You can’t go home again
The results of the Republican gubernatorial primary in Texas provide more evidence, if any were needed, that anti-Washington sentiment is the order of the day in 2010. The clash of the titans between Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry turned out to be no contest. With only about 25 percent [...]
Obama Has a Mandate - but with Whom?
President Barack H. Obama was all over the broadcast map yesterday, reading the usual litany of whoppers, floppers, and gobstoppers that flows from the Teleprompter of the United States. (TOTUS — I picture an object like a Dalek from Dr. Who… “Exterminate! Exterminate!”)
Having nothing better to do (I mislaid my toenail clipper), I [...]
"MIssing" mostly from Latin America
Last night, Scott wrote about “Obama’s missing millions.” These are the 16 million people who were included when President Obama said last month that 46 million Americans lack health coverage but excluded when, in his speech to Congress, Obama lowered the number to 30 million.
It seems clear that most of these [...]
The end of the recession?
The Commerce Department today issued its figures on GDP. They suggest that the recession is winding down and that the economy soon will start growing.
The economy contracted at a 1 percent annual pace in the second quarter, according to the Commerce Department. That’s a big improvement over the first quarter, in which [...]
The Israelis understand Obama
According to a poll conducted for the Jerusalem Post, only 6 percent of Israeli Jews believe that President Obama is pro-Israel. 50 percent consider Obama more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel; 36 percent consider him neutral; and the remainder have no opinion.
A month ago, just before Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, only 14 percent [...]
