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Obama Poised to Take Advantage of Status Quo in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook May 31, 2011 Comment (12)Talk to Republicans lately about the upcoming presidential campaign, and inevitably you’ll hear reassuring things like, “He can’t run on ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ this time around. He’s gonna have to defend an actual record.”
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House GOP Puts Dems in a Box With Clean Debt Ceiling Vote
Tweet Share on Facebook May 31, 2011 Comment (12)The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are about to give Democrats, President Barack Obama included, a clean vote on whether or not to raise the federal debt ceiling.
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Reality TV Hits a New Sexist Low With NBC's Playboy Show
Tweet Share on Facebook May 31, 2011 Comment (7)So-called reality TV is bad enough. But NBC wants to take us a step further—make that, a step backward—with its retro-reality show scheduled to debut this fall.
Here’s how the network describes the show on its website: "An American icon is born. A provocative drama about a time and place in which a visionary created an empire, and an icon changed American culture."
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Public, Media, Congress All Fail on Debt Ceiling Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook May 27, 2011 Comment (32)There’s lots of frightening numbers being thrown around on Capitol Hill these days. $14 trillion is one. For Republicans, H.CON.RES.34 has turned into another. But for me, maybe the worst showed up in the pages of The Washington Post this week. It’s the number seven.
Here’s why:
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Don't Base Energy Policy on Faulty Weather Forecasts
Tweet Share on Facebook May 27, 2011 Comment (34)Last week, the U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual hurricane forecast for the Atlantic region.
According to NOAA, we can expect anywhere from a “normal” to “above normal” hurricane season. Some people, however, are not impressed.
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Democrats Spinning New York Special Election Results
Tweet Share on Facebook May 27, 2011 Comment (52)The New York Times’ Gail Collins calls it the “Democratic Happy Dance”—that breathless, gleeful coverage of the Democrats’ win in the special election held this week in New York’s 26th Congressional District. Charlie Cooks suggests that perhaps some decaf would be in order, and I couldn’t agree more. The left is trying to portray the win as a repudiation of the Ryan Medicare plan that puts Democrats back in the speaker’s chair by 2012, but let’s take a look at what the mainstream media is not reporting:
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Barack Obama, the Imperial President
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2011 Comment (22)Barack Obama is becoming an imperial president.
The term, first coined by historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in his important The Imperial Presidency, describes a style of governing almost monarchial in nature. As applied to the likes of Richard Nixon, the longtime Schlesinger nemesis who occupied the White House when the book was published, it is not meant as a compliment. It was, instead, a clarion call for limits on executive power.
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Blindly Funding America's Armed Forces
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2011 Comment (2)The U.S. military may have under its command the most highly resourced and disciplined armed force in history, but the same cannot be said of its accountants. Faced with the specter of severe spending cuts--at least by Defense Department standards--the Pentagon has vowed to identify savings by reforming its book-keeping system. The objective, according to an article in this week’s DefenseNews, is “to make DoD auditable by 2017.”
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Ratko Mladic Capture a Huge Relief for People of the Balkans
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2011 Comment (5)It seemed, in our instant-gratification, rapid-response world, that it took forever (actually a little under a decade) to finally get Osama bin Laden, whose death hopefully brings some closure to the families of the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Imagine, then, how it must be today for those victimized by Ratko Mladic.
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Benjamin Netanyahu for President in 2012?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2011 Comment (11)This week, Republicans took some time out from bellyaching about the deficiencies of their 2012 presidential contenders and the demagogic Democratic campaign to undermine Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposals to hear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a joint session of Congress. One wonders how many of them went away wishing there was a way to put the man so many know as “Bibi” at the head of their ticket next year, instead of the actual possibilities.
