The President, at a White House dinner last Friday to observe the beginning of Ramadan, came out forcefully in favor of the Ground Zero Mosque. In one fell swoop, he elevated what for weeks Robert Gibbs had been calling a local zoning issue to a national picking of the scab that has yet (and may [...]
And so today, the great minds of the Senate and House from both parties will come together with His Holiness to present their sides in the great health care reform debate. Call it the Blair House Project. I’ve got to say that after the election of Senator Scott Brown and President Obama’s statements that “He [...]
When I started this blog, every now and then I’d post about my “Idiot of the Week”. I’ve never liked using the term “idiot” because calling someone like Eugene Robinson an idiot is to demean the ancient and noble profession of idiotry. So I’ve some up with a new epithet: Muttonhead. The pickings were very [...]
I’m going to make a couple predictions: 1) Gitmo won’t be closed by the time Barack Obama is defeated in his bid for a second term. (Actually that’s two predictions) 2) At this very moment, somewhere in Yemen or the tribal regions of Pakistan, there is a man who will, in the next three years, [...]
I had planned on posting a statement of renewed commitment to writing on my blog with the coming of the new year…but this proved too irresistible: I find it deliciously appropriate that, in the wake of the ClimateGate scandal, which revealed the lengths fear mongering scientists will go to cook the books in support of [...]
It took none other than Eugene Robinson to bring me out of my blogging funk. Eugene’s column in yesterday’s Washington Post opens with this salvo at climate change “deniers”: “Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week — portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and [...]
Barack Obama, the top law enforcement official in the country, votes “present” in the decision to bring KSM to New York for trial. Share on Facebook
The nation, shocked at the tragedy unfolding at Ft. Hood, tunes on the news to listen to the president try to help the country make sense of the tragedy. Here’s what the country gets: After a couple minutes of small talk and a shout out to someone named Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, the president gets [...]
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When I read the news this morning, I saw that President Obama had made the trip to Dover Air Force base to honor those who had fallen in the line of duty in Afghanistan. My initial reaction was this: Here is a noble gesture I can give the president credit for. But as I clicked [...]
