2009 Lincoln Day Bicentennial Dinner
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The following is my December column in the Queens Village Eagle announcing the upcoming Lincoln Day Bicentennial Dinner. The objectives of this commemorative dinner are to celebrate the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln and introduce a unique opportunity for students to study the life and legacy of one of our greatest national heroes:
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The historic Queens Village [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted on November 27, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
We as Americans have much to be blessed about this Thanksgiving: we have the greatest fighting force in history battling to preserve our freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan; we have an underappreciated, yet dedicated President who has worked the past eight years to protect our nation; and we have a hopeful and yearnful citizenry anxious for [...]
Anatomy of a Meltdown
Posted on November 25, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The New Yorker Magazine has published John Cassidy’s Anatomy of a Meltdown, the most comprehensive timeline and discussion of the financial crisis I’ve seen by any publication. While the piece places lots of blame on Bush, Greenspan, and Bernanke, and conveniently leaves out the role of ACORN, Barney Frank, and Freddie and Fannie in the [...]
Obama on Auto Bailout
Posted on November 25, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
While I’m opposed to any sort of auto bailout as GM and Chrysler will merely burn through the money in a month, to his credit President-elect Obama chided the Big 3 for not having a better proposal to send to Congress on why they needed the $25 billion:
“We can’t just write a blank check to [...]
Poor Joel Beinin; Everyone’s Always Letting Him Down
Posted on November 20, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Yesterday I posted at Campus Watch an email written by Stanford professor of Middle East history Joel Beinin. I included comments and “translations” of his self-pitying prose, to wit:
Poor Joel Beinin: the world consistently fails to measure up to his high standards of conduct. Year after year, uncaring, boorish individuals fling darts straight through his [...]
Hank Has No Trust
Posted on November 17, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) criticized Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson for changing the “bailout plan” in yesterday’s Tulsa World:
“It is just outrageous that the American people don’t know that Congress doesn’t know how much money he (Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson) has given away to anyone,” the Oklahoma Republican told the Tulsa World.
“It could be to [...]
James Hansen, NASA’s High Priest of Global Warming, Makes Up Data
Posted on November 16, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Today’s Daily Telegraph carries another sordid tale on the mendacious efforts of NASA’s Dr. James Hansen to push the world into accepting that man made global warming is destroying the planet.
Although NASA announced this past Monday that October 2008 was the hottest October on record, in fact Hansen and his allies at NASA’s Goddard Institute [...]
Thanks to Jim & Joe
Posted on November 16, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC) broke the Golden Rule of politics and criticized another Republican: John McCain. Here’s what Demint said, as reported by CNN:
The conservative senator, speaking to a group of GOP officials gathered in Myrtle Beach at a conference on the future of the Republican Party, described how the party had strayed from its [...]
Incorrugible
Posted on November 15, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
This report from the Miami Herald reveals one reason why McCain may have lost Florida:
Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer is being asked to answer to an audit of party books amid questions from top Republican leaders as well as rank and file members about spending on chartered jets, five-star hotels, sports tickets and [...]
Where’s the Change?
Posted on November 13, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Rahm Emanuel, Warren Christopher, John Podesta — all in senior level positions in the Obama Administration’s transition team or future White House and all senior level leaders of the former Clinton Administration. Should we be surprised? I suppose so considering the fact that Obama worked so hard to defeat Hillary, keep her off the ticket, [...]
