June 30, 2011
Taking Himself Out
The President took himself out of the negotiation game yesterday with his hissy fit of a press conference where he castigated the Congress for not getting its work done when it comes to the debt limit. The final package will...
June 29, 2011
A Crack in the Windshield
About a year ago, as I was driving, a small rock that was kicked up by the truck I was following hit my windshield and put a little crack in it. It wasn’t a big crack. Every morning when I...
June 28, 2011
Control-Freaks
We live in a nation of control-freaks. Everybody wants to be able to control his or her own lives in a world where America increasingly is not in control. We don’t control the Chinese or the Indians or the Europeans...
June 27, 2011
Debt and Taxes
Ben Franklin was the one who first said that the only inevitable things in life were death and taxes. These days, the same could probably be said for debt and taxes, but that doesn’t mean that the debt limit should...
June 24, 2011
Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina
Eric Cantor pulled out of the Vice President’s debt talks the other day, convinced that the Democrats were leading him down a politically unsustainable path. Republicans don’t think revenues are a problem (a debatable proposition), and the House Majority Leader...
June 23, 2011
The Afghan War
President Obama took 13 minutes to say something he could have said in 30 seconds. He is taking 10,000 troops out of Afghanistan immediately and plans to take out 30,000 or so more by the end of the year. The...