Coping with oversubscribed classes at Dartmouth
My daughter will be graduating from Dartmouth in June (along with Scott’s daughter) and I’m aleady starting to get sentimental about it. There aren’t many bigger thrills in life for a parent than seeing a son or daughter graduate from the alma mater. This is true, I think I’ll find, even when the [...]
Obama on taxing the middle class: Then vs. now
Remember back then, before his huge expansion of government and out of control spending resulted in unsustainable debt - before he became “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit - before he promised he wouldn’t!
Well that was then:
And then, there’s [...]
Re ‘Obama, the Overmatched President’
In reading Peter Wehner’s piece at Commentary this morning in which he suggests that “No Drama” Obama has been replaced by Barack “Melodrama” Obama and that it would perhaps be beneficial to us all if the president and his staff eased up just a bit on the whining, blame-shifting, and feeling sorry for themselves, and [...]
In which Andrew Sullivan tortures the truth
In Andrew Sullivan’s hysterical effusions on “torture,” usually featuring Dick Cheney, Glenn Reynolds finds Sullivan to be “a preening, hectoring, self-centered, unpersuasive bad writer. ” The current occasion of Reynolds’s verdict is this post by Sullivan.
Coincidentally, of my own stuff from 2009, my favorite post is “Obama veers into the Daily Ditch” [...]
Learn from Obama’s speeches - Leaf Chronicle
WASHINGTON ? One of the things that sets Barack Obama apart from most politicians is how much can be learned from listening to his speeches. The president is sometimes criticized for the volume of his public appearances and, in truth, he is out …
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Broder column: Read Obama, read the man - Burlington Free Press
One of the things that sets Barack Obama apart from most politicians is how much can be learned from listening to his speeches. The president is sometimes criticized for the volume of his public appearances and, in truth, he is out there orating a …
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