Monthly Archives: August 2008

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Big Government in Berlin

In The Berlin That Obama Didn’t See in the WJS Online, Bret Stephens describes the Berlin that Obama should have noticed. A brief summary: Berlin is bankrupt as a result of profligate spending, poor fiscal management and a “government can

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Driving 40 Billion Fewer Miles

Monday, July 28, 2008 – 1:40 PM HASTU.S. driving falls by 9.6B miles in MayPacific Business News (Honolulu) Record gas prices and a struggling economy are forcing more people to leave their cars in the garage. Americans drove 9.6 billion

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Obama’s Disastrous Energy Plan

Obama sort of reverses himself on energy and now Ok’s offshore drilling and at the same time expalins why it will not do any good. It seems as if he can easily be pushed around. Obama advocates a special tax

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Eric Cantor

McCain is rumored to be considering Eric Cantor as a VP candidate. Cantor is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. I know nothing about him other than what I read in Wikipedia. He is young, which McCain needs and he

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Bush as Batman

In the Wall Street Journal Online, July 25, 2008, Andrew Klaven compares Bush to Batman in What Bush and Batman Have in Common. A lot of bloogers from various political spectrums have commented on this somewhat provoking piece with a

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A World Together – A World Apart

After reading several very good criticisms of Obama’s speeches in Europe, especially Germany, from generally intelligent writers from the right, particularly Jeff Jacoby and Victor Davis Hanson I would like to summarize the view from some of the conservative critics.

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The Moral High Ground Wins

Some summary notes from “Moment of Truth in Iraq” by Michael Yon Iraq is one country and should not be divided. Iraqis are Iraqi first; Sunni and Shia second. Al Qaeda is defeated but not finished. They are psychopathic brutal

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A Second Chance

In his book Moment of Truth in Iraq, author Michale Yon suggests that we got a second chance in Iraq to correct a lot of errors of the first wave. When General Patraeus was a colonel he was participating in

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A True Martyr

“The murderer was dressed as a woman as he walked down the alley toward the mosque full of worshippers. It was Friday, late in January, just before the Muslim holy day of Ashura.” “The bomb strapped to the murderer’s body

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