Category: Social and Political Pieces

Bibi's got chuzpah, but it's out of necessity: According to the leading Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, Netanyahu was in Moscow to present concrete evidence to the Kremlin that Russian arms were making their way to Iran, Syria and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. The Israeli agenda allegedly also included persuading Russia not to sell its S-300 anti-aircraft …

Continue reading "A Bold Move: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Secret Trip to Moscow"

I'm not the only one that noticed.  From Camille Paglia: Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers (one reason for the hypocritical absence …

Continue reading "Freedom on the Left Died in the 1960’s"

I've make this connection before, too, but here's something of note: His (Obama's) policies even have the potential to consign the US to a similar fate as Argentina, which suffered a painful and humiliating slide from first to Third World status last century, the paper says. There are "troubling similarities" between the US President's actions …

Continue reading "Barack Obama and Juan Peron: Same Playbook, Same Results?"

There's been a great deal of speculation about why Obama's health care reform plan (to the extent it's Obama's and not Nancy Pelosi's) has bombed to the point where he's having to "fall back and regroup." Conservatives speak of anti-government sentiment, liberals speak of the hysteria "ginned up" for the town hall meetings.  But there's …

Continue reading "Danger in Delay: The Real Reason Why Obama’s Health Care Initiative Bombed"

From his blog (read it all here): Labor Day signals the end of summer, the real start of school, the beginning of football season, and the last long weekend to get projects done around the house. This year, though, the holiday has unusual significance to us all, as many Americans find little to celebrate, with …

Continue reading "Labour Day Message from Art Rhodes, Candidate for Congress"

The Chinese are proud of this: The national flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 20, media reported Sunday. Chinese associations in the United States had applied to hold a ceremony in front of the US President’s residence to …

Continue reading "Hoisting China’s Flag Over the White House: Hard to Avoid"

The left is so predictable about things like this.  From the Washington Post: At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working …

Continue reading "Bob McDonnell: The Predictable Media Assault Begins"

Took him long enough to figure it out: In August our ubiquitous president became the nation's elevator music, always out and about, heard but not really listened to, like audible wallpaper. And now, as Congress returns to resume wrestling with health care reform, we shall see if he continues his August project of proving that …

Continue reading "Now George Will Knows the Barack Obama is “an Ivy League Huey Long”"

Steven Malanga is certainly right about this change in our culture: The breakup of this 300-year-old consensus on the work ethic began with the cultural protests of the 1960s, which questioned and discarded many traditional American virtues. The roots of this breakup lay in what Daniel Bell described in The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism as …

Continue reading "The American Work Ethic Heads South"