Both John McCain and Barack Obama attended the Al Smith dinner, a traditional gathering of mostly New York Democrats devoted mainly to humor. Both candidates gave funny, self-deprecating speeches. A sample: “This is a very distinguished and influential audience and as good a place as
From Obama’s 95% Illusion:It depends on what the meaning of ‘tax cut’ is: Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven [tax] credits for individuals: A $500 tax credit ($1,000 a couple) to “make work pay” that phases out at income
The International Herald Tribune explains to the world that the U.S. has history of intervention, including nationalizing companies. The article notes that whereas the term “nationalizing” is OK to use in Europe, we aren’t supposed to use that word in Americca: In other countries, the
My colleague Mark Mitchell, a government professor at Patrick Henry College and currently a visiting scholar at Princeton, has written a penetrating and morally challenging essay on the economic crisis and the bailout. Read it at the website of the Center for a Just Society.
I think John McCain did MUCH, MUCH better in this debate. Finally, he distinguished himself from the man whom he continually vexed for eight years: “Sen. Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four
Victor Davis Hanson quotes left-wing journalist Ben Wallace-Wells, writing in “The Rolling Stone” in 2007: This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr. Wright is not an
More good stuff from Uwe Siemon-Netto, who has a provocative article in the “Lutheran Witness” on the vocation of the voter. Vocation has to do with the priesthood of all believers; therefore, Christians are to be voter-priests. He sums it up this way: the Church
Use this space to comment on tonight’s final debate. Is McCain doomed? Did Obama put it away? Does McCain now have a chance?
I love pictures of babies when they are laughing. I also love pictures of babies when they are crying. Here we see my new granddaughter Elizabeth’s emotional range. Such rage! Such indignation! Look at those clenched little fists!
The British TV series “Life on Mars” is terrific, though the new American remake is less so. But it involves a modern-day cop getting zapped back to 1973, presented as an exotic time in history with strange clothing styles and primitive police work. Hey, 1973
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