Returning Gitmo’s Detainees to Yemen Defies Common Sense
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 1st, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Returning Gitmo’s Detainees to Yemen Defies Common Sense
Can the GOP Win Kennedy’s Senate Seat?
Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Fighting Over the Squandered Decade
E.J. Dionne, The New Republic
WASHINGTON — Certain decades shape the country's political life for generations by leaving behind an era to embrace or, at least as often, to scorn.The 1960s were definitely such a decade. The 1930s qualify, and so do the 1980s. But as important as all these periods have been, their significance may be dwarfed by the reckless and squandered decade that is, mercifully, ending. Receive news alertsI'm afraid that the past 10 years will be seen as a time when the United States badly lost its way by using our military power carelessly, misunderstanding the real challenges to our…
This ‘System’ Is Going to Bring You Health Care
Emmett Tyrrell, TAS
WASHINGTON — A couple of weeks ago on Oprah Winfrey's “White House Christmas Special,” our first postmodern president, Barack Obama, gave himself a “good, solid B-plus” for his performance over the past 11 months. Then he added that if his healthcare reform passes he will grant himself an A-. This is false humility. Actually he is so proud of the government's impending nationalization of healthcare that when it comes he will grant himself an A, possibly an A+. Right now, however, he is under fire for his inert response to that Nigerian terrorist's…