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Category Archives: Current Affairs & History
The Zero-Star Toss
I am a political conservative and a baseball fan. Knowing that our ubiquitous President would be all over the All-Star game [first pitch and part of the Fox broadcast] was in effect a tax placed on my viewership, but one … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs & History
Tagged Don Carter, Humor, Hyde Park, MLB All-Star game
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The Charmin(g) Presidency?
Sorry, I meant Charming, but couldn’t get the strike through effect in the title. The new and inexperienced US President was tested recently. Barack Obama proved to be true to his roots. He reactions were Hyde Park through and through. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs & History
Tagged Foreign Policy, Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Peter Wehner, Politics
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Straw Man Tactic Explained: Safire on Obama
I took my own shot at explaining the straw man form of argument, but let’s read how a pro lays it out. William Safire on President Obama, an excerpt: Accepting the Democratic nomination in a huge football stadium way back … Continue reading
Their Own Separate or Private Idaho?
It turns out the B-52’s were ahead of their time. Not musically, of course. No, they were forerunners in the great privatization debate about the great state of Idaho. Kidding of course, but the always interesting Marginal Revolution blog put … Continue reading
Anatomy of a Bureaucratic FUBAR
If you still believe that this administration will bring a change in competency–as in, Bush was an idiot, these guys are smart–you might want to skip this post. This post reinforces the idea that government operates in a very similar … Continue reading
Bill Moyers — PBS Moralist Exposed
Bill Moyers is a long-time left-wing political commentator. As with most commentators on the left, his attacks take on the ‘how could they’ faux-saintly tone, which is grating. It turns out that during all that preening, he was greatly [millions] … Continue reading
Peggy Noonan’s Serious Question
Peggy Noonan formulates the national security question for the Obama Administration very succinctly in her recent column: The question for the Obama administration: Do they think Mr. Cheney is essentially correct, that bad men are coming with evil and deadly … Continue reading
How Senate Republicans Saved Obama
If we are lucky, that will be the headline four years from now when people look back on Obama’s first term. If we are not, the fiscal stimulus plan will emerge largely unchanged in the Senate and become law. I … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs & History
Tagged David Brooks, Martin Feldstein, WSJ Editorial
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