Posted in Obama, politics, tagged education, military, Obama, politics on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few worthy thoughts gathered from the internets:
Dan Gerstein of Forbes Magazine explores the makeup of the White House staff and the impact it may be having on the President’s performance. Comprised primarily of what Gerstein quotes an insider to be “political hacks,” the staff’s tendency to fight, win, and be snarky when compromise, concession, [...]
Posted in Obama, Olympics, On The Marque, politics, tagged education, Obama, On The Marque, politics, race, taxes on October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today’s theme is quality time:
A high school teacher in Alexandria writes a moving, yet troubling, article in Sunday’s Washington Post, exploring why his students are about to graduate without an education (hint: it’s missing fathers and busy mothers). The immutable, bracing tragedy of it all comes flying at you from the first sentence. How is [...]
Posted in Obama, On The Marque, economy, politics, tagged economy, health care, Obama, On The Marque, politics on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The word of the day is “decline”:
If you read nothing else for the rest of the year about the Obama presidency and the direction it is taking the country, read Krauthammer in this week’s Weekly Standard. No, really – go read it. I’ll wait.
Riffing on Krauthammer’s theme, Mark Steyn dishes up lugubrious drollery as only [...]
Posted in Obama, politics, tagged Afghanistan, al Qaeda, foreign affairs, Obama, politics, Taliban on October 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here’s what we know about the Obama perspective on international affairs:
Obama appointees think Karzai’s election in August was a fraud.
Fraud also occurred during the 2004 election, when Karzai was initially elected.
When Obama thinks a government has been removed without an election, he wants the old government to be reinstalled, no matter how poorly that government [...]
Posted in Obama, economy, monetary policy, politics, tagged debt, economics, health care, humor, money supply, Obama on October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
James Capretta explains in precise detail why the CBO score of the Baucus bill is a sham. Sen. Grassley agrees.
Over at RealClearPolitics, David Paul Kuhn assesses the importance of the growing willingness within the comedy class to make fun of Obama. Of course, some of us have been making fun of Obama for months, but [...]
Posted in Obama, Olympics, politics, tagged Bush, Democrats, Obama, Olympics, politics on October 4, 2009 | 12 Comments »
We all knew that Chicago wasn’t about to blame President Obama for their stunning Olympic flop. Instead, the city’s politicians decided to mimic their favorite son’s most cherished rhetorical flourish – Blame Bush. The Sun-Times summarized it by saying that “President Obama could not undo in one year the resentment against America that President Bush [...]
Posted in Obama, Olympics, culture, tagged Chicago, Obama, Olympics on October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
…Obama just can’t close the deal.
Posted in Honduras, Obama, religion, tagged foreign policy, Honduras, Obama, politics on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There isn’t much going well for the Obama Administration right now, and that’s kept the White House from riding its favorite rhetorical metaphor: the high horse. But when all other moral high grounds fail, they never get tired of flogging Hondurans.
This year, we’ve had North Korea launching missiles at our allies, shipping military supplies to [...]
Posted in Obama, health care, law, politics, tagged constitution, health care, health insurance mandate, Obama, politics, slavery, thirteenth amendment on September 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In an earlier post, I explored whether the Obama health insurance mandate was constitutional in a positive sense — is the federal government empowered to take this action? But through the very interesting debate that resulted from that post, it occurred to me that there is a second question that needs to be asked. Does [...]
Posted in Obama, health care, law, politics, tagged constitution, health care, health insurance mandate, law, Obama, politics, unconstitutional on September 22, 2009 | 13 Comments »
The federal government has three ways it can obtain a law-abiding American’s property:
1. It can tax you. Taxation is the power of the government to force transfers of cash from owners to itself. It is a broad power, expressly stated in the Constitution:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and [...]
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