Let’s hope The Supremes keep this in mind tomorrow as they begin hearing McDonald v. Chicago: The District of Columbia’s murder rate plummeted by an astounding 25 percent last year, much faster than for the US as a whole or for similarly sized cities. If you had asked Chicago’s Mayor Daley, that wasn’t supposed...
Krauthammer on The Age Of Obama
The tragic vision may seem arrogant, hawkish, and unenlightened, even brutish to some but it’s grounded in realism, experience, empirical facts. Conversely, in the vision of the anointed, as defined by Thomas Sowell, many of the ideals are suspended in fantasy — as honorable myths, but myths nonetheless. Krauthammer says it much more eloquently...
Obama And More Of His Broken Promises
Once again, Obama is found to have broken a key promise, this one that you can keep your current health insurance under the proposed health care reform bill that is being considered currently stalled in The House. Last week President Obama addressed the GOP and said this (video): The last thing I will say,...
Obama Is Happy To Admit He Hasn’t Affected Change
In an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, President Obama stated he’s ‘happy to admit’ he didn’t change Congress the way ‘he would have liked.’ That’s an interesting choice of words; “happy.” Let’s just clarify, I didn’t make a bunch of deals. There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I...
Wednesday Links
I’ve returned from a much needed long-weekend in Grand Cayman with my better half and some great friends and am catching up on news and developments. Below are a couple of links worth sharing. Enjoy. James Howard Kunstler’s latest post Swingtime, January 25, 2010 7:13 AM The underlying reality is that the financial sector...