This is extraordinarily stark language from a U.S. Defense Secretary. Mr. Panetta leaves no wiggle room in this interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley: The U.S. will not allow Iran to build an atomic weapon, period, the Defense Secretary says. Will foreign policy suddenly veer into focus in the 2012 elections. Looks like it.
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Fourth Best President?
http://youtu.be/1O3SfeC2oSc I guess this is what some people call “out of touch.” I’d expect to see this interview clip in a few ads next fall.
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Cuban-born and Venezuelan-raised actress Maria Conchita Alonso on her recent encounter with pro-Hugo-Chavez actor Sean Penn at a Los Angeles airport baggage carousel. “The second time I called him a communist, I said ‘You’re a communist a**hole.” I’ve always had a thing for her…
Read the rest of this entry »The Magi on the F Train
A dear friend submitted this to The New York Times for its Metropolitan Diary Section last year, but it was submitted too late for publication. I was bummed when I heard that, because I loved the story and thought it was perfect for the section — and the season. A few weeks ago, my friend got a call from an […]
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New Polls out of Iowa confirm what Rasmussen reported on Friday. Newt Gingrich is tanking. Ron Paul is now formally in the lead in the Hawkeye State, but that cannot last. His isolationist foreign policy positions are anathema to a vast majority of Republicans everywhere. Mr. Gingrich’s precipitous drop is welcome evidence that the messaging used by other […]
Read the rest of this entry »Vaclav Havel, RIP
I once read a tidbit about the 1968 uprising against Soviet control in Czechoslovakia that I’ll always remember. As the tanks rolled through the streets crushing the revolt, citizen protesters tore down street signs and burned local maps to prevent the Soviets from finding a free radio station. It had been hastily erected to broadcast free ideas […]
Read the rest of this entry »Rick Perry’s Low Blow
http://youtu.be/0PAJNntoRgA Just saw Rick Perry’s new ad “Strong” that I have heard so much about and which has caused so much controversy, which his ad makers clearly intended. I am way behind in commenting on it; a single You Tube posting of the spot has had more than six million views in a week. The spot […]
Read the rest of this entry »Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Killer story in the Detroit Free Press today. Strangers in the Motor City, one of the hardest hit economies in the country, are going to department stores and anonymously paying off layaway plans poor people have taken out to pay for their children’s Christmas gifts. Just when you think about giving up hope on mankind, a story […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bachmann Has Earned National Respect
Even if Michelle Bachmann were to somehow win Iowa, it would be unlikely that she could put together the financing or institutional support to be an effective challenger in the other 49 states. But last night’s debate performance, like so many before it, showed that Mrs. Bachmann belongs on the national stage. Sure, she has […]
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