Monday, February 8, 2010
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. Happy Birthday, Scouts!
By Burt Prelutsky ·
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.
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
By Debra Saunders ·
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.
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.
By Ken Blackwell ·
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, February 6, 2010
Possible topic: The Obama budget.
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.
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.
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.
By Michael Gerson ·
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).
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
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.
By Cal Thomas ·
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.
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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