Pressures Mount to Resume Domestic Drilling
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 26th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Pressures Mount to Resume Domestic Drilling
A Spokesman With Little to Say
Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Public Retiree Health Costs Must Be Confronted
The Blinding Clarity of Wisconsin
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics have yielded singular clarity.At the federal level, President Obama's budget makes clear that Democrats are determined to do nothing about the debt crisis, while House Republicans have announced that beyond their proposed cuts in discretionary spending, their April budget will actually propose real entitlement reform.
No, Liberalism Isn’t Dead
James Piereson, The American Spectator
HAVING WRITTEN AN ARTICLE a year ago on the question “Is Conservatism Dead?” and answering it in the negative, I am now charged with answering the reciprocal question, “Is Liberalism Dead?”I am afraid that, pace my friend Bob Tyrrell, I must also answer this one in the negative. Liberalism is not dead for some of the same reasons that conservatism is not dead. Liberalism and conservatism are more or less permanent antagonisms within our system of state capitalism such that neither is likely to disappear unless or until the system of which they are parts somehow blows up….