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Obamanageability, Fun Times, and Tea Leaves
As President-elect Obama made his first stumble-bumbling steps toward introducing himself to international leaders it seemed time to take a look at other problems he has closer to ho...
Thank You Vets
The true cost of war is what vets bring back with them. The money and diplomatic capital are comparatively light. We will all have to bear them, but not in a way that fundamentally changes how we experience life. But the burden vets carry changes them ...
Conservative Debaters are Missing the Boat on Climate Change
Climate change has become one of the most important issues of this decade. The Democrats have moved to deal with the problem while many Republicans have argued about whether we did it or not. To my fellow conservatives I would say this question misses ...
Conscience of a Conservative
The U.S. electoral system is oft-maligned but provides checks and balances to the voting process of a very large republic. It also allows voters in states like mine, which is safely Democratic territory, to express our displeasure with both parties wi...
Most Important Issue Got Short Shrift in Campaign
The prospect of President Barack Obama with a “righteous wind” at his back, in lockstep with a Democrat Congress under the iron hand of Pelosi and Reid, has apparently not alarmed sufficient numbers of Americans to prevent this debacle from becomin...
The Definition of Arrogance
After a heated debate over the last few days on the rule of law, it seems well to take a step back. Why do we conservatives talk about this so much?Is it because we conservatives are favored over liberals by the rule of law? Given that when we...
Gifts and Loans
The NYTimes editorial page (which endorsed the $700 billion bailout one month ago) now bemoans the behavior...
A Journalist on Media Bias
Michael S. Malone has made his life in Journalism, not "media", real, old fashioned, hard-bitten Journalism. Four generations of his family have done the same. Now he is ashamed.What I do on these pages I try to do with the journalistic ethics...
Ruler of Law
Barak Obama, in a radio interview recorded in 2001 states his desire that courts break away from the constraints of the Constitution. Can we really be sure he believes in the "rule of law"?
It Refuses To Go Away
Reality, stated Phillip K. Dick, is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. In this day of Keynesian re-emergence we are...
Democrats for Coverage
Orson Scott Card isn't the only Democrat journalist furious with the flagrant pro-Obamitude of the media (his article is h...
Advertising Humanity
Barak Obama is human. He feels for his grandmother, as his campaign has been very proud to tell us over and
Elite Anxiety
Across the page on WatchBlog's main page is an article by Tiffani Martin, taking issue with conservative complaints of elitism in this election season. It raises interesting qu...
The Union Label
University of Chicago Professor of Law Richard Epstein, in an article posted yesterday, warns of the economic disaster that will ...
Gay Marriage Laws Sacrifice Principles for Tolerance
Restricting rights is a bad precedent. But laws around the country legalizing gay marriage aren't about winning freedoms, they're about making divergent lifestyles seem normal. That means reeducation, starting in our public schools.Most American...
Plumber's Helper
Barak Obama walked into a neighborhood and a plumber asked him a tough question about taxes and small businesses. The next thing we kno...
Warm and Fuzzy Re-regulation
Scott Gottleib, writing in this weekend's Wall Street Journal writes- "Cancer survival rates in the U.K. are substantially lower than in the U.S. and the gap continues to widen." Welcome to the joys of regulation.The article mentioned above is ...
"Good" Government
The smart money is now betting that capitalism is dead.David Remer, in a
Taxing Arteries
This idea came to me in one of the comment strings last week. Would you want Barak Obama for a thorascic surgeon? Probably not.In my island analogy from last weekend I presented a somehwat tounge-in-cheek metaphor to illustrate how the use of p...
