“Angry White Males,” Health Care, And Richard Nixon
Commentators such as Thomas Edsall, Charles Cooper and Michael Crowley have blamed protests against Obamacare on a GOP effort to stir up “angry white males.” It all goes back to Richard Nixon’s...
View ArticleHealth Care at Morton’s Fork
As defined by Wikipedia, a Morton’s Fork is “a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives.” In the health care debate, this is the choice between government run health care, or corporate run...
View ArticleA Community Organizer Takes On The World
President Barack Obama’s visit to the United Nations this past week, complete with a major address and some quality time with a gavel, was yet another step in the process of seizing a much sought after...
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Annals Of The Obama Administration
The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported on the 45 works of art chosen by the First Lady from various government collections to adorn the White House. Loaned art in the Residence • Josef Albers –...
View ArticleAnnals of the Obama Administration
The First Lady made a charming video with Sesame Street’s Elmo about encouraging habits of healthy eating and smart living — with the nice tag “You’re your child’s best role model.” It’s possible...
View ArticleThe Muse of the Obama White House
In their attacks on Fox News and tea-party protesters, White House officials are cribbing from a speech given 40 years ago next month. [W]e should ask what is the end value–to enlighten or to profit?...
View ArticleAnnals Of The Obama Administration
In today’s Telegraph, blogger Nile Gardiner notes Secretary Clinton’s historically short-sighted remarks at the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It’s bad enough...
View ArticleThe First Pacific President?
In Tokyo today, President Obama said: “As America’s first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the...
View ArticleRN & Manson, Obama & Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
From AP: President Barack Obama appeared to be taking a page from Richard Nixon’s playbook Wednesday when he seemed to declare the suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty and...
View ArticleRN, BHO, and KSM, continued
When RN mistakenly declared Charles Manson guilty during his trial, problems ensued. From a contemporaneous report in Time: In Los Angeles, the effect of Nixon’s remarks on the Manson trial was...
View ArticleProvocative Nonsense
At the Huffington Post, Tom Shachtman writes: Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney in a recent interview with Politico labeled President Barack Obama’s drawn-out process of deciding on a troop surge...
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Obama, Nixon, and Peace Through Strength
President Obama mentioned RN in his Nobel acceptance speech. Michael Goodwin of the New York Post perceptively notes what the president left out: “In light of the Cultural Revolution’s horrors,...
View ArticleThe Next Castro?
With the coming of a New Year we are again reminded that on January 1, 1959, now 51 years ago, Fidel Castro and his band of rebels rolled into Havana and established a Communist government in the...
View ArticleA Vital Political Question For 2010
In the waning days of the 1980 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Ronald Reagan used his allotted time in the closing moments of his only debate with President Jimmy Carter to ask a question. It...
View ArticleNixon, Obama, and Health Insurance Price Controls
Steve Chapman writes of the president’s proposal to control health insurance premiums: Barack Obama has often modeled his policies on Franklin Roosevelt. Lately, though, he’s been coming across more as...
View ArticleBarack Obama–Administrator: A Story Of Tomorrow
Did you know that the word, “manufacture” is from the Latin and literally means: “to make by hand?” Of course, the term has long since been connected with things made by machines. The word no longer...
View ArticleIssa on RN and President Obama
At National Review Online, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) observes that some commentators have favorably likened our current president to Richard Nixon. He argues that there are key differences,...
View ArticlePelosi-land
The Economist returns to a point that Frank Gannon made a couple of years ago: WHEN Nancy Pelosi moved to San Francisco, she struggled to find somewhere to live. For months, and with four small...
View ArticleThe Economics Of Peter And Paul
Maybe they’re on to something across the pond. It was announced the other day that the next national election in Great Britain will take place on May 6, and the stakes will be high. A 30-day...
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