— ‘Cause those guys have their work cut out for them these days… Perhaps if they speak in dulcet tones, use “helpful,” carefully-crafted and PC-vetted language, and remind us of our forthcoming return to “power” — wherein nothing much will change, save for the party designation doing the spending and the promoting of their own peculiar vision of necessary statism — all will be well! Unicorns!
August 3, 2010
Stopped clocks
Leonard Pitts gets something right: Americans seem to be rallying around a demand for education reform. Apparently, we’ve had enough of students failing schools and schools failing students. We know our kids are capable of better — and that in a competitive, hyper-connected world where China is rising and India aspiring, not delivering better is no longer an option. Unfortunately, whenever anyone seeks to require better, they seem to find
The Best Way to Ruin an American Icon?
Turn the company that makes it over to the UAW. I’ve had my Jeep since 1994. In fact, it’s the first car I ever bought myself — a Limited Edition Wrangler Sahara, green, with sand-colored interior and green trim. I love it. And it pains me to no end to know that, going forward, Jeep will be the emblem of government overreach and quid pro quo between Democrat politicians and
"Are Americans Closet Statists?"
Andrew Ferguson seems to think not: This is an old argument, and it never goes away for long. It’s usually revived when articulate people with strong political convictions suddenly see the public, which moments before had been agreeing with them, veering off in a seditious direction. Only a little more than 18 months ago, American voters elected a well-schooled sophisticate to the presidency and thereby demonstrated a long overdue spiritual
