The GOP’S Reykjavik Moment — Put An End To A Socialist America
Gorby Obama And The Collapse Of The American Left
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2012: The End of the World As We Know It — Obama Will Be Gone And Should Be Deported
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The Constitution’s AG — Virginia’s Attorney General Will Soon Defeat and Kill Fascist Obamacare In The Supreme Court
President Obama just can’t help himself. It’s impulse. Every time he sees the American people, in their infinite and confounding ignorance, pursuing a course they shouldn’t, he intervenes to correct them. Such is the view from the clouds on which he placidly floats above us all. Most politicians speak of the wisdom of the American [...]
It’s so simple. Fixing this economy, that is. Simple. One step. I’ve written about it before in this space. But let’s build some tiny suspense before I reveal it. The key to the recovery is to unleash the spirits that motivate productive investment. Spirits, that is, and also cash. Right now there is a huge [...]
Ray Bradbury, perhaps America’s most popular and prolific short-story writer, turns ninety on Sunday. As a twentysomething wannabe writer in the 1940s, Bradbury cared too much about what critics thought of him. As he approaches his tenth decade, Bradbury clearly could not care any less. “I think our country is in need of a revolution,” [...]
The California Academy of Sciences, located in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, is one of the finest natural history museums in the country. If you get the opportunity to go there, I urge you to do so. Unfortunately, not everything in the museum deserves to be called “science.” The following statement is one of the [...]
There is a tendency for the media and academic analysts to attempt to separate consideration of the illegal immigration of Latin Americans (mostly Mexicans) into the United States from criminal cross-border drug and gun trafficking. Unfortunately this politically correct characterization obscures reality. Human smuggling is a nice little side business for all ranks of drug [...]
Dismantling America by Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, 341 pages, $27.95) America, it seems, is always in decline. Searching through Amazon.com reveals plenty of works arguing that America’s best days are behind her. From the 1974 novel The Decline and Fall of America; to William Dietrich’s 1991 book, In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: The [...]
IT ONLY GETS WORSE Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s Worse Than Carter: Thanks for articulating what has become painfully obvious for some time now. – Jeff Rennie Chesterhill, Ohio Mr. Tyrrell, it is not only time to declare one obvious truth — that Obama is worse than Carter — but a second one as well. [...]
Obama’s Latest Regulation Bill Monstrosity
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Obama Is Playing You — He Thinks You are REALLY Stupid
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Our Caudillo (Banana-republic) President
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As the owner of a small restaurant, it felt good the other morning to open the newspaper and read this sentence: “Be proud, small-business owners! You’re now the most trusted group in America. Listen up, federal government! You’re neglecting small business — and most people think so.” That was how Rhonda Abrams summarized the findings [...]
This week, a trio of fiscally conservative House Republicans released a document painting a dire picture of the country’s finances. “Over the last five years,” they write, “federal spending has increased from nearly 20 percent as a share of the economy to 24.7 percent as the government’s expenditures increased from $2.47 trillion to $3.52 trillion [...]
There is something way off balance in the character of Barack Obama. Something in the realm of zealotry, with a touch of megalomania, and perhaps an authoritarian impulse too. He combines Alinskyite tactics and outlook with an air of self-assumed moral superiority in a way that fails to respect the usual, small ‘r’ republican limits [...]
The poor black and Latino children attending Sacred Heart School in the Columbia Heights section of Washington, D.C., probably don’t know that Century Foundation Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg thinks their participation in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship and other voucher plans merely helps to make “‘separate-but-equal’ work.” Chances are, they don’t even know about the contention [...]
President Barack Obama will soon be entering the lion’s den of Middle East politics with the same conviction that has guided all his predecessors — that the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict lies in the Two-State Solution, leading to the early establishment of a Palestinian state. The received wisdom has it that the Palestinians wish [...]
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Back in the days of World War II the Soviets had one former foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov, and a current FM, Vyacheslav Molotov, to share the two-faced duties of chief foreign representative of the USSR. Litvinov would butter up the politicos in Washington and London while Molotov was Mr. Nyet in Moscow. Today, instead of [...]
It was a sunny, warm March day, the first truly pleasant day of the year, but there was a dark cloud on the horizon. I had just finished a brisk walk around the block, enjoying the sun on my untanned face and the crisp winter air in my lungs, when I stopped at the mailbox. [...]
The Wolfman remake, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, and Hugo Weaving, is a mostly faithful and sometimes worthy update of the original, 1941′s Universal classic starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Claude Rains. The move alters a number of things, but the basic story is the same: Lawrence [...]
CHOICE WORDS Re: Jeffrey Lord’s An Open Letter to Michael Smerconish and Jennifer Stockman: Toward the end of Jeffrey Lord’s open letter, addressed to Michael Smerconish and to me (February 24, 2010), he poses the central question of his marathon missive: “At some point, one has to ask, when is enough enough?” My sentiments, precisely. [...]
Forgive me this stream of consciousness. I had another topic in mind entirely for this column, but the live coverage of this health care “summit” has distracted me all day. President Obama’s superciliousness infuriates me; his insistence on speaking each time between each speaker is outrageous; his Democratic colleagues are not much help to him [...]
About halfway through yesterday’s all-day healthcare summit, Democratic Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina told another of the many insurance horror stories that peppered the proceedings: A gentleman was called in and he was very, very emotional. He was getting ready to have transplant surgery. But he was told that because he’s on Medicare, his [...]
TAMPA – “Moderate” Florida governor Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign is circling the drain. And it’s mostly his own fault. Crist, a formerly conservative politician who “grew in office” after becoming governor in 2007, went through a 50-point lead over conservative former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio faster than Sherman went through Georgia. Polls released this [...]
Readers of TAS‘s website may be familiar with my growing obsession with America’s looming disaster due to over-spending, debt and, most importantly, endless entitlement spending currently on auto-pilot, a kind of ravenous beast consuming most of our seed corn now and into the future. I have previously described the entitlement crisis as a kind of [...]
Perhaps we’ve all been brainwashed by Hollywood’s version of international assassination operations, but from the standpoint of logic alone one assumes that a professional service or individual does not take on the physical and political dangers of killing someone unless there is a clear benefit to the action. So what’s the story behind the assassination [...]
Thanks to two developments—the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor and the decision of the Supreme Court to hear the gun-rights case McDonald v. Chicago—the question of judicial philosophy has recently, once again, been in the news. The first of these developments united conservatives, whereas the second divided them. Sotomayor, conservatives agreed, was a progressive jurist—a judge who [...]
Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart may have the longest establishing segment in film history, an introduction lasting for most of the movie and consisting of repeated examples of the dissolution of Jeff Bridges’s dissolute country singer, “Bad” Blake — examples, therefore, of what makes him bad, as well as Bad. No surprises here, of course. The [...]
February is an important month in the history of American commerce. In this month is the birthday of one of the country’s earliest business innovators and large-scale entrepreneurs. During a time period of America’s existence as an English colony and then a young nation — when, to put it mildly, communication and transportation faced challenges [...]
My friend Robert Stacy McCain is a great reporter, but he really needs to stick with topics he has a longer history covering, rather than just parachuting in to a state (that he was not directly covering at the time and where he has not lived for decades) and buying a pig in a poke. [...]
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama was baffled by Rick Warren’s question about when, in the candidate’s view, a baby gets human rights. Obama’s stammering response ended with his instantly-famous line that the question was “above my pay grade.” Obama seems to have embraced a similar approach to human rights abroad. From Iran’s democracy protestors [...]
Friday Nightmare of travel. I started out this afternoon in Little Rock, Arkansas. I spoke last night in Conway, very near Little Rock, at a fabulous place called the University of Central Arkansas. It was a perfect event, with friendly locals at a dinner with the President of the University at his home. Then I [...]
Damn. This one hurt. As is often the case when I’m doing brain-dead chores, I was listening to a book while wrangling a load of laundry Sunday afternoon. In this case a “Books on Tape” production of Dead Heat, one of the best of Dick Francis’s recent works. I’d read and enjoyed the 2007 novel [...]
