Linda Chavez from CaglePost.com Columns by Linda Chavez from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Linda+Chavez Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ True Revolutionaries The security forces may have temporarily crushed the resistance in Iran, but the revolution is far from over. Iranians by the hundreds of thousands - young and old, men and women, students and workers - have taken to the streets for the last two week... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a73b1bc7-f200-4707-9db7-941eec9efae5.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Fed Rules One of the great dangers in dealing with a crisis is making major, long-term decisions based on the immediate circumstances unique to the problem you're trying to fix. In the case of the current financial crisis the conventional wisdom is that it is ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/923b95e8-b2f8-4763-b800-0079925c8157.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Power Grab The Obama administration is engaged in the most sweeping power grab in modern American history, but few people seem to care. In barely four months, we've witnessed the president and his minions taking over insurance companies, banks, and car companie... http://www.caglepost.com/article/037ba57d-bdf2-4694-87c9-2d4defb89b90.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Judge Sotomayor And The Diversity Crowd The diversity crowd doesn't really believe in diversity. In fact, what they're really aiming for is conformity of opinion. They expect that members of racial and ethnic groups will adhere to liberal orthodoxy, and woe to those who don't fall into lin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c0fce556-f8d1-4d1c-8698-1f5ad6db92c1.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Shaping The Court Presidential elections have consequences - and few are more important than the power to shape the federal judiciary. With the selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Barack Obam... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0a0a6930-53b4-468b-8f9a-80b3f7f56e05.html Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT When In Doubt, Blame Bush Listening to President Obama this week as he tried to defend the decisions he's made on closing Guantanamo, you have to wonder what he would do without George W. Bush to kick around. Obama has yet to offer an acceptable plan to deal with the 240 rema... http://www.caglepost.com/article/01c1a00e-54f1-4dec-ba91-ba3a6018c33b.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama Gets It Right for Once If there was one incident that led to the decline in support for the Iraq War at home and abroad, it was the 2004 publication of pictures of U.S. soldiers taunting and abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Those photos, broadcast endlessly into homes arou... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1a265018-5d5f-4027-84c5-ca3786a37af9.html Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Unwed Teen Pregnancy No Joke Bristol Palin is back in the news. The Alaska governor's daughter became the most famous unwed pregnant teenager in America last summer when her mother was nominated to be the GOP's vice presidential candidate. Since then, Bristol has given birth to ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5495dc8a-718d-4b58-802a-7d3be0f9203b.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Foot-In-Mouth Disease The White House, commendably, seems to be trying to quiet the hysteria building around swine flu, but apparently the vice president didn't get the memo. Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden told Americans to stay out of airplanes, subways and other "co... http://www.caglepost.com/article/554de389-e78d-42a4-9d3b-30bc6c8b84dc.html Fri, 01 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Discrimination By Any Other Name There was a time in America when the color of your skin determined whether or not you could get a job or promotion. Thankfully, Congress outlawed such practices in 1964, and we are a better country for it. But just this week, the U.S. Supreme Court h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1377d078-23d7-4be4-8184-7f81b8635409.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Supporting Family Values A new report out this week from the Pew Hispanic Center confirms what many observers already suspected about the illegal immigrant population in the United States: It is made up increasingly of intact families and their American-born children. Nearly... http://www.caglepost.com/article/783a38de-dacb-47fd-a931-bd9a45ab7121.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Presidential Groveling President Obama's recent whirlwind overseas tour did little to restore respect for America among friends or foes, despite adoring crowds who treated him like a rock star wherever he went. For a man who hasn't an ounce of personal humility, the presid... http://www.caglepost.com/article/11abdf4b-729c-43cd-93a7-94f414ad5065.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Medical Apartheid President Obama decided that the man he originally picked to head the civil rights division at the Justice Department, Thomas Saenz, was too controversial, so he's now turned to someone he hopes will have clearer sailing through the confirmation proc... http://www.caglepost.com/article/694d220b-ec7f-46f9-b8cb-4258d22b0177.html Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Defending AIG Spare me the populist outrage. Members of the House Financial Services Committee sounded more like an out-of-control mob than leaders who could help solve one of the worst financial crises in U.S. history when they confronted AIG CEO Edward Liddy thi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a90ec1ef-9d18-4bdf-ad0d-f051429b57df.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Messiah Complex President Obama reminds me of the fellow who's off to save the world while he ignores the disaster in his own backyard. Instead of focusing on the urgent problems facing the country - the credit crisis and the collapse of the housing market - he's di... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dcc06759-2d0c-47b4-afed-7030759d8eab.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Republicans Need A New Leader The Republican Party needs a leader, and so far, no one has stepped up to the job. The mainstream media have had great fun declaring talk show host Rush Limbaugh the de facto head of the GOP, which caused newly elected Republican National Committee C... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b3b38eef-4669-48c7-b4b1-fdaa23d34b30.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Hubris Is Showing Hubris is the word that comes to mind as I listen to President Obama lay out his plan to rescue the economy, create 4 million jobs, halve the deficit in four years, and give quality health care to every American. The man has big ambitions and an even... http://www.caglepost.com/article/73f8d139-abbd-4f3f-b234-e0cf3322ab69.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Nation Of Cowards We're a nation of cowards - or at least the attorney general of the United States thinks we are. In a speech at the Justice Department celebrating Black History Month, Attorney General Eric Holder said: "Though this nation has proudly thought of itse... http://www.caglepost.com/article/07e52db5-7743-4636-9725-1a279abde6eb.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Audacity Of Hope Now that Congress is on the verge of passing a $790 billion stimulus bill we can all breathe a huge collective sigh of relief, right? Our homes will be safe from foreclosure, unemployed workers will soon be heading back to their jobs, and no one else... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0fa41b58-5bff-4705-a0f5-cf8347c2224d.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bipartisanship Not The Right Thing One man's bipartisanship is another's capitulation, which is why Republicans should resist compromising their principles by supporting President Obama's so-called stimulus package. House Republicans wisely chose to reject an $819 billion spending spr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/12b79108-7e22-4162-802c-b25aee9ec54e.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Modest Proposal House Democrats passed a nearly trillion-dollar so-called stimulus bill this week at the urging of President Obama, but the spending may do little or nothing to get this economy moving again. Not even the president can explain how giving more money t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6287bf9e-b1c4-4ef2-94e6-fe5bae28d3ee.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Closing Guantanamo No Solution President Obama is learning it is a lot easier to reverse unpopular positions of his predecessor than it is to come up with better ones of his own. On Thursday, he signed executive orders aimed at shutting down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, which hou... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fd13f738-619a-4060-808a-72e972a088d0.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT No More Search And Destroy Missions When word broke that Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner had failed to pay employment taxes he owed for several years, the reaction in Washington was gentle. Politicians on both sides of the aisle defended Geithner as an excellent choice to h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c36aaea4-1c60-46de-b9a0-07ffde8defb7.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Hoist On Their Own Petard Rod Blagojevich may look like one of the dim bulbs from Tony Soprano's Bada Bing, but the guy's a political genius. Who could imagine that a month after U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald signaled that the Illinois governor was about to be indicted for... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6700e829-80fe-4fc3-8541-ed8b6c0ee3de.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Dummies Karl Rove's recent revelation of President George W. Bush's passion for books wasn't a surprise to me. In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Rove explained that for the last three years, he and the president have had a friendly rivalry to see wh... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ad8eb874-6c61-4243-98b6-c4e298f4e214.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Taking Care Of Family For the past dozen years, my family has been constantly growing until we now number 15. But this year's addition isn't a new daughter-in-law or grandchild. At 87, my mother has finally come to live with me. It wasn't an easy move for her. And the tim... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4c0553d0-0c39-4d80-9910-e7d04b4ef3fa.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Restoring Trust The shocking story of Bernard Madoff and his alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme have implications that go well beyond the wealthy individuals and charities who were bilked of their money. As in all such scandals, this one involves a betrayal of trust. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/da9496a5-eeb2-47e6-96cd-c12b543b3418.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Troubling Questions For Obama Team A corruption scandal in President-elect Obama's backyard is the last thing this country needs. But like it or not, that's exactly what we have in the unfolding drama of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest earlier this week for trying to sell Barac... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0bb3f71b-e280-4dda-9d52-92fccf88fa52.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Silver Lining In The Downturn It's time we 'fess up: Nobody has any idea how to get us out of the economic mess we're in. The Big Three automakers were on Capitol Hill again this week begging for a bailout. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson is considering direct federal interve... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9d0b7a8d-6ef6-4862-b6dd-a648ec691617.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Welcome To America Republicans are finally worried that their failure to attract Hispanic voters in this year's election spells trouble - perhaps for decades. But they're not sure what to do about it. Moderates in the party are pushing for more efforts at "inclusion," ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/66082d45-e1cb-47b4-bb99-7825198872c6.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama's School Choice Democratic politicians like to see themselves as champions of public education; but when it comes to picking schools for their own children to attend, their support disappears. President-elect Obama is no different than hundreds of other Democratic e... http://www.caglepost.com/article/058bd7c7-6009-44e6-98df-3a40b1c779af.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Testing The New President Vice-president-elect Joe Biden issued a prescient warning in the last days of the presidential campaign: If Barack Obama were elected president, he would be tested by a major international crisis soon after taking office. Biden was wrong about one th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ed846fab-4d8d-49e9-a2b4-d6b6f96230f1.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Race And The Election All fair-minded Americans understand that race should not be a factor in choosing our next president, so why should race continue to play a role in deciding who gets into college or receives a government contract or is hired or promoted in a governme... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d012f16c-16e5-4ecc-adea-a8a07ed3b874.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Conservative Challenge Many on the Left are hopeful that this election will drive the nail in the coffin of the conservative movement. There is some cause for legitimate concern among conservatives. No matter who wins the election, conservatives will have a more difficult ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/810d8281-4693-422d-bdf1-2fdec9bd2d85.html Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Spreading The Wealth Around "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody," Barack Obama explained to Joe Wurzelbacher in Ohio earlier this week. But Joe the Plumber, as he has become known thanks to Wednesday night's presidential debate where his name was invoked... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cf23b79d-d08b-4448-9cb6-7d6e596c249d.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Playing The Race Card Was John McCain playing the race card when he referred to Barack Obama as "that one" in Tuesday's presidential debate? Obama's campaign and its echo chamber in the media surely want us to think so. Within seconds, the campaign was sending out e-mails... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bb8208da-2135-46b8-81dd-4818337dca76.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Only Ourselves To Blame No one wants to talk about who is most to blame for the financial crisis that now threatens the U.S. economy, though there is plenty of blame to go around. It is far easier to blame other people - greedy Wall Street executives, predatory lenders, Pre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/17c61690-0c1b-492c-b4aa-fb4db50f3009.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Blind Ambition The nation's economy is on the precipice, but Barack Obama has more important things to attend to. He's a man in a hurry to be president, and a little thing like the collapse of the U.S. credit markets won't deter him. In fact, he sees it as an oppor... http://www.caglepost.com/article/74bda0fb-ce22-428b-a256-5fe8709ba081.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Tale Of Two Lies The media have been raking John McCain over the coals the last couple of weeks, accusing the GOP presidential nominee of being dishonest or even lying in his campaign ads. They're especially angry about an ad the McCain campaign has been running, whi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/01fb7976-85fb-40a3-a98c-0219830f013a.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Lipstick Wars Democrat activists have let Sarah Palin get under their skin - and if they don't get a grip, their visceral loathing of the Republican vice presidential candidate could cost them the election. First there was the "lipstick on a pig" flap - a comment ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3ba3ee5f-07b1-4dc1-bdee-16881c0f01b4.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Unexamined Life The biggest story to emerge from the Republican National Convention was the media's effort to destroy Gov. Sarah Palin. Members of the Fourth Estate behaved more like a Democratic fifth column this week than they did like honest reporters. Palin's st... http://www.caglepost.com/article/322bc928-b8be-40f6-9fc3-5f1660ec6574.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Crying Wolf On The Economy While Ignoring Real Perils America is in its darkest hour - again. It happens every four years when the Democrats take center stage for their national convention. In 2004, we heard that we were in the midst of another Great Depression. For the last week, we've heard more econo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/67efba94-4f95-42b9-8bdf-2cc2ec844c85.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Redefining The Problem Won't Make It Go Away If ever we needed proof that having an advanced degree doesn't correlate with common sense, we got it this week. A group of college presidents from some of the most prestigious schools in the nation have called on lawmakers to consider lowering the d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/34b1a5f4-59bb-4d4c-8cb4-9ed108c67e96.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Majority Minority Nation A majority minority nation: that's what the U.S. Census Bureau is projecting by the year 2042, according to new figures released this week. By mid-century, according to the government's projections, Hispanics, Asians and blacks will outnumber non-His... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3bd4e07c-66ee-4e02-b7a8-43198109615d.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Catholic Problem Barack Obama has a Catholic problem. If he doesn't do better than John Kerry did in 2004 with this quintessential swing voting bloc, he won't be elected president. Obama's campaign understands this - which is why they're considering allowing a pro-li... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b3fb6659-0b0e-4ee0-bc33-b179fdb12aca.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT No Credit Where Credit Is Due Here's a question: Which U.S. president has done the most in history to help Africa? President Clinton, you say? Remember his much ballyhooed six-country tour in 1998, a trip in which President Clinton came close to apologizing for America's role in ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3da3cb38-ae89-4fa9-9634-e716470583a0.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Odds On Favorite, Maybe Not The professional odds-makers favor Barack Obama two-to-one to win the election. It's no wonder. Americans overwhelmingly believe the country is on the wrong track. They can't stand the current Republican occupant of the White House. The economy is we... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bcb653b9-2831-4c7f-9bc9-5b33e5543a2b.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Hero's Welcome A country's heroes are a reflection of its people's values. So what does it say that Lebanon gave a hero's welcome to Samir Kuntar this week? Kuntar has been in an Israeli prison since 1979 and was released in exchange for the return of the bodies of... http://www.caglepost.com/article/60d0d73f-9748-498e-876f-6a7df1d0d85e.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Slouching Toward The Center The Senate has finally passed the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 69-28, after months of dithering, but one vote among the yeas comes as quite a surprise. Sen. Barack Obama, who just a few months ago threatened to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7a91910a-0e4b-44ec-9d59-96eeed234c22.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Reagan's City on A Hill There are few places in the world that beckon to those who share no common blood or history, but America has done so for centuries. It is one of the things that defines this great country. In celebrating the 232nd birthday of our nation this Fourth o... http://www.caglepost.com/article/14d4286a-0e5a-4d37-ba99-ef550d79790b.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Right To Bear Arms Washington, D.C., will become a safer place to live and work thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday against the city's absolute ban on handguns. The Court ruled that the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms is an individua... http://www.caglepost.com/article/87a23798-703f-4840-af4e-47f3f0b69ea4.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Oil Crisis Is Solvable There is only one way to drive down the rising cost of gasoline for the long term: significantly increase the domestic supply of oil. We are the only nation in the world with access to known oil deposits on our own land or off our shores that essenti... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c1c5259c-4f0b-4a7c-865e-c9d8133034bd.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama Flunks Another Test It wasn't exactly the news the Obama campaign hoped to make this week: "Obama Aide Quits Under Fire for His Business Ties." But that was the headline in The New York Times, with variations in other major papers. The aide in question was the head of B... http://www.caglepost.com/article/428528bd-387c-4473-ba68-bbc47ef514ee.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Tough Questions Sen. Barack Obama is, finally, the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party - no mean achievement in this most hotly contested primary race in recent history. He deserves a day or two to bask in this glory - and certainly the media ha... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7b0977dd-c2b8-48c7-adec-1d2309e71dbf.html Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Picking Judges If you ask Americans what issues matter most to them in choosing a president, the candidate's judicial philosophy is not likely to make it into the top 10. But a president's power to nominate judges is, in fact, one of his most powerful tools - and o... http://www.caglepost.com/article/019378e0-65a8-45ea-9bf1-bd613324c4be.html Fri, 30 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Tired Old Formula Barack Obama must be too busy declaring victory to read a newspaper. How else can you explain the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's obliviousness to what is going on in Iraq at this very moment? Both The New York Times and the Washington ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/374d25d7-b0e8-4f53-a0d8-1829a1dbb123.html Fri, 23 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Immigrants Assimilating Faster A new study out this week by the Manhattan Institute should dispel a few myths on immigrant assimilation. The study looked at a range of factors - economic, cultural, and civic - to assess whether today's immigrants are becoming part of the American ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/243ba1f5-3e64-4eb7-a06f-05ff66ab14bb.html Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Real Meaning of Mother's Day Remember when Mother's Day was a simple affair? The kids woke Mom up with breakfast in bed - Froot Loops floating on a sea of slightly pink milk - and handmade cards. Everyone was especially nice to one another so Mom could enjoy some "peace and quie... http://www.caglepost.com/article/366c496f-5978-4262-9059-e650749493ca.html Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama: Too Little, Too Late You could see the pain, anger and frustration in Sen. Barack Obama's face this week as, once again, he had to answer questions about his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. What you didn't see or hear from Obama was recognition that he could hav... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1fc1aaeb-31e1-4773-a12c-25b10fff5316.html Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Hurdle Despite Hillary Clinton's impressive win in Pennsylvania Tuesday, there is virtually no scenario in which Clinton can win the Democratic nomination. Barack Obama is the almost-certain choice to become the Party's nominee - but he will face far more h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5e0e983f-869d-4355-89cf-76834897a376.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT All God's Children The Catholic Church in America has always been an immigrant church. No wonder that Pope Benedict XVI has given special attention in his first visit to the United States to the issue of immigrants. Immigrants are no less the heart of the Church today ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ff384443-ecbd-49cd-b0d8-8afb13e5601f.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Democrats Trade Hypocrisy Democrats' hypocrisy knows no bounds when it comes to free trade. The latest example of duplicity comes from the Clinton campaign, which was forced to announce on Sunday that chief strategist Mark Penn would be stepping down from his official post. I... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f8b01a4c-edf7-40d9-a2da-fb9f720a18ae.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Better Solution for The Housing Mess With the housing mess threatening to send the economy into a tailspin, politicians are scrambling to come up with a quick fix. Senate leaders this week announced they've come up with a housing bailout bill, including a $4 billion grant to local gover... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8ade82c5-3974-46da-b149-b8c03128cf6e.html Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Government Engineered Food Crisis As if a housing crisis, rising energy costs and a soft labor market weren't enough to cause economic anxiety for the average American, now consumers are feeling the pinch of rapidly escalating food costs. The United States has long prided itself in b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9be62f43-76db-4354-9d31-e46c2aa678d6.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama Won't Confront Biggest Problem For Blacks I expected more from Barack Obama. Like many Americans, I had hoped that his candidacy might transcend the racial divide that has separated this country for too many generations. I disagree with Sen. Obama on virtually every important public policy i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2fa3bef4-be8c-4aaa-a99e-74c943378576.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Iraq War Could Help GOP Win In November A funny thing happened on the way to the election: Many Americans had a change of heart about the war in Iraq. No, I'm not talking about the large numbers of Americans who now think that the United States should never have gone to war in the first pl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6a4d1714-5a31-4a75-8ce3-ba9e4a74bb24.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Crime And Punishment On The Streets Of Baltimore Sunday night, I'll be in front of my television set saying goodbye to some improbable friends: a few drug dealers, some good cops and bad, a corrupt politician or two and a handful of boys who broke my heart. HBO's "The Wire" comes to an end this wee... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7fa9a429-0141-4cbc-adc5-e8d57bf9ecd2.html Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT William F. Buckley, RIP Conservatism lost one of its most influential voices this week. William F. Buckley Jr. - author, editor, television host, and one of America's most important public intellectuals - died in his home Wednesday at 82. Buckley shaped the modern conservat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d1d29dec-a3ee-46d1-9057-9d872b13b09b.html Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Liberal Patriotism Michelle Obama struck a raw nerve earlier this week when she suggested she had never been proud of her country until now. "For the first time in my adult lifetime," the 44-year-old wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama told a Mi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bfb95273-1d59-4ea0-948e-333042df93be.html Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Clemens Hearing a Waste of Time You would have thought Congress was about to hear from a top al-Qaida operative or maybe a mafia kingpin, what with all the accusatory statements and self-righteous indignation being flaunted by members of Congress. But no, an august congressional co... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2fc6c311-0bfa-4f66-aef6-72ed37401a10.html Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Time to Unite The bitter squabbling on the right over the presidential nomination has now entered a dangerous phase. Politics is about winning elections, not winning prizes for ideological purity. Do the conservatives who consider John McCain an apostate really be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/142049f8-8ee3-43af-bca0-c5aa972c34d9.html Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan The ghost of Ronald Reagan hung heavily over the Republican presidential candidates as they faced off in their suddenly narrowed field Wednesday at the Reagan Library. Surely every Republican old enough to remember the revered president couldn't help... http://www.caglepost.com/article/02100b0b-286c-41e2-9c60-b56beb4d43f5.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Our Better Angels: Martin Luther King's Legacy The nasty bickering on the subject of race between Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama got me thinking about the true legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. We honor him with a national holiday, but do we really understan... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5b207eb2-016a-45e0-84fa-f7589cf033db.html Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Dumbing Down Higher Education Come November, voters in several states will not only be picking the next president but deciding whether they want to end a system of racial preferences in public higher education and government hiring and contracting. In 2006, voters in Michigan str... http://www.caglepost.com/article/98ec5863-faf6-42c7-bec8-b5d504376f7d.html Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Sound Of Silence Arizona has been ground zero in the fight against illegal immigration - but a funny thing happened this week when a new anti-illegal alien state law went into effect. Nothing. 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