A Nod to Realism
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 2nd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
A Nod to Realism
Richard Cohen, RealClearPolitics
America rarely does time capsules anymore, but the ones it does should include videos from February 2011 of American TV reporters exulting in the triumph of the Arab Spring. “This is the sound of a people rising,” ABC’s Terry Moran told us from Cairo. For Egyptians, he said, it was a day “when a people rose and made themselves a new country, a new world, a new life.” That new life today looks depressingly like the old one. The military government of Hosni Mubarak has been replaced by the military government of Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. In between came the interregnum…
Wage Gap a GOP Issue
Dick Morris, RealClearPolitics
“Use your tools to fix their car,” a key tenet of the idea of triangulation, should be the lynchpin of the Republican midterm campaign of 2014. The president has found a compelling issue in income inequality. Now it is up to the Republicans — not to challenge the issue’s legitimacy as a national concern, but to show how their policies, rather than those of the Democrats, are best equipped to solve it. The central issue for Republicans to use in fashioning a GOP solution to income inequality is immigration. Nothing strikes more fundamentally at the pain of the working class, toiling long…
Winooski, Vermont and the Dismantling of America’s Values
Dennis Prager, RealClearPolitics
As a talk show host, I have no choice but to keep up with what’s happening in America and the world. I am therefore submerged in depressing and often angering fare. It is hard to read about and discuss the progressives who dominate American media and academia who morally equate Israel and Hamas; who describe America — the most tolerant multi-ethnic country in the world — as racist; and who characterize American universities as a “rape culture.” But there was a barely reported story that came out of a small city in Vermont last week that, for reasons to be explained, really got to me. The…
Irresponsible Choices
Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics
The latest Gallup poll indicates that 14 percent of the people “moderately disapprove” of Barack Obama’s performance as president and 39 percent “strongly disapprove.” Since Obama won two presidential elections, chances are that some of those who now “strongly disapprove” of what he has done voted to put him in office. We all make mistakes, but the real question is whether we learn from them. With many people now acting as if it is time for “a woman” to become president, apparently they have learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous results of the irresponsible self-indulgence of…
