Ross Mackenzie from CaglePost.com Columns by Ross Mackenzie from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Ross+Mackenzie Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ 4th Of July Dialogue: Dude And Uncle Sam A 4th of July conversation between Dude - a teenager - and his Uncle Sam... Yo, Uncle. Wasup? Good morning, Dude. What am I doing? I'm getting into my suit for the parade. What're you gonna be in a parade for? They gonna have a lot of hot chicks and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9d081c2e-4799-4f6a-88c0-207fc253652b.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT On Gaza, Gitmo, Kafisi, Moderates, The 'Wise Latina,' Etc. Brief comments on a variety of topics currently in the news.... With the Obama administration springing Guantanamo-housed terrorists and e.g. funding Hamas-dominated Gaza to the tune of $900 million (etc.), how far we have come from George Bush's adm... http://www.caglepost.com/article/486bf53c-00f1-47f1-a4ef-b007a024127c.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Conversation: For The Nation's Medicine, A HICA Moment So tell me again why you aren't a doctor. Because my father - an Edinburgh-trained general physician and surgeon - urged his son against it. He foresaw the day, now rushing at us, when the federal government would be setting rates, approving procedur... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e0e3827e-1ad7-4dde-849b-01f88662e37b.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Econquotes: By Shlaes, Becker, Barro, Forbes, Wen Jiabao, etc. Further quotations on the economy.... Amity Shlaes, senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations, in her new book, "The Forgotten Man: a New History of the Great Depression": "From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, gove... http://www.caglepost.com/article/71c83e3f-826e-47c3-a8d0-52ba7aff1594.html Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT For Obama, A Week Of Personal Growth? President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and promptly left town. The preceding week hardly could go down as a high point for him or his administration - but maybe, in certain ways, as a period of personal growth. Time for a bre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7b804a45-59bf-4a45-85cd-e47f466fedee.html Wed, 27 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Car Insurance Alternative To ObamaCare Our fabulous president said the other day, "I will not rest until the dream of health-care reform is achieved in the United States of America." What do you think about that? As we all know, he's a dreamer, and on this one he's dreaming bigtime - or s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a6324289-2353-48d7-b367-f1d3e45d1509.html Wed, 20 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Random Walk: On the Basics, Hackers, Golf, the Deafening Silence, Etc. Additional stops on a random walk through a garden of issues currently in the news . . . A study of student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress test (NAEP) since the early 1970s reaches dismal conclusions. On a scale of 500... http://www.caglepost.com/article/12284a06-9b55-4c2f-b753-f82a03e16f1b.html Thu, 14 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Random Walk: On Hypocrisy, Unions, Trillions, Unrecipocated Warmth, Etc. A random walk through the new administration. . . -- President Obama has shaken the hand of Venezuela's commissar, America-detesting Hugo Chavez. The incident recalled the high moment when Obama idol Eleanor Roosevelt refused to shake the hand of the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2e46e22e-1a11-487a-a971-46edc794e21d.html Wed, 06 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Brace For The Bullet Train To Scream Through The Living Room The switch of Pennsylvania's Sen. Arlen Specter from the Republicans to the Democrats serves those Neanderthal Bush-Cheney Republicans right -- don't you think? Yes and no. The decision by the always-liberal Sen. Specter says a lot about him and a lo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/867b93ab-bac8-4db5-b38b-824e28af1d03.html Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Of Course Obama Voters Are Not In Denial You seem -- you know -- glum, unhappy, depressed. Why don't you lay off? I am not in denial over my vote for Obama. He's doing a great job. Maybe you can offer some examples of his many successes. Exhibit A is the responding economy. The recession ma... http://www.caglepost.com/article/374cafa3-021e-4411-acd5-bb9e7a34fff8.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Quotables: By & About Obama, Steele, Happer, Gallup, Wolfe, Etc. A grab-bag of quotations on subjects currently in the news . . . President Obama, with reporters during his first flight aboard Air Force One -- dressed in a flight jacket bearing his name and the presidential seal: "I've got my spiffy jacket, so I t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5989de71-9b1e-4be2-8592-539828cb226a.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Brief, Shining Moment In Camelot II The story goes that in the 1950s, because it couldn't determine what Dwight Eisenhower was saying in his tangled thicket of words during press conferences, The New York Times started printing transcripts and letting its readers figure out his meaning... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bfa4879a-e0b0-426a-b020-483dd60796b6.html Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Econ Quotes: By Forbes, Galbraith, Phelps, Coburn, Noonan, Etc. The federal government has committed $3 trillion in bailout money to automobile and financial companies. In London, the G-20 met amid protest signs with the seductively socialistic declaration: "Capitalism Isn't Working: Another World Is Possible." G... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7c5e54e5-df66-44e8-984a-60707b5a4166.html Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Game Of Outrages: 'Can You Top This?' David Letterman updated the old game of "Can You Top This?" with his reverse lists of the 10 best or worst or most bizarre -- whatevers. Here's a listing of 16 outrages from Barack Obama and his two-month-old administration, each new outrage seemingl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a9f32130-c87f-4147-bf51-5e72e782b1f6.html Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Talking Shop: How Will This Story End? Self-appointed experts continue to debate whether it's accurate and appropriate to term the wreckage of the U.S. and global economies a depression. You have spent nearly 50 years in newspapers. How do you describe their condition? Anyone denying they... http://www.caglepost.com/article/745bcb54-c1e8-42e3-9833-427cc93892dd.html Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT If Bush Had Done What Obama Is Doing . . . Herewith some questions about contrasts and double standards -- and how the leftists comprising the nameless "they" who rule the world would react to what Barack Obama is doing if Obama were George Bush. For instance . . . If Obama were Bush, what wo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/60767334-034f-47c8-8654-90b416983354.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Back-Channel Chaptter Amid The Static And Buzz With the world's wealth halved and Barack Obama the first president to try his hand at stock-brokering ("Buying stocks is a potentially good deal"), herewith some back-channel chatter amid the static and the buzz.... -- This is written during a four-... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b47b6e56-e5ba-4466-a2da-714ad33c3e61.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Any Minute Now, We'll Hear The Bugles Terrific speech, huh? Yes indeed. As we learned in the campaign, Barack Obama is a rhetorical class act. He knows how to perform a compelling speech. Give him an A. Optimistic about economic recovery. And proactive on the economy -- at last. Is this ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0b8dbd49-79a5-4ef3-9058-2b6a667b8a0d.html Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The High Cost Of The Stimulus On precisely the day Barack Obama signed into law the most gargantuan economic measure in the nation's peacetime history (White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel termed it "the most major, sweeping, comprehensive legislation as it relates to economi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ce989b5e-a1e2-48a0-be0f-3d16b3c0d735.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Going Postal, Obama Galvanizes Republicans And Raises The Blinds The past week has confirmed -- among many things -- this: that as John McCain warned repeatedly, Barack Obama consists of leftist essence pure. We are not talking Republican/Democratic partisan politics here so much as conservative/liberal ideology, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d186ee08-686d-474b-9957-420baa1199ff.html Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Conversation: In 'The Winter Of Our Discontent' It's an hour of hope. Yet you don't seem especially hopeful about the grim gray economic scene or the ability of the new administration -- and the stimulus package -- to give it color. Good observation. Though hope never dies, a large hunk of hope we... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1e40a47d-38a7-4d60-a8e8-1f879e4192b3.html Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Actual Factuals: A Blessed Break From Think-Pieces They used to talk about "Bush fatigue." Do you suffer yet from "Obama fatigue"? With Caroline Kennedy now returned to her private cabana after her perilous toe-dipping in the pool of public life, here's a blessed break from think-pieces about Barack ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ccb4648b-6359-4f40-89d7-3c061f851a7f.html Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Pol Quotes: By Obama, Bush, Cheney, Thompson, C. Kennedy, Etc. Before they recede too far into the rear-view mirror, quotations sublime and ridiculous from the political game . . . President Barack Obama, immediately following his election to the Senate in 2004: "I can unequivocally say I will not be running for... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dc6b8fbb-396e-449a-b9fa-bd677b710dd1.html Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT What Sort Of Change Does Obama Have In Mind? In the contemporary environment of all Obama all the time, who does not know that, come Tuesday, the nation will have a new president? Barack Obama arrives at the presidency bearing the goodwill of many (including your correspondent) and the messiani... http://www.caglepost.com/article/eecf8057-d571-43e3-b0d0-da4924cdda8e.html Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bush In Sum: The Most Consequential President Since Reagan The left and the media and the ever-expanding blogosphere, and of course the Democrats, never permitted George Bush to recover from the circumstances of his 2000 election. They deemed him unacceptable, accidental, illegitimate, likely a conniver in t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3ec7e38c-6eda-478d-8b99-24f5532fce07.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Et Al Ad Nauseam: 2008 And All That The Associated Press ranked Barack Obama's political ride the top story of 2008. It wasn't. The top story had to be the implosion of the economy -- here and across the globe. A year ago, who would've thunk it? Big-name financial houses gone -- from B... http://www.caglepost.com/article/21619b16-58b5-4b6c-983f-180e71b389ce.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT For Santa Baby, How To Make This One The Merriest? It's Christmas time, and if you were Santa Claus -- well, let's see . . . Would you tuck something under the tree of the Obama administration now forming up -- given that it apparently has all the money it needs to make everything better for me and t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ac7b9c90-6e44-4ed8-adf6-9d076d7d9d95.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Blago Episode: Obama'S 'Bimbo Eruption'? David Mendell, Barack Obama's biographer, notes that regarding Chicago's corrupt political machine, "Obama, to his credit, got through this system with very little mud on his suit." Still -- and still. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich now finds himself ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4193a584-a486-4861-8468-41cf429d01ec.html Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT From Illinois To Wall Street To Wal-Mart And Beyond Brief comments, direct or implied, on items in the news.... The brazen Rod Blagojevich, governor of Illinois, stands (if guilty) in a long line of corrupt Illinois pols -- Otto Kerner, Dan Walker, George Ryan -- all of whom did, or are doing, jail ti... http://www.caglepost.com/article/138566c1-99b5-4d30-90f9-1afbc32ff33d.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Quotables: On Change, Warming, U.S. Cars, Pre-emption, Palin, Etc. Quotations on a variety of topics currently in the news . . . Barack Obama, discussing the many Clinton-era alumni he is selecting for his administration of "change": "Understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost. It comes fro... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3aaf9676-bb6b-4ef3-8302-8688135015f6.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Time To Refocus On Less Materialism, Simpler Life So -- the financial markets, the incoming administration, Thanksgiving. What do you think? If you follow the markets at all -- and how is it possible not to? -- it's hard to find any comfort. The Dow down 6,000 points in a year -- 45 percent. Investo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e35ad276-78a1-455b-8fe3-e10dd0921473.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT A Warrior Departs: 'Tell Them My Story' When word came by cell phone several weeks ago of John Ripley's death, I was driving in remote Michigan and had to pull over to get things back together. Rarely do men like him come this way. John Ripley was a man's man, a Marine's Marine -- an Ameri... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7cacbbf5-5ff2-4a12-af51-6c6bf6b31155.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Post-Election Potpourri Miscellany from the presidential campaign just ended . . . Barack Obama's victory was deep-running and total. His was a decisive, disciplined enterprise. He increased the Democratic vote over four and eight years ago in just about every demographic e... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3195d87c-4967-4383-b521-4c226d100825.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Potential Strength In The New 'Obamanation' What does not destroy me makes me stronger. -- Nietzsche. And so it is to be President Barack Obama. His seminal victory marks a major moment in the nation's history. It is fundamentally his accomplishment -- for minorities and multi-ethnics, for th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ad059c6d-0081-452e-a84e-d7127dc9f158.html Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Straight Talk: McCain, Obama and 'The Change We Need' John McCain will get my vote -- no question. He easily surpasses Barack Obama in wisdom, values, character, experience, judgment, truth-telling, and his positions on most of the issues. The decision is not even close. The case for McCain is matched b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e16dce72-114c-4fe9-8133-ace1d6ad0801.html Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT On The Meaning Of A Possible Obama Presidency Recent quotations about the meaning of a possible Obama presidency: John McCain: "Senator Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi and (Senate Majority Leader Harry) Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f8b31e81-cb01-4db4-ad04-65c043b6eabf.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Issue Is Obama If the economy has taken a clear No. 1 position -- beyond terror and national security -- as the issue of most concern to the voters, why is the McCain-Palin ticket spending so much time attacking Barack Obama for his past associations? Because the f... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c8300d1f-fa74-4616-abb1-00bc8bba5afa.html Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Debates: Judging Palin-Biden & McCain-Obama II What'd you think about the debate? McCain-Obama II? Actually, that one and Palin-Biden. Both. Let's start with Palin-Biden. She had him for lunch -- blew him away. It wasn't even close. But he was so smooth, uptown, on top of his facts. She was so --... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0e891c15-c588-47c6-bb43-6598702850cb.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Pols, The Press And The Financial Crisis Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, The New York Times and others of that ilk insist the distress in the financial system and the failure thus far to fix it is all the fault of -- yes -- the Republicans. Obama: "This crisis is a direct result of a philosophy... http://www.caglepost.com/article/89169e32-2501-4acf-88a7-27104814d48e.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Credit Panic: Cutting Through The Shamanistic Voodoo In the sciences of finance and economics, what is the credit panic all about -- and what can be done about it? First a point about your central assumption: Finance and economics are not true sciences. They are not like chemistry or physics or mathema... http://www.caglepost.com/article/32b24660-d325-4b6a-a073-199189e9022f.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT In The Solitude Of Forests, Quiet Redefined Floating the new water(less) closet -- an outhouse, actually a porta-potty for stationary use -- across the river and wrestling it up the 15-foot bank, the inquiring mind understandably asks: Why? The answer is at once simple and complex. The simple... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4565db99-e019-486e-a309-0c111f9ae66d.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT On China, The Dong, Obama Bias, Drilling, Reading, Etc Quotations on key topical issues . . . Washington Post Foreign Service reporters Jill Drew and Maureen Fan: "Beneath the shimmer (of new construction) and behind the slogan ('One World, One Dream'), China is under criticism for suppressing Tibetan pr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/af780938-cc62-484d-b815-048c4f30f650.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT What's So Terrific About Mccain's Palin Pick? OK. So how about a single word to describe John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running-mate? Sensational. If he becomes the next president, he may well look back and see this decision -- this long Statue-of-Liberty pass do... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7c980b8d-8e29-4477-b4e0-482140e42fdb.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Biden Selection May Help Mccain Make Obama The Issue Isn't the Joe Biden nomination wonderful? A working-class kind of guy who has risen to chairman of the Senate's Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees? Wonderful for John McCain and conservatives and Republicans. But Biden is so moderate, centris... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1cf56e5e-862f-49c7-bbbf-74eff59ad4be.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT On Meal Diversity, Being Green, Dudists, Al's Opera, Etc. In case you missed them, some items of dubious import currently in the news. . . At the Olympics, Chinese authorities have restricted access not only to Web sites, protest areas, leading dissidents and key regions of the country. They also have banne... http://www.caglepost.com/article/69e5ec7c-64b2-46fb-849b-21f15f977f25.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Solzhenitsyn, Iran And More About Polk The death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, at 89, recalls the centrality of this Russian mastodon. A decorated artillery captain during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested at war's end for remarks in a letter to a friend vaguely criticizing Stalin ("th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b2df3b9d-4cbb-46b4-94c6-0fdaf051424e.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Mccain-Obama Kabuki On Race It used to be that the conversation about the very difficult subject of race in America was best left to African-Americans, because only they have experienced the active or passive oppression that many whites cannot comprehend. Let the Walter and Arm... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3cf91e86-f5f9-4ac4-a805-8ff90587d808.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Beijing Olympics -- To Watch Or Not To Watch? I can't wait for the Olympics to start -- can you? It wouldn't be a problem if the wait lasted forever. Whoa. You don't want to be dazzled by the magnificent opening and closing ceremonies? You're not interested in watching individual record performa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e4f60cc8-8379-4811-962b-cf0c5601b9c7.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Through Oh-Just-To-Touch-Him Throngs . . . From goo-goo media coverage, you might think Barack Obama already has moved into the White House -- or that, hoisted on the shoulders of his handlers, his sedan chair is making its regal way to the presidency through mesmerized, swooning, oh-just-to-... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3b02a610-d465-4110-a9a6-be01bed384db.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT On The Danobe: Floating Around Europe, New And Old Two weeks floating around in Europe -- old Europe (Austria) and new (Hungary and the Czech Republic) -- yield these observations . . . Austria astounds. Salzburg is Mozart (his birthplace), a pub where Charlemagne supposedly quaffed a few, and vast h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/58610e36-a669-4f0c-a7de-f08b82ec0429.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT May be The Top Journalistic Deceit of Them All On Sunday, May 16, 1948, a Greek boatman found a body floating in Salonika Bay about 150 yards offshore. The body was bound hand and foot with 30 feet of coarse hemp rope. At the base of the skull was a hole from a high-velocity bullet. The body was ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/064f3263-fe6b-468e-80e5-79156e0286ad.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Quotables By Ajami, Bush I, Hookskasparov, Osama, Etc A potpourri of recent quotes in the news . . . Bear, Stearns chief economist David Malpass: "This year should . . . (have been) filled with administration proposals to reform and simplify taxes, cut the corporate tax rate, extend expiring tax cuts, a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/798c142f-f976-49a2-9c4e-52e2644abda3.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT For Melissa & John, The High Cost of Indoc The cost of running the family car is all over the news these days, and rightly so. But what about the cost of a college experience for Melissa and John? Many colleges are bursting with bucks from alums, from the feds, from parents -- and never mind ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f2805cdb-7def-4afa-ab16-3c66b2b89553.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT May Be At Last The Extreme Greens Will Get Their Way PAGE, Ariz. -- As the car crests a ridge on the Colorado Plateau, there below -- washed in the westering sun -- lies a Disneylike scene: a rich blue lake nestled amid red brown desert canyon walls. The road from Phoenix has taken us across the Painte... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b0decc68-aad0-47b3-b7cd-67fcd6ba8596.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT How Will The Mccain Grinder Process The Obama Baloney? So who's going to win, McCain or Obama? Good question -- and some updated thoughts on veep choices. But first a reminder that 15 months ago this space predicted a McCain-Clinton race, and got things half right. She blew it. Yes she blew it. She enter... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ec7bcf83-8777-440a-b789-18ad26a3a64b.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Quotables By, And About, Senators Obama And Clinton Quotations -- ridiculous and wise -- related to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination . . . Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan: "Don't fall in love with politicians. They're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just ar... http://www.caglepost.com/article/600fa513-44ce-464c-972d-78a05919d857.html Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Clinton & Obama: Gaffes, Switcheroos - or Stupidities? As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama struggle toward resolution of their tedious nominating contest, they are outdoing themselves in rhetorical stupidities. Early on Senator Clinton said she and Chelsea were in a blaze of sniper fire on the tarmac at... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c7f3bd97-794c-47c3-ac5b-52333e198056.html Thu, 29 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT On Exams, Lesbos, Boys, Oil, Gorean Hypocrisy, Etc. Brief comments, direct or implied, about items large and small in the news . . . - Prior to the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, the Obama campaign fretted that turnout in a demographic group key to its success might be damped down because of . ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/66cb2c7f-939f-4e5e-be6a-c3e2aee6bd92.html Thu, 22 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT O Hillary! My Hillary! O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done.Walt Whitman Spurning appeals to throw it in, Hillary Clinton is pressing on. But she has to know her attempted Clinton restoration is over, done, finis. She began as invincible, inevitable - and ended ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c58ca8d8-6492-4ad8-86a7-38fa12317db3.html Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT U.S. Must Stay In Iraq Till Day Is Done And Victory Won The latte lefties in Congress really are pieces of work - intent, as they seem to be, on crippling the nation's economy and judiciary, as well as its energy independence. Oh, and declaring defeat in the war on terror. On the economy, their cry - and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6959e6b1-2362-4bda-b7cc-ed189bb48802.html Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Campaign Quotes By & About Clinton, Obama, MCcCain In the tradition of Gary Hart's observation that "you can get awful famous in this country in seven days," some quotations by and about the three principals remaining in the presidential contests . . . John McCain: "Some would withdraw (from Iraq) re... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8697318b-831a-4298-a831-f4172f196cb7.html Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama, A Serious Candidate But On The Issues A Joke So, despite his loss to Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, isn't it time to begin taking Barack Obama seriously? Absolutely. And he is indeed a serious candidate. He's a fabulous rhetorician capable of rhythmic, repetitive, almost hypnotic speeches vir... http://www.caglepost.com/article/298d13fb-e3e0-48c2-bdf4-6aec7d487271.html Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT On Bad Air, Bad Hair, Who's A Hoover?, Etc. Brief comments on items currently in the news . . . If you believe President Bush's severest critics, he lied about his reasons for going into Iraq - notably that Saddam Hussein had any involvement with either terrorism or al-Qaida. Now "Saddam and T... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d248d7d0-8ac1-4bf3-b88e-83109a48d97d.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Get Over IT: Social Conservatives, Business Types And John McCain For John McCain, the good news is that the Democrats are beating themselves up. The bad news: Certain movement conservatives and business types are dissing him - not embracing his candidacy as they should. In fundraising from all sources, McCain trai... http://www.caglepost.com/article/28b09f05-38c7-459d-b39b-c8801c69821f.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT On Tibet, Cuba, The Press, The Veepstakes, The Dollar, Etc. Really, other things are happening besides the race for the White House. Herewith, a roundup of items devoid (almost) of politics . . . Authorities have lit the Olympic torch and will run it around the world - winding up this summer at opening ceremo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c63fc63b-5b0f-45ba-9839-3e5f67d76b8d.html Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Lessons In Disillusion With The Political Class There may be more to the Barack Obama/Jeremiah Wright story than the disconnect between what the two have been saying. Far more than an Obama in the 20-year embrace of a conspiracy theorist and black supremacist, presenting himself as a racial transc... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f6de5b96-330a-43fa-84a6-3593e456c44e.html Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT His Mentor's Preachings Could Bring Down Obama's Star So what's up with Barack Obama? We've just seen Eliot Spitzer augur into the ground, and Bear Stearns crash and burn. Tibetans have shot down any ambitions the Communist Chinese regime had for the Olympic gold in toleration of dissent. And Obama may ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cf67302a-9a4e-45a8-8985-fd5642baf0e5.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Buckley Galvanized Conservatives And Achieved Victory How do we become what we are? Defining experiences and encounters with key people blend with the genes that form each one of us. So it is with the late William Buckley, who deeply affected not only your correspondent but the nation. Public writing sh... http://www.caglepost.com/article/37951a52-dfb4-4165-8806-6084f934e97c.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Sitrep Revised: The Consequences Of The Ohio And Texas Outcomes Following the Ohio and Texas (etc.) results, a revised situation report (sitrep) - and the prospects.. Hillary Clinton: Ohio and Texas, marking a stunning comeback, comprised her second New Hampshire. She remains behind in delegate votes, but she has... http://www.caglepost.com/article/908ca07c-d1d8-4327-883f-a42c4a2cf624.html Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT Liberalism, The Times, & The Sliming Of John McCain Well, that didn't take long. The New York Times accomplished almost overnight a consolidation of his Republican base that John McCain was encountering considerable difficulty doing. 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The Republica... http://www.caglepost.com/article/26b8052a-6798-4e87-b342-bebff02bb7c7.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT On Breaking The Foreign - Oil Habit And All That The primary campaigns have featured little discussion about energy. Democrats tend to favor renewable fuels (solar, wind) and biofuels such as ethanol, but the prospects for such fuels adding much to the energy mix are limited. Democrats also favo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/82db9806-dec6-4c7a-985e-380f78b7a55a.html Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT TV's Worst: Of 'The Vain Half-Wit' & 'Jesus In The Temple,' Etc. Before January ends, herewith a collection of quotations from TV types last year showing the stupidity and shameless leftism of major names in television "news." 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Across the state, he spoke of the war on Islamofa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c254c1fe-1bc0-4e93-a785-e7b4ef7dd1f3.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT What Sort of Universal Service Will Candidates Embrace? With the candidates oiling up for the primaries, an opportunity is at hand for serious debate about universal service. It's the notion that in some capacity everybody should serve the nation - each doing his share in give-back service, civilian or... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4b37298c-8795-4986-813e-b2d7870838cd.html Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Holiday browsing among items in the news . . . 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Oh, that the American enterprise in Iraq is a catastrophe, that the American economy is tanking, that global warming will get us long... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2c831295-17e0-44fe-910a-d54b0d984530.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Rallying Boys to a 'Dangerous' Standard of Normalcy After two generations of concern scrupulously focused on girls - their education in all its many manifestations, their alleged victimization by male dominance, their brain development, their sorrows and strengths and even the word employed to describ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6abbbc86-ae3b-4082-b02e-524afb6523fc.html Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT On Sarko L'Americain, Nukes, Nurses, Cheating, Robertson, Etc. Brief comments relating to topics currently in the news . . . In a world with seemingly a diminishing few friends of the United States, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard stands out. 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