Month: February 2011
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Mideast Uprisings Bode Well for Bush’s Freedom Agenda
The Washington Post has a helpful interactive map providing an overview of the ongoing unrest in a dozen countries throughout the Middle East, with tabs for Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. Any of these uprisings could end badly of course, but the possibilities are exciting. Can there […]
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The Softer Side of Governor Awesome
TigerHawk is my go-to blog for coverage of New Jersey’s Governor Awesome, and I love watching clips of Christie speaking to voters like adults. Whether he’s describing his own state as a “failed experiment” or jousting with his favorite piñata, the teacher’s union, it’s refreshing to watch him. The alternate narrative, since there always has […]
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George Will Has Obama’s Back on Egypt
George Will is often out of step with other conservatives. Sometimes I’m glad of this, and sometimes I’m not. He speaks wisdom in his latest column, taking on the Righties who use every news peg to try to bash President Obama. (Some elements of the Left, of course, are equally guilty of this tendency.) Here’s […]
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Dog Bites Man: MoveOn.org Twists the Truth
The folks behind the scurrilous “General Betray Us” ad have latched on to another issue to distort. One of the cool things about Facebook is that it provides a painless way of gaining exposure to alternate points of view. Liberal FB friends sometimes inspire me to rethink my own assumptions. Other times, like this, they […]