There is an old saying: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Well, what happens the third time? That’s where we are with North Korea. In fact, they have now fooled three U. S. administrations, dating back to the Agreed Framework of 1994 negotiated by Jimmy Carter for Bill Clinton. […]
Archives for 2012
UT Back in Court on Affirmative Action
It appears that my alma mater will be on the leading edge of what could be a watershed decision by the Supreme Court on affirmative action in the use of race-based criteria in college admissions. They have been there before–in breakthrough segregation cases like Sweatt vs. Painter and the previous affirmative action case of Hopwood […]
James Q. Wilson, RIP
Wilson was a favorite essayist and political and social scientist, and his book, The Moral Sense, was an important one for me. In it, he identifies our moral sense, what some have described as “written on the heart”, as a fact of human nature, the primary enemy of moral relativism, and an essence that statist […]
Rope Some Dopes
How do you turn “Obama’s Huge Blunder” (see the February issue) into a political win and paint the inept Republicans into a tight corner? Answer: you set a trap that they cannot avoid by converting a major issue involving the first amendment right to the free exercise of religion and the long-established freedom of conscience […]
The Real Margaret Thatcher
I have no doubt that Meryl Streep will win an Academy Award for her portrayal of Lady Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady”. From all I have read, including several reviews, it is a remarkable performance. However, I probably won’t see it because all indications are that it is not enough concerned with her public […]
Obama’s Huge Blunder
Peggy Noonan thinks that a ruling President Obama signed this week might prove to have cost him re-election. I wouldn’t go that far, but it just might cost him the support of Roman Catholics from the right, left, and center, a big hit for a Democrat. He signed off on a Health and Human Services […]
More Political Retreat
As if it wasn’t pretty obvious with the premature troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, the latest plans announced by the Obama administration for a significantly smaller military send two very distinct messages: (1) a crass political choice to allow the entitlement regime to continue to crowd out defense spending and avoid a confrontation with […]
The State of the Union
David Brooks thinks that this election is about averting national decline. No argument there, but he further thinks that President Obama is abandoning the larger issues to the Republicans, which I wish was the case, but I don’t see the evidence. They are alarmed for sure, but except for Gingrich, I don’t see the large […]
They Don’t Get It
I’m sure you are getting more than you want of the constant dribble of the triviality of much of the interplay among Republican primary candidates and I don’t want to add to the frustration, but I can’t avoid a few shots. First, I have been appalled at the demagoguery from several candidates, primarily Perry and […]
Books
Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism, by Charles Hill This book is part of a Hoover Institution project styled the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, the purpose of which is “a deeper understanding of the struggle in Islam between Muslims keen to protect the rule […]
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