The New York Times reports that discussion is occurring within the Obama Administration about drawing down forces in Afghanistan earlier than planned. Sounds like a worthwhile deliberation. If forced to be labeled dove or hawk, I would decidedly fall into the hawk category – I am a peace through strength believer – but Osama bin […]

  San Francisco banned McDonald’s Happy Meals earlier this year, and New York City is poised to do the same.  There is a bill currently in the New York City Council, and I would be surprised if it doesn’t make it to the floor for a vote one of these days. The food police on […]

http://youtu.be/nNneIyKuL0w I think this would have been better using neo-Nazi skinheads, but still pretty good.

I don’t mean to overdo the God thing, but I keep running into the guy. Take today. It was one of those Saturdays. I had been warned about it all week from my wife: “Don’t forget about Saturday.” She must have said it 50 times: “Saturday, Saturday, Saturday.” Details of the day swarmed around my […]

Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan today said that income tax increases — back to Clinton Administration levels — may be necessary to help plug the nation’s yawning debt load because the Democrats won’t budge on spending reductions, although he made it clear that he would prefer to fill the gap with budget cuts as […]

http://youtu.be/Y9RAxAgksSE Here’s an one-minute TV spot for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. It’s one of the earliest political television spots.  The ad is pure upbeat — with a catchy tune that may stick in your head all afternoon.  Sorry if it does.  

Governor Rick Perry (R) and his Lone Star State legislature put a whoopin’ on the Trial Lawyers Association this week in passing the nation’s first “Loser Pays” law to address job-killing law suits of the kind New Yorkers see promoted ad nauseum in subway cars and on late night television ads. The 1-800-SUE-THEM (that’s an […]

“In politics, it’s pretty much an immutable rule that if they’re talking about your underwear, you have a problem.” —Eugene Robinson, Washington Post.

Mark Twain said never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel. I have found that to be solid advice. When the news media wants an answer — really wants an answer — it will get one or flatten you trying to get it. It’s generally better to give it […]

http://youtu.be/X244jadVnRU Most of you will remember this ad.  The Dukakis-Bush contest was actually close at one point, but the image of Mike Dukakis in a tank proved so incongruous that it made security-minded Americans cringe (his handlers were trying to show just the opposite — that Dukakis wasn’t weak on national defense).  It was the coup de […]