Beleaguered “Civil Servants”?
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius offers up a profoundly confused column this morning about the U.S. Attorneys scandal. He begins by noting the extraordinary public service that many career...
View ArticleNot So Fast
ABC News reports: The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
The number of terrorists convicted in the criminal-justice system is 300. Or 195. Or 39, if you believe the ACLU. Andy McCarthy writes: “It is disingenuous to low-ball the figure, as the ACLU does, in...
View ArticleJobs Saved or Created?
Here is a press report on an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday: “Now, if you hear some of the critics, they’ll say, well, the Recovery Act, I don’t know if that’s really worked, because we still have...
View ArticleOrszag Heading out the Door
With much justification, the Wall Street Journal editors zap the outgoing Office of Management and Budget director: According to press reports, Peter Orszag has told friends that he plans to leave as...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Candid. Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon’s interview should be read in full. A sample: “Yaalon said bluntly that he believes Iran’s regime is ‘not sure that there is a will’ on the part of the...
View ArticleRE: Take Half a Loaf, Demand the Rest
In addition to Republicans and business leaders, Obama’s recently departed head of the Office of Management and Budget also argues, in the New York Times, for a two year extension of the Bush tax cuts:...
View ArticleA Devastating and Depressing Portrait of Obama
The Washington Post’s story on Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, Obama’s Wars, includes these passages: Obama rejected the military’s request for 40,000 troops as part of an expansive mission that had...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Quicker than we imagined: “By 47 to 45 percent, Americans say Obama is a better president than George W. Bush. But that two point margin is down from a 23 point advantage one year ago. ‘Democrats may...
View ArticleIt’s the Whole Country
David Brooks zeroes in on the Democrats’ meltdown in the Midwest: Over the past two years, these voters have watched government radically increase spending in an attempt to put people back to work....
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