You may have heard that the J-20, China’s fifth-generation fighter jet, flew its first test flight Tuesday morning. You can put U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates and even China’s own civilian president Hu Jintao on the list of those surprised by its progress. In their meeting later on Tuesday, Mr. Gates asked President Hu about […]
Archives for January 2011
A Once in a Lifetime Chance
If the names Julia Child, Roy Blount, Jr., Julia Reed, Billy Collins, Jason Epstein, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Molly O’Neil, Ruth Reichl, and Calvin Trillin mean anything to you—or if you’ve seen the movie Julie & Julia—read on. Lucky me. This past weekend, Debbie and I were fortunate to meet and speak with, or simply […]
Chickens Come Home to Roost
Chris Christie – “You don’t get something for nothing in this world ever, yet government has tried to sell you over the course of time this idea that we’re not gonna give you something for nothing, but we’re gonna give you something and someone else is going to pay for it. So it’s not for […]
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is ripe in Washington these days. In 2006 when the Bush administration ran the country’s debt up to the debt ceiling and congressional Republicans wanted to raise the debt ceiling, here is what then-Senator Barack Obama said The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of […]
Clarence Thomas on SCOTUS Diversity
Justice Clarence Thomas – “One of the things that happens up here is we tend to be very heavily north eastern in our mentality. Eight of the nine of us are from Ivy League Schools.This court doesn’t represent all regions of the country. There’s a tendency, there’s an easiness, to sort of stay, to be […]
Constitutional Scholars
It has always amazed me that there is a group of folk out there who bill themselves as “constitutional scholars.” These are lawyerly types who believe they have a firmer grasp on the simple wording of the U.S. constitution than you or I do. What in fact is going on is that they most often […]
The President Gets It Right on Tucson
Measured, calm, and unifying words from President Barack Obama regarding the tragic shooting in Arizona. The political left should take his cue and act in kind.
Economic Intervention not the Job of Government
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Economist Thomas Sowell – “It never took that long for any previous recession to recover, prior to the federal government starting to intervene in the 1930s. You know for over 100 years the federal government never intervened when there was a recession, that was not considered to be their […]
Krugman and the Texas Deficit
Paul Krugman recently wrote a celebratory little piece about the projected budget shortfall in Texas. Krugman was overjoyed that a low tax state filled with conservatives may have to deal with a deficit, it was pathetic. Kevin D. Williamson at National Review absolutely blasted Krugman out of the water, but one point I want to […]
The New Road Ahead
ATTENTION! Evangelical Christians; U.S. Chamber of Commerce small business job creators; NRA folk; CATO Institute, Institute for Justice, Federalist Society, and Club for Growth Members; Harley folk on the shop floor in York and Milwaukee and on the roadways of America; and last, but far from least, the entire Tea Party movement: Beyond the euphoria […]