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- Opinion · Oct 20, 2010Shovel-Ready White Elephants
public works. In fairness, Uncle Sam’s sloth and bloat is not all bad news. Americans used to tolerate a much higher level of workplace mortality for such projects … because they were in Atlanta for sexual-harassment training and video tutorials about how great FEMA is. Nor does conservatism demand blind obedience to the Davis-Bacon Act, the union
- Opinion · Oct 20, 2010Returned to Life
fades. The ordinary detritus of the news was swept away as the world watched in astonishment and, thanksgiving. Man was reminded of the great things he is capable … stars in the night sky. If we would but remember to look up. (c) 2010 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2010Life Gets Better; Politics Get Worse
Honolulu, confided in her videotape; it was “kind of a hostile environment.” The good news is: “These people who treat you like crap now, in a few years, they … that their lives will get much better when they grow up. It’s a great idea -- conceived by two individuals seeking to give hope to anguished teens. They used
- Opinion · Oct 16, 2010From The Comedy Store
stops and changes lanes and brakes all by itself without need of a driver. Great idea. Soon all the cab drivers in New York will be unemployed and hanging around … starting to look like a secret plan to invade China. The New York Daily News cited a geneaologist who found that President Obama is a tenth cousin of Rush Limbaugh
- Opinion · Oct 15, 2010Your Pre-Election Post-Mortem
public service, I present an infallibly prescient scorecard of best and worst of 2010. Most suicidal candidate. Carl Paladino is running in a deep-blue state with sky-high taxes … time around. But it is not inchoate irrational anger -- a “temper tantrum” as ABC News anchor Peter Jennings called the 1994 Republican sweep -- but a highly pointed, perfectly rational anger
- Opinion · Oct 15, 2010Victory-Deficit Disorder
terminal had cut away to a commercial. When programming resumed, it was for a news update. The Reaper pilot nodded toward the nearest TV and said: “It would be nice … desert, it is a great success story. But claiming this triumph will require that our president overcome his severe case of victory-deficit disorder. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Oct 15, 2010Obama’s Conscience
dissatisfied, grumpy, and isolated. He doesn’t even enjoy Camp David. Two great questions ricochet around the capital in the countdown to the midterms. The first: Does Barack Obama plan … advisers have left the administration. Rank-and-file Democrats are listless. And the economic news is, well, everyone knows about that. President Obama is rumored to be dissatisfied, grumpy
- Opinion · Oct 15, 2010Wasting Our Money
conducted 42 news conferences, and visited 30 states, according to a compilation by CBS News. Failing to communicate was not the issue. The president’s problem is that … Fortune 500 list of largest companies in America. These individuals created great wealth for themselves, but they also created thousands of jobs for other people. The fallacy in Obama
- Opinion · Oct 13, 2010Liu Xiaobo and the War for the Terms of Modernity
prize selection committee. China’s cyber-sheriffs have tried to keep news of Liu’s award off the Internet. Its secret police shadow Liu’s wife. The People’s Republic … heavy-handed reaction to Liu’s prize provides an insight into China’s great 21st century internal struggle. China’s economic success is impressive, but it teeters on a very
- Opinion · Oct 12, 2010Obama’s Chamber Smear Is Business As Usual
give him the benefit of the doubt is beyond me. We read about the great disparity between the unpopularity of his agenda and his favorable personal approval ratings. Assuming poll … pocket of Wall Street’s “fat cat bankers,” that Fox News is not a news organization but a political arm of the Republican Party, that Arizona lawmakers had crafted
- Opinion · Oct 11, 2010The State of the Obsession: Report From an Anarchists’ Convention
little skiffs find safe harbor at this annual conference, too, right next to the great battleships. Once a year the whole fleet’s in. It’s quite a gathering … good news is that, even if our numbers are declining, our opinions remain as varied as ever and even, on happy occasion, as eccentric. (c) 2010 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
- Opinion · Sep 30, 2010More on the Delaware Race
School’s Notes from the Quad that serving in the Senate would be a “great way” for him “to apply the principles and values that were honed at YDS.” Coons … hope. Hannity, Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh are on the case. Maybe even Fox News will take an interest. Yet do not expect the liberal media to engage in fair
- Opinion · Sep 29, 2010President Obama: He’s Just Not That Into Us
burgeoning depressive state). Even his supporters come in for a tongue-lashing from the Great Professor: “The idea that we’ve got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base … reserves his harshest criticism for his political opponents. Fox News comes in for a beating -- Obama says that the news network supports “a point of view that I disagree with
- Opinion · Sep 25, 2010From The Comedy Store
ranking generals in the field. They had to give the president some really bad news. They can’t stop the surge in Delaware. The National Bureau of Economic Research … Chicago Cubs. The locals are outraged. They’ve got a lot of great memories associated with that sports bar. Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived at the United Nations
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2010Polymorphous Propaganda
Headline News on Aug. 27 to promote her revolving-bedroom-door lifestyle: “It’s great to have both, to be able to morph in and out of lots of different … better.” (And CNN wonders how it lost the title of “most trusted name in news.”) For the more conventional polyester ’70s “open marriage” types, there’s a new adultery-promoting
- Opinion · Sep 23, 2010Obama’s Policies Drag Down Democratic Governors
Great Depression gave FDR his chance in Washington. Similarly, welfare reform -- one of the great policy successes of the 1990s -- was initiated by the likes of Republicans like Tommy Thompson … heartland. The governor races, like the contests for Congress, are bad news for the Obama Democrats. COPYRIGHT 2010 THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Sep 22, 2010Still More Carter-Coddling
bringing full employment? Or did he preside over the most disastrous economy since the Great Depression? Did he get the hostages home? Or were they sent home out of fear … News for “totally distorting everything possible concerning the facts.” This, from the man who thinks it’s factual that he was better for America than Ronald Reagan. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Sep 21, 2010And Now Government Press
center of the bubble that went bust during the Great Financial Panic of 2008-09, sharing billing with those evil twins, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two other fine examples … master of unintended satire, too, Note the title of his book proposing government-provided news and opinion: “Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2010What They Really Think of Us
their whole worldview in a single quote? Rarely does a single remark in the news, whether from politician or pundit, sum up the attitude of a whole class, in this … system. Eugene Robinson’s astute analysis of the American mood in 2010 brings to mind the fabled East European parliament that, realizing it had lost popular favor but unwilling
- Opinion · Sep 15, 2010You Can’t Rule on Personality Alone
article partially headlined, “On Carter: ‘Country is Ready’ for the Hope He Stirs,” U.S. News & World Report (which wasn’t always a college ranking guide) interviewed Brandeis political scientist Thomas … constituency. “The New Deal coalition is called the ‘New Deal coalition’ and not the ‘Great Depression coalition’ for a reason,” says political analyst Jay Cost. FDR offered a winning political