The good news is that growing economies can afford a great deal of government, if not quite as much as the Europeans and the U.S. have promised themselves. The bad news is that “policy error” are the saddest words in the language. These words, starting in the 1960s, came to dominate serious post mortems on the Great Depression of the 1930s,... Read more
Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
Spin Iran…
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, The LeftAbsolute spin…. === By RICHARD GRENELL On Nov. 13, President Obama made some remarkable statements. “When I came into office,” he said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Honolulu, “the world was divided and Iran was unified around its nuclear program.” Now, he said, “the world is united and Iran is isolated. And because of our diplomacy and our efforts, we have,... Read more
The Brain-Dead Left
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftI have to hand it to Mr. Taranto. Anyone with some additional thoughts? ========= By JAMES TARANTO “They paused to scream at the walls of a Citibank branch.” To our mind, that sentence more than anything we’ve read encapsulates the spirit of Obamaville. It originally appeared in a San Francisco Chronicle story about an incident in which “dozens of college students” invaded a Bank... Read more
The Divider vs. the Thinker – Noonan
October 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party PoliticsPeople are increasingly fearing the divisions within, even the potential coming apart of, our country. Rich/poor, black/white, young/old, red/blue: The things that divide us are not new, yet there’s a sense now that the glue that held us together for more than two centuries has thinned and cracked with age. That it was allowed to thin and crack, that the... Read more
Assad Gaining Upper Hand
October 30 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, The LeftOf course, you understand that this tiny blog of my cannot illustrate, or copy, or forward all the communication and “dialog” that Obama is having with Syria in the US Adminstrations’ effort to protect innocent Syrians. ============= By NOUR MALAS Syrian opposition leaders said President Bashar al-Assad’s forces appear to have gained the upper hand in the eight-month revolt, after a weekend of... Read more
This Is No Time for Moderation: Jobs, Cash and Hope.
October 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama‘Ten years ago, Steve Jobs was alive, Bob Hope was alive, Johnny Cash was alive. Now we’re outta jobs, outta hope and outta cash.” I heard that from a TSA agent in New York the other day, as he eyed me for explosives. We laughed, but there was a poignant edge. Part of the outpouring over Steve Jobs last week was... Read more
