Democrats Trail In Five Undecided House Races
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 17th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Democrats Trail In Five Undecided House Races
The Pleasures of Hitch
Christopher Caldwell, New York Post
There is an odd thing about Christopher Hitchens. Having entered journalism as a Trotskyist in 1970s Britain (which he memorably described as “Weimar without the sex”), he has spent the last decade as a leading advocate of bombing Afghanistan “back out of the Stone Age.” Yet this ideological change has had little effect on the pleasures of reading him.One would — at least I would — as happily read something he wrote about Nicosia in 1975 as something he wrote about Barack Obama this morning. The moving articles that Hitchens has written since being diagnosed with…
The Opportunity Cost: Safety Nets vs. Jobs
David Dickey, OC Register
Intellectually, most of us recognize that we cannot have both “guns and butter.” The necessity to make such fundamental choices results from the fact that resources are both finite and scarce. When it comes to politics, however, our emotions seem to overwhelm our intellect. Possibly due to our nation's legacy of economic success, the passion to “have it all” has become a pervasive American trait. Alas, reality dictates that, collectively, this dream remains a fantasy "“ even for we Americans, the most blessed of all peoples.
Curb the Outrage, Safety is at Stake
Joanna Molloy, New York Daily News
The words are immortal now. Not “honor thy neighbor as thyself,” or “to be or not to be” – but “Don't touch my junk.”This phrase entered the lexicon over the weekend, when passenger John Tyner refused to undergo a full-body scan – or a patdown that included a “groin check” at the San Diego airport.He told a Transportation Security Administration officer: “If you touch my junk, I am gonna have you arrested.”