Working for the government is not like working for the private sector, says Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of National Review Online. Unlike the private sector, where people lose their jobs for incompetence, redundancy or obsolescence, government employees essentially cannot be fired. Worse yet, as veterans seeking medical care waited and waited until some even died, VA […]
Obama’s Afghan Failure
In National Review, Victor Davis Hanson notes that Obama campaigned in 2008 on the premise that he would increase pressure on and defeat the Taliban. But six years later, there have been more U.S. casualties under Obama then there were under Bush. As Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in Duty, “(Obama) doesn’t consider the war […]
A Mad, Mad World
Thomas Sowell in National Review touches on random hot-button issues in America—from the folly of government-run medical care to the absurdity of our politically correct institutions of higher education to the farce of class warfare. As Mr. Sowell points out, it’s as though we are living in an era where sanity is controversial. Thomas Piketty, in […]
Resentment Against National Central Government Growing Worldwide
Here National Review’s John Fund looks at Scotland and Venice as two examples. The debt crisis and years of barely perceptible economic growth are fueling independence movements in some regions of Europe. On September 18, Scotland will vote on becoming independent from the United Kingdom. If a majority approves, the U.K. would lose a full […]
Thank God for Uber
On Wed March 5th, Debbie and I landed at frigid Logan airport in Boston. We were there to visit my Dad, who will shortly turn 99 years old. As we taxied to the gate, we noticed an especially large number of odd-looking vehicles lined up along the runway. Inside the terminal, we learned that President […]
“Obamacare Enrollment Crash”
The deadline is the end of March. That is the date that the administration is going to have to admit that its projections for paid enrollees were just so much hot air. Here writing at National Review, Patrick Brennan gives you the bad news for the Obama administration. ‘We may not get to 7 million, […]
Is Frank Underwood Staring at You?
In House of Cards, Frank and Claire Underwood are pretty rotten individuals.Here at National Review, Betsy Woodruff tries to explain the irony that is House of Cards. The dark forces behind House of Cards hate us. They are contemptuous, vengeful, and pre-meditating. They view us with scorn. They want us to suffer. But the evil doesn’t come […]
Barack Obama: Down on Animal Farm
Obama is captaining a vast government effort to deceive and control American citizens in a grand Orwellian fashion. And in the process, Barack Obama is altering the meaning of words and re-writing history. Here, writing at National Review, Victor Davis Hanson unfolds the whole grizzly story for you. Our president swore on a bible and […]
HRM Obama: “I Can Do What I Want”
His Royal Majesty’s (HRM) latest proclamation, this time uttered, jokingly, if you can believe the effrontery, at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Obama at Monticello? Is there a president who less embodies the Constitutional federal republic spirit of Thomas Jefferson than does Barack Obama? What a slap in the face to Jefferson and all Americans. This guy […]
Keystone XL Pipeline: Americans Yes, Congress Yes, Barack Obama No!
Barack Obama is stonewalling the badly needed Keystone XL pipeline strictly for political reasons. Both chambers of Congress have already signed on and yet to appease the Greens, Obama is blocking the creation of tens of thousands of jobs while idiotically forcing oil supplies from Canada to move by rail. There is a quick and […]
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