Steyn on Kennedy (or Why I Tend to Be Non-Progressive)
In general I would like to change the overall tenor of my blog away from the more polemical, reflections on the news-of-the-day, culture war sort, but something Mark Steyn recently wrote about Edward Kennedy summed up a lot of things for me. Steyn is acerbic, clever and hilarious, the closest living writer we have to [...]
Stimulus
Watching the stimulus grow is stimulating, but not in a good way. I feel like I am bound and gagged in an underground mafia casino watching a craps table where a gambling addict is betting with my money, going deeper and deeper into the hole, both unable to stop because of his compulsion and unconcerned [...]
Congressmen: Help Us to Help You
Years ago talk of term limits was all the rage when discussing the restoration of American democracy. I think it’s time to bring such talk back. Much of the current economic crisis can be laid at the steps of the Capitol building, but we keep electing them over and over. Just this morning on the [...]
Greatest Salesman in the World?
There’s a story in “The Washington Post” this morning about President Obama’s meeting with House Republicans yesterday. As the president met with House Republicans yesterday in the Capitol basement, Rep. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) got out his BlackBerry and started to Twitter. “President Obama is speaking to House Republicans right now on Democratic stimulus bill,” he [...]
Obects of History
Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked On-Line, wrote what is probably the most perceptive essay on the Obama phenomena that I have seen: So there was a dual historic element to the inauguration: there was the real history of it, but more powerfully still there was the projection of a yearning for history on to it, [...]
Political Cartoon
If I could draw I’d make a political cartoon. A winding road with a car in the right lane with America painted on the roof. The license plate reads Nixon. Next panel, same car, license plate reads Carter and it’s in the left lane. Next panel, back in the right with Reagan/Bush. Next, back in [...]
Obama, Oil and Politics as Usual
The primaries have come to NC, and I have to tell you, I never thought I’d pull for a Clinton, but if I weren’t for McCain I’d have to vote for Hillary. Obama is slick, inexperienced and elitist. He’s like one of those infuriating Sprite ™ commercials that tell you “Image is nothing” while using [...]
Maher and Persecution
Bill Maher recently said: “I’d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats.” Of course the Catholic church is protesting [...]
The McCain Brand
A story today in the “Washington Post” reports that John McCain “has been steadily gaining in national polls against Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he holds a lead in many of the swing states that are likely to determine who wins the presidency.” How? McCain’s advisers attribute this seeming contradiction to what [...]
A Letter To My Representatives On Oil Prices
Dear Senators Burr and Dole and Representative Jones, Last week I listened on C-SPAN to the testimony of oil executives from the big five oil companies. As a father of five who is forced to drive a large van, this issue is of great concern to me. I recognize that there are things that I [...]
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