All That Is Necessary

Month: June 2011

  • The Wages of Socialism Are Greece

    Look to Greece, the cradle of democracy, to see what happens when the people no longer are able to vote themselves bread and circuses. From the Voice of America: Workers in Greece are in the second day of a 48-hour general strike, and the country is all but shut down by the protest action against […]

  • On Gay Marriage, NY vs. NJ, and the Maplewood Bubble

    Same-sex marriage is a basic civil rights issue, and the only acceptable outcome is full marriage equality. With every passing year America will bend further in that direction. Faster, please.

  • Obama Swats the Gay Ping-Pong Ball

    While I was at the Karen Armstrong lecture last night, President Barack “Marriage is between a man and a woman” Obama was walking back his position on one of the few issues where I have found myself politically to his left: Same-sex marriage. He didn’t use the word “marriage,” but last night at a New […]

  • Karen Armstrong Preaches Compassion in Morristown

    I tried to bait the famous author into a partisan screed, but she was having none of it. “America is at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now our Nobel Peace Prize winning president is taking us into war in Libya.  I’d be interested to hear your take on how some of the things you’ve […]

  • Quick Take: VDH on Obama’s Afghanistan Speech

    Victor Davis Hanson on last night’s presidential speech about Afghanistan: "We are on the hinge of history, unsure whether we swing to 1974 and give up, or swing back to 2006 and win."

  • You Go Girls! Saudi Women Risk Jail to Drive

    But the 21st century’s most dangerous strain of barbarism has its center of gravity in a culture that produced 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. A culture whose organizing figure consummated his "marriage" to Aisha when the girl was 9 or 10. A culture where even today, women risk jail if they drive. Given all of this, should Obama have taken up arms against Muammar Gaddafi? I dunno. But I know who I’m rooting for.

  • Lemme Get This Straight — BILL Clinton Thinks Weiner Should Resign?

    Bill Clinton — he of the cigars and the perjury and the finger-wagging and the 14-month impeachment ordeal and the professed ignorance of the meaning of "is" — should leave it to his wife to deliver any resignation advice. Bill Clinton is the poster child for why Weiner should try to ride out the storm.

  • There Are a Billion Muslims — We Better Make Friends With Some of Them

    America is at war with a global enemy motivated by Islam — but if Islam itself is the enemy, we’re all in trouble. Father Butler should be commended, not attacked, for working to build bridges between Muslims and Christians.

  • A Random Tweet That Caught My Eye

    @iowahawkblog David Burge Did you know @RepWeiner uses the same brain when he’s in Congress? I don’t spend much time on Twitter — none, actually, although I flirted with it for a while — but this flashed by on the NRO Web Briefing.

  • Strange Bedfellows: House GOP Leadership Has Obama’s Back in Libya Showdown With Kucinich

    When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama launched an air war against the Libyan regime without Congressional approval in March, he said he expected the action to last “days, not weeks.”  In a post about “the bizarreness of it all,” I tried to keep an open mind about the intervention and said I was hoping […]