In a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago today, Bush, who has never vetoed a spending bill, as far as I know, praised Congress for cutting government spending on entitlement programs. But the president has placed an entire country on the welfare rolls: Iraq. Iraqis are now wards of the American state. Non-military spending there—the news media call that part of Operation Iraqi Freedom “good news”—threatens to dwarf spending state-side. “Philanthropic” wars are transfer programs—the quintessential big-government projects. The perpetually profligate Bush should quit pretending he’s an apostle of smaller government.
2005's Hottest Trends
‘A Heart, a Cross, and a Flag’ were the things that Peggy Noonan saw ‘rise from the rubble’ of post-Sept. 11 America. By 2005, a very different set of emblems had emerged to animate the American imagination. Let us examine them, shall we …
More of 2005’s Hottest Trends“count among them a dog, a kid, and a continent” in my new WorldNetDaily.com column. Comment are, as always, welcome.
2005’s Hottest Trends
‘A Heart, a Cross, and a Flag’ were the things that Peggy Noonan saw ‘rise from the rubble’ of post-Sept. 11 America. By 2005, a very different set of emblems had emerged to animate the American imagination. Let us examine them, shall we …
More of 2005’s Hottest Trends“count among them a dog, a kid, and a continent” in my new WorldNetDaily.com column. Comment are, as always, welcome.
Give Peace A Makeover
“Cindy Sheehan has blamed the media for retarding the peace movement in the United States. But according to “The Babe Theory of Political Movements,” which Sheehan should study closely, the peace movement has a problem: it’s ugly. The media doesn’t forgive ugly. If Sheehan wants to give peace a chance, she’ll need to give it a makeover. A disheveled woman with leathery skin and a dopey inflection is not going to get the attention she craves.”
The excerpt is from my new FrontPageMagazine column, Give Peace A Makeover. Comments are welcome.
Thanks to Frank for sending a link to “Breasts Not Bombs.” The pictorial is a study in how truly ugly the antiwar Left is, body and mind. To assault others with such impropriety strikes me as passive-aggression. Warning: You’ll need multiple barf bags.