Month: January 2010
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After a Fair Trial, the Prisoner Will Be Executed
The notion that KSM has all the rights of a civilian murder suspect is farcical, and in homage to that farce the administration is willing to endanger Americans.
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How is the KSM Trial Like a Garbage Barge?
I envision the planned KSM trial now traipsing from one venue to another, turned away at every stop. It would be poetic justice if KSM and his fellow terrorists, like the wandering garbage barge, end up right back where they started — in this case, Guantanamo.
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How Much Trouble are the Democrats In?
Classmate, pal and fellow right-leaning ex-journalist Van Wallach at Kesher Talk thinks journalists are overplaying the Democratic debacle story line in Massachusetts: Don’t buy into the hype about terrible trouble for the Democrats. Some trouble, maybe. The mainstream media (MSM) is working overtime to rip into Obama like a pack of famished guppies. They want […]
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Brown Victory Should Spell an End to Obamacare
I guess we can’t call it the People’s Republic of Massachusetts any more. At 52% to 47%, it wasn’t even particularly close. Democrats in the House are stumbling over each other as they back away from the notion of approving the Senate-passed version of health care “reform” so that the Senate would not have to […]
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NJ Episcopalians Respond to Haitian Tragedy
Many worthy organizations are scrambling to help the victims of the horrific earthquake in Haiti. There also have been reports of scams. If you want to help and have not yet chosen a charity, I strongly recommend Episcopal Relief & Development, which has a long history of relief work in Haiti (as well as 40 […]
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A Conservative Sticks Up for Harry Reid, Sort of
I don’t agree with every syllable of Nicholas Guariglia’s commentary, but this part works: Senator Harry Reid is a corrupt statist, embodying everything wrong with the 111th U.S. Congress. But he isn’t a bigot. Reid deserves, and will likely receive, a humiliating electoral defeat in November. But he doesn’t deserve a coerced resignation, which would […]
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The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
After the New Jersey Senate’s disgraceful vote to deny equal rights to same-sex couples, the fight for marriage equality turns to federal court. Testimony began today in the effort to overturn California’s Proposition 8. A fascinating subplot can be found in the fact that the lead legal adversaries in Bush v. Gore have joined forces […]
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Today’s NJ Gay Marriage Vote Hurts Real People
Same-sex marriage is a straightforward civil rights issue, and the only acceptable outcome is full marriage equality. I believe I’ll see it in my lifetime. But New Jersey took a step in the wrong direction today, and I weep for my friends.
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Obama: “The Negotiations Will Be on C-SPAN”
The offensive part of this is not the breaking of a misguided campaign promise to hold public negotiations. What’s offensive is that the legislation that results from those negotiations will be rushed through the Congress with zero Republican support, or close to it, and undoubtedly before anyone can even read the final bill.
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It’s Getting Harder to Hide the Decline
When I was a newspaper reporter — back in the last ice age, har har har — I was assigned to cover a press conference staged by an agency of the New Jersey state government.