All That Is Necessary

Month: July 2010

  • Noonan Hears Echoes of Reagan in Governor Christie

    Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan brings out the big guns in today’s Wall Street Journal, comparing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to the Great Communicator. For anyone just joining us, Christie, the man Jersey-based blogger Tigerhawk has dubbed “Governor Awesome,” is working to close an $11 billion deficit in a $29 billion state budget.  He’s […]

  • Sen. James Webb: “White America is Hardly a Monolith”

    In a riff on Nixon-goes-to-China, only a Democrat could get away with stating clearly and frankly the banal truth that sometimes white people suffer from racial discrimination in America.  Fortunately, there’s a prominent Democrat willing to do so:  Sen. James Webb of Virginia, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “Diversity and the […]

  • A Tireless Muslim Advocate for Islamic Reform

    It’s a shame that conservative arsonist Andrew Breitbart has torched his own credibility so thoroughly at the time one of his websites was preparing to publish an important message from my favorite Muslim-American patriot. As a public service to anyone who doesn’t want to give Breitbart’s site any traffic, I’m posting an extensive excerpt here […]

  • Shirley Sherrod, and the Administration That Couldn’t Shoot Straight on Racial Matters

    Apparently someone in the Agriculture Department snoozed through the part of every old courtroom movie when the judge says, “before I pass sentence, is there anything you would like to say?” How dumb do you have to be to fire someone in the midst of a publicity firestorm without giving that person an opportunity to […]

  • Financial Services “Reform” to Complete Obama’s Tragic Trifecta

    ObamaCare is such a train wreck that Americans support repealing it by a 2-1 margin. Don’t even get me started on the wasteful and dishonest Porkulus bill. And now comes yet another 2,000-plus page bill, a financial services "reform" measure that does a lot of things — but fails to address the actual causes of the financial meltdown that began nearly two years ago and has us staggering still.

  • A Prodigy in Madison: My Latest Patch.com Article

    I met a remarkable young man recently — a six-year-old taking organ lessons at the church where I work.  I wrote about him for Patch.com’s Madison website.  Here’s how it starts: His feet don’t reach the pedals.  His arms barely stretch to the top keyboard.  His pudgy little fingers seem dwarfed by the keys. But […]

  • First Memories of Citi Field

    What a perfect way to spend a summer Sunday afternoon — sitting in the shade at Citi Field, a beautiful blonde by my side, watching my Mets shut out the Atlanta Braves.  Seven scoreless innings by Johan Santana, a rare 1-2-3 ninth from K-Rod, a thundering home run to straightaway center by Ike Davis, a […]

  • Islam Needs a Reformation, Not Technological Help

    Leave it to a devout and patriotic Muslim-American to smack down the Obama Administration’s latest example of unseriousness in the struggle against Islamic fascism. You may have read that Charles Bolden told al-Jazeera last week that when Obama appointed him to lead NASA, the president gave him three charges:  “One, he wanted me to help […]

  • “Lit the Torch of Freedom for Nations Then Unborn”

    Because of a happy accident of birth, I have the extraordinary privilege of being a United States citizen. I’m grateful for that every day, but especially on July 4. Happy Independence Day!