Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The liberal press and “economists” such as Paul Krugman are so excited: Obama is looking to FDR for guidance. Before Obama gets too carried away with that notion, conservatives should send him copies of Amity Shlaes’ The Forgotten Man : a New History of the Great Depression, in which she
Continue readingIs this a recommendation for Obama’s education advisor? Darling-Hammond, a teacher-friendly educator, has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to head his transition team on education policy. I thought education was supposed to benefit the children. I’m feeling a little sour on the subject right now because I went to
Continue readingObama finally came out from hiding to talk a bit about the economy. One of my liberal friends found this the most exciting aspect of his speech: “We’ll be working out the details in the weeks ahead, but it will be a two-year, nationwide effort to jumpstart job creation in
Continue readingOkay, I admit it. I’m easy. Call me “winsome” and write a thoughtful, well-informed, interesting article about the continuing resonance abortion has on the political process — even if it did not serve as the centerpiece of this last political campaign — and of course I’m going to link to
Continue readingI was not a rebellious youngster. I accepted my parents’ values and their rules, and pretty much toed the line. My one area of rebellion was, looking back, a rather bizarre one: I refused to buy into the Kennedy mythology. Perhaps because I was a child of the Watergate era,
Continue readingYesterday, my dear, sweet European mother confided to me that she was pleased Obama won, because he speaks so much better than Bush. This jived completely with a bumpersticker I just saw: “At last, complete sentences will come from the White House” (or something like that). I was struck again
Continue readingOne post ago, I said I was going to wait and see until Obama does something before I get upset. Now I’m upset. I got around to reading the AP article announcing that one of Obama’s first acts will be to reinstate the ban on offshore and natural gas drilling.
Continue readingI’ve been fighting against Obama since he first appeared on the political scene as a presidential candidate for this election cycle. I didn’t like his lack of experience, I didn’t like his lack of a resume; I found creepy the way people projected their desires on him; I was repulsed
Continue readingI’ve long seen Britain as a bellweather for progressive politics. Everything the Left wants in America, has already happened in Britain — and with truly disastrous results. For a pithy summary of Britain’s horrible decline, don’t miss Melanie Phillips’ essay describing the ways in which Barack Obama reminds her of
Continue readingOver at Red State, Dan McLaughlin has posted several good ideas for being productively sane during an Obama administration: (1) Oppose Obama, Not America: The absolute wrong way to react to life in the minority is … well, what we saw from too many people on the Left the past
Continue readingContentions blog has a short post about the Jewish vote for Obama. I wrote a comment to that post, and share it with you here: American Jews aren’t really Jewish anymore. With regard to Prop. 8’s success in California (preserving male/female marriage), I told a disappointed Jewish acquaintance, who was
Continue readingKnowing as I do that the media is going to puff every tentative step forward by Obama, whether confirmed or not, I’ve simply ignored the news all day. I’m feeling stressed, but want to wait until tomorrow for a definitive answer, rather than to suffer through the roller coaster of
Continue readingI’m going to be working, not blogging, tomorrow morning, November 4, 2008, so feel free to consider this an open thread. I can’t let this occasion go by without a few words, though. On the candidates: If you believe government can solve most of our problems; if you believe Barack
Continue readingMary Katherine Hamm put together a truly must-see video of Obama flipping and flopping like a fish on a deck: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LZNc_TP_o[/youtube]
Continue readingMr. Bookworm reminded me (again) that, if the US elects Obama, the world will love us. I suddenly realized precisely the form that love will take. Let me tell you a story. Many, many years ago, my Dad visited his sister, who lived on a farm at the time. His
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