Chuck of Head Muscle has kindly hustled me back to the ol’ blog, so you can thank him for the pearls of wisdom herein imparted: When last I wrote, Republicans had 40 votes in the Senate, health care reform was still inevitable, and the President was planning to preempt Lost with his State of the [...]
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On the Marque, Return to Blogging Edition
Posted in economy, health care, Obama, On The Marque, politics, tagged economy, Obama, On The Marque, politics on February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On the Marque, 11/19/2009
Posted in health care, law, Obama, On The Marque, politics, tagged Eric Holder, health insurance mandate, Korea, law, Obama, On The Marque, politics, terrorism on November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Because it’s been too long since the last one. As regular readers will know, I’m incredibly passionate about the Orwellian freakishness that is the health insurance mandate in Obamacare. Unfortunately, it’s so wrong on so many levels, it’s sometimes hard to explain why without being, well, verbose (ahem). Luckily, there are writers whose clean language, [...]
On the Marque, 10/20/09
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 [...]
On the Marque, 10/13/09
Posted in economy, Obama, On The Marque, 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 [...]
On the Marque, 9/21/09
Posted in health care, Obama, On The Marque, politics, tagged bailouts, media, Obama, On The Marque, politics, writing on September 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Victor Davis Hanson packs so much bright wisdom into these three pages of interweb text, it almost makes you want to look away. Obama may be ready to bail out his friends in the media, possibly by turning them into demi-churches — tax-exempt organizations with unique constitutional protection. Of course, that won’t make the press [...]
On The Marque
Posted in On The Marque, tagged Freeman, Limbaugh, Obama, On The Marque, politics, Steele on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been both slammed at work and incredibly negligent about this blog, so in an effort to get myself back in the swing of posting, I’m starting a new feature here at Marque’s Letters — On The Marque. In it, I’ll highlight the two or three articles or posts that I found most insightful on [...]
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