Change… that’s what he sold; That’s what we got. ====== Maybe Barack Obama should have given Zach Galifianakis an off-ramp, like the one he keeps trying to offer Vladimir Putin. Those were some pretty barbed lines the president unloaded on the comic actor last week in their semi-parodic “Between Two Ferns” interview. In case you’re wondering why I’m writing about this—well, I am... Read more
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The Price of Failed Leadership
March 18 | Posted by mrossol | Crimea, ObamaIs even the Right paying attention? ====== Why are there no good choices? From Crimea to North Korea, from Syria to Egypt, and from Iraq to Afghanistan, America apparently has no good options. If possession is nine-tenths of the law, Russia owns Crimea and all we can do is sanction and disinvite—and wring our hands. Iran is following North Korea’s nuclear path, but... Read more
Noonan: Warnings From the Ukraine Crisis
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Crimea, Noonan, Obama, The LeftI continue to wait for my friends on the left who tell me “Oh, you shouldn’t take this that seriously,” to provide some level of rationale assurance about their position. ================ What has been happening in Ukraine is not a wake-up call precisely but a tugging at the attention, a demand to focus. There’s a sense that in some new way we are... Read more
Anatomy of a Feckless Presidency
March 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaMaybe ‘organizing communities’ prepared Obama to lead the Democrat Party, but it was painfully short in preparing him for playing “geo-political chess” against the likes of Mr Putin, et.al. ============ V ladimir Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula on Thursday, and Barack Obama delivered a short statement about it on Friday. The former tells us nothing we didn’t know already about Russia’s strongman.... Read more
The Growth Revolutions Erupt
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, ObamaIts a proven fact: Income inequality in the 11th Century was much, much less than it is today. Ah, for those good old days! ========= Feb. 26, 2014 7:32 p.m. ET All future histories of the Obama presidency will analyze the phrase “leading from behind”—the idea that the U.S. superpower should behave as no more than a co-equal partner in managing the affairs... Read more
Improving Education for the Poor… and the Left
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Obama, Party Politics, The Left, UnionsAgain, no surprises. ====== Feb. 28, 2014 6:48 p.m. ET New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio carried through this week on one of his campaign’s “progressive” promises: his assault on charter schools. Mr. de Blasio announced that he would not allow Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy to open three new charter schools that had been approved by previous Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Readers of these... Read more
