Michael Moore’s Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 27th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Michael Moore’s Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds
Jerry Zandstra, Detroit News
What would you say to someone who made $50 million in an industry in which 90 percent of his fellow union members made less than $5,000 per year? How about someone whose last project grossed over $220 million but who hired nonunion workers to save money? Unions should be up in arms. People across the country should be protesting outside this guy's house. Commentators like Rachel Maddow should be raining condemnation on his head in disgust over the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor in America. AdvertisementHe should be the left's poster boy for all that is wrong with our…
The Paranoid Style in Liberal Politics
Matthew Continetti, Wkly Standard
Hot Topics: To forward this article to a friend, please fill out the form below:* Required Fields* Required FieldsGet alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.Gary LockeWichitaGary LockeDavid Koch's secretary told him the news. This was in February, during the rowdy standoff between Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and demonstrators backing 14 Democratic legislators who'd fled to Illinois rather than vote on a bill weakening public employee unions. Koch's secretary said that an editor for a left-wing website, the Buffalo Beast, had telephoned the governor…
Obama’s “Too Good to Pass Up War”
Jason Zengerle, New York Magazine
Barack Obama's change of heart on going to war in Libya seemed decidedly out of character. Maureen Dowd went so far as to compare the president she once mocked as Spock"”for his "Vulcan-like logic and detachment""”with another one of her stock characters, this one named W.: "Both men started wars of choice with a decision-making process marked more by impulse and reaction than discipline and rigor." But that might even be unfair to Bush, considering he spent more than a year laying the groundwork for the invasion…
The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun
Robert Kaplan, Wall Street Journal
Iranians attend a Friday prayer service in February. If Iran's theocracy prevails, it will signal a fundamental eclipse of American influence in the Middle East.Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled by events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of which boast relatively sturdy institutions, civil society associations and middle classes, as well as being age-old clusters of civilization where states of one form or another have existed since antiquity. Darker terrain awaits us elsewhere in the region,…
Obama’s Communications Gap on Libya
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
