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During the presidential debate on Tuesday night, Barack Obama won praise from the worldwide liberal establishment when he said that the US has a moral obligation to use military force for humanitarian purposes. He stressed, however, that just as the US must eschew unilateral action in favor of multilateral action in fighting the war on… Read more.
Despite all the media hype, presidential debates have very little bearing on how people vote on Election Day. Instead, they tend to merely reinforce voters’ pre-existing feelings about the candidates. This means that who won the debate is invariably in the eye of the beholder. [The McCain-Obama “debate” of 08: round I, The iPINIONS Journal, September 28,… Read more.
Like John McCain, I’m on record admitting that I have no clue what the remedy is for curing what ails Wall Street and for preventing its contagion from infecting markets all over the world. Unfortunately, everybody else seems equally clueless. Because experts assured us that markets would react favorably if the US Congress passed the $700 billion bailout plan. Yet, even though Congress… Read more.
Truth be told, I really thought Palin showed enough style and self-confidence during her debate with Joe Biden on Thursday that Saturday Night Live would’ve been loath to continue making fun of her. But there was Tina Fey on Saturday night doing her parody of Palin’s folksy style and manufactured self-confidence in a way that ridiculed… Read more.
This morning, thirteen years and thirteen hours to the day after an all-black jury in Los Angeles acquitted O.J. Simpson of murdering his wife and her friend, an all-white jury in Las Vegas convicted him on all 12 counts of conspiracy, kidnapping, burglary, robbery and assault, which he committed at gunpoint on September 13, 2007. How’s that for… Read more.
Evidently, for those who voted against this bailout bill just days ago, putting lipstick on a pig can be quite appealing. Because all it took for them to compromise their born-again fiscal virtue were billions of dollars in pork-barrel spending that have been larded onto this $700 billion bill. This includes new earmarks for a… Read more.
It really should surprise no one that Republican Sarah Palin surpassed expectations in her vice presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden last night. After all, her poor performances in recent interviews had influential members of her own party calling on her to withdraw from the ticket – not only to spare herself further embarrassment but… Read more.
It’s time that normal Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency (sic). This was Gov. Sarah Palin’s folksy attempt to justify her inability to speak intelligently in recent interviews about anything except hunting moose and drilling oil pits. But this populist spin is patent nonsense. Because any normal Joe Six-pack would… Read more.
At this hour, even rabidly partisan forces in Washington are conspiring to find a bi-partisan way to rescue the bailout bill they torpedoed on Monday. But all they’re doing is framing it as a bailout for Main Street, proclaiming that they’re acting now to prevent the meltdown on Wall Street from burning folks on Main Street. Specifically, their concern is no longer about this bailout providing golden parachutes for fat cats on… Read more.
To every thing there is a season, a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die … a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. (Ecclesiastes 3) Mourners from all over the world gathered at the Freeport… Read more.
