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Saturday, October 2, 2010
From The Comedy Store
President Obama signaled a change in U.S. policy toward the Third World in a U.N. speech. He said he intends to promote commerce and free trade with poor nations rather than just give them money. If it works there, he's going to try it here.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Money's Dreamless Sleep
Conservatives who love to hate moviemaker Oliver Stone, who has never found a particular reason to love America, won't find enough venom to abet their passion against him for his latest movie, "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps."
'Finding $700 Billion Is Not Easy' -- if You're a Socialist
A couple of back-to-back statements by President Obama at a town hall rally in Des Moines, Iowa, tell us all we need to know about his economic philosophy and that we aren't going to climb out of his recession and begin to slow the growth of the national debt as long as he's calling the shots.
Ignoring the Voters
Members of Congress have now returned home to try to save their own jobs, never mind helping the millions of Americans who have lost theirs. "When we come back this fall, the election will be over," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Washington Post. "I hope that it also means that Republicans will finally be able to put the American people ahead of their short-term political interests and ambitions."
Report From 'The Necessary War'
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Our day began at 2 a.m. Breakfast for the raiders went at 2:30 a.m. Well before dawn, the multinational force -- Drug Enforcement Administration agents, International Security Assistance Force special operators and more than 30 Afghan National Interdiction Unit police officers -- was mustered beside the helicopters. The mission: Take down an opium smuggler's compound before he could move his precious cargo across the nearby, increasingly tense Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Constitution and Politics a Toxic Mix to Many Liberals
Imagine for a moment the entire Supreme Court was wiped out in an asteroid strike, or maybe they ate some really bad clams. Whatever. With the Supreme Court temporarily out of the picture, could Congress and the White House ignore the Constitution, shutting down newspapers and locking up tea partiers or ACLU members?
Shame on Family Films?
Don't read Newsweek magazine while drinking a beverage. A spit take is the obvious first reaction to a column by Julia Baird headlined "The Shame of Family Films." On the Internet, this article is coded as "Why Family Films Are So Sexist."
Why Is He Sending Them?
WASHINGTON -- From the beginning, the call to arms was highly uncertain. On Dec. 1, 2009, commander in chief Barack Obama orders 30,000 more Americans into battle in Afghanistan. But in the very next sentence, he announces that an American withdrawal will begin after 18 months.
Will November 2nd Ever Arrive?
As we enter the homestretch of what I consider the most important off-year election in American history, I find my head is abuzz with random thoughts.
The Shoes Liberal Celebrities Won't Wear
Primetime liberal comedians have it made. All they need to do is spend a few hours with a politically correct minority and -- voila! -- they're transformed into instant congressional experts. Democrats invited Stephen Colbert to drape himself in the more-compassionate-than-thou mantle last week on behalf of illegal alien migrant workers. But not all "people of color" are equal.
Breathe Easy: Amanpour Declared Recession Over
I must admit that I was taken aback when I recently watched an interview conducted by Christiane Amanpour, the new host of ABC-TV's "This Week," the long-running political talk show that airs on Sunday mornings. She was questioning Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
It's the Marriage Rate, Stupid
Income inequality, we learn from the Census Bureau, has reached the highest level since data were first collected on the subject in 1967. Poverty has increased dramatically, with one of seven Americans now falling below the poverty threshold.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
The 'Assassination' of 'Immigration Reform'
To the list that includes Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King add one more important historical figure struck down by an assassin's bullet: Manuel Jamines.
Lights Out
It should be called the law of unintended consequences, and Congress should learn to abide by it, taking enough time to discover whether the road they choose to follow is smooth or filled with ruts.
Table-Pounding on the Left
WASHINGTON -- It is a lawyers' adage: If you have the law on your side, argue the law; if you have the facts, argue the facts; if you have neither, pound the table. Forgive the Democrats for their current table-pounding.
More on the Delaware Race
WASHINGTON -- The race for the United States Senate in Delaware is a splendid example of what is called Kultursmog, and the smog spreads untreated. One candidate, the conservative, has been slandered repeatedly, and no one objects, not even most conservatives. The liberal opposing her has been given a metaphoric free pass, even by most conservatives. Yet he is a fruitcake. She "dabbled" in witchcraft in high school, she tells us. He may have studied it in grad school, along with other pseudo studies. Yet he is stonewalling, while the press pillories her. No one objects save talk radio.
Patty Murray: The Stupidest Person in America
No liberal has standing to call any Republican stupid as long as Patty Murray remains in the U.S. Senate.
President to Parents: 'Do as I Say'
Parents of the 216 students in Washington, D.C. who have seen Mr. Obama's congressional cohorts gut the Opportunity Scholarship program must have found cold comfort from the President's soothing words on NBC.
Ultimate Evil Calls for Ultimate Punishment
Elected officials don't usually acknowledge wanting to torture people in dark alleys, so it made news recently when Boston Mayor Thomas Menino expressed such a wish during a talk at Emerson College.
Campaign Stunt: a Bunch of Garbage
"What did Meg Whitman know and when did she know it?" publicity hound attorney Gloria Allred asked Wednesday. It was a savvy close to a press conference at which client Nicandra Diaz-Santillan, who worked as a housekeeper for Whitman, alleged that Whitman knew that she was an illegal immigrant, then fired her in 2009 as she prepared to run for California governor.