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New Museum to Showcase Soldiers’ Personal Wartime Experiences
Tweet Share on Facebook September 2, 2010 Comment (1)America’s wartime past is about to come alive, just outside the Washington Beltway--22 miles from the nation’s Capital.
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Terrible ‘Temporary’ Marriage Law Too Much Even for Iran
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (12)Only in Iran. For a third time, the women of Iran have had to marshal forces to defeat a proposal by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to regulate legal “temporary” marriages. These so-called marriages are variously referred to as marriages of convenience, marriage for pleasure, and so on, and last anywhere from one hour to 99 years, many more of the former than the latter.
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A Big GOP Win in 2010 Could Lead to a Big Obama Victory in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (9)There has been a lot of political talk that 2010 might resemble 1994, or the reverse of 2006-2008, or maybe 1982, when unemployment was over 10 percent for 10 months and Ronald Reagan lost 26 House seats.
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No Excuses--Help Pakistan’s Flood Victims
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (8)When the earthquake rocked Haiti, America rocked back with their checkbooks, medical supplies, food, clean water, etc. Celebrities performed and even rolled up their sleeves to help the people of Haiti.
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Alaska Voters Punished Murkowski for Not Being Angry, Hostile Enough
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (15)There a several story lines for the midterm elections, and the concession of Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski in her party’s primary appears to confirm them all: Voters are mad, so mad they’ll nominate a relative unknown. No one is safe this year, not even established incumbents in the party expected to pick up dozens of seats in November. People want to shake up Washington.
But there’s another theme, and one that does not bode well for a more functional Congress next year. Members of a bitterly divided and hostile Congress are being punished for not being angry and hostile enough.
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Beck Should Have Stuck to Policy, Not Religion
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (6)Well, it was a busy Saturday in “River City.” No, not the fictional place in Iowa, where Meredith Wilson set his musical The Music Man but Washington, D.C. (hereafter known as “Potomac City”). Wilson’s story revolved around a traveling salesman, “Professor” Harold Hill, who persuades a town that he can turn an atonal and uninterested group of boys into an effective band. Its citizens willingly provided him with the funds to supply the lads with instruments, uniforms, and musical instruction. Hill’s initial plan was to skip town before the band was put to the test. But as they say in the theater, “a funny thing happened on the way to the forum.” The professor had to make good, lest he be exposed by another con man.
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Tea Party Bags Murkowski--Alaska Senate Seat Now in Play?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (11)With Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceding defeat in the state's GOP Senate primary Tuesday night, the Tea Party movement scored another victory over a Republican incumbent. But it raises again the question of whether the anger-fueled Tea Party movement is ultimately good for the GOP. To wit: Attorney Joe Miller's victory over Murkowski marks another midterm race in which Democrats are more competitive than they should be in large part because of extreme, Tea Party-supported GOP-ers.
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Why Germany’s Stimulus Works and Obama’s Doesn’t
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (10)Germany has become the world’s economic whipping boy. Liberal economists, including those in the Obama administration, criticized Germany’s choice to eschew the notion of a big-spending Keynesian model in favor of austerity measures. They argued that governments must spend, spend, and spend some more to mutually reinforce the economic growth needed to dig the world out of the crisis. If we keep digging deeper surely we’ll dig to other side of this problem, right?
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Don’t Build a Casino at Gettysburg
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (26)Filmmaker Ken Burns, author David McCullough, and actors Sam Waterston and Matthew Broderick joined Medal of Honor recipient Paul Bucha in a 10-minute protest film that was played by Gettysburg preservationists this morning, as the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board opened hearings on whether the state should grant a license for a casino at the historic Civil War battlefield.
