Politics
Foreign policy update
The ‘Blamer-in-Chief’ loves to take credit, too
BREAKING NEWS: Obama comes up with plan to stop Islamic terrorists!
QUIZ: What enrages Obama?
It’s hard to get under President Obama’s skin.
He prides himself in keeping his cool. Even when he intones sharp words, he delivers them with a calm exterior that reveals minimal passion.
That’s what makes Bret Stephens’ piece in today’s Wall Street Journal so fascinating. Mr. Stephens writes a regular column for the WSJ called Global View. Evidently, the president is enraged over one particular issue.
Just one.
Of the following issues, guess which one has Mr. Obama enraged?
Read MoreIn praise of Uber
Millennium Park was a mob scene.
My two sons and I were at the Chicago Jazz Festival soaking up some great music over the weekend. This is the second year in a row we made the trek to Chicago.
The Festival takes place at gorgeous Millennium Park in the breathtaking Jay Pritzker Pavilion. As Friday night’s music wrapped, we decided we needed more jazz and decided to go the Jazz Showcase.
Normally, this would necessitate a cab, as we had our car parked way back at our hotel.
My son told me not to worry.
“Watch this,” he said. He pulled out his iPhone.
Tap, tap, tap went his fingers.
He said, “our ride will be here in a minute.”
Read MorePriorities?
Obama honors socialist, disses capitalist
“We are activists committed not only to extending political democracy but to demanding democratic empowerment in the economy, in gender relations, and in culture. We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.”
Read MoreIowa Democrats pray for more human abortion
We give thanks, oh Lord, for the doctors, both current and future, who provide quality abortion care.”
Read MoreLiberals’ love affair with Fidel revisited
Bonnie M. Anderson won seven Emmy Awards. She was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has been nominated for the Maria Coors Cabot Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by Columbia University.
Ms. Anderson, who is now president of the Anderson Media Agency, ran across my blogpost from last year that recounted her father’s death. She sent me this response:
Read MoreDo we know that we are at war?
By Tom Quiner We’ve been in the midst of World War III for decades and don’t even know it. The war has been waged by Islam against the rest of the non Islamic world. Attacks take place on a daily basis throughout the world. People die by the thousands at the hands of people who…
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