Here’s a comment to ponder:
How many more H.W. Bush’s must we support before it is acknowledged that America’s path to the gallows is merely delayed under such men?
My purpose is not to defend George H. W. Bush, a decent man but certainly not high on my presidential list. It’s about that...
By now you’ve probably heard about the EBT card breakdown during a power outage in which shoppers at a couple of Louisiana Walmarts purposely took advantage of the situation by “buying” a huge number of groceries for amounts that greatly exceeded their EBT limits in normal times.
You might say the Walmart...
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In his post about health insurance executives’ fear of talking on the record about the Obamacare computer problems, Prof. Jacobson offered ...
So which will it be: catastrophe or no? And if it’s catastrophe, how soon will that happen?
People on the left are ramping up the fear, and people on the right trying to minimize it, both for obvious tactical purposes of their own. But failure to raise the debt ceiling is uncharted...
There are a lot of surprised people in California now that more Obamacare details are coming out:
In California, 1.9 million people buy plans on the open market, according to officials with Covered California, the state’s new health insurance exchange. And many...
Instead of exerting a calming influence, Obama ramps up the fear connected with the shutdown and the debt limit.
Watch his demeanor, too; chilling:
Here’s what Harry Reid said yesterday in answer to a question from CNN’s Dana Bash:
What right did [the House of Representatives] have to pick and choose what part of government is going to be funded? It’s obvious what’s going on here. You talk about reckless and irresponsible. Wow. What this is...
A few days ago I used the term “barbarism” in reference to the Nairobi mall attack. An excellent article by Brendan O’Neill appeared today in the Telegraph making a similar point, and entitled “I’m sorry, but we have to talk about the barbarism of modern Islamist terrorism.”
We do, indeed. But there...
Daniel Henninger of the WSJ believes that, if passed, Obamacare will do just that:
This thing called “ObamaCare” carries on its back all the justifications, hopes and dreams of the entitlement state. The chance is at hand to let its political underpinnings collapse, perhaps permanently.
If ObamaCare fails, or seriously falters, the entitlement...
The gist of the message is that, from the outset, the calculations used to sell Obamacare to the American public were slipshod and/or naive and/or mistaken and/or simplistic and/or outright lies (see more here).
And this is news...
The Nairobi mall attack has conjured up memories of the first terrorist attack I ever remember, the Lod airport massacre.
You may never have heard of it—or of Lod airport, for that matter, which is the main airport in Tel Aviv and was later renamed Ben Gurion Airport after Israel’s founder and...
There has been an attack by gunmen at an upscale Nairobi mall, killing at least 30 and wounding countless more. Hostages have also been taken.
An al Qaeda-linked Somalian-based group has claimed the credit—or the blame, depending on your outlook.
A mall attack on this scale has long...
Maureen Dowd has become disillusioned with President Obama in his second term. It’s probably correct to conclude that Dowd stands for millions of other liberals similarly let down.
But don’t get too excited—it’s highly probable that neither Dowd n...
Joyce Maynard has made a kind of cottage industry out of her long-ago relationship with J.D. Salinger, who seduced her when she was a wunderkind of 18 and he a famous writer of 53 and then abruptly threw her out, le...
Peter Wehner certainly thinks so:
In the first year of his second term, the president has failed on virtually every front. He put his prestige on the line to pass federal gun-control legislation–and lost. He made climate change a central part of his inaugural address–and nothing has happened. The president went head-to-head...
Obama’s remarks last night on Syria, summarized: “Chemical weapons are bad. So I’m going to attack Syria, but maybe not. And I trust Putin, except maybe I don’t. So perhaps let’s have a diplomatic solution instead. And suddenly I believe in American exceptionalism—that is, regarding military attacks limited to targeted strikes.”
The...
I have a new post up at American Thinker entitled “Obama and Syria: Words versus Deeds”:
In trying to puzzle out what might be going on with President Obama’s muddled, non-strategic, and fundamentally “unserious” approach to Syria, it helps to remember that Obama believes that words are as good as deeds, perhaps...
