Obama and the Iranian protesters — mutuality of interests but not of spirit, Part Two
President Obama took a step in the right direction yesterday when he condemned “the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian citizens” and called for “the immediate release of all who have been unjustly detained.” However, Obama seemed to stop short of a more meaningful position when he expressed his “confidence that history will [...]
(Video) Krauthammer’s Take on Dear Leader’s Iran Statement
Krauthammer, on Fox News Special Report, ripped Barack Obama for his “flaccid, meaningless” words on the Iranian freedom protests:
“The regime is weakening. This is a hinge in history. Everything in the region with change if the regime is changed. Obama ought to be strong out there in saying it’s an illegitimate government; we stand shoulder [...]
Is insuring the uninsured a moral imperative?
Charles Krauthammer explains why the Senate and House health care reform bills should be “killed” and why Congress should opt instead for “targeted measures that attack the inefficiencies of the current system one by one — tort reform, interstate purchasing and taxing employee benefits.”
Krauthammer’s analysis is fully persuasive. However, near the end of [...]
A hack argument
There’s a stock column appearing in left-liberal MSM outlets all over the country, The author varies, but the main point is the same: Republican Senators are guilty of “hypocrisy” for attempting to filibuster one of President Obama’s judicial nominees after having criticized Democrats for filibustering a host of President Bush’s nominees a few years [...]
Flash: Obama in favor of free speech
That applies to China - not here in the U.S.
Barack Obama, our hypocrite-in-Chief, speaking to Chinese students in Shanghai:
“I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable.”
“I’m a big supporter of non-censorship,” Obama said. “I recognize [...]
Dictatorships and double standards, part 2
Our friend Monical Showalter writes regarding the victimization of the heroic Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (of Generación Y) by one of the dictators with whom Barack Obama takes no issue:
Yoani Sanchez, the adorable and vividly good Cuban blogger who blogs about Castro’s island hellhole from inside Cuba, using her own name, has been beaten [...]
