Boy Scouts Turn 100

Monday, February 8, 2010

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. Happy Birthday, Scouts!


Burt Prelutsky

It Used to Be a Wonderful Life

· Monday, February 8, 2010

When I was just a kid, I saw the stage musical, “Peter Pan,” starring Mary Martin in the title role and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook. It is to this day the only version of that old war-horse I ever liked. I still don’t know why that story has retained its popularity since 1904. Even Walt Disney couldn’t work his magic on it.


Founder's Quote Daily

Monday, February 8, 2010

"No compact among men ... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."

George Washington, draft of first Inaugural Address, 1789


Debra Saunders

Holder's Premature Mirandization of Suspect

· Sunday, February 7, 2010

Republicans have been hitting the Obama administration for Attorney General Eric Holder's too-quick decision to Mirandize accused Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab after a mere 50 minutes of what has been described as valuable interrogation. After the Miranda moment, the would-be bomber clammed up.


Profiles of Valor: U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Douglas Zembiec

Sunday, February 7, 2010

He is remembered as the "Lion of Fallujah," a leader who took many risks in order to save the lives of others. Then-Marine Capt. Douglas Zembiec, a Naval Academy graduate born in Hawaii, served with Echo Company in war-torn Fallujah, where he and his men helped quell violence that rocked the city for some time.


Ken Blackwell

Defending 'Pitchfork Ben's' Curious Legacy

· Saturday, February 6, 2010

The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the rest of all the right thinking (which is to say left doing) world, is in high dudgeon. They are inflamed over the U.S. Supreme Court’s striking down major portions of the McCain-Feingold Act in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case.

President Obama took the unprecedented step of confronting the Supreme Court about this ruling during his State of the Union Address last week. The President’s characterization of the Court’s ruling was way off base.


Saturday Open Thread

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Possible topic: The Obama budget.


Digest

Friday, February 5, 2010

As we noted last week, Barack Obama is now paying lip service to fiscal conservatism by calling for a "freeze" on federal spending in the face of huge deficits. Yet the freeze would apply to only a small fraction of spending and save a measly $15 billion -- and not until 2011. With Monday's budget release, in which outlays will reach $3.72 trillion for fiscal 2010 and $3.83 trillion in 2011, this political posturing becomes all the more disingenuous.


Obama Calls Navy Corpsman a 'Corpse-man'

Friday, February 5, 2010

At the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, the commander in chief not only got a sailor's name wrong, but couldn't figure out how to pronounce "corpsman." Yes, he said "corpse-man." Twice.


Obama Cuts NASA Funding

Friday, February 5, 2010

There was a time when Americans had the right stuff and boldly led the world in going where no man had gone before. Apparently, that time has passed. Barack Obama's 2011 NASA budget request will effectively terminate America's manned space flight program, leaving space exploration leadership to the Chinese and the Russians.


Michael Gerson

The Betrayals of a Community Organizer

· Friday, February 5, 2010

WASHINGTON -- Former community organizer Barack Obama once seemed to recognize the important role of community institutions. It was among his few credible claims to ideological outreach. On the eve of his inauguration, cameras in tow, Obama took a paint roller to the walls of a D.C. homeless shelter. He retained the White House office that promotes community and faith-based charities. In June, during a speech saluting nonprofits, he said, "Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots. And government shouldn't be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts."

But alliteration carries little weight in the budget process (to the disappointment of speechwriters everywhere).


Founder's Quote Daily

Friday, February 5, 2010

"Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness."

George Washington, letter to the residents of Boston, 1789


The Reagan Model for Restoration

Thursday, February 4, 2010

This week, we observe the anniversary of Ronald Wilson Reagan's birthday -- Reagan Day as it is known around our office.

Ronald Reagan was, and remains, the North Star of the last great conservative revolution -- and the next -- if more Republicans will abide by their oaths to Support and Defend our Constitution and abide by their own political party platform.


Cal Thomas

Super Commercial

· Thursday, February 4, 2010

In the midst of the usual glut of Super Bowl commercials with messages about beer, cars and women with impossible bosoms, on Sunday there will be one 30-second message that has some people upset, even angry.

It is a message by 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, who, after a difficult pregnancy, decided to give Tim a chance to live, though she was advised to have an abortion.


Founder's Quote Daily

Thursday, February 4, 2010

"Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue."

John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776



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