A capital idea
Andrew Mellon was not only a great Secretary of the Treasury, he was also a philanthropist of note. Thanks to him we have Washington’s magnificent National Gallery of Art. It was Mellons’s dream to acquire an art collection that would form the nucleus of a National Gallery of Art in Washington, funded by [...]
PAYGO PAYGO
Barack Obama’s rhetoric about the economy I n recent days has
been a blizzard of excuses, euphemisms, denials, and scapegoating
attacks. Notice that Democrats are more upset that he is
caricaturing Las Vegas than Wall Street.
By telling people not to “blow” their money in casinos,
Obama is [...]
Obama Gantry
Is Barack Obama like “Elmer Gantry”?
You bet he is:
Devotees turn on false prophets with a special vengeance. Obama is beginning to grate. His flip-the-switch-on, evangelical cadences at rallies sound more like a Harvard nerd doing blues imitations than Martin Luther King Jr. Purple-state presidents don’t appoint Van Joneses and Anita Dunns, or turn the NEA [...]
A Weatherized President
Given all his talk about weatherization and climate change,
perhaps President Obama should have borrowed Jimmy Carter’s
frayed cardigan for his Oprah Christmas Special. But then again,
Carter donned that sweater for his 1977 energy-sacrifice address
due to global cooling. Obama enjoys the plenty of global warming.
No [...]
Cartoon: How Climate Change Legislation Works
Readers should check out this straight-forward, self-explanatory, cartoon which Bill Levinson at IsraPundit suggests is designed to break the commitment of working-class Americans (the Democrats’ traditional base) to their leaders.
It shows the Obama Democrats colluding with “fat cat” corporations at the expense of the people. We doubt that people who have to work eight or [...]
Mark Falcoff: Comeuppance of the rich?
Mark Falcoff is our occasional contributor and Resident Scholar Emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author, most recently, of Cuba the Morning After: Confronting Castro’s Legacy. He writes:
The latest polls show Obama sinking among independent voters (and a few Democrats as well, though possibly for different reasons). They bring to [...]
