from SamHenry, Editor It’s a new day and a new deadline for the Obama Administration. We are not talking cap and trade or health care here. We are talking another potential Obama Administration foreign policy disaster. “Mr Obama, and his tireless Middle East special envoy George Mitchell, are still struggling to achieve some sort of… [Read more…]
September 17, 2009
I had luncheon recently with a Canadian friend who was a native Pakistani. We were talking earnestly and honestly about politics when he leveled his sights at me and asked softly: “Do you think that 9/11 ended US supremacy? Without hesitation, I said “yes.” Of course I had to answer the why question and that… [Read more…]
September 13, 2009
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All week, CNN has focused on Afghanistan – that place we invaded after 911 in pursuit of Osama Bin Laden. Every year we receive another taped message from him. Every year we seem to dig in deeper and to throw more troops and material at the situation. This Sunday, Fahreed Zakaria’s program GPS, also on… [Read more…]
September 12, 2009
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Rumor had it this week that a public relations person at the National Endowment for the Humanities had resigned over the following I posted here August 29th under “National Manipulation of the Arts.” Here is the background of the alleged firing: FoxNews.com has reported a story of a California film producer, PR man and etc.,… [Read more…]
September 11, 2009
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Art of Communication Updating a story published here on August 29th: there are conflicting reports about whether or not the National Endowment for the Arts communications director Yosi Sergant has been asked to resign. At least one Republican senator had raised concerns in recent days after an artist blogged that the White House and the… [Read more…]
September 11, 2009
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And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar: No matter who the President;… [Read more…]
September 10, 2009
High noon on Capitol Hill. Surrounded by Ted Kennedy’s relatives, an adoring Democratic majority and a perfectly coiffed Speaker of the House, the President came to shoot down opposition to health care reform. Armed with the “I” word, it was clear that he was going to employ his favorite phrase, “let me be clear.” Although… [Read more…]
September 8, 2009
A colleague greeted us this morning on votingfemale.wordpress.com with “Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a good labor day holiday. I wonder how the jobless celebrated their non labor day. (Tellitlikeitis) Here are the sad figures for August: Private non-farm employers cut 298,000 jobs in August, according to estimates by payroll company ADP,… [Read more…]
September 8, 2009
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Behind the latest headline grabber, health care reform aka health care insurance reform, the battle to keep the US economy buoyed continues. There is something fishy about an administration that is more concerned with taking over companies than in job creation programs. In fact, after receiving bailout monies, some banks and GM laid off workers. … [Read more…]
September 6, 2009
by SamHenry Surprise. We’re talking about 2009; we’re talking about the United States of America. Dinner last weekend with clear thinking Conservative friends of above average intelligence (he was a scientist who helped put a man on the Moon) was instructive. I have never seen this couple so agitated. “This will be the fastest move… [Read more…]
September 5, 2009
m2 // September 4, 2009 at 8:57 pm on the mothership blog, votingfemale.wordpress.com A tireless researcher and brilliant commentator on our nation’s sharp turn to the left, M2 has also made the following comments recently: September 4, 2009 at 8:48 pm This silence on all matters detrimental to Obama is getting scary. He could name… [Read more…]
September 4, 2009
If someone in the US finds out what’s really going on with health care reform, will you please let the rest of us in on it? CNN’s Gloria Borger and Jessica Yellin are reporting that the Prez and his staff are hard at work on their own draft health care plan. What was August all… [Read more…]
September 2, 2009
In July we celebrate the birth of our nation; in September, we are forced to face that date that forever transformed it -9/11. Four hijacked aircraft commandeered by a few men on each have eroded our international standing and power and our self confidence as a nation sate. Our reaction to 9/11 was predictable –… [Read more…]
September 20, 2009
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