Tony Blankley from CaglePost.com Columns by Tony Blankley from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Tony+Blankley Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Queen Nancy: Fly as I Say, Not as I Fly Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is the Jennifer Lopez of congressional travel - fickle, demanding and notoriously insensitive to the time, costs and energy needed to accommodate her endless demands. On Tuesday, the indispensable governme... http://www.caglepost.com/article/690020f1-49a3-4553-995a-cb3f29868e60.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama Leverages His Political Risk in First 50 Days Many of the media are following the convention of assessing President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office. The term first was applied to new American presidents during Franklin Roosevelt's spring of 1933, when, between March and June, he proposed... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8f8a1597-67f0-4a23-b3a2-0d03e9fe43be.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama Lied; The Economy Died I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the past eight years. Thus, I have chosen as my lead this proposition: Obama lied; the economy died. Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic them... http://www.caglepost.com/article/964102e3-3ed2-4c96-b96e-8ee4c19378e1.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life I hate to admit it, but I miss Bill Clinton. At least that lecherous old charmer was more amusing than his successor as a Democratic president, our new mortician in chief, Barack "End of the World" Obama. Although, our new president's spokesman did d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/20b41539-c8db-46b4-8153-e523c276be4d.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Governing Style In the Middle Ages, when a young prince suddenly and prematurely became king, the royal court, the church leadership and other senior aristocrats would scrutinize his every word and habit for signs of what kind of mind would be deciding their country... http://www.caglepost.com/article/583b2dce-80da-4663-8334-82b8b06aac83.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Our Clever President President Barack Obama's first presidential news conference was performed feebly by the once-ferocious White House press corps and shrewdly - if deceptively - by the president. In the six years I did communications on former President Ronald Reagan's... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2b93fc6f-e9df-4ab0-9576-4c65f18d1ada.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Defense Budget Mystery There has been some confusing reporting in the past few days regarding President Barack Obama's plans for the Defense Department budget. Officially, the Office of Management and Budget is claiming that it will increase the budget by 8 percent. But be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b571f663-2c79-4d44-8f86-b313e22379df.html Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Collectivist Nationalism President Barack Obama is a beguiling but confounding figure. As he said of himself in "The Audacity of Hope," "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." It is indeed audacious that he s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6b703782-cf37-4193-a540-3318a1fd2ca7.html Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Economic Crapshoot Ahead Finding wisdom on the question of economic stimulus may be Washington's most important task in generations - short of major war decisions. President Barack Obama currently is proposing to spend about $850 billion over two years that he asserts is int... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b969d16b-2c99-4cbb-b894-55df3b8f6a8a.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Truncated Presidential Honeymoon? It was fairly common chatter from congressional Democrats in Washington during the autumn months of the presidential campaign that while Barack Obama was almost certain to win, in 2009 policy would be driven from the House speaker's office. While I d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ed16f200-6435-4b83-8018-f7abaa318e39.html Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Being President 101 With two weeks still left in President-elect Barack Obama's transition and because of the alleged corrupt conduct of several people in his proximity and his own passivity and public silence (and the inherent drama of current events), his has become t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/980ad6b6-31a5-498b-923f-9e6396e22c94.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Now Sits Expectation In The Air As President-elect Obama vacations with his family in Hawaii and publicly complains about the intrusiveness of the press pool and the intense scrutiny of his Secret Service team, I suspect about now Obama may be recalling George Bernard Shaw's heartl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ab91973f-2a8b-4453-a5aa-362e58309152.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Disturbing Book Worth Reading I recently read a book that deserves the widest possible readership: "The Trouble with Textbooks - Distorting History and Religion," by Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra. I never have met or talked with either of these gentlemen, but I can't say eno... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f5a09192-8cc4-499b-b9fb-bd7fdde8d8ee.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Clinging To Hope As we enter one of America's bleaker winters - though not so bleak as the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge nor the winter of 1941-42 after Pearl Harbor and then Wake Island - please permit me to lapse for a moment from the secular and the material t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/577e3412-8fc6-45dd-a8d6-6674bb90cd73.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Liberals Leave The Watchtowers Of Freedom Last week, The Washington Post reported on President-elect Barack Obama's plan to convert his campaign's massive digital database of millions of supporters' contact and background data into a location that will permit him to use that data legally as ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/24792404-7e44-4835-89a8-19fd6e47988b.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Brace For The Change You Do Not Believe In From The Huffington Post and Daily Kos to National Review and The Washington Times - and all the mainstream media in between - commentators are puzzling over who the dickens President-elect Barack Obama really is. On the progressive left, they are be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1f7e9002-1ddf-4ddb-b342-51d0a58b4e66.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities As President-elect Obama's apparent choice for health and human services secretary and as White House health care czar, it is a fair guess that Tom Daschle's view on health care legislation may be decisive. So it is worth reading his book "Critical: ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5bdb732a-99da-4368-b471-88fdb54908c3.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT To Battle Stations Vox populi - the voice of the people - was uttered Nov. 4. But what did they say, and what will President-elect Obama and the Congress do based on that voice? All we know for certain about the first question is that about 66 million people cast thei... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dc865f29-b886-4433-8762-7561d888a109.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT To Conservatives Who Are Thinking About Tomorrow Bring me my Bow of burning gold: Bring me my Arrows of desire: Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire. I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/64d03882-78ff-41d3-8343-b9751b45849f.html Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Is Obama Secretly Sensible? Don't Bet On It As Obama's election has seemed to become more likely in the past six weeks, a quiet but public debate has arisen among both Republicans and Democrats that wonders which Obama we might get. Will it be the prudent, moderate, pragmatic, sensible preside... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a6aa80ab-4065-44a2-bb92-ea01800be59a.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Birth Of The Me-Too Conservative With the rise to enduring power of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in 1933, a new type of Republican emerged in reaction to FDR's attractive and overawing power: the me-too Republican. Until the election of President Reagan five decades later... http://www.caglepost.com/article/402a8f9a-5c7c-4265-b2ff-cab7c068dc70.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT McCain's Next Duty Call The essence of this election season couldn't be simpler. The American public is so appalled at the condition of the country (which it unfairly, but not implausibly blames on the despised President Bush) that with fate casting John McCain in the role ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a536e4e1-ed52-4201-be99-c1dfefde716d.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bafflement There was a joke going around conservative circles during the mid-1960s that we conservatives were warned that if we voted for Barry Goldwater, America would get deeper into the Vietnam War. The punch line was that we did vote for Goldwater and Ameri... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e013c545-8f71-4275-a59c-e58f7a8b485c.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Yet Freedom There is nothing new under the sun. The United States has endured major financial panics in 1837, 1873, 1893, 1907, 1929, 1933 and now in 2008. Most of these economic events had ideological and political consequences - as well as the inevitable econo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d6b0d455-731f-469c-ae05-e5e1faceb835.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Man Who Never Was The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are cov... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0bfed67c-e822-4fa7-a253-b6a9cd54e40c.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Finance, History and Politics As of this Monday, United States Federal Reserve and Treasury Department policies have entered presidential political debate. While, as a rule, I am in favor of candidates for high office discussing policy, I am inclined to want to make an exception ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8baabec4-14bf-4b52-a125-d26e7f148d89.html Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The GOP Resurrection In the past 30 years or so, since presidential conventions no longer actually have decided the nominees, their usual purpose has been to focus and project a positive image of the already chosen candidate (and, of course, disparage the opponent). But ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/af1e1236-db6f-40bb-83ba-f1bf62aba9dd.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT It's Still The Economy, Stupid The No. 1 issue (in contrast to personality) in the presidential campaign, according to every poll of voter opinion, is the economy. More than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than the concerns about health care, the public's negative view of t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/de6724d0-8224-468b-9209-f7dc17fe4141.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Gosh, I Love The Liberal Media With the world constantly changing, with Obama in favor of change, with Obama constantly changing, there remains only one fixed spot in a chaotic world: the mainstream moron media. It's odd, but I find their predictable nonsense quite comforting. The... http://www.caglepost.com/article/63109c82-ff8a-4de3-b7ee-8e006ccba6f0.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Lessons From A Dance Slav "It's hard for us to understand what the Russian plan is," said a senior U.S. official who briefed reporters over the weekend on the Russian invasion of Georgia. One must hope that the claimed bafflement at Russian intentions is merely one of those d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6055d549-0da4-4079-91be-4548870df382.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT He Is Who He Is It's getting tricky to know how to refer to he who presumes to be the next president. It was made clear several months ago that mentioning his middle name is a forbidden act. (Pass out more eggshells.) Then, having nothing honorable to say, Obama war... http://www.caglepost.com/article/666892ae-75c3-49e1-a6e5-57e1f244a536.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Destroyer of Worlds In the Birla Temple, a Hindu temple in Delhi, India, there is a plaque that reads: "He who is known as Vishnu the Preserver is verily Rudra the Destroyer, and He who is Rudra is Brahma the Creator." This fact (from Arthur Herman's book "Gandhi and Ch... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f34eda86-71a1-4bdb-918b-db8c8e09bfe5.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The GQ Statesman Watching Obama glide through his foreign trip so far, nervous Republicans and other patriots have to hope that American voters will not view Obama through the eyes of a Hollywood casting director. That's because one could not cast a man who visually ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1fc73335-2d5b-4833-b665-47e2959bd523.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Tacking To The Center Is Tacky From Australia to London to almost all points in between, if there are two things people know about Barack Obama, one of them is that he recently has changed his positions on abortion, gun control, capital punishment, FISA laws, the status of Jerusal... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f6e2b353-3145-4905-8ae9-9044bdc85e47.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Obama Glissade Way back in June, Sen. Barack "middle name not permitted to be mentioned" Obama campaigned on the theme of "Change We Can Believe In." Now, several days later, his theme should be "Change We Can't Keep Up With." Apparently, the change he was calling ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/55cd5411-d47f-42b8-879e-e61323cf1aa8.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Formed On The Anvil of His Captivity As of today, Sen. Barack Obama is about halfway through his "patriotism theme week" message cycle. As of 2008, Sen. John McCain is about seven-ninths through his patriotism theme life cycle. I guess that is the difference between the new politics and... http://www.caglepost.com/article/52338da2-5144-4f21-b62b-3e487fa72d0a.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Was Iraq Worth It? It has been fashionable - indeed, de rigueur in political and media circles - to view contemptuously President Bush's assertion that we are fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we wouldn't have to fight them here. Even conservative commentators have te... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2186561a-5576-40e3-9418-32d9eedd87c7.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Democracy In Decline The broad, sneering European-elite response to the plucky Irish vote to oppose the further centralization of governmental power in the European Union and the emerging opinion in China suggest that from Brussels to Shanghai, democracy may be losing it... http://www.caglepost.com/article/eb426f5e-c67a-4211-a057-7259348c06fd.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Who Is Obama? Where Is The Press? How would one sneak a left-wing radical into the Oval Office in broad daylight? Perhaps the same way that President George W. Bush got two strong conservatives on the Supreme Court: Find a candidate without a paper trail on the most controversial iss... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d8b90e03-a173-4b12-b76d-e049a3ce3400.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obamaconomics Last year, Barack Obama said: "I believe that America's free market has been the engine of America's great progress. It's created a prosperity that is the envy of the world. It's led to a standard of living unmatched in history. And it has provided g... http://www.caglepost.com/article/395f89ff-2760-40ef-85b7-5f9644e597aa.html Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Memorial Day 2008 On Monday, I went to Memorial Day services in our little village of Great Falls, Va., about 20 miles from downtown Washington. About 80 local citizens turned out - not bad, given that only a few thousand souls live in the area. The site of the servic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cf0f0014-a189-4a54-8240-93e22f2a148e.html Wed, 28 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Onward Into Cheerful Political Battle Look, I am as willing as the next conservative pundit to throw back a tumbler or two of whiskey and whine about our plight this election season. But in the past week, the Republican/conservative (hereinafter: RC) depression has become pathological. F... http://www.caglepost.com/article/094cb598-696c-4b41-87b1-4a95ba38f8f4.html Wed, 21 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Race And The 2008 Election Race, the yet unclosed scab that has run deep through our history, is about to be discussed as it never has been in a presidential election. In fairness to the United States, racial attitudes (or man's view of the "other" man) is a universal phenomen... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6aebfe64-6ac7-4a6a-8436-f2d2ba23f024.html Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Personal And Economic Recovery Note to My Readers: I want to thank the many readers who e-mailed me over the weekend to thoughtfully inquire about my health after my Friday evening television appearance in which I was clearly having physical trouble. Many of you wondered whether I... http://www.caglepost.com/article/84336a65-94b7-4ae5-99d2-9a88feef02b4.html Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT 5 Economic Questions For The Candidates Prince Otto von Bismarck is credited with the sneering remark that "there is a special providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." Of course, that was in the age of presidents Rutherford B. Hayes, James Gar... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d82ae532-06fa-4316-a37e-67b425bf3bfa.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Rising Euro-Muslim Tensions Perhaps the greatest secular gift to the world by Judeo-Christian civilization is its seminal concept of the individual, which it raises above the tribe or the collective. In Genesis, we are told that man is made in the image of God. Deuteronomy tell... http://www.caglepost.com/article/034ff25c-7c9b-4250-913d-53082fa77c95.html Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bush Raises Temp on Global Warming The last months of a presidential administration are often dangerous. Presidents - looking to their legacies - go to desperate lengths to try to enhance their reputations for posterity. A pungent example of such practices by the Bush administration w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/da7f09d8-ea79-465b-b892-c6dd70a70339.html Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Flickering Light of The News Two unrelated news items in the past week hint at a developing challenge to rational policymaking: First, there were the confusing accounts of what happened in Basra, Iraq. And second, there was The New York Times story that CBS is considering buying... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f4fa2eed-c725-46e6-8650-c535e9b859a9.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Trouble In Pakistan And Turkey Plato defined man as "animal bipes implume" (a "two-legged animal without feathers"). While a rather sardonic definition, given our species' performance currently, I think Plato's definition is more fitting than the rather self-admiring title of Homo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a6914487-b14b-4e71-a552-8360adcca8cc.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT More Than Bluebirds In The Sky From a popular English World War II song: There'll be bluebirds over The white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see. There'll be love and laughter And peace ever after Tomorrow, when the world is free. The shepherd will tend his sheep, Th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6bbe55f7-e6ad-4974-adf7-f2c487c643e4.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory Of A Recession Despite Sen. Obama's uplifting, if clever, speech Tuesday, the Democratic Party presidential contest looks more like a contest of racial identity. However, Democratic partisans take at least some comfort in the growing evidence of an impending recess... http://www.caglepost.com/article/587ec646-c7e1-48ce-a18e-08f62857fc11.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Monsters, Muslims And Financial Crises The presidential campaign currently underway has missed the historically rare opportunity to engage the candidates for president in a serious discussion about how they would respond to a very likely impending recession brought on by twin banking and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f4ebb5aa-0c54-4232-89bd-a0c60939b155.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Border Insecurity In 2006, Congress passed a law to spend more than $7 billion to build a fence to secure our Mexican border. Less than two weeks ago, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced at a news conference that a high-tech "virtual fence" project ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3b5d812c-c367-47bb-bb9a-8ced1d411aa6.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT How To Beat Obama! (Maybe) Republicans owe Hillary our gratitude. She has road-tested several versions of attacks on Obama that don't work. Obviously, and first, don't come out against change and hope - the perennial themes of successful election campaigns. In 1984, even my ol... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f2ce8007-c175-462e-bd4f-63edf938d46f.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT St. Obama Learns The Washington Ways In 1990, former Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley advised incoming members of Congress to miss a few floor votes early in their careers. If not, he warned, they might suffer the curse that had befallen 79-year-old, 41-year veteran Rep. Charle... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cd17778c-74cc-49d4-90bc-144e13586b87.html Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Hillary's Audacious Hope: Dark Whispers in the Media Every political season has its pleasures. With the accelerated metabolism of the frenzied fight for Super Tuesday now behind us, the two parties are settling in for the more discreet political pleasures of late winter and early spring. Republicans ar... http://www.caglepost.com/article/20567c71-6f0a-45cb-842e-2c7b41c080cb.html Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Strange GOP Nominating Victory Assuming John McCain gets the GOP nomination, it will show how whimsical history can be. It would be the first time in living memory that a Republican presidential nomination went to a candidate who was not merely opposed by a majority of the party b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e0dbabcd-5064-4ec9-b218-4d1fe7ce2951.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Ceausescu, Skeffington or Mondale? Are the Clintons Really Kaput? Starting with Obama's big win in South Carolina, followed by the exit polling that suggested Bill Clinton had offended Democrats with his race-baiting, and enhanced by Sen. Ted and Caroline Kennedy's seemingly poignantly symbolic endorsements - somet... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9f34e9e6-32dd-4d98-8047-1b8c1bb77230.html Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT An Ominous 2008: Journalists And Voters To Regret Their Decisions As I write this, it is about 15 degrees outside my Virginia farm. Nonetheless, my llamas and sheep, deep in snow, seem perfectly cozy in their winter woolens; the peacocks are in their feathered wintered invulnerability to cold; the horses are in the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9b9af987-0da5-45ec-9952-b221afa5ff35.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama Misplays The Race Card I confess that, at a petty and vindictive level, it is vastly amusing to watch Hillary and Bill Clinton fight with Barack Obama about whether they are racist or not. Exploiting identity politics has been one of the cornerstones of Clintonian politics... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7d7565b9-71ad-45e2-9bf5-29830fecfb82.html Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Policy Amnesty The next few weeks and months may be the most dangerous time for wise public policy circa 2009-2016. Unless someone else gets into the presidential race and wins, one of the current crop of candidates will be the next president. (For anyone trying to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/de0072fc-db42-4da0-b2a0-2bd6fd8ea973.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT We Sacrificed 4,000 To Vindicate 3,000; Seeking Psychological Victory in the 'Global War on Terror' In Iraq, as military and security conditions continue to improve, American war politics enters one of its stranger moments in our history. Certainly it is historically odd for war reporting to diminish almost to the point of public invisibility - jus... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fbccd9c6-839c-49db-957b-3bad5567e61c.html Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT None of the Above: GOP Heading to a Brokered Convention The Republican Party primary so far has been an exercise in none of the above. In their turns, Sen. McCain, former Mayor Giuliani, former Sen. Thompson and former Gov. Romney seemed to be or seemed about to be front-runners - only to fall back as the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/599682be-20b0-4ece-9e27-f05970be43f8.html Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Hillary, Huckabee and Trade; Its Time to Have a Free Trade Debate Other than the fight against radical Islam, the efficacy of free trade may be the most important issue pending before the American people and our government. Since the end of World War II, the principle of free trade has defined U.S. economic policy ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2d45c93f-6106-4f00-a5bf-33010a2a3c8f.html Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT How Will Value Voters Vote? Are we seeing the end, for a while, of the dominance of values in presidential elections? And if so, is that a bad omen for the Republicans? This is not a prediction, it is mere conjecture, but let's consider the possibility. Since 1972's McGovern... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a957165f-8d7c-427d-b0e2-0d98b0e97e9e.html Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Hillary's Faux Experience Having spent much of my adult life in politics, it would be silly at this late date to be shocked by the discovery of insincerity and misleading statements coming from leading candidates for president. But if I have seen too much of the world to be s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5b755f4a-a7fe-45ab-b232-7e14db0a9cf5.html Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Veteran's Day 2007: Victory in Iraq? It has become obligatory for both pro- and anti-war commentators never to mention the possibility of victory in Iraq. The most that anti-war people will admit is that the surge has gained a temporary military advantage in a war that cannot be won mil... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6854f97d-5f8d-4963-87a1-9e40421726cc.html Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Ketchup Flowing in the Streets As this column went to print, from Islamabad to London to Paris to Moscow to Los Angeles - wherever a flickering video image could reach - the nerves of the world became more frayed this week with the images of mass demonstrations in the streets and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/412f3657-760b-4bb7-9afb-4d653e923bff.html Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Small-Tent Conservatives My goodness, professional conservative activists and commentators certainly are busy these days trying to put up a pup (rather than a three-ring) tent for the GOP. A few weeks ago, it was social conservatives reading Giuliani out of the party. Now, i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/925c291d-aa7d-43eb-aa2c-baf9144d8470.html Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT From the Bosporus to the Himalayas: What a Mess With the steady decline of our selected ally Gen. Pervez Musharraf's ability to govern Pakistan and the growing alienation of the Turkish people and government from their longtime ally the United States, it is fair to say that from the Bosporus to th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4516f0bd-6809-4a07-a100-21d562c7bd04.html Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT Gore Wins; Facts Lose The world has become such a difficult and dangerous place that I am deeply appreciative of recent amusing events, which seem as if they were written by the Marx Brothers or Monty Python. I have in mind, it should go without saying, Al Gore winning bo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e1cd10ed-7671-49d9-9d98-75b4c0b3428f.html Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT Electoral Pragmatism Reconsidered In my column last week, I argued for electoral pragmatism by my fellow conservatives e.g., better a Giuliani Republican than Hillary. About two-thirds of my self-identified conservative Christian e-mail respondents strongly disagreed. That response r... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c9985937-d437-4f51-acf8-1ced91b99971.html Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT The GOP Needs a Survival Instinct The likely rout of the GOP in next year's elections proceeds apace. Last week, the Republicans, improbably taking their lead from President Bush, put down their marker against health care for America's kids. Don't get me wrong; I completely agree wit... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6cfc2a52-7327-4509-9464-20d73fa58573.html Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT Ahmadinejad and the Suicidal Left Our Founding Fathers were wise to create a constitutional republic rather than a direct democracy. Although, given the caliber of many of our elected representatives - whose role it is to intermediate between the rashness of the public and the safety... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7bb90517-af70-4836-b2d2-e65f8d4a97ab.html Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT Where's the Heir to Reagan? All the Republican candidates for president have attempted to claim Ronald Reagan's mantle. 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President Bush's position on illegal immigration has deeply alienated much of the loyal rank and file Republicans... http://www.caglepost.com/article/36b3976d-d97a-4256-a9bf-ba187c547f2b.html Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT Slow Down, We Move Too Fast It sort of makes sense that in a country that invented instant coffee, instant mashed potatoes, drive-through fast food restaurants and the microwave, Nicole Richie would be released from jail last Thursday after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sent... http://www.caglepost.com/article/aab49947-1150-4a4b-bbb6-af0de8830129.html Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Wanted: Candidates for Change or with Experience Every political season gives birth to one or two instant clich?s. Outside of politics a phrase often takes generations to be spoiled as an effective term by long familiarity, or to become dull and meaningless by overuse. In today's politics a genuine... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2665200e-fda1-438b-aa62-9349d9afa700.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Democrats' Disgrace Sometimes we can better understand where we are politically from afar than from within. Consider this assessment from Europe's biggest and Germany's most influential magazine, Der Spiegel, this week: ""The wind has shifted in Washington. America, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d7d7198c-cc88-4f0f-ab73-6854c28afad3.html Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Is 2008 a Change Election? The 2008 election is conventionally believed to be a change election. So far, there is some evidence to suggest that it will be - although we won't, in fact, know until election night next November - and perhaps not for many years thereafter. It i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5632cf7d-9630-4c0d-847f-95dd6cfbbbbb.html Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Hinge of Fate in Iraq On June 25, the following resolution was tabled in the House: "That this House, while paying tribute to the heroism and endurance of the Armed Forces in circumstances of exceptional difficulty, has no confidence in the central direction of the wa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5eec7c34-efae-4790-be96-a54cd5c636a0.html Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Democratic Debate Comments Just as our troops are fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we don`t have to face them here at home, I watched the Democratic Party presidential debate on Monday so you wouldn`t need to let those egregious people into your own living rooms. (Although, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c7eb50b8-1b82-4fda-9a69-48948a713457.html Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT No News is Bad News A couple of days ago, I gave a speech to a banquet room full of Teenage Republicans at their annual Washington, D.C. convention. This was a light of hope in an approaching darkness. Coming from across the country, they were energetic, full of good ch... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0b89d302-e496-4b0a-a01c-173e09912d68.html Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT No News Is Bad News A couple of days ago, I gave a speech to a banquet room full of Teenage Republicans at their annual Washington, D.C. convention. This was a light of hope in an approaching darkness. Coming from across the country, they were energetic, full of good ch... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2749d874-0091-4e27-864c-669db4328fc0.html Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Senate: Chamber of Shame The Senate is emitting an embarrassing level of emotional policy twitching on the topic of Iraq. Sen. Harry Reid can`t take the war anymore. He "knows" it is lost. Sen. Olympia Snowe has just about had it with the Iraqi government. If they don`t meet... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6a9dd0a0-b651-49b1-844b-76959daaa8d1.html Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Senate: Chamber of Shame The Senate is emitting an embarrassing level of emotional policy twitching on the topic of Iraq. Sen. Harry Reid can`t take the war anymore. He "knows" it is lost. Sen. Olympia Snowe has just about had it with the Iraqi government. If they don`t meet... http://www.caglepost.com/article/aae4db0b-dada-44fb-99ca-92ea2c04d0ca.html Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Terrorism and an Open Society The world seems to be divided into people who see the silver lining in a darkly clouded sky, and those who are transfixed by the slightest bit of cloud in an otherwise azure sky. Last week`s terrorist events in England and Scotland have certa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/53a71366-9b5c-464e-adb5-7df52767ea1e.html Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Terrorism and an Open Society The world seems to be divided into people who see the silver lining in a darkly clouded sky, and those who are transfixed by the slightest bit of cloud in an otherwise azure sky. Last week`s terrorist events in England and Scotland have certa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bc99fec6-1391-4cdb-90dc-20a993db7609.html Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Iraq`s September Diagnosis The word Iraq seems to derange the minds of almost all who contemplate it. Like other famous vexations in history -- Carthage for the Romans, Germany for the French, the Irish for the English (and, of course, the English for the Irish) -- Iraq induce... http://www.caglepost.com/article/55105175-ef13-4e10-bd3b-a26eeabdfb94.html Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Iraq`s September Diagnosis The word Iraq seems to derange the minds of almost all who contemplate it. Like other famous vexations in history -- Carthage for the Romans, Germany for the French, the Irish for the English (and, of course, the English for the Irish) -- Iraq induce... http://www.caglepost.com/article/518313bf-85bf-451b-9aed-b7ba621577d6.html Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Journey into Islam I have just finished reading a deeply disheartening book by my friend Professor Akbar Ahmed. Dr. Ahmed is the former Pakistani high commissioner to Britain and member of the faculties of Harvard, Princeton and Cambridge, current chair of Islamic Stud... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ff8e18a6-4914-44a0-99b5-2b13631d5494.html Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Turkey, The Kurds and Paris Hilton Yesterday, I Googled "Turkey and the Kurds" and got 1,310,000 hits. Then I Googled "Paris Hilton" and got 45,800,000 hits. That seems about right. Who wouldn`t prefer to reflect on the soft-porn potential of the spoiled, slinky, sexually incontinent,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a992d9e5-6012-404d-bc57-59bae472bdb9.html Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Immigration Inconsistencies Admittedly, as Emerson instructs, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Still, Washington at the moment seems to be suffering from notably "large" and "inconsistent" minds. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/553b73ef-c29a-4f96-b2b0-f1e3ac74aca0.html Wed, 23 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT Three-Party Presidential Freak Show I`ve got to give it to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- he does not suffer from low self-esteem. But then, as he owns a 68 percent share of the $20-30 billion, privately held, self-named Bloomberg L.P. firm, that yields over a billion dollars of a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/67df854b-dcd4-4d2e-b0f5-a5e87bb8adc5.html Wed, 16 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT September May Be the Cruelest Month The political and policy planets are beginning to come into ominous alignment over Iraq and Washington. As electoral prospects for Republicans in 2008 continue to grow darker, the urge of GOP congressmen and senators to break with the president over ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/de8cc002-0dd2-4d24-a00b-c8dd409eb797.html Wed, 09 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT A Rising Tide of Fury Whenever I refer to the threat of radical Islam, I am inundated with e-mails chastising me for unjustified alarmism (that is the polite description of the missives). This week, even the esteemed and often accurate British Economist accused me, by nam... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e0f12c5a-4e3f-4159-9168-afbefc9fd636.html Wed, 02 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT Is There Writing on the Wall? Watching (and participating in) the intense Iraq War and War on Terror debate both in the United States and in Europe -- and the politics that flows from it, a sense of futility is increasingly hard to resist. Our nation and Europe seem to have harde... http://www.caglepost.com/article/99b74bfb-e14f-4bc7-9998-3a8fef7a3dfd.html Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT A Post-Imus Republic of Virtue The Imus affair was not about Don Imus; it was -- and more importantly, is -- about the motives of those who brought him down. And we should be familiar with those motives, because they recur throughout history. They were well articulated in a once f... http://www.caglepost.com/article/861f87c2-0ac8-4175-aaf4-c661d5018051.html Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT Iran's Nuke Program Advances On Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cheerfully announced in a televised speech that Iran has now joined the club of countries with "industrial-level" nuclear enrichment -- confirming that Iran has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b317cbe1-4028-47b6-a6f9-ff7528c07270.html Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT

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