Mona Charen from CaglePost.com Columns by Mona Charen from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Mona+Charen Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Is It All About Britney? In his book "The Enemy at Home," Dinesh D'Souza shows little patience with the leftists who reacted to 9/11 by declaring that America had it coming. And yet, his book is a variant on that theme. It was our cultural decadence, our foul popular movies,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5a2ac10d-702f-4f0f-b533-09d9412fcfb0.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Tick, Tick, Tick Who said "Iran's development of a nuclear weapon, I believe, is unacceptable and we have to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening"? It wasn't Binyamin Netanyahu. No, President Barack Obama said that at his first press conferenc... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7fd2b0c0-f72c-45e8-b61a-7bf2f28a28cb.html Tue, 19 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Wrong Marriage Debate he other day I chatted with a pregnant gal at the hair salon. She was about 20, sweet, pretty, and demure. Because I am always doing sociological fieldwork, I asked my hairdresser if she was married. No. But she has a fiance. As always in these situa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3e5d8f1c-16b4-4e29-96b7-964d009e880d.html Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Signal to Israel: Submit In early April, Vice President Biden was asked if the administration was concerned that Israel might strike at Iran's nuclear facilities. "I don't believe Prime Minister Netanyahu would do that," Mr. Biden replied. "I think he would be ill advised to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/17972d45-1d29-4bb8-a381-1716bb0c5adb.html Tue, 12 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Will Obama Apologize? President Obama's admirers (for a handy list simply consult the White House Correspondents Association website) go into raptures about his measured, intelligent, even balanced approach to issues. Granted, he is intelligent. But measured and balanced?... http://www.caglepost.com/article/44f8cf53-9255-4e91-a1f6-f7c1ce3c9c24.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Jack French Kemp, RIP Jack Kemp was supposed to read this column. A dinner in his honor was scheduled for next week and I had timed the column to appear just prior. The last his friends had heard, he was improving. Now it's too late. Jack Kemp was deserving of tribute in ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b3c4b055-16d1-42c6-a082-a32c0e982858.html Tue, 05 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Expletive Deleted ... For Now The Supreme Court of the United States is a redoubt of decorum in a casual Friday world. The justices still wear robes. The assembled attorneys, journalists, and interested observers still rise when the robed ones enter the chamber. Lawyers still beg... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9385414b-8a99-4a18-ad7b-6eaca24e796c.html Fri, 01 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Under Buckley's Giant Shadow Fourteen months ago Bill Buckley collapsed and died at his desk in Stamford, Conn. The ground has still not finished shaking. How could it? Two sons - one biological and one professional - have now written memoirs of their lives with Bill. Both make ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b270bc99-a74e-4342-855d-e15fedcbecf5.html Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Mrs. Clinton Can't Defend Patron Saint Of Planned Parenthood Appearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was confronted in a way she probably wasn't expecting. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., asked the secretary to account for her comments the previous month, when she ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/617f05ca-2e87-45de-bc0c-18f64b921a0b.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT An Ugly Handshake With Hugo Chavez In one photo, President Obama is grinning as he clasps Hugo Chavez by the hand. In another, he grasps Chavez warmly by the shoulder. Those pictures disgusted several members of Congress. Some said so on national television. Responding to criticism of... http://www.caglepost.com/article/39ec4fe0-b390-4849-b961-dfef5c36da98.html Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT CNN Versus The Tea Parties When thousands of people in all 50 states assemble to protest government policy, you might suppose that this is news. Not according to the coverage on the front pages of the Washington Post, New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal. The "tea party"... http://www.caglepost.com/article/48ee49dd-9046-4f31-a75c-ebfa92511dc1.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Liberals And Child Brides When I condemned President Barack Obama's deep bow to Saudi King Abdullah, I heard from many readers about President George W. Bush's hand-holding with the same personage. "What's the difference?" demanded one reader. Well, hand-holding (while not ex... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2294ee17-b099-4b68-bd1e-571b4e934863.html Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Useful Idiots Caucus Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus traveled to Cuba last week and were delighted with their reception. They met with Raul Castro for four hours (including dinner). Three lucky members of the delegation were even entertained by Fidel at his... http://www.caglepost.com/article/eba3ec58-9370-43a8-90bb-fcb1c4d1345e.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Apologizing for America One of President Obama's first official acts was to grant an interview to Al Arabiya, the Arabic language network that broadcasts worldwide. It signified, aides explained, the new page that Obama meant to turn in relations with the Arab and Muslim wo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d879436e-3a67-43c9-9ba9-84ff239acd23.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Wordy My children have started to become exacting grammarians. David, 15, is driven nearly crazy every time someone misuses the expression "beg the question." It's a good thing he is away on a band trip this week and didn't catch a CNN report on the mornin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5d921859-c441-4b50-b934-eb94f3b2d1a7.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Ship Is Sinking: Quick, Add Water Let's imagine that President Obama decides to go help out in Fargo, N.D., where they are experiencing floods. Mr. Obama enters the home of a flooded family. The water is already 6 inches high in the living room. The president produces a fire hose and... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d85ec493-4089-46dc-bded-8b62e4578e86.html Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Rebooting America's Global Image Not Going Well One of President Obama's signature boasts was that his election would, to use his term, "reboot" America's image in the world. Addressing thousands of Germans last summer, Obama said, "In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/538970b1-f6b6-4802-9b25-c9ec52bd8b95.html Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Sex Workers' Art Show on Campus The Sex Workers' Art Show returned for the fourth time to the College of William and Mary campus in Williamsburg, Va., this week. Described as an "eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry," the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a96dd35f-2b04-4aa9-b506-dd1ef6ebe9b3.html Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Barney Frank as Madame Defarge "It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob . but to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger." - Charles Caleb Colton "The mob is the mother of tyrants." - Diogenes Shamelessness is the order of the day. If I wer... http://www.caglepost.com/article/83792a2f-1feb-433d-9d75-15394c73be86.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT What Was I Going To Say? The Daily Telegraph brings welcome news - "Old age begins at 27 as mental powers start to decline, scientists find." It seems that the University of Virginia conducted mental acuity tests on 2,000 adults over the course of seven years. The results: Y... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2d69e448-842d-4405-93b9-2a6abd196ac3.html Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT About Those "False Choices" One of President Obama's strengths is his mild manner. It tends to give the impression of reasonableness, and is reinforced by his habit of presenting strongly ideological moves as mere pragmatism. Rather than acknowledge that he is choosing sides, h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/964e5ea1-5681-4d67-9c95-12fcf91e009e.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Risible Claim Of "Responsibility" Happening to scroll through old news the other day, I came across this declaration from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: "While President Bush continues to trumpet his so-called 'economic achievements,' the Bush Administration confirmed today that ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/92936d88-93a9-435f-b401-56312cdbd5bf.html Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Stand Up For Capitalism! I find myself tuning in to CNBC these days. This is unusual for me as business news bores me. I'm one of those whose eyes glaze at the mention of credit/default swaps, futures trading, and derivatives markets. But now, with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid troi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ccc61358-bd5b-4985-b80e-37b1eaca4807.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Pluripotent Self-Delusion Without so much as a by-your-leave from the federal government, scientists continue to unlock the secrets of the cell. The most recent advance involves a new, safer way to make adult skin cells behave exactly like embryonic stem cells. The breakthrou... http://www.caglepost.com/article/45a08343-ae3d-4c1e-a76c-b22a005a19c8.html Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Dead End It became clear back in October when the tsunami called the financial crisis washed over the United States (and the rest of the world), that the 2008 election might be a deeply consequential one. Until the economy tanked, the contest between Barack O... http://www.caglepost.com/article/af3e9bea-3bb8-443f-8ecf-9f1e7760dc69.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Back To The Future? It was May 1939. In a little more than six months, the Empire of Japan would spoil America's splendid isolation (a term that actually refers to a period in British foreign policy) and drag us into World War II, thus ending the Great Depression. But o... http://www.caglepost.com/article/31967329-d869-4ccb-97a9-cc2843e004f4.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Mysterious Khmer You wouldn't have thought it possible. But then, you underestimate the ingenuity of the New York Times. The house organ of the liberal church in America, the Times covered opening day of the trial of one of the worst killers in 20th century history w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4e76a02e-6c01-4626-99e9-7b30bafaea1e.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Is Hugo Chavez The Future? Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, rebuffed by voters in his previous attempt to become president for life, has now taken a giant step closer to his goal. A reported 54.4 percent of voters approved a referendum on Feb. 15 that would permit Chavez to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a570d1ff-8688-4c54-9914-6ebc2aa4ddd9.html Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT 'We Love To Talk,' Declares Biden Vice President Joseph Biden delivered the Obama administration's first major foreign policy address last week at the Munich Security Conference. It was just the sort of thing Europeans tend to like. Biden offered bouquets to diplomacy, to multination... http://www.caglepost.com/article/956be852-a019-4d72-a3ae-8406791b5276.html Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Responsibility -- If Only In his inaugural address, President Obama promised to initiate a "new era of responsibility." These heights were to be scaled following a successful campaign to transcend the "old politics" of Washington, D.C. Two weeks is a short period of time on w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1bad5dea-612a-41e7-999d-466220fcaaa6.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT And Baby Makes 14 The morning TV chats shows were chockablock with beaming doctors last week telling the birth story of the second set of octuplets in American history. "Good Morning America" was just brimming with exclamations of joy and wonderment at the successful ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b5844aef-705b-44f4-9dc0-8bb9de6b811c.html Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Palestinian Myth Machine "Israel has committed the war crime of the 21st century," cried a Palestinian representative. Using massive force against a crowded refugee camp, Saeb Erakat claimed, the Israelis had "massacred" hundreds of Palestinian civilians. A CNN reporter used... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6df8eb75-e56d-4acc-b8eb-e3feeee982e4.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Where Is Free Market Economics When We Need It Most? "Lending Drops at Big U.S. Banks," reports the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Even those banks that have just received an infusion of $148 billion in taxpayer dollars as part of the TARP saw their loans drop by 1.4 percent between the third a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4f63c551-9f99-4b19-9dd9-8c131a12874a.html Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Executing Faithfully This is something to tell your children: Don't be afraid of making a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes. Two of the smartest men in America - the Chief Justice of the United States and the President of the United States - flubbed the one-sentence oath ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9a1e69f7-a8ba-4178-b5d8-8a02bfde79bb.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Letter To Obama Supporters I did not vote for the man who today becomes the 44th president of the United States, and in fact, advocated for his opponent. But I am not immune to the happiness of those who did support him, particularly African-Americans, and - to slice it a litt... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cc30a487-4bd0-42fe-8d8f-260162f7ea23.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Camera-Ready Victims They are estimating that as many as 1,000 Gazans (unverified) may have been killed and many more wounded by Israel's counterattack against Hamas' missiles that have rained down on southern Israel's schools, homes, and businesses for several years. Ma... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7edd2df5-92f2-407c-acd9-9f4f8bc2c16e.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Quit Digging My city, Washington, D.C., is going bonkers for Obama. So is yours no doubt. Shopping for party favors, I came across - in addition to key chains and light-up necklaces - T-shirts and coffee mugs emblazoned with the Anointed One's photograph. Jan. 12... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b3d42b83-0821-4554-bedd-3f7b7039d8d1.html Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT What Makes For Success? What accounts for a writer who is just deliciously engaging? If Malcolm Gladwell, author of the new book "Outliers," were answering the question, he would say that success is a combination of luck and pluck - with a lot of hard work as the predicate.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d07324d4-099e-4551-9347-d1658cae5c16.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT What Good Can Come Of This? It was lost amid the news of Israel's counterattack on Hamas in the past few days, but Hamas' leadership passed several new laws for Gaza in December. They've adopted the Sharia criminal code, which legalizes a number of medieval punishments includin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5d5dd0ca-a803-4a5a-b14a-19ed8a915682.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The So-Called International Community Just for a lark, I decided to google "international condemnations of Hamas" this morning. You can guess what came up, right? Naturally, searching for condemnations of Hamas, one finds only international condemnations of Israel. An Australian report n... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ebf332a4-fad0-43e2-946b-3aac6e3edccf.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Defending Rick Warren Barack Obama's decision to have Pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at his inauguration next month has provoked anguish among some of his formerly ardent supporters. Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, upbraided the president... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cc0f1eb0-0acf-4610-8b7e-ba6bf5da2c53.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Hanukkah Lights My friend Danielle Frum (wife of David) has decorated their house with Hanukkah lights this year. No big deal, you say? But I'm not talking about multiple menorahs in the kitchen or dining room. I'm talking about lights on the outside! Arriving after... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c4662ff5-0972-449b-a6e2-6db0ae5dff25.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Tis The Season For Porn? I will be called names for writing this column. It always happens. Raise the issue of the pornification of the culture and its fanatical devotees will come gunning for you. If they hope to be intimidating, they've forgotten what delete keys are for. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/331a5c8c-8166-4c9d-a8b9-97cae6ef481c.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Good Obama Can Do At the Early Reading First Project of the University of Illinois, they are hoping that Barack Obama will publicize the titles of the books he reads to his daughters. Such is the fascination with the new first family, the program's leaders tell the Ch... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2d851247-c108-4605-984f-34d70e4079f5.html Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Good Old-Fashioned Graft? The response of Kathryn Jean Lopez (National Review Online) to the arrest of Rod Blagojevich was priceless. "Finally, a political scandal you can talk to your children about. No room at the Mayflower. No myspace page. No Gay-American announcement. Ju... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ebeeeebb-9642-4480-952f-da877c320c93.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Stampede Psychology How do you fight something as abstract as fear? This economy has made me understand - but really understand - Franklin Roosevelt's famous declaration "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is - fear itself." I always knew i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9077ac83-fa98-459e-b04f-96935c432b4f.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT They Won't Give Him Credit I can see it now. The world will be very different. The president of the United States will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifesaving aid to victims of disease in Africa. Government and civic leaders from Europe and Asia will express their adm... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bc081e7e-308f-4876-93de-8b5b97d187cd.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Pinch Me, Am I Dreaming? Superstition almost forbids me to comment on President-elect Obama's appointments thus far. The news has been so shockingly welcome that I'm almost afraid to remark on it for fear of breaking the spell. Such reticence has not afflicted everyone on th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b7bdfaa9-3fc9-490b-b33f-403b7522422f.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT About That New New Deal "This is the best deal since 1932." So said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) regarding the increased public appetite for government intervention in the economy. Incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel echoe... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a2bfaa44-87c5-420b-af3d-b5c1cf36b2ae.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Giving Thanks For Genocide? Thanksgiving is coming - a time to participate in the great American tradition of maligning and abusing our ancestors. Last year, Seattle public school administrators warned teachers that "Thanksgiving can be a particularly difficult time for many of... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ec443a92-eca6-439d-ae92-6f1f3e43803d.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Thoughtful Warriors Unlike some who shall, in the interests of comity, remain nameless - conservatives do not cry foul when they lose elections. They do not whine that the election was stolen, or secured through dirty campaign tricks, or otherwise illegitimately won. In... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d6a50777-d5e3-4848-8ceb-a6c313df0675.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Quantum Of Nonsense Absurdity, cartoonish violence, sexism, campiness these are no bars to enjoying a matinee with my teenaged boys. So off we went to see Daniel Craig as James Bond do his suave star turn in "Quantum of Solace" over the weekend. We ought to have known,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b1d2c3d2-5485-4ec2-aa3c-aa0474466077.html Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Was Todd Palin Dissed, Too? The knives - long, short, and in-between - have come out with particular swiftness searching for Sarah Palin's jugular. Unnamed aides to Sen. McCain have not just dished to the press about the former vice presidential candidate, they've sought to bur... http://www.caglepost.com/article/88274f24-9fbb-49fb-9b30-393e28e6d8b7.html Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Racial Psychodrama Twelve years ago, the most popular man in American political life was an African-American - Colin Powell. A four-star general who had served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as national security adviser, the Brooklyn-born Powell had presi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1ad03fc1-bef0-4160-a5ea-8d6edfb9da35.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Sex And The Single Kid So it's the day before the election that will supposedly sweep away all vestiges of conservatism in American life and what do I find? The Washington Post carries a front-page story about TV contributing to teen pregnancy. "Teenagers who watch a lot o... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e270b280-92b2-48ec-9f39-a307215273dc.html Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Top Ten Reasons To Vote For McCain/Palin 10.) John McCain is much, much funnier than Barack Obama. But then, almost everyone is. 9.) John McCain is a passionate patriot who has always been, and will always be, guided by what he thinks is best for America. He can trace his ancestry back to a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/75a59755-e4c7-4c92-8fa3-169ed96d7ddb.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Does Obama's Friendship With Khalidi Matter To Jews? From the Palestinian Authority Daily: "Twenty-three-year old Ibrahim Abu Jayyab sits by the computer in the Nusairat refugee camp (in the Gaza Strip) trying to call American citizens in order to convince them to vote for the Democratic candidate for ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7b586c72-23fa-4ea7-a97c-e2188f0bfff4.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Financial Crisis And Triumph Of Spin The two candidates for president stood even in the polls when the financial tsunami hit around mid-September. Since then, the Democrat has pulled ahead. Perhaps there was nothing John McCain could have done that would have changed things. It may be t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f1c5da13-1cb5-47a9-b573-4d13c51565bd.html Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Fair Taxation? God bless him. Joe the plumber, that is, for coaxing from Sen. Obama his true motive for raising taxes. It isn't to fund the government, or deal with the deficit, or to establish a rainy day fund. It's to "spread the wealth around," which the Illinoi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cdee4573-d5fc-48e3-a06c-7d9c167af303.html Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Why McCain Didn't Land His Punches John McCain had his last big opportunity to score heavily against Barack Obama on Wednesday night. And while he turned in his best debate performance so far, he fell short. In order to reset the table for the remainder of the campaign (and it is very... http://www.caglepost.com/article/af3b2b44-e1fb-43df-8804-1c775ba3aec7.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Is This The End Of Conservatism? All of a sudden, this election is shaping up as a verdict on capitalism. The Obama campaign wanted it to be about George W. Bush. The McCain campaign wanted it to be about character. But instead, because the markets are shooting off in all directions... http://www.caglepost.com/article/396d1cc7-992d-46e3-8786-ca0b1c8265b3.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Hating The New York Times, Part 573 In honor of the Jewish New Year, which reaches its culmination on Yom Kippur, a solemn day of fasting and repentance that falls this year on Oct. 9, I'd like to take a moment to recognize the open Jew-baiting that is enthusiastically enjoyed by our n... http://www.caglepost.com/article/89ffdfe7-405d-4e07-a360-bce87d122d07.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Michelle Obama's Fearful Vision I had an experience wearing a headscarf last week that was culturally and politically interesting. More on that in a minute. It made me think of Michelle Obama. Last year, Mrs. Obama introduced her husband at a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/19927f82-cbd8-44aa-b1b2-f6c5b5a42e94.html Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Is This Hoover/Roosevelt Redux? If scientists were able to determine, beyond doubt, that the sky were actually going to fall on Monday, Oct. 6, Congress would pass legislation containing tax breaks for lobster fisherman in Maine and glue manufacturers in Paducah. It's just what the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dca3e019-1e54-4b3f-8083-0fc540d61a36.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT ACORN, Obama, And The Mortgage Mess The financial markets were teetering on the edge of an abyss last week. The secretary of the Treasury was literally on his knees begging the speaker of the House not to sabotage the bailout bill. The crash of falling banks made the earth tremble. The... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a773fae5-c50d-49b7-ab94-aa98be4b829f.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Big Bad Capitalists? As I write, news is coming across the wire that a bill to bail out the financial industry is likely to pass. That is a relief. We have not seen a real financial panic for 80 years - but that doesn't mean we couldn't. Just as the psychology that creat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e06521e5-e9d6-4e97-811f-d404cea82784.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Find Me A Demon Neither of our would-be leaders covered himself in glory during the past week. A financial crisis (and for once the word "crisis" is apt) has opened beneath our feet, threatening to swallow God only knows how much of our prosperity in its maw, and th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e3e05798-3022-49f8-bda6-04e8011af9a0.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Abortions Do Sometimes Produce Live Births Appearing on C-SPAN last weekend I mentioned that Barack Obama had opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act when he was an Illinois state senator - a position he has attempted to deny or obfuscate ever since. The liberal blogger who appeared on ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/415a3e4f-cdf9-4075-abbb-a29374cb71d5.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Tough Cookie The vice presidential debates are still two and a half weeks off, yet Governor Sarah Palin has already demonstrated a toughness under pressure that bodes well for her performance that night and throughout the remainder of the campaign. As someone who... http://www.caglepost.com/article/573c61c0-fdcf-4c2a-a028-bc9cc3857cfb.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT What Obama Could Destroy I was polled last night. Yes, it happens. I spent half an hour on the telephone with a representative of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The results will be made public in a few days. One question stands out. They asked, "Do you k... http://www.caglepost.com/article/55605906-fe77-4176-b368-2e85fd52cd43.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Is Trig at the Heart of Media's Reaction to Palin? There were basically two things known about Sarah Palin when her name was announced on Aug. 29 and the mediasphere began to shudder and pulsate: She was a recently elected governor and the mother of five children including a handicapped infant. The s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/db2577a4-3d61-4239-bb7e-04153fadc47b.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Game Changer John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin was the most inspired decision of his long race for the White House. The ads lampooning Barack Obama's messianic pretensions were skillful as well. But the Palin pick accomplished several goals at once. It is, it m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b649ead7-e90c-4dc6-a0f9-2efb1bce623d.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Abstinence Education Is Still A Good Idea No sooner was Bristol Palin's pregnancy disclosed than many in the liberal commentariat began to beat abstinence education (which Sarah Palin favors) about the head and shoulders. 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Before their commonsense decision in t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/be34eadb-7e8a-4c35-876d-2ccc8cd0bc3a.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Oooh, The New Politics I am so excited by Barack Obama's new politics. Like Chris Matthews, I got a thrill down my leg when the senator announced his candidacy promising a "new kind of politics." As I recall, he said, "Our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d7801794-ff80-4f99-b745-f17c26d2a51c.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Look Who's Censoring Now Well, well, well. Look who's censoring the Internet. It's Andrew Cuomo, attorney general of the Empire State. On June 11, Cuomo announced an agreement with three of the nation's largest Internet service providers - Sprint, Time Warner, and Verizon - ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2fa04dd5-fd41-4ac4-bb6d-d4706fa31c4b.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Who Do They Love? Do American Jews really love Israel, or just Democrats? Last week, 7,000 members of the storied AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) rose to their feet to honor Barack Obama a total of 13 times. The first standing O, lasting more than a m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8db77c36-93d1-4b03-b0d0-f044d8131654.html Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Oil Woes Left And Right So much for the idea that Bush went to war for cheap oil. Yes, I know, they're now imagining that high gas prices are actually lining the pockets of the president's cronies at Exxon and Sunoco. But this is not an argument advanced by grownups. I cann... http://www.caglepost.com/article/64fefb49-50c9-4ab0-8b94-d8f563a6055c.html Fri, 30 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Trash And Politics Italian Style Does the outcome of last month's election in Italy have any relevance to the U.S.? A youngish center-left candidate who claimed to represent a new politics of hope, "Si puo fare," ("It can be done") lost decisively to a 71-year-old figure of the cent... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4732c7bd-2b01-4c18-b7ef-f3276888a639.html Fri, 23 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Did Israel Drive Out The Arabs 60 Years Ago? Sixty is pretty old for a country. Consider that by the time the United States was 60 (counting from the conclusion of the War of Independence), the year was 1843. We'd already had 10 presidents, had nearly quadrupled the size of the nation, and were... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e4a89cec-5994-4e65-bf6c-22f6b4aeb4f7.html Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT What We're Buying At College This week millions of high school seniors across the nation will mail forms and checks to colleges announcing their intention to matriculate. It's the culmination of what some say was the toughest year ever to pry open the golden doors of academe. My... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7aebcbf9-1876-4dc7-ba0e-3fa6b194152f.html Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Let Them Eat Ethanol? They don't have enough to eat. Five people are dead in Port Au Prince, Haiti after a week of food riots. Unions in Burkina Faso have called a general strike to protest the high cost of grain. Food riots have rocked Egypt, Cameroon, Indonesia, Ethiopi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d8479c34-ea07-4645-b73f-4565eea4a4db.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT More Debates Please! You jaded citizens may be bored silly by these seemingly endless candidate debates. But last night's encounter between the two Democrats was an entertainment milestone. I say give me more! Who has ever seen a politician admit to lying before? Asked y... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7976d53f-8734-4a4f-9563-fd3e1e7d56c2.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Character Counts, But Not By Race The public schools, perhaps more than any other institution in American life, are afflicted with "sounds good" syndrome. Let's teach kids about the dangers of smoking. Sounds good. Let's improve math scores with a new curriculum called "whole math." ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/84d99cf6-a050-4143-8715-1196b66d2fd3.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Do We Care What They Think of America? If there's one thing the Democrats are certain they can accomplish provided they win in November (and it doesn't matter, for this purpose, which of the two candidates becomes the nominee) it will be the restoration of America's tattered world reputat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d6fd0b05-c03e-434f-952b-def32772838d.html Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Veto-Proof Congress? There are dozens of reasons for John McCain to be gloomy this spring. 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