial, July 26, 2009
“The Health-Care Sacrifice: [...]
This take on Speaker Pelosi’s Swastika-spotting is lifted from James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today . Enjoy:
Limousine Liberal?
On a lighter note, is it possible that Pelosi’s outrageous comment was inspired by “Seinfeld”? A reader reminds us of the 1992 episode “The Limo,” in which Jerry and George scam a limousine ride from the [...]
Let’s read into the record for today the entirety of Mr. Michael Barone’s thoughts on the indicated topic:
We Americans tend to take the great strengths of our country for granted. In the hubbub of political debate, we concentrate on things that are allegedly wrong with America and lose sight of our great achievements.
We make up [...]
People, ordinary random people who for the most part have, understandably enough (really), their hands full getting from one day to the next, in other words people pretty much like me – I don’t know about you — laugh at me when I suggest that the ultimate goals of environmentalism are authoritarian world government followed by [...]