Is Greece Our Future?
Greece’s financial collapse is turning into theater of the absurd. Today, public employees in Athens staged an occupation of a government building to dramatize their demand that they be maintained at taxpayer expense, in the style to which they have become accustomed, forever. Even though there is no more money:
Dozens of civil servants [...]
Michael Steele’s paid speeches — wrong idea, wrong man
Michael Steele, head of the RNC, reportedly has given dozens of speeches to corporate boards and colleges in exchange for a fee of $20,000 per speech. This strikes me as very bad idea.
To the extent that Steele earns a substantial income through his “outside” speaking activity, he has an incentive to be entertaining, [...]
The Biden Plan: "Just Air-Raiding Villages and Killing Civilians"
As Obama’s Hamlet like performance on Afghanistan continues, as General Biden pushes his “plan“, and Jim Jones minimizes the Taliban threat, a friend emails this quote from Candidate Obama in New Hampshire on August 14, 2007:
“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not [...]
KennedyCare?
At an airport gate yesterday, I could hear CNN’s coverage of Ted Kennedy’s death–an event that looms much larger in the DC-media complex than it does anywhere else. Now the Democrats reportedly are readying to push their health care bill with a “win one for Teddy” theme.
This strikes me as pretty dumb. Kennedy [...]
Bringing Guns to Political Events?
This strikes me as very dumb. Leave your guns at home!
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Remembering the Battle of Midway
Is Chicago’s Midway Airport the only American airport that is named after a battle? I suspect so; but nevertheless, it’s a sure bet that most Americans don’t recall Midway as well as they should. I confess it wasn’t on my calendar, but a Facebook post reminded me that today and tomorrow are the [...]
