Terrence Jeffrey from CaglePost.com Columns by Terrence Jeffrey from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Terrence+Jeffrey Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Justice Department: U.S. Border 'Underprotected,' 'Easily Breached' Judging from recent reports by the National Drug Intelligence Center, you could come to the conclusion that Mexican drug cartels can do something the U.S. government cannot: control border crossings. The cartels maintain "gatekeepers" - their own sor... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e78e6419-872a-4803-8482-fa2bd25aaddb.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harry Reid's Assault On American Workers Assume there are 100 people in your community who do the work you do and 100 jobs for that type of work that local employers want to fill. You are in a pretty good position: You can stay employed. Now assume there are only 95 people in your community... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dda04ec6-ad8d-4145-9421-f8517cfecd43.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama: "There Are Countries Where A Single-Payer System Works Pretty Well" President Obama told the American Medical Association on Monday that he thinks single-payer health care systems - socialized medicine - work "pretty well" in other countries, but that he does not want to create such a system here because he wants to ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b1dcd912-bbc1-4a5c-9c90-538abac5519c.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Fast Track To Socialized Medicine With too little notice in the liberal press and too little public debate, President Obama last week put America on the fast track to socialized medicine with the goal of having legislation passed by Congress before the end of summer. At issue is whet... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d89f326e-642a-45dd-bb4b-9b27ab71e752.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT I, Barack Obama President Obama used the first-person singular pronoun "I" 34 times when he announced he was nationalizing General Motors. He used "Congress" once and "law" not at all. As Obama described it, the government takeover of General Motors was Obama's deci... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1520d4a3-838a-4d3f-b46f-3cf36520af3f.html Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Apply A Litmus Test To Sotomayor Conservatives in the Senate should not treat Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the same disgraceful manner that Senate liberals treated Clarence Thomas when he was nominated to the court in 1991, but they should subject her to a similar philos... http://www.caglepost.com/article/85f812d3-1d2e-41ae-b67c-984bc79a07f8.html Wed, 27 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Handling Of CIA May Haunt United States CIA Director Leon Panetta must be President Obama's loneliest lieutenant. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA of misleading Congress, forcing Panetta to publicly defend his agency against not only a leader of his own country but of his own... http://www.caglepost.com/article/57c20dc9-51ce-4a65-9876-3e8033552a6e.html Wed, 20 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Catholic-Basher When Pope Benedict XVI was flying to Cameroon on March 17, he responded to a reporter who asked him to address - in French - the argument that the Catholic vision for fighting AIDS "is often considered unrealistic and ineffective." The pope's answer ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/555e5b65-0b1f-4044-ad59-623cc197069a.html Wed, 13 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Day the American Dream Dies With little fanfare, the Government Accountability Office released a document last week that points to the day when the American dream dies and is buried beneath a middle-class welfare state. You can see death coming for the American dream as surely ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/96047f48-bb4c-40b2-bf70-0f56a3d19aba.html Wed, 06 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Notre Dame's Greatest Comeback Countless American Catholic boys have on some fall Saturday in their young lives been thrilled to witness - in person, on radio or on TV - a Notre Dame comeback on the football field. Now, a rising generation of American Catholics may witness a Notre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7caab774-ffe3-4202-9d9c-97db3b8ab0ab.html Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT CIA Waterboarding Produced Intel That Stopped Attack On Los Angeles "Soon, you will know." That is the ominous statement an uncooperative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, told his Central Intelligence Agency interrogators when they initially asked him, after he had be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5fe77549-839b-4e93-b549-dce1fb385cd9.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT How U.S. Taxpayers Helped Pay For Iran's Nuclear Program American taxpayers not only helped fund Iran's nuclear program over the past decade, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office, but the State Department now "strongly opposes" diminishing the flow of U.S. money to the inter... http://www.caglepost.com/article/af78c68b-fe67-47e2-9faf-82e4a47587e7.html Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Selling the Welfare State Through the Census The Constitution mandates that a census be taken every 10 years so that the members of the House of Representatives can be apportioned among the states according to their population. But as the Census Bureau prepares to undertake the 2010 census, it ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/76447bc1-59bc-44f0-a128-e627411be2ca.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Illegal, Unconstitutional Bush-Obama Auto Bailout When the president takes an official action, let alone one fundamentally altering the relationship between government and a major industry, two questions must be asked: Is it constitutional? Does the president have legal authority to do it? In the ca... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8d0d4ba7-01b2-43ec-8907-4de80a67c436.html Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Mark of the True Conservative If you want to learn to recognize the mark of a true conservative, read Mark Levin's new book, "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto." Levin is the real thing - a longtime intellectual and activist leader of the conservative movement - who w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4b002137-d012-44fa-a902-e73e96a34f30.html Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Class War Budget vs. Your Income President Obama met this week with the chairmen of the congressional budget committees and called for a bipartisan effort to "pass a budget that puts this nation on the road to lasting prosperity." But the fiscal 2010 budget he presented is a startli... http://www.caglepost.com/article/70c282ef-9b67-4088-befd-e9e3e44aa243.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Carefully Crafted Cloning Contradiction President Obama has shown himself to be a master of what I have called carefully crafted self-contradictions - statements intended to convey one impression to casual listeners but that on close examination turn out to mean quite the opposite. Obama's... http://www.caglepost.com/article/39a44252-ad01-4136-a977-14e8131e84b2.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Conscience, Cash And The Culture of Death Question: Under existing law, can a health-care institution run by pro-lifers that receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refuse to hire an unrepentant abortionist simply because the institution's administrators believ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d90584b7-0f1a-4425-ba71-b383952ec6b8.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Deficit Charade President Obama posed as a fiscal conservative Monday when he hosted a "fiscal responsibility summit." Close inspection reveals that what he is actually proposing, however, is a massive increase in government debt - thus raising the already unsustain... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ebe5cfb6-b552-4ffe-95e4-d0f88b522143.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT What Obama Is Doing With Your Medical Records The so-called "stimulus" President Obama signed Tuesday is so unwieldy it had to be posted in two PDFs on the House Appropriations Committee's Website along with another two containing an "explanatory statement." The law totaled 1,071 pages; the expl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/39156f0d-1132-45ab-8a5d-e9ee0b912f71.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Doomsday Scenario Doesn't Add Up In Elkhart, Ind., on Monday, President Obama spoke as if America were approaching a doomsday that only a massive increase in government could avert. "The situation we face could not be more serious," he said. "We have inherited an economic crisis as ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e37b96ec-5dac-4770-842e-312bc9f60d2c.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Liberal Elite Plays By Its Own Rules Liberal politicians always talk about making the rich pay more taxes, except when they are the rich - which, more often than not, they are. Then they tend to divide into two camps: those who fail to pay all their taxes and those who defend those who ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6bca34fa-8b0c-4847-901d-37016a90894e.html Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Two Obamas And Two Middle Easts When it comes to discussing the Middle East, there are two Barack Obamas - and both could cause problems for the United States. First, there is Obama the Environmentalist. He says he wants to deprive Middle Eastern states of oil revenue because those... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7289b5c9-62e6-4bdd-93f5-11bffdb82f5a.html Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT We The Government In monarchies, kings and queens use the first person plural. They are "we." Judging from his inaugural address, President Barack Obama may give this practice a modern American liberal twist. He calls big government "we." Obama's speech was a carefull... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bf2c39ee-b5d2-4d9d-b149-0915b4233f82.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The War Bush Is Losing Is Not In The Middle East George W. Bush unwittingly highlighted one of the greatest failures of his presidency last week in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, and then did it again Tuesday when he met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The United States, Bush ri... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d0974575-49a4-4adf-865f-0c0dbaf1265e.html Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT What Politicians Could Learn From Football If there is one thing Americans from every region, income bracket, ethnic group and political persuasion have done in unison in recent days, it is watch football - a true common denominator of our culture. More than any other game, football illustrat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a1c216c3-e9c2-4565-b537-0a90fb19297d.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT How Many Government Workers Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb? While many ordinary Americans wondered last week what Santa Claus was going to leave for them under the Christmas tree, many American mayors were wondering how much money President-elect Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress will take from taxpayers... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c6045637-755c-4eed-ae59-02ad6876050d.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT President Bush And The Ghost Of New Years Yet To Come The Ghost of New Years Yet to Come wakes you from a fretful sleep and brings you to a cold December day in the not-too-distant future. The long-lived baby boom generation is now in full retirement. A deep recession has set in. Fiscal crisis looms. Ta... http://www.caglepost.com/article/646bebc4-645d-4e31-bfdb-92c4750c7608.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Parity For Autoworkers The problem with the auto-industry bailout bill that President Bush and Democratic congressional leaders tried to push through last week is not that it would use taxpayer money to save U.S. automakers, but that it would use taxpayer money and not sav... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7fcb6ae5-5350-43c6-818f-d6dc3a9d1e15.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Big Government Light Brigade Bill Kristol, the often insightful, ever-influential editor of The Weekly Standard, used his column in The New York Times this week to offer some advice to conservatives who advocate small government: Cut it out. The essence of Kristol's argument is ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e678bf87-7f7e-4915-bd32-ce24412d9ca7.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT From Paintball To Mumbai The defiant words a former third-grade teacher spat at a judge in Alexandria, Va., in April are more poignant now that sources in the Indian and U.S. governments are saying they believe Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), a Pakistan-based terrorist group, was beh... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e5b0460d-1633-4850-aee4-084c4f27cb8e.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Drafting Ken Blackwell After Ken Blackwell graduated from college, he did a short stint with the Dallas Cowboys, but soon decided playing professional football was not his destiny. Now some longtime Republican activists are seeking to draft Blackwell, Ohio's former secreta... http://www.caglepost.com/article/08a74777-a647-4cd1-b765-bba90d5ef756.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Trusting Paulson President Bush's trusted treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, is setting the stage for the all-Democratic government that comes to power in January to vastly increase government control over our economy. At an Oct. 23 briefing, CNSNews.com corresponden... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dc014550-24c8-4bd7-9079-d925b842364d.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Send Your Children to D.C. Public Schools, Mr. President-Elect Barack and Michelle Obama are poised to commit a classic act of limousine-liberal hypocrisy - in this case, turning their backs on tens of thousands of inner-city kids in Washington, D.C. Public schools, it seems, are good enough for poor and middle-... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b516f659-684d-4ca9-8168-528bb93d9158.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Wanted: Small Government Up until the 1930s, the United States maintained a small federal government that mostly focused on the limited number of things the Constitution authorized it to do. Americans were responsible for their own food, clothing and shelter, and if they cou... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e21d384b-7f6e-477b-9e14-cd6e4da7219c.html Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Will Government Give Up Ownership In The Banks? Sweeping acts of government power are certain to have unintended consequences. Americans have seen this truth played out in the conduct of recent wars. But what are the potential unintended consequences of the sweeping move the government is making n... http://www.caglepost.com/article/45a01919-7fb2-4ec8-9e09-42a2d3f322e2.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Mandate For Nationalized Same-Sex Marriage Appearing Monday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Joe Biden made the most high-profile statement yet of the Obama-Biden position on same-sex marriage. DeGeneres asked where he stands on California's Proposition 8, a 14-word proposal that says, "Only ma... http://www.caglepost.com/article/48525651-ef49-4d02-8358-d72d694fdeb8.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Price Of Banking On Government There was instructive value even in the language that The Washington Post and The New York Times used to describe the Monday meeting at which nine large banks agreed to surrender part ownership to the government. In describing how it came about, the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/779ba158-f643-40f9-990c-cb75728320b7.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Obama Debate Every American Should See The most telling debate Barack Obama ever had was not with John McCain but Patrick O'Malley, who served with Obama in the Illinois Senate and engaged Obama in a colloquy every American should read. The Obama-O'Malley debate was a defining moment for ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/415035ab-7183-441e-be44-b42e1dbbeec0.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Who Needs To Pay Their Mortgage And Who Doesn't? Will the U.S. Treasury Department help pay your mortgage or force you to help pay someone else's? In the Great Bailout of 2008, on which side of the line do you, your home and your life savings sit? Are they in the land of individual responsibility, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c402696b-1755-4f42-ad1a-e7c1226e575b.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Real Class Conflict In America You don't have to listen long to politicians in Washington, D.C., to hear the rhetoric of class war. Both major party presidential candidates have used it at times with strategic purpose - that is, when it advanced their ambitions. The expanding gove... http://www.caglepost.com/article/54a8c4a5-c4cd-4095-831e-7833f015d235.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Democratic Leaders To American Commuters: Ride A Bike Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives sent a message this week to hard-working commuters forced to pay historically high prices for gasoline: Ride a bike. The message was buried on page 255 of a 290-page bill the Democratic leadership in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/708a00c1-8faa-43f1-a971-5023cd29c986.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT To Whom Joe Biden Bows Take a leap of faith. Assume Sen. Joe Biden is an intellectually rigorous man who never fails to act on his own convictions when he votes in the Senate - and that he is especially careful in thinking things through when he votes on matters of life an... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e7c15240-85b4-47be-a892-c3783227764c.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Married Liberals With Children Suddenly, the liberal establishment is earnestly interested in traditional family life, and there is a good - if cynical - reason for this. When Michelle Obama, a Harvard Law grad, appeared at the Democratic convention last week, she did not come a l... http://www.caglepost.com/article/81d31917-82d6-4f25-adb0-e0c972b9028e.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Kennedy's 'Right' Is Wrong When Sen. Ted Kennedy, valiantly fighting brain cancer, took the stage at the Democratic convention on Monday night, he made it clear that he is now on a mission that cannot be completed unless he returns to the Senate next year - with Barack Obama i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3dfdaaea-c8bf-4a14-80c8-32c1f9980f8e.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama And Pro-Life 'Liars' In an interview with David Brody of CBN on Saturday, Barack Obama leveled a startling charge at the National Right to Life Committee. Brody brought up the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, noting "there was some literature put out by the National Rig... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b6891337-5d41-4103-bf47-16d674e17553.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Crude October Surprise Republicans may be planning a crude surprise for Democrats this October. I mean crude in the sense that it will involve unrefined petroleum. Since the House recessed earlier this month, Republicans have been demanding that Speaker Nancy Pelosi call i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0b478ca0-3d77-4d46-81c2-c963851a6eb7.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Real Competition In China The eyes of the world will turn to China in the coming days to watch the Olympic Games. Far too few, however, will fix their attention on the greater competition for the soul of that country. Here is a story about two champions in that contest, whose... http://www.caglepost.com/article/df5499b8-9bfe-45f0-b79f-5b57452d4aee.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's War Party Barack Obama has joined the party of war. Since it became clear that he would be the Democratic presidential nominee, Obama has left behind his peacenik rhetoric and seems eager to inform anyone who will listen that as president he would escalate U.S... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ab009160-bbbe-40e8-a8f8-0e8a480ddee0.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT How Big Can Government Get? Much attention has been paid in recent months to the mortgage crisis and the difficulty many Americans face because they bought or built a home they cannot afford. But Americans must soon face a greater crisis: We have a built a government we cannot ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fe3da015-b43a-4c68-bcc9-9b49c5843a15.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Government Guaranteed Look over old news reports about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and you will repeatedly read that these two corporations were believed to carry an "implicit guarantee" from Uncle Sam. That would apparently make them distinct from Social Security and Med... http://www.caglepost.com/article/27577665-abd0-4cfb-bfc6-c571d1a72b1f.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Battle of The Surge Was A Win Page 12 of a Government Accountability Office report published June 23 features data about the war in Iraq - drawn from the Defense Intelligence Agency - that must be central to the debate about what the United States does next in that country. It in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/223dbafc-1571-47ae-b169-3e8f150aad7b.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Vision For Government-Run Childhood One of the most dramatic changes in American life in the years since World War II involves the way we raise our children. We used to do it ourselves. Now, convinced we have better things to do, many of us leave the job to others. Encouraging this fli... http://www.caglepost.com/article/578d863b-0950-42a0-92df-9421848d1388.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT It Is Always Halloween At The Border It was as frightening as a Halloween trick can be: It happened in broad daylight. It was caught on camera. The government says it really happened. On Oct. 31, 2006, a covert agent of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) pulled to the side of a ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/13dbc5e3-e241-42f7-9073-c42366b0608c.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Threat To The Car Recent evidence that automobile use is declining in America and that some Americans are making significant - and in some cases not readily reversible - changes in their lives because of escalating gas prices should be worrisome signs for those who lo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3430e9fc-3494-4658-8d5e-caa28c853d7c.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Our Own Oil Cartel Contemplate this the next time you spend $60 or more filling up your tinny little car with gasoline made from imported oil: The U.S. government knows where it can get its hands on more untapped petroleum than exists in the proven reserves of Iran or ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3725adc3-cb56-4a09-b0a2-da89d1e70ca0.html Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT How Obama Got 'Ahead Of The Curve' On Same-Sex Marriage When presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke last month with Advocate.com - which describes itself as an "LGBT" (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) news site - he took a different approach to same-sex marriage than he took in 2004, when he was... http://www.caglepost.com/article/322fa195-dc63-4629-900c-45e0f3b6c061.html Wed, 28 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Great Polar Bear Population Puzzle Before anybody tries to change the world to save polar bears, which the Department of Interior listed as "threatened" last week, somebody should figure out how many polar bears there are. When the world's foremost polar bear scientists gathered in Al... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d7e7a4ef-f401-4807-837d-2c07de5da844.html Wed, 21 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Is There A Veep In The House? Three years ago, Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin did an interview with National Public Radio, which for a conservative like Ryan must have been like an expedition behind enemy lines. Ryan did a good job explaining on the program why his home s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/27af3ed2-f108-4d33-8cb6-beb8eca212ac.html Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Should We Impoverish The Persian Gulf? A curious consensus has formed among the presidential candidates that promoting the use of alternative fuels should not only be the policy of the United States in fighting "climate change" but also - insofar as it would diminish the wealth of Persian... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ae738534-d905-4919-be28-2856d305575e.html Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Pastor Parses Obama Given his 20 years of pastoring to Barack Obama, you would have to assume that if any of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's declarations have a particular claim to credibility it would be his repeated assertion over the past week that Obama does not always s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f367ac3e-6879-49ae-ad44-618fa990a43b.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Can McCain Win A Third Bush Term? One of the most surprising things about the presidential election four years ago is that the already unpopular war in Iraq was not the top issue in voter's minds. Nor was it the top national security issue. To get elected, Sen. John McCain needs some... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1f57a558-a4c8-4dd0-b241-2eae3eb8ea77.html Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT What Does Obama Believe? We now know that there are at least two forms of religion that Barack Obama does not believe in: the religion preached by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who baptized his children, and the religion clung to by the bitter people of Pennsylvania, whose votes... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cefd91e1-011e-4190-a95d-c8c159aa9fce.html Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Democrats' Iraq Calculation The interesting thing about the plan that leading Democrats now advocate for Iraq is that its essential element is the same as the essential element of the plan pursued by those we are fighting. It is that we withdraw. Now, if the Democrats' plan is ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d46a0d23-3bb0-4a3d-9f4b-c60456f9f802.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Baseball vs. The Modern Stadium In the ongoing battle between baseball and the modern stadium, baseball scored a victory Sunday night. It was a nail-biter. There were many in Washington comfortably at home that cold March evening who may have wished they were in Nationals Park by t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f7761bfe-3b5a-4e03-a24e-ee3512803485.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Next War It is one thing to say U.S. troops must remain in Iraq until a stable government is established that does not threaten us or its neighbors. It is another thing to say - given everything we know now - that we ought to retrospectively conclude invading... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f8e0aad8-3590-4650-903d-7e72b47bc78f.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Problem With Obama's -- Not Wright's -- Vision The greatest barrier to Barack Obama becoming a leader who truly advances the cause of justice is not found in the racially polarizing and unpatriotic comments of his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but in Obama's own vision of civil right... http://www.caglepost.com/article/34c71313-a435-425f-b674-76951e931fe7.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Worse-Than-Meaningless Intelligence Bill A casual onlooker might have understandably concluded that the intelligence bill recently vetoed by President Bush was crafted with the intention of prohibiting U.S. intelligence agencies from ever water-boarding terrorists or using other aggressive ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b563294f-8bd4-4301-b33c-8c13825f96a8.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Greatness Of Bill Buckley Few Americans in the past century had as great a positive impact on their country as Bill Buckley did, and perhaps none so purely through the force of ideas and the power of example. It would be easy to conclude that Buckley's greatness was essential... http://www.caglepost.com/article/89448622-94b8-46be-b7e2-3b4788920fed.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Class-War Court When the nomination of John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court came up in the Senate in 2005, Sen. Barack Obama argued that the role of a justice is to favor the "weak" over the "strong." When the nomination of Sam Alito came up in Janu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b99c1623-18d0-4866-b1b6-578f95b4805d.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT How Many Decades Will It Take to Fix FDA? The unfolding tragedy in which four Americans have died in the last two months and about 350 others have suffered adverse reactions after being injected with Chinese-made heparin - a blood-thinning drug - has its roots in a spectacular example of ba... http://www.caglepost.com/article/86fd8cf2-c6c3-423d-9fb7-56bb7575352d.html Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT When Obama, Clinton and McCain Decisively Agreed One thing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain all have in common is that they voted to give retroactive Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who committed document fraud. Indeed, McCain voted for it before he was against it. On May 18... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d311012f-7107-4568-a5d5-4ad9897619c4.html Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Your $455,000 Loan to Uncle Sam Were a family to go out and borrow $455,000 on an adjustable interest rate to buy a big second home with no idea where they were going to get the money to pay it off, they would justifiably be seen as fools. They certainly would not deserve a bailout... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0557a583-f083-4bd2-8289-253d4a63c4e5.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT McCain's No Threat to the Left While the liberal establishment may be conflicted over whether it wants Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee, there's no doubt which Republican it favors. John McCain is the liberal elite's go-to guy in the GOP. 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