Lorain Morning Journal Says Obama Doesn’t ‘Get It’
This was the editorial from the local paper in Lorain, Ohio this morning as Obama prepared to speak to the public yet again:
"The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office," Obama said in a Wednesday interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "People are angry, and they're frustrated."
That's rubbish. Obama is no [...]
is deregulation to blame?
Regular readers may recall that I have occasionally declared the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here) to be my favorite magazine. The Fall issue is in the mail and the Claremont folks have once again let me select two pieces from the new issue to preview. First up is James Keller’s “Is Deregulation to [...]
IBD: The doctors speak
Investor’s Business Daily has just released a new poll of practicing physicians regarding Obamacare. The IBD poll was conducted by mail, with more than 1,000 physicians chosen randomly throughout the country taking part; responses are still arriving. The IBD article reporting the poll results unfortunately does not discuss the accuracy or reliability [...]
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
A salient point from Michael Yon, embedded with the UK’s 2 Rifles.
I was up on a watch post with a soldier from Ghana while we waited for soldiers who have been fighting to return to base. The war is serious here; earlier in the day, another soldier from 2 Rifles had been killed upriver [...]
Oh Please Don’t Throw Me into that Brady Patch, Ms. Pelosi!
I can understand corruption; simple venality is easily fathomed: A person with a broken moral compass (or none at all) sees ethical behavior as mere obstacle, so he finds a way to squirm around it to get what he wants anyway.
But what offends me most about nearly every act of political corruption is the [...]
John Lundberg: Bono’s Poem Draws Fire
On Wednesday, U2 lead singer Bono will read a poem on BBC radio that he penned for Elvis Presley. It’s entitled “Elvis: American David,” and while the network is playing it up as “unique” and “purposefully quintessential,” the rest of the British press–which got a hold of a copy–is panning it. And that’s [...]
