We had a President once who went for a sci-fi movie to the tune of jillions, Star Wars. So, it seems only fitting that President Bush’s new Domestic Policy Advisor is the author of a comic book, Combat Zone: True Tales of GIs in Iraq [the illustrations by Dan Jurgens and Sandu Florea got only […]
What it comes down to is pretty simple. The Bush Administration isn’t about the country. It’s about itself. Appointments aren’t about picking people who would have expertise in their government positions. Appointments are about Administration loyalty and agenda. Karl Zinsmeister, editor of the American Enterprise Institute magazine has been an embedded reporter in Iraq. He’s […]
As long as I’m on the subject of A.E.I., until now, I thought the appointment of A.E.I.‘s John Bolton, an avowed U.N. critic, as U.N. Ambassador while Congress was recessed was W.’s biggest insult. But he may have topped it this last week – Top Bush Aide Admits Altering Article. Karl Zinsmeister, editor-in-chief of the […]
"Bush Killed His Own Doctrine" Absolutely amazing! The American Enterprise Institute blames their Administration Clones for the failure of A.E.I.‘s own flawed policy. It’s not their absurd policy that has failed. It’s that their absurd White House operatives didn’t do it right. I’m sure Neoconservatives eat their own young…
Machiavelli on Modern Leadership by Michael Ledeen is a remarkable book – a book that suggests that Machiavelli’s treatise, The Prince, got a bad rap. In Ledeen’s view, people need to be controlled or they’ll get out of hand – basically a greedy lot. So he proposes a Republic held together by religion, a strong […]
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie […]
The left coaster has become my favorite blog. Steve Soto, eriposte, the pessimist – all are writing the "right stuff" these days. Today, the pessimist asks, What will you do tomorrow to remember America’s war dead? What SHOULD you do? I commented: Before I retired, I never took Memorial Day off. I never understood it, […]
What a non-issue! One could hardly see the raid as a problem of the separation of powers. It was a criminal justice matter. If Representatives are immune from criminal investigation, it’s time to change whatever law says that. If one iota of the public evidence against Jefferson is true, he has earned a GO TO […]