John McCain & Lindsey Graham’s Mideast Idiocy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 4th, 2013 12:08 am by HL
John McCain & Lindsey Graham’s Mideast Idiocy
Andrew McCarthy, NRO
I’m done grumbling about how President Obama is empowering America’s enemies. After all, it is not just Obama. When it comes to abetting the Muslim Brotherhood, Republicans are right there with him.Not all of them, of course. This week, for example, Senator Rand Paul proposed an amendment that would have prohibited our government from transferring F-16 aircraft and Abrams tanks to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood–dominated government. This lunatic plan is not just an Obama initiative. It is also a GOP brainstorm — of a piece with 2011’s…
On Thought and Our Political Rhetoric
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
In Hard Economy for All Ages, Older Isn’t Better
Catherine Rampell, NYT
In the current listless economy, every generation has a claim to having been most injured. But the Labor Department’s latest jobs snapshot and other recent data reports present a strong case for crowning baby boomers as the greatest victims of the recession and its grim aftermath. These Americans in their 50s and early 60s — those near retirement age who do not yet have access to Medicare and Social Security — have lost the most earnings power of any age group, with their household incomes 10 percent below what they made when the recovery began three years ago,…