Heading for Jimmy Carter Territory?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 15th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Heading for Jimmy Carter Territory?
Steven Hayward, Power Line
The Other Wisconsin Story
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
In one of those lapses of news judgment that with regrettable frequency make mainstream journalists resemble characters in Scoop, the media herd that gathered in Wisconsin to chronicle the great Democratic triumph in the state senate elections has gone back to the coasts — and missed what could grow into a much more consequential story than the failure of organized labor’s second attempt to punish the Wisconsin GOP: the outbreak of racial hate violence at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Gov. Perry & the 2012 Race in a Nutshell
John Podhoretz, Commentary
How Obama Disappointed the World
Marc Hujer, Der Spiegel
As America's first black president, Barack Obama electrified an entire nation. But now that the nation is in crisis, he seems unable to connect with the people. He wanted to change America and restore its reputation in the world. But now his opponents are dictating the country's political course.He was constrained by a number: 140, the maximum characters a Twitter message can contain. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, it was US President Barack Obama's own, self-imposed limit.
