All That Is Necessary

Month: April 2009

  • Chrysler’s New Majority Owner Will Be The UAW. Yeah, That’ll Work.

    I’ve been arguing for months that the government should not throw more bailout money at GM and Chrysler, but rather let them work out their problems in bankruptcy court.  Filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection would give the companies more leverage to modify gold-plated benefits and ruinous work rules that add approximately $2,000 in costs […]

  • Raising Anchor: Seaman Recruit Harry Petersen Reports For Duty

    Seaman Recruit Harry Petersen with his proud father, minutes after being sworn in. (That’s Harry on the left.) After two tentative reporting dates came and went, Harry shipped out today following a brief swearing-in ceremony at Fort Hamilton, near the base of the Verrazano Bridge in Brooklyn. Also there to see Harry off were the […]

  • OK, Let’s Have A Fact-Finding Commission On Torture

    The Washington Post offers the best argument I’ve seen for a bipartisan commission into the use of torture, or “torture” if you prefer, by Americans during the Bush Administration.  The editorial ends with this (emphasis added): But a presidential commission could produce the fullest, least-heated account possible. Once it did so, prosecutions would not be […]

  • VDH Describes Our Topsy-Turvy Times

    Victor Davis Hanson is one of my favorite political writers.  He brilliantly weaves together seemingly unrelated news events to describe patterns that others cannot yet see.  I wish I had been aware of him on September 11, 2001, because he went into overdrive, producing 38 outstanding essays before the end of the year about the […]

  • Conservative Paper Debunks Claim That Obama Delayed Piracy Mission

    Bill Gertz’s conservative credentials are pretty convincing.  He is a star reporter for the conservative Washington Times, an analyst with Fox News, and the author of the 2008 book The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America’s Security and Leading Us to War. Not a lefty.  Here’s the […]

  • Facebook Continues to Peddle Scams To Its Members

    (Welcome, Social Media Today readers. While you’re here you might want to look at other posts under my Social Media tag.) Several weeks ago, I wrote about having been taken in by an IQ test scam on Facebook.   Lots of other people have also written about that and other scams.  Somehow I naively thought […]

  • The Maplewood BlogolopolisTM Holds Its First Summit

    Welcome, Maplewood Patch readers!  Feel free to check out the further adventures of the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM, or otherwise explore the musings of a red state voter in a deep-blue town and state. (See caption information at my new article on Maplewood Patch.)

  • Conservatives Should Support Obama When He Gets Something Right

    Parts of the right-o-sphere are all aflutter, debating whether President Obama deserves any credit for the rescue of a maritime hero held by pirates. It’s a reminder that Obama Derangement Syndrome is no more appropriate than its more wide-spread predecessor, Bush Derangement Syndrome. In The Corner, Jonah Goldberg piped up promptly and congratulated the President […]

  • “Easter SEALs” Rescue Captain, Kill Pirates; More to Come

    Best possible ending: Three dead pirates, no good guys hurt, one hero captain survives after winning his crew’s freedom by offering himself as a hostage.  On Easter Sunday, no less.  (I wish I had thought of Easter SEALs!) Shades of United Airlines Flight 93, as the American crew apparently fought back and retook the Maersk […]

  • Obama’s Not-So-Invisible Hand

    Now that the Automaker-in-Chief has fired the CEO of General Motors and instructed Chrysler to sell itself to Fiat by the end of April,  he’s turning his attention to a variety of other essential American industries, from blue jeans (“Levis yes; Wrangler no”) to toothpaste to ballpoint pens.  President Obama also graciously acknowledged the important […]