Alienated and now radicalized
In the brief age of Obama, we have had truthers, birthers, Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the Oath Keepers. And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where on...
 3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0 The general's war in Afghanistan
The Pentagon s pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystal s confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. McChrystal s painting of the military picture was grim. Failure to gain the initiative and...
4.2K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 1000.0 Globalism versus Americanism
Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town had to shut down. Twenty-one hundred Georgians lost their jobs. The tale...
4.9K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 1000.0 To lose a U.S. war
What happens to health care is not going to change the history of the world. What happens in Afghanistan might. Gen. Stanley McChrystal has done his duty. He has bluntly told his commander in chief he must have added combat troops and warned that if ...
3.1K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 1000.0 Race and stupidity
God save me from my friends I can take care of my enemies. So President Obama must be muttering today. Two weeks ago, the president played his ace of trumps. He went before a joint session of Congress to lay out his health care plans, confront the ...
3.2K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 1000.0 Is America coming apart?
Flying home from London, where the subject of formal debate on the 70th anniversary of World War II had been whether Winston Churchill was a liability or asset to the Free World, one arrives in the middle of a far more acrimonious national debate rig...
3.0K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 399.0 Get-Cheney Squad
Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell s truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to go after the rough men who, to keep us sle...
3.1K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 Time to go, Grampa
With controlling costs a primary goal of Obamacare, and half of all medical costs coming in the last six months of life, rationed care takes on a new meaning for us all. London s Telegraph reported the National Institute of Health and Clinical Ex...
3.0K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 Sgt. Crowley, a cop in full
Professor Louis Henry Gates has retreated from his threat to sue Sgt. James Crowley. Almost a week later, President Obama retreated from his charge that the Cambridge cops acted stupidly. As Crowley has not budged an inch his arrest of Gates was c...
3.8K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 128.0 How the GOP should handle Sonia
Republicans have been given fair warning. Should GOP senators treat Sonia Sotomayor as contemptuously as Democrats treated Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, they should expect Hispanic hostility for a generation. The chutzpah of this Beltwa...
4.1K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 Hands off Honduras
Patrick Buchanan, Columnist Last Saturday, Honduran soldiers marched into the presidential palace, bundled up President Manuel Zelaya and put him on a plane for Costa Rica. The ouster had been ordered by the Supreme Court and approved by the Congress...
3.0K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 515.0 California, Here We Come!
California hits the wall. And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading. In May, when five fundraising proposals were put on the ball...
4.0K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 399.0 The U.S. will outlast the ayatollahs
The Obama policy of extending an open hand to Iran is working and ought not be abandoned because of the grim events in Tehran. For the Iranian theocracy has just administered a body blow to its legitimacy in the eyes of the Iranian people and the wor...
3.5K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 399.0 Obama picked a court quota queen
If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court. Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color,...
3.8K - Jun. 3, 2009; scored 399.0 Cheney shows the GOP the way
Dick Cheney is giving the Republican Party a demonstration of how to fight a popular president. Stake out defensible high ground, do not surrender an inch, then go onto the attack. The ground on which Cheney has chosen to stand is the most defensible...
3.3K - May. 29, 2009; scored 399.0 Jim Crow liberalism
Having lost both houses of Congress and the White House in two straight elections, Republicans are going through an identity crisis, its leaders holding town hall meetings to listen to the people. Why is the party in trouble? Simple. Dubya got a ho...
2.9K - May. 14, 2009; scored 399.0 Benetti, Elliott can help our airport fly
If you haven't made up your mind on who to vote for yet, please consider Patrick Elliott for the board of directors for the airport Position No. 4. Pat is a local pilot who has been around the airport for several years and knows what it is all about....
0.8K - May. 13, 2009; scored 99.0 Should We Kill the Fed?
For the financial crisis that has wiped out trillions in wealth, many have felt the lash of public outrage. Fannie and Freddie. The idiot-bankers. The AIG bonus babies. The Bush Republicans and Barney Frank Democrats who bullied banks into making mor...
5.2K - Apr. 9, 2009; scored 399.0 This is no addiction solution
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency, said Lord Keynes. Ben Bernanke disagrees. A student of the Depression, the Fed chair appears far more fearful of deflation - a vicious cycle of falling prices, debt defaults, ...
3.9K - Mar. 30, 2009; scored 399.0 Review the metrics of national decline
Bush Boom Continues trilled the headline over the Lawrence Kudlow column, as George W. Bush closed out his seventh year in office. You can call it Goldilocks 2.0, purred Kudlow. Yes, you could. But what a difference 12 months can make. Final return...
3.7K - Mar. 12, 2009; scored 399.0 | 
