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You have to hand it to President Obama. Not only was his State of the Union speech early last week warmly received by the public, but it unleashed a wave of bipartisan sentiment in Congress, especially in the U.S. Senate. What had been had World War I-style battlefield of trench warfare between Republicans and Democrats filled with [...]
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The Obama Justice Department has apparently decided that, since torture is not a crime (at least not anything deserving of prosecution), then concocting legal doctrines that unleashed torturers around the world is also no offense. A Justice Department internal investigation has concluded that John Yoo and Jay Bybee were gulity only of “poor judgment” in [...]
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One must engage in ample amounts of self delusion to defend Republican performance on budget issue in the last few years, but Daniel Foster at NRO’s Corner is up to the task: Obama is right. Monthly deficits under the recent Democratic Congresses don’t exceed annual deficits under those Republican Congresses. But they come pretty darn [...]
Filed under: Congress, Conservatism
Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Barack Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. He’s pushing good old American progressive-corporate elitism. Read TGIF here.
Filed under: Politics
Newsweek comes to announce that Neoconservatism never really died. In fact, we’ll be living with their progeny for some time: At his invitation, Frederick and Kimberly Kagan, an odd sight in flak jackets, have taken seven inspection tours of Iraq since April 2007. “They don’t have kids, so this is their child,” Petraeus said in [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, History, Uncategorized, War, World
I don’t even want to speculate about what kind of films TAC readers prefer, but I would bet that they are not very partial to most of what passes for Hollywood hits. I received three movies for Christmas that I have only now been able to watch, all of which I would highly recommend. They [...]
Filed under: Culture
President Obama is in a dilemma from which there appears to be no easy or early escape. Democrats are the Party of Government. They feed it, and it feeds them. The larger government grows, the more agencies that are created, the more bureaucrats who are hired, the more people who become beneficiaries, the more deeply [...]
Filed under: Politics
Late night Tuesday TAC‘s website was hacked. The attacked itself was not too serious, but a thorough security review has taken a bit of time. Normal service, however, now resumes. The new protective measures shouldn’t inconvenience readers, but you may notice some odd formatting on the blogs for a short while until we trim the [...]
Filed under: Announcements
Internal migration has long been the overlooked factor leading some to believe that immigration does not significantly affect, or even increases, wages for native-born American workers. Not accounting for those leaving one region for another in search of higher wages and lower living costs some economists have postulated that the slack market for low-skilled labor [...]
Filed under: Culture, Immigration, Religion
“Elections don’t matter!” conservatives have long groused. “No matter who you vote for, things never change.” Well, we may have an exception here. Scott Brown told Massachusetts’ voters if they elected him to what David Gergen calls “the Kennedy seat” in the Senate, he would go to Washington and run a sword through Obamacare. Thirty-six [...]