If you believe otherwise, I would like to hear from you. ============= James Bovard: What Job ‘Training’ Teaches? Bad Work Habits – WSJ.com.
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Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
A European’s Warning to America
September 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftThis is a March 2011 story, but in light of the past few weeks or month, I think it is “a word to the wise”. ========== By DANIEL HANNAN On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied. “Your president was plainly born in Brussels.” American conservatives... Read more
Mere Proposals
September 1 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, The Left“Mine don’t count…” ====== Among the core assumptions of modern liberalism is that future regulations have no more effect on the economy than future taxes, as if expectations don’t matter and businesses don’t prepare now for their costs tomorrow. President Obama’s letter to John Boehner yesterday is a classic of the genre. Last week the Speaker asked the White House to disclose any... Read more
Address a Joint Session of Congress, when?
September 1 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party PoliticsI guess if you can’t “win” on principle, work the process to your best advantage. ====== By CAROL E. LEE And PATRICK O’CONNOR After protracted budget fights, no one thought the two political parties would easily hold hands this fall as the legislative season begins anew. But a dispute Wednesday over the timing of a presidential speech showed the depth of rancor between... Read more
Leading from Behind?
September 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Obama, The LeftMr. Ajami almost always speaks with insight and sense… He here helps explain why Libya and Iraq are so different. ================= By FOUAD AJAMI On the face of it, the similarities of the undoing of the terrible regimes of Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi are striking. The spectacles of joy in Tripoli today recall the delirious scenes in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in 2003—the... Read more
