Media Notes
Fri Feb 4, 5:35 PM ET
BECAUSE I HAD TO FILE this column before President Bush gave his State of the Union address, I can only hope he called Democrats on their indifference to the medium- and long-term threats to Social Security. The decision by Democrats and their friends in media and blogosphere to downplay the obvious problems with the program is the fiscal equivalent of having a healthcare policy that is indifferent to teenage smoking because the consequences of such a habit are far down the road. The harsh truth is that Democrats prefer to fix the Social Security shortfall with tax hikes--which they cannot obtain from this Congress or president, so kicking the can down the road is their preference. Pretending that there is no problem buys time for the left to try and gain the congressional seats they need to hike payroll taxes.
The View from the Plane
Wed Feb 2,10:23 AM ET
I'VE JUST FLOWN IN from Afghanistan, and boy, are my arms tired. Simply sitting in an economy-class seat--even on British Airways, the world's only civilized airline--gave me quite a compacted feeling.
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Bush Versus "Our SOBs"
Tue Feb 1, 8:41 AM ET
FDR REPORTEDLY SAID IT FIRST, though the story could be apocryphal. Sizing up Anastasio Somoza, Nicaragua's brutal (but pro-American) dictator, Roosevelt quipped, "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."
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The Ruthless Party
Mon Jan 31,10:28 AM ET
ON THE EVE of the election in Iraq, Democratic senator Edward Kennedy called President Bush's Iraq policy "a catastrophic failure." He demanded that American troops immediately begin to withdraw. "We have no choice," he declared, "but to make the best we can of the disaster we have created in Iraq." Kennedy said the retreat of American forces should be completed "as early as possible in 2006," and suggested that, in Iraq, American troops are a bigger problem than terrorists.
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Open Letter
Fri Jan 28, 9:00 AM ET
Dear Senator Frist, Senator Reid, Speaker Hastert, and Representative Pelosi:
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Roll Call, E.U.-Style
Thu Jan 27, 4:59 PM ET
ON THURSDAY the Brussels-based European parliament voted on a resolution remembering the victims of the Holocaust and condemning anti-Semitism, ancient and modern, in all its forms. The resolution, which also established January 27 as a European-wide Holocaust memorial day, passed overwhelmingly. The final vote was 617 to 0. But that lopsided figure doesn't include the 10 European parliamentarians who abstained from the vote.
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In Search Of
Thu Jan 27, 4:58 PM ET
SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON has given a speech on abortion that is befuddling the political class. Did she, in her speech Monday to abortion-rights supporters, say what she's always said on abortion, or something new?
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Saddam's Man in Washington
Tue Jan 25, 2:52 PM ET
SAMIR VINCENT WAS VISITING BAGHDAD when Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. He had not lived in his native Iraq for some three decades, having left in 1958 for the United States and a track-and-field career that would later land him in the Boston College Athletic Hall of Fame. Maybe Vincent's presence in Iraq was simply bad timing.
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On Tyranny
Mon Jan 24, 4:29 PM ET
A social science that cannot speak of tyranny with the same confidence with which medicine speaks, for example, of cancer, cannot understand social phenomena as what they are.--Leo Strauss, On Tyranny
Just the Right Amount of God
Mon Jan 24, 4:28 PM ET
"WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE political philosopher?" a group of Republican candidates were asked early in the 2000 race for president. And the frontrunner at the time, a Texas governor named George W. Bush, calmly answered, "Christ, because he changed my life."
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