Just before President Obama left for his Martha’s Vineyard vacation — immediately following his media-maligned mid-west bus tour — President Obama announced that he would be delivering a “jobs plan” upon his return to work in September. The timing of the announcement clearly was orchestrated to ease the sting on the vacation news narrative, i.e.,: Millions of […]
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Good Night, Richard Corey–UPDATED
UPDATE: I AM RELIEVED AND ASHAMED TO LEARN THAT AN UNFOUNDED RUMOR ABOUT A FRIEND’S CAUSE OF DEATH MADE IT ONTO THESE PAGES. CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA IS WHAT TOOK THE LIFE OF THE MAN DISCUSSED BELOW, AND NOTHING ELSE. I BEG THE FORGIVENESS OF MEMBERS OF PETER’S FAMILY FOR REPEATING AN ERRONEOUS ACCOUNT. PETER’S LOSS REMAINS AN INEXPLICABLE TRAGEDY. MY PRAYERS ARE WITH HIM. I don’t remember […]
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No. It’s not his call to evacuate low-lying areas of New York. Even if Hurricane Irene is a bust, that was a good one. Better safe than sorry. But the decision to ban clergy from the 10th Anniversary 9/11 memorial service is just plain weird. What New York City event in the last 50 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Oh Say Can’t You See?
Goshen College, a third-tier liberal arts school in Indiana, has banned the National Anthem at all its sporting events because the War-of-1812-inspired lyrics are “too violent,” NBC Sports is reporting. The Goshen Maple Leafs? Ever heard of ’em? Didn’t think so. Here’s the whole Francis Scott Key poem for what it’s worth: Oh, say, can you see, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Dear Jonathan Alter, Here’s Why:
Bloomberg’s Jonathan Alter asks today why President Obama has been a bad president. Rather, he challenges anyone to give him one good reason. “I want to know, on a substantive basis,” Alter writes, “why you think [Obama] deserves to be in a dead heat with Mitt Romney and Rick Perry and only a few points ahead of Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann in a new Gallup Poll. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Cornel West’s Paranoid Vision of America
I shudder to think that students at Princeton University voluntarily consume the anti-American vile spewed by professor and “philosopher” Cornel West. It will take some of them a decade or more of real-world experience to disabuse themselves of West’s paranoid vision of a modern-day slave-master dynamic in this country. In The New York Times today […]
Read the rest of this entry »Huntsman Floats Self for VP
] “If you love this country, you serve this country.” With that sentence spoken on CNN today, former Utah governor John Huntsman effectively takes himself out the 2012 Presidential Primary and puts himself on the market as a Vice Presidential running mate. First he blanches at the thought of running alongside Mitt Romney, presumably because they are both Mormon, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Final Hours for Muammar
Amazing photos out of out of Tripoli. If it didn’t seem morose, I’d do an online survey on whether or not Gaddafi is taken alive. (If I were to have done that, I’d have bet “no.” As bad as Gaddafi is, he seems the proud type. I’d guess he goes down blazing, although we’ll never know. The rebels […]
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I’m at a stage in life where I am consumed by bills. I am 48. I have three children, two approaching college age. My wife and I get nothing in the mail but bills — water bills, electric bills, heating bills, property tax bills, clothing bills, car insurance bills, life insurance bills, home insurance bills, […]
Read the rest of this entry »VP Sweepstakes, Marco Rubio
It’s probably not too early to start the vice presidential speculation, and since Florida Senator Marco Rubio was in the news today – he caught Nancy Reagan in mid-fall at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California — why not start with him. Rubio is at the top of every Republican’s list. He brings to […]
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