When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like “tombstones” across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers, and entire malls reduced to rubble?He promises “protection” to prevent foreigners from “destroying” manufacturing jobs by exporting to ...
"He flabbergasts the Human RaceBy gliding on the waterĢƵ faceWith ease, celerity and grace;But if he ever stopped to thinkOf how he did it, he would sink.— Hilaire Belloc, on the waterbeetleLeaving aside the missing element of grace and the improbability of his ever stopping to think, ...
When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in WashingtonĢƵ Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years.WilsonĢƵ embittering foreign policy failure was the ...
Any summation of Barack ObamaĢƵ impact on domestic policy and politics should begin with this: In 2008, he assured supporters, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Soon he will be replaced by someone who says, “I alone can fix it.” So, Americans ...
It is axiomatic that if someone is sufficiently eager to disbelieve something, there is no Everest of evidence too large to be ignored. This explains todayĢƵ revival of protectionism, which is a plan to make America great again by making it 1953 again.This was when manufacturingĢƵ postwar ...
There has been ferment among the literati since Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Many say that however well Dylan does what he does, it is not literature. Dylan did not go to Stockholm on Saturday to collect his prize, which the Swedish Academy says was awarded “for having ...