I am not an ideologue………really, I’m not. — President Barack Obama speaking to the Republican House caucus. Well, if you believe that, I’m like George Strait, with oceanfront property in Arizona. At some point in time, we must separate the rhetoric from the action on the ground. The truth is that this President may be […]
Archives for 2010
Bush Gets a Few Things Right
You’ll never hear it from his successor, but George W. Bush is piling up a list of items that provide considerable vindication of most of the elements of his foreign policy, including the hated Bush Doctrine. In a recent Townhall article Larry Elder credits his overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq for encouraging and emboldening […]
A Tragedy Even Worse than it Appears
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.—Daniel Patrick Moynihan. I have used this quote before, but it has never been more appropriate than in the context of the […]
Back to the Future?
I don’t often disagree with George Will, but I must take issue with parts of his recent essay (“Unlike China, U. S. has a future rooted in the past”) that closes with the following: “While China increasingly invests in its future, America increasingly invests in its past, the elderly…………America’s destiny is demographic, and therefore is […]
Holiday Books
“What of the ‘why’ of the world? Of course the question has no scientific answer. It is the question beyond science, the question left over when all of science has been written down. It is a philosophical question.”—Roger Scruton, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Philosophy. Recently I have been exploring the phenomenon of “scientism”, a […]
Financial Suicide
Of all the misguided initiatives to revive “industrial policy” currently underway, none is more foolhardy and risky than the massive intrusion into the financial markets under the guise of the rollback of the financial deregulation that has been officially designated the leading culprit in the meltdown of the past two years. It will lead to […]
But What Will They Learn?
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has recently released two reports, Protecting the Free Exchange of Ideas and What Will They Learn? The former identifies concrete measures recommended by ACTA and taken by 40 universities to ensure that students are learning how to think and not what to think. The latter demonstrates that our […]
The Continuing Health Care Debacle
Not much more to say about what remains the worst bill ever, even without the public insurance option or public funding of abortions, at least until whatever health care reform passes from the Senate/House conference and is signed into law, but I cannot pass commentary on the travesty of the process by which the Democrats […]
Obama at Oslo, West Point, and On Iran and the “Overseas Contingency Operation”
Hold the thoughts of Victor Davis Hanson in mind while contemplating the Obama war (or “unwar”) strategy. In Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, he at least acknowledged that “evil exists in the world” and that there is such a thing as just war, a major concession for him to the obvious consternation of […]
The Western Way of War and Its Future
Victor Davis Hanson has written a brilliant essay in the November 2009 issue of Imprimis, in which he discusses what he calls the Western way of war, how it developed over the history of Western Civilization, its current configuration, and its prognosis. The sum of its evolution to date is that it has been without […]
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