Was the Obama Election a Fluke?

Among the many comments on last Tuesday’s race was Charles Krauthammer’s noted in the Washington Post. Read it here. An excerpt: “The ’08 election was a historical anomaly. A uniquely charismatic candidate was running at a time of deep war

How to Become a Commodity

Nov. 07, 2009

It seems that the more I read about customer service the worse it is. We have progressed from getting accustomed to pumping our own gas, to being our own checkout clerk at the grocery store, to accepting 20 minute waits

Shoah Semantics

Nov. 05, 2009

In a footnote in his new book “Saving Israel” author Daniel Gordis notes why he uses the word “Shoah” as opposed to the more common “Holocaust.” In Hebrew “Shoah” means “calamity”. “Holocaust” is an English word that means “burnt offering”

Top Ten Tweets

Nov. 03, 2009

1. Not every short term crisis requires a long term solution. 2. Our most oppressive laws are often the ones designed to protect us from our own stupidity. 3. 18 of the last thirty medical Nobel Prize winners were American-

The Independents and the Populists

Nov. 02, 2009

I sense that many independents that voted for Obama are having buyer’s remorse. The danger of being independent is not having to define your position or governing philosophy beyond being ‘independent.’ For better or worse the parties do state a

The Pivotal Fight of NY 23

Oct. 31, 2009

The Race in NY District 23 has become a pivotal fight for the soul of the Republican Party. Dede Scozzafava was run by the Republican machine but has been so thoroughly rejected by the Republican grass roots that she has

Peace- Hope vs Results

Oct. 30, 2009

Woodrow Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create the League of Nations. The United States did not join the League of Nations . This precursor to the United Nations was powerless to stop the Italian

Peace is Not a Process

Oct. 29, 2009

Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe Peace vs the ‘peace process’ October 14, 2009 Excerpts: In an important article in the current Middle East Quarterly, Daniel Pipes reviews the terrible failure of the 1993 Oslo accords, and homes in on

So Much for Bipartisanship

Oct. 27, 2009

Much was made of Olympia Snowe being the sole Republican to sign on to the Senate health care bill. Harry Reid has emerged from a closed door session with a health care bill WITH a public option despite the Senate

A Peaceful Use of Force

Oct. 27, 2009

“More than that, no country in the world, not even Germany, would respond “proportionately” if some nonstate militia started rocketing their towns from across some border and killing German citizens. If a government could not get the state from whose

Pundits on the Obama Fox Flap

Oct. 26, 2009

“I Care for the Starving Poor”

Oct. 26, 2009

The most famous of high priced fountain pens, Mont Blanc, often has editions honoring artists and historians. I even own a Yehudi Menuhin model with a violin bow for the clip. Recently I noticed in the store at Lenox in

Rahm and Bruce

Oct. 25, 2009

From the Wall Street Journal Political Diary– White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has led a charmed political life. Prior to his current gig, Mr. Emanuel was a senior political aide to President Clinton, a Congressman from Chicago and

Attacking the Over Insured

Oct. 24, 2009

There hasn’t been much I have agreed with in the swamp of health care proposals, but I did hear one idea that made sense; a surtax on the Cadillac plans. This addresses one of the problems of our system. Due

Dangerous and Stupid Territory

Oct. 23, 2009

An old show business adage is that bad publicity is better than no publicity at all. In politics a corollary of that adage is that you never openly acknowledge the power of your opponents. This holds double from the POTUS.

Wrecking Ball Benevolence

Oct. 22, 2009

This August 2004 Barron’s article by James Bovard castigates Bush for his housing policy. Read the entire article here. Excerpts : ONE OF THE PROUDEST ELEMENTS of President Bush’s “compassionate conservative” agenda has been government financial support to home buyers

Goldstone Smackdown

Oct. 21, 2009

Col. Richard Kemp on the U.N. Goldstone Report just curious if anyone has seen this on any major network, even Fox.

Observations from the Road

Oct. 20, 2009

I just completed a 600 mile drive from Bloomington, Indiana after visiting with my daughter at IU for her birthday. Some thoughts on the ride home: America is obese. As a rule I pick a restaurant by looking at the

Abusing a Crisis

Oct. 20, 2009

“It is a matter of record that many of the leading decision makers of the New Deal administration in the 1930s were advocates of government intervention in the economy and of a fundamental restructuring of the economy-a New Deal- years

The Irony Curtain

Oct. 18, 2009

War seems unnecessary to Europeans because they have been largely protected from it for 65 years by the west. War seems necessary to preserve critical values to Americans because they have born that burden of defending those who find it

Yearly Archives: 2009

Was the Obama Election a Fluke?

How to Become a Commodity

Shoah Semantics

Top Ten Tweets

The Independents and the Populists

The Pivotal Fight of NY 23

Peace- Hope vs Results

Peace is Not a Process

So Much for Bipartisanship

A Peaceful Use of Force

Pundits on the Obama Fox Flap

“I Care for the Starving Poor”

Rahm and Bruce

Attacking the Over Insured

Dangerous and Stupid Territory

Wrecking Ball Benevolence

Goldstone Smackdown

Observations from the Road

Abusing a Crisis

The Irony Curtain

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