Michael Barone thinks so.
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Is Blagojevich Stupid?
Posted in Politics, tagged Blagojevich on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Democratic Party
Posted in Politics on December 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sorry I’ve been posting so little—life has been insanely busy. I’ve been working 7am–1am pretty much nonstop. But the Blagojevich scandal is too much to ignore. If you’ve been working too hard to pay attention, or spending all your time on planet Christmas, look here, here, here, and here for some basics. [...]
Parallel Lives
Posted in Politics, tagged parallel lives, Plutarch on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Victor Davis Hanson, following in the footsteps of Plutarch, outlines parallel lives of Republicans and Democrats. The double standard is familiar, but nevertheless startling when the cases are lined up side-by-side.
Civic Illiteracy
Posted in Education, Politics, tagged civic literacy, quiz on November 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has devised a quiz testing civic literacy. The average score is only 49%– though it improved to 78% online in November, perhaps because the online group is self-selected, and perhaps because elections improve awareness of civic matters for a while.
The most remarkable finding is that elected officials do worse than [...]
Puzzling Juxtapositions
Posted in Politics, economics, tagged global warming, unions on November 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Have you noticed?
Obama won 52% of the vote—a “landslide,” according to the increasingly foolish mainstream media. California’s Proposition 8 also passed with 52% of the vote. Why is no one calling that a landslide?
Obama is said to have won because voters were concerned about the economy. But the stock market has plummeted [...]
Reaction Roundup
Posted in Politics, tagged election, Obama on November 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
John Hawkins has an illuminating roundup of conservative blog reactions to McCain’s defeat.
Everyone in America knows the theme of Obama’s campaign—hope and change—even if no one knows what that really means. There was no theme to McCain’s campaign. “Country first”? That didn’t convey anything except McCain’s patriotism. And patriotism, even elevated [...]
Rudyard Kipling on the Election
Posted in Politics, tagged Kipling on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. [...]
Vote!
Posted in Politics, tagged election, Locke, Rousseau, vote fraud on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have a historic choice to make today, a choice between
strength and weakness
containment and appeasement
freedom and suppression
prosperity and depression
low taxes and high taxes
honesty and mendacity
respect for life and contempt for life
More broadly, we have a choice between the philosophy of John Locke on which this country was built—one based on individual liberty and individual rights [...]
Thomas Sowell on Obama and Biden
Posted in Politics, economics, foreign policy, law, tagged Obama on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
He disapproves:
Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise– whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team– is likely at some point to be chastened by either [...]
First, It Was Under the Bus….
Posted in Politics, tagged Obama on October 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Now it’s off the plane. The Washington Times, New York Post, and Dallas Morning News have been banished from Obama’s campaign plane for endorsing John McCain. My comparison of Obama with Hugo Chavez seems more and more apt.
