Savages of Socialism
Most governments subsidize or price control some necessities to win over the underclass... or at least keep them from burning down everything in sight.
Media Using Gaffe Charge to Drown Out Romney’s Truth
The media are still doing their best to pretend that a gaffe is a mistake, when they are actually using it to mean the telling of inconvenient truths. Obama's reign of error is a constellation of inconvenient truths, economic, security and legal, that cannot be discussed in public. The telling of these inconvenient truths has been met with cries of racism, no matter how little they have to do with race. Now they are being met with cries of "Gaffe, Gaffe," when Romney brings them up.
Understanding the McMaster NSC Purge
The purge of reformers and original thinkers is only beginning. The latest reports say that McMaster has a list of enemies who will be ousted from the NSC.
To Understand Trump, You have to Understand New York
Trump excels at capturing that bar/barbershop angry reaction and it may even be completely authentic
Our State of Police
We've become very good at symptom management and at not thinking about the underlying problem.
Good News From Russia
Russia's government mafia isn't cutting back, it's redoubling its aggressiveness. With less money coming in, it's relying more and more on wholesale confiscation. Confiscation was how the regime built up its original fortune, but the problem is that it's eating up the business ecosystem and running out of money to confiscate. Every 6th businessman in Russia has been prosecuted in the last decade. Three million have been sentenced in that time.
Rename America
Either we stop the left’s assault on history or we lose our country. Every time a statue is taken down, a school is renamed, a building is vandalized, a holiday is abolished, we move one step closer to the final undoing of our history. We should not be afraid of the truth. And the truth is that history is complex.
Manufacturing Gaffes
If you read the newspaper, watch the telly or turn the radio dial to something besides the greatest hits of the 70's and 80's, then you know that Romney's international trip was a disaster. How do you know that? Well, the same way that Soviet citizens knew that their economy was booming and it would only be a matter of time before the slaves of capitalism threw off their shackles and bowed their arrogant heads to the hammer and sickle. They read it in the paper.
Obama’s Last Stand
Democrats do not have a great track record in the White House. The number of Democratic presidents who have won second terms is small and becomes much smaller with the second half of the 20th Century. Unlike Congressional shifts which reflect regional politics more than a national referendum, the Presidency is a referendum on the usages of the nearly unlimited power of its holder.
The Emperor’s Magic New Debate
The outcome of the debate between Obama and Romney had less to do with any extraordinary qualities possessed by Mitt Romney than with the purely ordinary qualities of Barack Obama. No matter how much Team Obama tried to warn the media faithful against any enthusiasm, the expectations were high and remained high until the Chicago Messiah began to speak. And then there was nothing.
The Light of Chanukah
The Jewish Press hopes that your Hanukah was joyful and illuminating.
No Country for Old Incumbents
A storm is not a good time to be at the wheel of a ship and a worldwide economic disaster is not a good time to be at the wheel of the ship of state. Hard times are supposed to bring great men to the fore, but instead we have some of the sorriest men in history trying to find the wheel, sleeping off a bender in their cabins or debating whether a wheel even exists.
The End of the Alternative Media
The real reason that the Village Voice is dead is because the alternative media is dead and the alternative media is dead because there is nothing for it to be an alternative to. New Yorkers can just as easily read shrill rants about the NYPD in the Daily News, pretentious movie reviews for artsy films at The Onion and leftist denunciations of the War on Terror in the New York Times.
The Gang Religion of Islam
We have a global gang violence problem.
Lies We Can Believe In
The American chief executive has a great deal of power and a chief executive who dons imperial robes is a danger with few precedents. There have been conflicts between the branches, but even FDR made a pretense of bowing to some outside authority. Obama never has, with the exception of the King of Saudi Arabia.
Israel: A Peacetime War or a Wartime Peace
Jabotinsky once warned that it came down to ending the exile or the exile will end you. The ashes prove the truth of his words. Now Israel has another choice, either it will end the peace process or the process will end it.
Playing for Islam Against Ourselves
It's still going on now. The same old courtship that has become the mid-life crisis of the West.
Five Lessons from Egypt and the Arab Spring
The messages from the region are as worthless as the cheerful prognostications about waves of reform from Western media men who know little of the Middle East beyond its waiters and airports.
Everything is Fake Now: The Virtual Reality of Politics
When all the bubbles of rhetoric pop, there are still the hard unpleasant realities to deal with.
Why The Newsroom is Good News for Republicans
The Newsroom is Aaron Sorkin's sad attempt to win an argument by rewriting history and coming up with all the comebacks that his side couldn't think of two years ago. It's the sad and pathetic spectacle of an ideology creating its own fantasy version of its reality in which it won the argument.
Obama’s Death and Taxes Economy
Obama's 6 trillion dollar debt is a testament to the high price of ignorance.
You Can’t Out-Liberal the Liberals
Republicans who try to adapt to liberal values are pursuing a dead end.
Towers of Twilight: Reflections on the Attacks of September 11th
New York City is used to tragedy. Terrible things happen here all the time. But New York cannot move on, neither can the country, because the murderers are still on the loose and what happened on September 11 was not an isolated incident, but part of a pattern of attacks taking place in a clash of civilizations. New York, the crossroads of civilizations, is a natural target for the attacks. New York is to the world what Mecca was to Arabia and the new Mohammeds are eager to do to it what Mohammed did to Mecca.
From Problemtown to Solutionville
Americans are hounded from the moment they are born until the moment they die by a regulatory state where being left alone has become the greatest of luxuries.
The Conspiracy Theory Is the Conspiracy
The JFK assassination became a liberal martyrdom in search of a conservative inquisitioner.