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A Modest Proposal

…even as food-aid workers enjoyed their most successful day since the Jan. 12 earthquake, the increasingly prominent role of U.S. troops and civilians in the capital is creating high expectations that the Obama administration is struggling to contain.

The needs are extraordinary, and the common refrain is that the Americans will provide.

“I want the Americans to [...]

Eighth Time’s The Charm

A well-known face of the former government of Saddam Hussein widely known as Chemical Ali was executed Monday for ordering a gas attack on a Kurdish village in northern Iraq and for his role in other attacks that became notorious symbols of Mr. Hussein’s tenure.

An Iraqi court had sentenced the man, Ali Hassan al-Majid, to [...]

Slip Slidin’ II

Even assuming that President Obama would want to come back to New Jersey and rub elbows with the increasingly toxic Governor Jon Corzine, the bloom may be off his flower as well, at least here in NJ.

A new poll shows:

New Jersey voters approve 56 – 39 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, [...]

Stairway To Heaven

Here you see Charlie and me in our rightful places: high above the madding crowd, masters of all we survey… Ahem.

Actually, this story goes back to 2006, when I was mayor and Charlie was in his freshman year on the town council. We were the respective liaisons to the two volunteer fire companies [...]

News From the Bunker

The Terminator et familia are in France this holiday weekend (“Lafayette, we are here and we shop…”), which was going to make them the butt of a cheap joke on my part, until I found out they spent the Fourth touring D-Day beaches.

The American cemetary at Colleville-sur-la-Mer.

You Have No Vested Right To Fair Treatment?

The US Supreme Court has overturned a US Appeals Court decision made by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. The case was that of the New Haven, CT, firefighters vs. the city.

The vote was 5-4 with David Souter, who is to be replaced by Sotomayor, voting in the minority. The majority held that race could not [...]

Truth As A Weapon

Whatever the fate of newspapers, television news is one traditional media that seems to have retained its significance. For all the talk about Twitter and DM’ing in the continuing Iranian unrest, the ayatollas, at least, are blaming tv — specifically the BBC’s recently created Farsi-language service.

The propagators of an “all-out war” against the Islamic republic, [...]

Less Than Thrilled

Iran is erupting into civil chaos in the first real threat to the imams since they came to power 30 years ago. China is once again flexing its economic muscles by asking that the dollar be replaced as the benchmark world currency. North Korea has a missile aimed at Obama’s old elementary school. So what’s [...]

Media Watch

If you are a conservative, why read the NY Times? If for no other reason, it serves as a harbinger of the next phases of the Leftwing revolution.

Take Sunday’s edition, for example.

A key hint to the next battlefront in the war against private medical care: “Doctors and the Cost of Care”. This editorial reveals that [...]