Those of us who walked this planet 45 years ago this week remember exactly what we were doing that day when man first landed on the moon. I was in the back seat of the family station wagon in my pin-striped jersey and navy-blue ball cap, headed to an American Legion baseball game.…
DetailsMy son, the skateboarder, has a name for people who dress the part, talk the part, but who don’t really do what dedicated skateboarders do. He calls them “posers.” On immigration, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is a poser. He talks about it – oh, my, yes. But when it comes to…
DetailsBlack helicopter watch can get lonely, even if there’s one always just over the horizon. Any day now, for instance, President Obama will assemble the death panels of his health-care designs, appointing the extraterrestrials we suspected he would, to a thousand cable-televised told-you-sos. So much that was evil, we were told, would dawn…
DetailsThose who oppose the president’s initiatives to reduce carbon emissions appear to fit into three camps. The first, exemplified by Sens. Marco Rubio and James Inhofe, choose not to believe what's said by the vast majority of those who know the most about climate. The second, embodied by Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson,…
DetailsThe grave tone of the TV reporter conveyed end-of-the-world stuff. Brace yourselves, Americans. Events in Iraq likely would cause a jump in gasoline prices. To which a grave listener would reply: “This is news?” Whether it’s instability overseas or America’s accelerator-foot summer itch, something always is causing gasoline prices to jump. …
DetailsThey have set their sights on the capital. And by now, who would doubt their designs? Key districts are in their clutches. Their latest stunning victory causes jaws to drop. But why the surprise? God is on their side. Infidels, prepare to fall. Believe what they say as they pull down the…
DetailsEric Shinseki is a stand-up individual: Willing to serve two combat tours in Vietnam. Later, as Army chief of staff, willing to publicly differ with his bosses when the Bush administration soft-pedaled the personnel needs of occupying Iraq. Having stepped up at the apex of his career to lead the embattled Department of…
DetailsTo those on the left who say Barack Obama hasn’t done anything about climate change: Time to eat those words. To those who cup their ears and hum loudly when climate scientists say something has to be done: Time to keep cupping. Obama has done more than any person on the planet to…
Details“No new taxes.” Ah, the sound of spring preening when lawmakers recess. Despite these claims, it’s amazing how policymakers in “low-tax” states figure out ways to convince voters of their presumed fiscal sainthood. Often, they do so with revenue devices which don’t impact the many but really sock it to a…
DetailsThe first thing that occurs to an observer is that this is a mismatch in weight classes. The big-gutted officers fit in the sumo category. The college students? They fit in the stringy category. Stringy but strong-willed, they stand tall — even as they get riot-batoned in their torsos, cuffed and dragged away.…
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