The coolest figure by far at the Republican National Convention (at an otherwise sometimes robotic display of partisanship – "Drill, baby, drill!" was the cry of the audience at one point) was John McCain’s Mom – vibrant, elegant, and enthusiastic in every molecule of her 96-year-old body. Fred Thompson was a bit too partisan, but [...]
While in Texas, I received a big dosage of pro-Palin views, rooted in her willingness to stand up to big government. She is certainly a good speaker, which Obama has been "accused" of also. I was almost convinced. But if half of the things in this editorial are correct – saying the war in Iraq [...]
Worthwhile excerpts of President Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention: Our nation is in trouble on two fronts. The American dream is under siege at home, and America’s leadership in the world has been weakened. Middle-class and low-income Americans are hurting, with incomes declining, job losses, poverty, and inequality rising, mortgage foreclosures and credit [...]
Worthy of real concern is the relationship between Venezuela’s dictator-in-development Hugo Chavez, Iran’s Ahmadinejad and the Hezbollah terrorist network, which has been reported to be basing itself in Venezuela to target anti-US operations.
I hope every American family tonight got a chance to listen to Michelle Obama’s speech and to see the girls playfully send regards to their Dad. Her speech should shatter any sown doubts about her patriotism, & her commitment to what is great about America & the American dream. More important, seeing the family interact [...]
Totally unrelated to silly Republican attacks against Obama for being too popular and too hip, the Obama campaign (to which, though an independent, I’ve contributed the maximum allowed) some times seems to not quite get the need for a bit more gravitas. I just got an email (the umpteenth one in the last week) asking [...]
For those denying that America is being enveloped by an obesity epidemic whose repercussions we cannot begin to fathom, as if data about how 1 in 3 children born this year will be diabetic and 32% of children are overweight, new data shows that adult obesity rates increased in 37 US States across the US [...]
A few weeks back I attended a play hosted by Stanford Law School, a one-man-show by Lawrence Fishburne about Thurgood Marshall. At the end, retiring Justice Marshall quotes a poem from his classmate Langston Hughes: Oh, let America be America again The land that never has been yet — And yet must be — the [...]
From the ever-incisive and amusing Michael Kinsley, trying to decode the Democratic Party’s "platform": Translating the document is no simple task. First, an alarmist note. Democrats favor “tough, practical and humane immigration reform.” And, “We will provide immediate relief to working people who have lost their jobs, families who have lost their homes and people [...]
Underscoring the depth of the challenge to freedom as we know it, no less than NYT Editor Bill Keller led the Week In Review with an analysis of China and Russia’s rise: If it is not yet an age, it is at least a season: Springtime for autocrats, and not just the minor-league monsters of [...]