Repeal Military Policy on Gays
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 19th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Repeal Military Policy on Gays
Desert Storm: Is Harry Reid Going Down?
Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker
One evening in Las Vegas, I dropped in on a bimonthly meeting of the Clark County Republican Party at which Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, was scheduled as the last speaker on a long program. The meeting was in a function room somewhere within the vastness of the Orleans Hotel and Casino, a coach-class establishment a couple of miles from the Strip.
Why Obama Needs Colin Powell
Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
Will David Petraeus honor President Obama’s plan to draw down U.S. troops in Afghanistan? Peter Beinart on why Powell is the only man who can help make it happen.There may be only one man left in America who can get the United States out of Afghanistan before it wrecks Barack Obama’s presidency. His name isn’t Barack Obama. It’s Colin Powell.Sure, Obama will make the ultimate decision on whether to defy the military brass and begin withdrawing U.S. troops next summer, as he has pledged. But based on his past behavior, I doubt he can do it on his own.
‘New Normal’ Myths Call for Reagan 2.0
John Tamny, Forbes
During his run for the presidency, and amid the early days of it, Ronald Reagan had to fight broad economic pessimism in addition to a Congress that thought his optimism confirmed the belief that he was dim. The view then was that equities and economic growth were dead, and that the United States had begun a long, slow decline that was irreversible.Happily for us all, Reagan understood what all classical economic thinkers did, that it’s natural for the individuals who comprise any economy to grow given their self-interested desire for the better things in life.