Driving home yesterday listening to National Public Radio “All Things Considered”. Michele Norris interviewing Senator Lamar Alexander concerning the recent push to pass health-care reform in the Senate. She pressed him on the reconciliation issue. Basically “gosh you Republicans did it in the past and are against it now”. Senator Alexander attempted to explain the [...]
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Health Care Summit – finally an open debate
Remember when many conservatives said that Republicans should stay away from the Health Care Summit called for by President Obama? Because it would be a sham? Because the president was not really interested in open debate?
Oh. My.
Jonah Goldberg was right when he said sham or no sham the Republicans should go. They did. The first [...]
Spare us the lame and contradictory (liberal) excuses!
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Man – National Review Online was just swimming with powerful articles this morning. Where to start?
Charles Krauthammer on whether America truly is “ungovernable”. How much have we heard lately about how the “system” is broken? How the [...]
The plot(?) to destroy Toyota
I know we have had to take the church bus to the local dealer because of a recall. But do not recall that it was national news.
Toyota has a problem that we are hearing about. Something about the gas pedal becoming stuck. Something like 17 fatalities because of this problem – obviously these persons put [...]
President Obama’s great(est) speech in Oslo
Listening to significant portions of his Nobel Peace Prize speech on NPR – last night? this morning? – I thought:
Wow. Give the man credit for saying what needed to be said when it mattered.
Was it perfect? Of course not. Former United Nations ambassador John Bolton was quite critical – perhaps because he (a) is so [...]
Racial profiling and wrong but understandable (over?)reactions
That for three(?) years my office was across the hall from that of Prof Henry Gates Jr does not give me any special insight into the sudden controversy over racial profiling.
Let me cut to the chase – before more general thoughts – about what I think (not what I know) about the situation with Prof [...]
“No Senator. I am not a duck. I am a rabbit”
Readers of this website know that one of my “buttons” – things that make me quite angry and that is not to excuse an un-Christian reaction – is when people insult my intelligence.
The nomination of Judge Sotomayor and the confirmation hearing are an insult to my – to all of our – intelligence. Just how [...]
Cal Thomas on the “prematurity” of Sarah Palin
For the record – and for the third or fourth time – I am neither a supporter nor critic of Sarah Palin. What I care about is how people think. How they speak. Accuracy and fairness. Reason and evidence. And the current state of public discourse.
My own interest in the whole Sarah Palin Saga(tm) has [...]
Irony – thy name is “Episcopal”
Frankly I have not paid much attention to this because I do not care an whole lot.
The Rev. Alberto Cutié, the celebrity priest removed from his Miami Beach church after photos of him kissing and embracing a woman appeared in the pages of a Spanish-language magazine earlier this month, has left the Roman Catholic Archdiocese [...]
Political favoritism untrammelled by the rule of law (or) Tincture of Obamaism
George Will again nails it with his recent article on how the Obama Administration governs.
The Obama administration is bold. It also is careless regarding constitutional values and is acquiring a tincture of lawlessness.
He cites the Obama Administration’s efforts on behalf of unions in California and in the auto industry. Contracts shmontracts. You lose most of [...]
