As Lincoln Club member David Bahnsen noted, Walter Russell Mead’s recent essay, “Occupy Blue Wall Street,” is perhaps the best explanation of the coalition between “the occupiers,” (many of whom are public-sector union members), Wall Street (Big Business), and statists (Big Government). It’s a lengthy piece, but here are snippets of below-the-surface analysis that you [...]
From the WSJ. ObamaCare CLASS stands for Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Now that one of ObamaCare’s major new benefit programs has been scrapped, liberals are trying to make stone soup by claiming that the Obama Administration merely committed an act of “good government.” They claim that when this long-term care insurance program [...]
Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism Post-’60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline. By SHELBY STEELE If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some say this destructiveness is intended; most say it is inadvertent, an outgrowth of [...]
Lincoln Club member Marilyn Palarea came across this Letter to the Editor in today’s Long Beach Press-Telegram: Blaming quake on Bush George Bush did it! I’m not sure how, but I do know why. The East Coast never has earthquakes, yet the quake that shook the East Coast occurred soon after President Obama’s warm [...]
Peggy Noonan states in a recent Wall Street Journal piece something that many of us have said this before.
