Archive for September, 2009

Barry and the Tarbaby

The Obama administration’s decision to pull the plug on the missile defense plan for Eastern Europe and the Republican response should provide hours of fun for political satirists. Both sides have agreed that the real issue is Iran. Can Iran rain nuclear death on the Poles and Czechs? Perhaps a better question is why Iran would choose the Poles.

“That’s a Lie”

British Prime Ministers must defend themselves in the Commons with intelligence and expertise. They must answer questions and accept catcalls and raspberries as part of the give and take of debate. That should be normal for any head of a democratic government. U.S. Presidents, especially Democrats, are never really questioned about anything.

Another Bronx Cheer For Politicians

Indignant people—I’m sidestepping the adjective “angry” so as to avoid connotations—don’t mysteriously materialize in the capital city to fulminate and castigate on their own nickels. They have to want to. What might make them want to? I would venture, the sense that something’s badly, seriously, woefully out of joint in their beloved homeland.

Health Care Deceit

The current health care “debate” shows how far gone representative government is in the United States. Members of Congress represent the powerful interest groups that fill their campaign coffers, not the people who vote for them.

Globalism vs. Americanism

Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town had to shut down.

Twenty-one hundred Georgians lost their jobs.

An Invitation to The John Randolph Club

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Flashback to 9/11: What’s Next?

What did Chronicles have to say at 1:00 PM CST on September 11, 2001? Read Thomas Fleming’s post, originally titled “Terrorists Target America: First Impressions.”

Is America Coming Apart?

Should Barack Obama be allowed to address tens of millions of American children, inside their classrooms, during school hours?

U.S. Hypocrisy Astonishes the World

Americans have lost their ability for introspection, thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world.

U.S. War Secretary Robert Gates has condemned The Associated Press and a reporter, Julie Jacobson, embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan, for taking and releasing a photo of a U.S. Marine who was wounded in action and died from his injury.

Obama at the Rubicon

If the aphorism holds—the guerrilla wins if he does not lose—the Taliban are winning and America is losing the war in Afghanistan.

Well into the eighth year of war, the Taliban are more numerous than ever, inflicting more casualties than ever, operating in more provinces than ever and controlling more territory than ever. And their tactics are more sophisticated.