It has gotten little national attention, but the greatest example of Obama Administration overreach may be occurring in New York City’s leafy northern suburb, Westchester County, where I live and do some work. The scope of what the Obama Administration is doing in Westchester to achieve its warped and misguided utopian vision of racial balance in […]
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Doltish Debt Depictions
Ronald Reagan famously described in 1980 how the national debt, if stacked in dollar bills, would extend almost to the moon. I remember watching him say it on television and thinking “my God.” It made quite an impression, not just on me, but on the country. People spoke about that visual for the rest of […]
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McDonalds announced today that it will significantly alter the contents of its Happy Meals nationwide to increase their nutritional value and lower fat and calorie content. Happy Meals will now include fruit and the option of vegetables. Low-fat milk and juice also will become options to high-calorie soda. The number of french fries in each […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bring in Sgt. Rickles
Less than two weeks ago these pages noted that just 40% of bettors on the Dublin “In Trade Exchange” believed that a U.S. Debt Ceiling deal would be struck by midnight on July 31st. That number is down to 22% today. Where’s Don Rickles when you need him (video below.) http://youtu.be/pykD8UkUABQ?t=14s
Read the rest of this entry »British Resolve — in Color
Life Magazine is releasing new colorized images of London during “The Blitz” to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Nazi air attacks. (Thanks to Ray F. for the heads up.) My favorite of the lot is the photo above. A high-altitude balloon to ensnare low-flying German warplanes is being prepared for ascent as a Londoner digs deeply into the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Walker’s Beneficent Revenge
Remember all those teachers protesting inside and outside Wisconsin’s state capital in February and March? The ones who painted Governor Scott Walker as a knuckle-dragging, teacher-hating neanderthal? Well, it seems Walker’s Article 10 budget plan is now in effect, and it is saving teachers their jobs — just as he said it would. By making small concessions like a $10 […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Ever-Relevant Ed Koch
I first met Ed Koch in 1988. Or rather, that’s when he first met me – with his shoulder. I had been sent to City Hall Park to listen in on a Koch news conference and the two of us ended up on separate but converging paths at the northwest corner of the park. When […]
Read the rest of this entry »Iron Will
When George Will is good, he is exceptionally good. In his nationally-syndicated column Monday, Will tackles President Obama’s characteristic arrogance and the separation of powers that Mr. Obama, a Constitutional scholar, serially ignores. Here is Will on President Obama’s abundant love of self: “Inordinate self-regard is an occupational hazard of politics and part of the job description of the rhetorical presidency, this incessant tutor. Still, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Impeachy Keen
Iowa Rep Steve King (R) suggested today that President Obama be impeached if the nation’s debt goes into default. Another young Republican Turk has suggested that Obama be impeached should he unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, that is, without the approval of the Congress. Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D), who probably would have voted against War of 1812, says Obama […]
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