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- Opinion · Jan 8, 2010The Soul of Tiger Woods
Buddhist faith or adopt the ideas of Hinduism, which I think would be of great spiritual value to him, I doubt anybody would have said anything … strangest because Christianity is so routinely and thoroughly mocked and denigrated across our news and entertainment outlets without an ounce of concern for offending the average Christian. Hume’s chat
- Opinion · Jan 7, 2010Something About That Name
Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.” That is a message shared for 2,000 years by those who follow … derision should be aimed at Hume, not at his employer or at Fox News as a social force.” Shales said it’s, “worth a Google or two to investigate
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2010Untrue Beliefs
start ...”, “What better way to start a new year and decade ...”, and “ABC ‘World News’ Decade Look-Back.” One would think that the first decade of the third millennium came … forth. The end of 2009 completes the ninth year and the end of 2010 completes the 10th year and the end of the decade. One minute after midnight
- Opinion · Dec 30, 2009Predictions of Things Not to Come
even when there’s little news to comment on. The seasonal rhythm of the news is echoed in the rhythm of the newspaper business or, as a friend of mine … Thomas E. Dewey’s cabinet. I’d gladly join the Predictions for 2010 crowd if not for the sad fate of so many Predictions for 2009. Foreign Policy magazine, which
- Opinion · Dec 12, 2009First, the Good News on the Economic Recovery ...
months. And business inventories, led by manufacturing, also rose in October. First, the good news on the economic recovery that everybody loves to hate: Retail sales totally beat Wall Street … modest recovery, perhaps running around 4 percent in 2010. But it should be closer to 8 percent following the Great Recession. Job creation will pick up, and unemployment will decline
- Opinion · Nov 26, 2009I’m Thankful I Knew America When There Was Such a Thing as a ‘Busy Signal’
Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging, emails, Internet sites and TV snippets on everything from cable news to entertainment channels. These technologies may be starting to constitute a collective “weapon of mass … Great Society” social engineering. But at least then we had time to taste big notions like that one before we were told to swallow them. As we head into 2010
- Opinion · Nov 16, 2009Pushing Health Reform When Job Losses Are Rising
package has “created or saved” specific numbers of jobs posted on recovery.gov are as greatly exaggerated as the early obituaries of Mark Twain. It’s easy, in contrast, to spot … prospect of higher taxes on high earners after the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010 is one. The surtax on high earners in the health care bill the House passed
- Opinion · Nov 6, 2009The Myth of ’08, Demolished
raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. In the aftermath … Republican president, against a politically incompetent opponent, amid the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression. And still he won by only seven points. Exactly a year later comes
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2009The Risible Claim of “Responsibility”
Happening to scroll through old news the other day, I came across this declaration from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: “While President Bush continues to trumpet his so-called … looks tiny compared to the more than $4 trillion Congress will spend in fiscal 2010.” So the money isn’t even there. But more galling is the idea that increasing
- Opinion · Jan 27, 2009Where Is Free Market Economics When We Need It Most?
Nathan Glazer, Aaron Wildavksy, and many others observed the effects of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” initiatives and became sobered up. (A few, including Moynihan, returned to the liberal fold … about to begin under the Democrats. It was, or should have been, frightening news that the United States is now $10.7 trillion in debt, sporting a $1.2 trillion deficit