What Does the Federal Government Have In Common With Schlitz Beer?
Read Glenn Reynolds’s latest column in the Examiner to find out. The analogy is ingenious, but the subject is a serious one: our government’s loss of legitimacy in the eyes of voters. As Glenn writes, “when a great beer dies, it’s sad. But when a great nation dies, it’s tragic.”
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Remembering the indispensable man
Today is the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Of all the great men of the revolutionary era to whom we owe our freedom, Washington’s greatness was the rarest and the most needed. At this remove in time, it is also the hardest to comprehend.
Take, for example, Washington’s contribution to the [...]
ACORN cries foul, liberal judge agrees
A federal district judge, the Honorable Nina Gershon of the Eastern District of New York, has found that congressional legislation that restricts funding by the federal government of ACORN is unconstitutional by virtue of being a “bill of attainder.” Judge Gershon is best-known, at least until now, as the judge who ruled that Mayor [...]
Battling the Vietnam Analogy
Among the interesting moments during President Obama’s speech on the Afghanistan surge last night, there was his rejection of the Vietnam analogy:
First, there are those who suggest that Afghanistan is another Vietnam. They argue that it cannot be stabilized, and we’re better off cutting our losses and rapidly withdrawing. I believe this argument [...]
To Paraphrase Ed Koch, How’s She Doin’?
Not so hot, according to today’s Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mahmoud Abbas’s official newspaper (translation by Palestinian Media Watch), which asks, among other things, “Why, Mrs. Hillary? How much did the Zionists pay you as a bribe?” and, just in case anybody has any illusions about the beliefs of our Palestinian “partners for peace,” the paper prints [...]
The case of Honduras
In Honduras the Obama administration seeks the restoration to power of a lawfully deposed Chavista thug. Among other things, in pursuit of this objective, the administration has cut off aid and yanked visas from Honduran officials who supported the thug Manuel Zelaya’s removal. These officials reportedly include the fifteen justices of the Honduran [...]
