Jonah Goldberg from CaglePost.com Columns by Jonah Goldberg from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Jonah+Goldberg Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Pork -- It's For Everyone, Including Obama There's an old joke about a fantastic three-legged pig and a farmer. It comes in many versions. In some tellings, the pig saves the farmer's life. In another, it can talk. The punch line always comes after a visitor asks, "So how come he only has thr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a3a5024f-15c6-4e9d-a8df-f24d5175ed18.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Endless Love Huzzah! Thanks to a few pointed questions from the press corps at a White House news conference, the long Obama captivity of the media is at an end. The Hotline, an inside-the-Beltway tip sheet, proclaimed June 23 "The Day the Love Ended." The New Yo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/55dee270-d3d0-4f02-abb7-6b5cdfffe457.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Iran Policy Is A Bomb Here is the one immutable fact of Barack Obama's foreign policy agenda as it relates to Iran: It's over. The rule book he came in with is as irrelevant as a tourist guide to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If the forces of reform and democracy win, Obam... http://www.caglepost.com/article/10b21cc4-4233-49eb-aff5-ed0e9ca60ec1.html Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Et Tu, Big Business? What did you do when capitalism died, Daddy? I won't be surprised to hear that question from my daughter by the time she gets out of college, or should I say the State Mandatory Voluntarism Training Facility. When liberals hear conservatives decry th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e70fa159-b2fe-48a4-a6bc-f3dd00e066f3.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Choice Is Not To Choose On Iran Do it, President Obama, please. Take the side of democracy. Declare yourself and your nation on the side of hope and change where it is more than a slogan and better than a rationalization for ever-bigger government. Stop measuring the success of you... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fbc37e93-d719-4adc-b030-1ae9fb2652c2.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Silly Game Of Connect-The-Dots When an abortion provider in Wichita, Kan., was murdered, the predictable chorus pointed fingers at Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. After all, O'Reilly had said that George Tiller was a "baby killer" and had railed against the doctor's late-term abortion pr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/359a3dd1-9dbf-4177-a1eb-e4ea23309f63.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Plan To Combat Global Warming? Pie In The Sky Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet. For years, Democrats, enthralled by the cargo cult of the Kennedy presidency, have used the moon landing as proof that no big government a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/55c73783-5a70-4780-9597-5e8401eb87c8.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Prism Of Obama There is one thing about Barack Obama's speech in Cairo that critics and supporters can agree on: It was vintage Obama. As an Obama critic, let me say from the outset that there was much that was good and praiseworthy in the president's address at Al... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f68c892c-9667-4ab5-8948-a457845928ab.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Don't Call It 'Socialism'! The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind of cars they can make. Uncle Sam owns majority stakes in American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and controls large chunks of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f451a262-9b65-45d9-b893-28db7f14b8d8.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Sotomayor Debate Is A Chance To Talk It Out On Race For decades, America's liberal establishment has been saying that what we need more than anything is a frank conversation about race. Well, here's another chance. Ever since the Kerner Commission in 1967, we've been hearing how Americans need to air ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2bb82017-e552-40c7-9a2f-ee23515d834c.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Cheney An Unlikely Beacon For Conservatives It's a lovely thing when the conventional wisdom proves to be so spectacularly wrong. The entire Democratic Party, not to mention the media establishment, simply took as a given that suave, charming, effulgent, numinous President Barack Obama would m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c575204c-1fee-43b4-b902-8c61349edba8.html Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Empathy V. Impartiality President Obama prefers Supreme Court justices who will violate their oath of office. And he hopes Sonia Sotomayor is the right Hispanic woman for the job. Here's the oath Supreme Court justices must take: "I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fb3e1134-8e02-4038-8044-6f3d642c3ec4.html Tue, 26 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Pelosi The Political Logjam orget about where you come down on "torture" or "enhanced interrogations." The simple fact is that, as a political matter, the drive for a "truth commission" -- never mind a war crimes tribunal -- is dead as long as Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8a307c62-9eee-4e22-8208-f05012630166.html Tue, 19 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Photos Or No Photos, It's Hard To Picture Obama Winning Over U.S. Enemies If President Obama is sincere in his expressed desire to block the release of photos of alleged prisoner abuse in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, congratulations are in order. But I'm taking a wait-and-see approach. Obama himself a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/99969c9a-61dd-4a44-a72d-3bf2ef832822.html Thu, 14 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Katz And Dogs Harry Truman famously said of D.C.: "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." It turns out that Truman was wrong, at least if you go by the experts. I'm not talking about Washington, but of dogs. And I'm not referring to the First Dog, Bo, who... http://www.caglepost.com/article/20e7837f-3954-4349-8783-7e88f5943c49.html Tue, 12 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT What Does The Future Hold For Gop? Compare and contrast two men: former congressmen Jack Kemp, one of the architects of the Reagan Revolution, who passed away last weekend at the age of 73; and Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania senator who switched parties to stay alive politically for ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a73bbfb6-67d2-4f53-ab56-4f2c7947c820.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT We Need a Hero We conservatives are having one of our grand, knock-down, drag-out fights over the future of conservatism and the GOP. Should conservatives compromise on gay marriage or abortion rights? Should we jump on the environmental bandwagon? Are there ways t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cbe49264-2620-4b94-a151-e78149fd4673.html Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Trickle-Down Corruption Some days you have to ask yourself, my God, what if these people were Republicans? Democrats took back Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 in no small part because of their ability to bang their spoons on their high chairs about what they cal... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6b1eaddd-92bc-48eb-a86a-6e9701a157e9.html Tue, 05 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Necessary 'SHhortcuts' In his press conference Wednesday night, President Obama offered a nice little sermonette on "shortcuts." Asked about his decision to release the "torture memos" and ban waterboarding, Obama said: "I was struck by an article that I was reading the ot... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5dddf672-8fa1-4aec-aefa-eec2ff653ef0.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Libral Arrogance Will Be His Undoing The most remarkable, or certainly the least remarked on, aspect of Barack Obama's first 100 days has been the infectious arrogance of his presidency. There's no denying that this is liberalism's greatest opportunity for wish fulfillment since at leas... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d4f40801-d333-47b9-a612-275692480c0a.html Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Giving Back The Cold War Gains In 1993, Bill Clinton joked, "Gosh, I miss the Cold War." And, he explained, somberly: "We had an intellectually coherent thing. The American people knew what the rules were." Such Cold War nostalgia vexed many conservatives. It seemed to us that the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6554910f-a8da-4c5a-9c5c-07c94d4f0468.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The EPA Is Choking Democracy One of the most important events of our lifetimes may have just transpired. A federal agency has decided that it has the power to regulate everything, including the air you breathe. Nominally, the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement last F... http://www.caglepost.com/article/870d0d38-3800-4614-87f0-cbf35529379e.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The EPA Is Chioking Democracy One of the most important events of our lifetimes may have just transpired. A federal agency has decided that it has the power to regulate everything, including the air you breathe. Nominally, the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement last F... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1efd2e9a-973b-4e30-bc3a-48a3ff04b8d1.html Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT (Right) Winging At The DHS The Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division of the Department of Homeland Security issued a report last week. It's called "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Ra... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6d6b654a-438a-4986-b075-a22a51fdd2c9.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT How To Solve The Pirate Problem Well, that was simple. Shoot the pirates, problem solved. OK, not the problem of piracy per se. But the problem of these specific pirates off the coast of Somalia: taken care of. And, if more pirates were shot, there would be fewer pirates. Unlike, s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1b3ba25b-dd31-41bd-8e4f-2a1dfa64010d.html Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Word Play President Obama had a grand time in Europe. He wowed the press, met the queen, gave some wonderful news conferences and got virtually none of the major policy concessions he wanted. But he did do a lot of talking, for what that's worth. And for Obama... http://www.caglepost.com/article/28ea5481-3213-4388-a9dd-fd84bcb88f1e.html Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Ideology Baneath Every 'Realist' There's a breed of foreign policy wonk in Washington that takes itself even more seriously than your run-of-the-mill foreign policy expert (as a class, an incredibly pompous bunch). This is the "realist." Realists claim that they are stony-eyed analy... http://www.caglepost.com/article/224a4a3b-1b1b-41b2-b38a-baa0f8475338.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Bailout For The Despots It's President Obama's worst bailout so far. He's going to rescue the U.N. Human Rights Council. Now admittedly, the council wasn't on the verge of going out of business. Heck, if there were a nuclear war, the pinstriped thugs of the United Nations' ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1e797642-371e-4c67-b725-1c2df5fd45e8.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Liberals' Dirty Shame In 1996, Milos Forman directed "The People vs. Larry Flynt," the propagandistic film that made a "First Amendment hero" out of the publisher of Hustler, a racist and filthy porn magazine. Frank Rich of the New York Times dubbed it "the most timely an... http://www.caglepost.com/article/51fc1caf-c37e-4b3e-8873-fe4b297e1a1b.html Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Big Bedfellows Maybe we have it all backwards. Here's the basic story President Obama wants to tell. The last eight years were an economic disaster because President Bush and the Republicans ignored necessary government regulations and "investments." The economic c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ef9524ca-1474-4c24-bbca-bc42b48fcb39.html Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Labor's 'Card Check' Tricks At the end of the 19th century, unsuspecting workers were "shanghaied" -- a practice originated in that Chinese city -- to work on British ships, which desperately needed the labor. All manner of tricks were used to hoodwink the poor souls into servi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d8473a51-4c39-4659-b4a7-d28fe9485816.html Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Liberal Views, Belgian Brains In the 1950s, liberals insisted that right-wingers were paranoid because they feared a Soviet takeover. Today, pro-Obama intellectuals are desperate to make the case that 21st-century nutcases believe Obama is leading a French takeover. You would thi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/eafe1ec4-054a-4698-8846-8730671e9b6e.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT THE GITMO FIVE'S BURN NOTICE "Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." That's a line from the movie "The Dark Knight." Maybe it's because I'm just a comic-bo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a2757c7b-51dc-4373-b7e4-2526bda5016f.html Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT OBAMA'S FEAR-MONGERING Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? Or would you think I'm a jerk, for want of a hars... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f964513a-4610-4007-83da-fd2c06e1fcac.html Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Blueprint For A 'Remaking' The economy is in the Slough of Despond, according to President Obama. If we don't do what he says, we invite a catastrophe from which we may never recover. Indeed, in his Feb. 24 address to Congress -- in a passage intended to be hopeful and uplifti... http://www.caglepost.com/article/629c8b59-1aea-4498-adf7-19e773cdffa3.html Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Waiting Game "We are the ones we've been waiting for," Barack Obama proclaimed many times during the campaign. He and his throngs of supporters preened in the glow of their own righteousness like cats in a puddle of sunlight. They were for "shared sacrifice" and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/016bbbe8-7eff-4696-b079-eae5c8d8ac36.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Tired War On Rush Limbaugh Here we go again. Rush Limbaugh is public enemy No. 1. Liberal bloggers and media chin-strokers are aghast at Limbaugh's statement that he hopes Barack Obama fails. Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/59c88570-12f9-4563-bb64-5087c0c193d1.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Politics Of Fear This week, former Vice President Al Gore was forced to withdraw a slide from his PowerPoint presentation. Admittedly, on the surface that sounds only marginally more exciting than the news that Dan Quayle had wheat toast instead of rye with breakfast... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1a4a6a45-95f1-4d37-a822-08d09823e845.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama Finds The Bush Center Here's something President Obama's biggest fans may need to hear: He's just not that into you. Recall that during the primaries, Obama was probably second only to Dennis Kucinich as an anti-Iraq war and anti-Bush candidate. But he has kept President ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7e6c60c7-c3ca-4329-bf15-2145c8d3ff01.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Cowardly Conversation Starter Hey, black folks, do you know any white folks? Good. OK, I want you to go up to them right now and, as politely as you can, start sharing your most deeply held racial views. Hey, white folks, you're not off the hook. I want you to go and do likewise ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/88f5914e-653e-4458-9f76-780707073b0e.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The 'Truth To Power' Gap "Speak truth to power," a phrase of Quaker origins adopted by campus radicals, Hollywood gadflies and establishment journalists, has become shorthand for bravely criticizing government, big corporations and other stereotypical villains. But where's t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3f84b072-abef-4325-86df-db5a113601f0.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Into The Belly Of The Beast OK, things aren't going well. Good people are losing their jobs. Every day the deficit is looking more and more like the Great Pit of Carkoon, which, as we all remember, was that giant hole with a ravenous monster inside it that ate Boba Fett in "Ret... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dccbd7ab-519a-4d55-863b-cb8335e1b78d.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT On Stimulus Bill, Centrists Are Over The Line I'm with the liberals on this one. They're fuming at the self-proclaimed "centrists" in the Senate who've taken it upon themselves to trim the stimulus bill at the edges. Led by Republican Arlen Specter, the centrists have boldly cut (perhaps tempora... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6ca481ef-39cc-46b5-acfc-23716f2ac1d1.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Honeymoon Barack Obama and his supporters have been relentlessly comparing the new president to Franklin Roosevelt. At least one similarity is shockingly accurate: They were both beneficiaries of an obsequious press corps. In part because the feeling was mutua... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9f159a0a-cd49-4d08-baa9-de5ddeaa1a5d.html Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Great Overreach The stimulus bill has failed. Barack Obama has failed. The Trojan Horse of Hope and Change crashed into the guardrail of reality, revealing an army of ideologues and activists inside. Now, before I continue, let me say that Barack Obama will still be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/265749c7-8334-4dad-a629-1a7cf86216a3.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Democratic Are Hypocrites When It Comes To Paying Taxes During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden insisted that paying taxes is a patriotic duty. No, scratch that. He said that supporting a tax hike was the American thing to do. "It's time to be patriotic," he told America's putative tax slackers. When ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b8eca898-0473-4969-bd83-79429dcb9203.html Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Catching Up With The British Parade LONDON -- From this side of the Atlantic, the refusal of House Republicans to support Barack Obama's so-called stimulus plan looks nothing less than Churchillian. Alas, here in Britain, the lesson of compassionate conservatism's welcome demise remain... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2fcb76ad-18cf-4b33-8f41-e638e1075485.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Free Pass For The Indispensable Man During the hothouse days of the presidential campaign, Joe Wurzelbacher became famous because he got Barack Obama to confess that he likes to spread the wealth around. Better known as Joe the Plumber, the Toledo, Ohio, laborer became the target of bo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/96eba101-658e-4680-9c56-ff22bb6c18f6.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT What Obama Brings To Conservatives I am proud of and excited by the fact that we have inaugurated the first black president of the United States. He wasn't my first choice, but he is nonetheless my president. And if ever there were a wonderful consolation prize in politics, shattering... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a0d61f2a-2ba7-4359-9843-2fcb36e0fe57.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Don't Punish Public For Blundering Constables Bennie Dean Herring was "no stranger to law enforcement," according to Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts. That's Roberts' understated way of saying that when Herring walks into a room, reasonable people could be forgiven for hearing the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/04846718-3c8e-4e3e-a5ad-42659a12ddf5.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Skeptical Of Obama'S Stimulus Plan Barack Obama has a curious definition of "non-ideological." He's insisting on bipartisan support for a stimulus package that will cost more than anything Uncle Sam has ever bought, save perhaps for victory over the Axis powers. He says he wants "to p... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b5617069-5046-4249-a6fa-8e397aefed64.html Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama And The Democratic Brand It's become a clich? to say that the Republican Party has lost its identity and is wandering around aimlessly like a slow-witted kid abandoned at the mall. Of course, simply because it's a clich? doesn't mean it's not pretty much true. The GOP does h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a3975c05-572f-493c-afaa-63d1c9b323fe.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Dems Melt In The Heat Of Burris Fiasco The Democrats are folding like an ironing board over this Roland Burris business, and for some reason people are surprised. Just to catch up: The governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is in scalding-hot water over allegations he wanted to sell Barac... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b56218fa-222f-4873-92aa-8da540d371a8.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Who Are The Real Nazis? "Go back to the oven! You need a big oven, that's what you need!" This is what one young woman thought passed for acceptable discourse during an anti-Israel rally last week in, of all places, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Other chants were similarly unlovely... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e545ba4d-60b0-47ff-b6fe-58b0bd1fb2e0.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Samuel Huntington'S True Vision This time of year, newspapers and magazines swell with retrospectives on the year that was, predictions for the year to come, and cogitations on meaningless trends and contrived fads. Against this backdrop, there's an added poignancy to the death of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5563fa7c-abe3-4e8c-a58f-4d0298e1eb3b.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Squeegee Men Of The New World Order If you're old enough to have been around in the 1980s, and possibly even if you aren't, you probably know the name Leon Klinghoffer. A wheelchair-bound elderly businessman, Klinghoffer was murdered and dumped over the side of the cruise ship Achille ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/90b3c2c2-63c2-4e4f-a09d-0384ee996865.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The 'Ought' Decade Does anyone know what we're supposed to call this decade? Is it the 2000s? The twenty-ohs? We're coming up on the last year of it and I still have no idea. Personally, I always liked the "oughts," as in, "Back in ought-six, I ate a brick of cheddar c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1c30d62b-75d3-4cc2-a5da-231af5070105.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Cinderella Vs. The Barracuda For people who think there's no cultural divide in this country, consider the treatment of two women much in the news in 2008. The first is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. A woman from very humble roots and with a very blue-collar life story, she worked wit... http://www.caglepost.com/article/37e04b54-cf39-4b47-a368-30df7ccb8e36.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT It's No Time To Panic We are in what might be called the Great Freakout of 2008. The Federal Reserve is a hair's breadth from pushing interest rates to zero percent. After that, all that's left is offering a free set of steak knives with every bag of cash. We're moving qu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bcf598d6-e660-47b4-89a1-55bde7b5ff06.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT A Little Blago For Everyone There are so many things to love about the Rod Blagojevich scandal it's hard to know where to begin. Wait. That's not right. There are so many bleeping things to love about this bleeping-bleep Blagojevich scandal it's hard to know where to begin. For... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b578fb4f-6815-48b8-be73-34ae2a4d6878.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT O.J., Obama And Race In America On Oct. 3, 1995, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. But few people today still defend his innocence. Even Simpson suspended his search for the "real" killer long enough to come perilously clos... http://www.caglepost.com/article/53cc8d3a-1228-4c32-995f-a13991365641.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Foggy Crystal Ball These are humbling times for champions of the free market and American-style capitalism. The CEOs of the Big Three car companies are kneeling before Uncle Sam like Henry in the snows of Canossa. The stock market volatility these days is looking more ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/367f7c72-b6f4-4b5d-8905-51235f82f391.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT An Ugly Attack On Mormons Did you catch the political ad in which two Jews ring the doorbell of a nice working-class family? They barge in and rifle through the wife's purse and then the man's wallet for any cash. Cackling, they smash the daughter's piggy bank and pinch every... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e4b33acd-7c9a-464f-b6a2-e13352fb2ce6.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Financial Rescue: Bolder Beats Bigger The costs of Washington's bailout fiesta are now so huge, you can see them from space. The latest number, which includes the Citigroup rescue, is $7.7 trillion. That's roughly half of America's GDP. In fairness, it's impossible at this point to know ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/473c532d-2c69-41ed-b669-8f94d8280c34.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The True School Scandal Hypocrisy is an overblown sin. Better to be a hypocrite who occasionally violates his principles than a villain who never does. I bring this up because the usual, and entirely expected, round of conservative complaints about Barack Obama's public-sch... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b5c07c5e-723e-4af0-bf99-f6a61eff7bdf.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Honestly, Another Abe? In an attempt to dial down expectations for his administration, President-elect Barack Obama's supporters have dropped much of the "messiah" talk. No more talk of him being The One (Oprah), or a Jedi Knight (George Lucas), or a "Lightworker" (the San... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2b5f57d3-7e72-4737-aace-6d25c9c3deb9.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT 'No' To Obama'S Experimental Government On Sunday night, President-elect Barack Obama told "60 Minutes" that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be a model of sorts for him. "What you see in FDR that I hope my team can emulate is not always getting it right, but projecting a sense of confidence an... http://www.caglepost.com/article/da187f33-b6b4-43c2-9a47-4f79c9ad5333.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Gop Road Sign: Keep Right By now you've probably heard: The GOP is becoming too regional, too white, too old to compete at a national level. Democrats look like a merging of the cast of "Rent" and Up With People, while Republicans look like diehard fans of "Matlock" and "Murd... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b5c4ccce-680b-488e-aaa1-52802d486f80.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Gop Looking Glass Was George W. Bush a conservative president? For liberals, this is a settled question. Bush is not merely a conservative, he is the conservative. He is the ur-right-winger, the Platonic ideal of all that is truly Republican. For some liberals, this i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5c8341e2-db39-4f83-abbf-c817975867f2.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Election Questions No One Ever Asks No doubt everyone is relieved to have the election behind us, even if some of us are less than ecstatic about its result. 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Joe The Plumber At a John McCain rally in Virginia on Saturday, Tito Munoz had come to face the enemy: the news media, which had declared war on Joe Wurzelbacher. "Why the hell are you going after Joe the Plumber?" Munoz yelled at a group of reporters, including my ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/faa0519f-9249-413c-b878-5ff4caa20f9e.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Let's Hope 'Temporary' Isn't Temporary "There's nothing so permanent," Milton Friedman famously said, "as a temporary government program." For instance, I grew up in a rent-controlled apartment thanks to a temporary measure enacted during WWII. I was born nearly three decades after the wa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f6f6019b-4295-4c57-a639-59f3eec2bb04.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama Is Getting Off Easy The Democratic nominee scorned the "prejudice and bigotry and hatred and division" on display in the Arizona senator's campaign. As for his own platform, he said that "we will do all these things because we love people instead of hate them. ... Bewar... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2d8b7d0e-bb6e-48d8-865e-8c8c438f734a.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Best-Laid Plans ... Plans, shmans. Under Barack Obama's plan, 95 percent of Americans will get a tax cut. John McCain's plan will deliver portable, affordable health care to all Americans. Obama has a plan to win in Afghanistan. So does McCain. There are plans for how t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dd43207c-0f64-4cf3-9dd8-d97d49a6bf31.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Biden, The Master Gasbag Yes, this morning everyone will be talking about last night's presidential debate. But I can't get over Thursday's vice presidential contest. 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Indeed, the fact that Obama isn't leading in polls by a wide margin "doesn't make... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4bb1bffe-02a9-4d6e-8e52-93187423f97a.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Wall Street Fat Cats Aren't At Fault This Time So, who should go to jail? John McCain insists that the financial crisis is the direct result of Wall Street's "unbridled corruption and greed." Sarah Palin says likewise. Senator Obama, for the most part, has merely echoed what Treasury Secretary He... http://www.caglepost.com/article/56ff0ee3-5d08-4a3c-bf78-0c616939ea93.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT E-Mail To Obama: Dishonest Tv Ad, Wrong Audience After running a brilliant primary battle to defeat Hillary Clinton, the Obama campaign is now in disarray. Why? Perhaps it's because Barack Obama has never run a competitive race against a Republican. 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Did Joe Biden... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5d0abab0-9a3a-4804-900b-e78e60f43f35.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mcpalin Rattles Team Obama Barack Obama, a famous fan of pickup basketball, must recognize his plight: It's two on one now. John McCain drafted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the star point guard from the Wasilla Warriors, to double-team Obama. (McCain's team doesn't care if no one ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c6432b11-6b09-4e98-ad6f-700d84efff9d.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Palin-Bashing Press Keeps Swinging And Missing "What is wrong with these people?" was the nigh-upon-universal reaction among conservatives at the GOP convention this week. Liberal reporters inquired of conservative journalists, Republican delegates, right-leaning janitors, free-market short-order... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6458428c-85c6-4881-850b-9c5cb48dd739.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The New Life of The Grand Old Party ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The biggest "prize" so far in the quest to destroy Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's vice-presidential candidacy is the "news" that her unmarried daughter is pregnant. I have little to say about that because I don't think the press should ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/97782103-0e35-471f-8139-db41338ef28f.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Economy of Words The U.S. economy -- yes, that economy -- grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate last quarter. This no doubt caused consternation at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, perhaps forcing some to consider a new convention film at the last minute: "Dud... http://www.caglepost.com/article/850fcf95-5f7c-40e5-a3e5-9be2c088dcc5.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama Flubs The 'Presidential' Test Vice president. Who among us can contain their excitement? Not me. I can't wait to hear more from the man for whom brevity is a Rubicon he will not cross. Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something about Joe Biden, as Joe Biden himself might say... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2a61e7a6-75eb-4add-8609-b6f39c4038f8.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama: Nothing New Here? The Democrats are having their flop-sweat moment. Barack Obama should be way out in front. The Republicans are in terrible shape. There hasn't been a more battered brand name since Bart Simpson swallowed a jagged metal "O" from his box of Krusty-O's ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fcbc3ddb-cb8b-4e2a-b29f-85984b046ece.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Good And Evil And Obama In the wake of the fascinating forum hosted by Pastor Rick Warren at his Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., everyone is focusing on the contrasts between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. More interesting are the contrast... http://www.caglepost.com/article/be4e1f7a-647d-4988-a3dd-363d8b13492f.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Nightmare On Dem Street For months now people have been saying to me, "Do you really think they're gone?" "Is it finally over?" "Is the coast clear?" The questions have been in response to Barack Obama's supposedly yeoman service in putting an end to the Clintons in public ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/29b0f928-c7b5-4f67-8226-723926123d28.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama Without His Script The Obama campaign has for months pursued the odd strategy of having the junior senator from Illinois act as if he were already kinda-sorta president of the United States. In June, it tried sticking a quasi-presidential seal on his lectern. In July, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c70d2c75-13d4-4521-81cb-2a2896648f46.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mccain's Last Frontier SKAGWAY, Alaska -- What's the matter with Alaska? That's the question John McCain should be asking. Next week marks the 102nd anniversary of newspaperman William Allen White's famous editorial "What's the Matter with Kansas," in which he flayed Kansa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1b06e6ae-f072-46d5-a501-01a3f7d69912.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Forgetting The Evils of Communism Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. Peter Rodman is dead. And memory is dying with them. Over the weekend, Solzhenitsyn, the 89-year-old literary titan, and Rodman, the American foreign policy intellectual, passed away. I knew Rodman and liked him very m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c5a613b6-c256-457b-b902-ac31777ab944.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Spoiled Children Of Capitalism It's an old story. Loving parents provide a generous environment for their offspring. Kids are given not only ample food, clothing and shelter, but the emotional necessities as well: encouragement, discipline, self-reliance, the ability to work with ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a7c9ea66-4559-4fc0-96f0-4c472ffff24b.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT '68 Olympics Salute Deserves No Honor Earlier this month, ESPN awarded Tommie Smith and John Carlos the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs -- the sports network's equivalent of the Oscars -- for their once infamous, and now famous, black power salutes from the medal platform at the 1... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0a3b12b1-d1b0-4a1a-a46b-82de7f71f8bb.html Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

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