Bachmann’s Changing Stance On Gays
August 23, 2011Bachmann says she isn’t judging gay couples. Is it just a change of tone, or is it a change of heart?
Romney Was Right: Corporations Really Are People
August 19, 2011Romney was right. Corporations really ARE people.
Obama’s Sesame Street Bus Tour
August 18, 2011Obama’s Sesame Street Bus Tour, brought to you by the number 270 and the letters G, O, P.
Treasury Downgrade: A Shock But No Surprise
August 8, 2011S&P’s downgrade of Treasury debt was a shock but not a surprise. The move may be a step toward fixing Washington’s finances.
Five Lasting Lessons From The Debt Ceiling Debate
August 2, 2011Headlines from the debt debate will fade, but what we learned will linger. The financial world is riskier than we realized.
Nowadays, Most Betty Ford Republicans Are Democrats
July 12, 2011Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton cleared their schedules so they could attend today’s memorial service for former First Lady Betty Ford. I sincerely hope Laura Bush, who occupied the White House after Clinton and before Obama, also makes an appearance — but I won’t be surprised if she does not. Clinton and Obama are Democrats. Ford was a lifelong Republican, as are the Bushes. It should not matter, because the …
A Presidency In Search Of A President
April 8, 2011Barack Obama’s announcement this week that he will again seek the presidency in 2012 is welcome news, in a way, because this country sorely needs a president. What it has right now is a chairman. Granted, the incumbent’s title is President Obama, not Chairman Obama. But apart from the title and trappings of his office, the only thing presidential about Obama’s performance thus far has been, on occasion, his rhetoric. …
Making A Budget Without Making Choices
March 4, 2011For pure wishful thinking, or maybe pure silliness, it is going to be tough to top President Obama’s call this week for a federal budget “free of any party’s social and political agenda.” Oh, and the president declared at the same time that the budget should cut spending and reduce deficits “without damaging economic growth or gutting investments in education, [or] research and development that will create jobs and secure …
Giving Wisconsin Taxpayers A Say On Pay
February 25, 2011Regular readers know me as a fiscal conservative, but that’s not the crowd I run with. My small Facebook posse tends toward liberal Democrats — and they are in an uproar over the goings-on in Wisconsin. “Today I stand with the teachers, nurses, and all public employees of Wisconsin who are fighting for their rights,” a writer friend I have known since high school posted last weekend, after that state’s …
No Front-Runners Among My Early GOP Favorites
February 8, 2011Here is today’s political pop quiz: What do Edmund Muskie, Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani have in common? The answer is that all of them were once seen as front-runners for their party’s presidential nomination, and were expected to have an excellent chance of reaching the White House, yet none of them even made it onto a presidential ballot in November. Kennedy was the heir apparent …
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