Jay Cost: Another Jacksonian Moment
Jay Cost writes on the reaction to the Democrats’ health care overhaul:
We might be on the verge of another Jacksonian moment: a time when the people awake from their slumber, angrily exercise their sovereign authority, and mercilessly fire the leaders who have for too long catered to the elites rather than average people. The first [...]
Failed state
In the featured essay of the new issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here), William Voegeli examines the long political demise of the state of California, now on the verge of becoming a “failed state.” Voegeli writes: “Rome wasn’t sacked in a day, and California didn’t become Argentina overnight. Its acquired incapacity [...]
Will the feds become more open? - Green Bay Press-Gazette
We’re either on the verge of a new era in transparency in the federal government ? or we’re not. On just his first full day in office, Jan. 21, President Barack Obama pledged that the public would have more and easier access to official records and …
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Obama’s message to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda: ‘We’ll be gone soon’
As soon as I saw the title of Ken Taylor’s post at The Minority Report on Obama’s speech last night, I couldn’t help but link to it. After all, how better to sum up Obama’s speech when it’s the only substantive thing said - everything else being like he himself, all fluff and no substance, [...]
"You look like the cavalry to me"
Congressman Mike Pence delivered these remarks to the crowd at the National Tea Party here in Washington, DC.
I am Mike Pence. I am from Indiana, and it is an honor to welcome the largest gathering of conservatives in American history to your nation’s capitol.
There are some politicians who think of you people as astroturf. [...]
Obama plans to reappoint Bernanke - Pittsburgh Business Times
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he plans to reappoint Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. “Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom; with bold action and outside-the-box …
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