Mar 26 2009
Carpe Crisis
WASHINGTON — On Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, Rahm Emanuel, now the White House chief of staff, famously described the future Obama administration’s philosophy for governing: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste….
Archive for March, 2009
Mar 25 2009
Global War on Terror Ends
Good news today. Apparently the war is over. Nothing more to see here.
Mar 19 2009
The Burden of Battle
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.”
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs claims this is its “mission.” The slogan — extracted from the last paragraph of…
Mar 12 2009
Failing the Test
WASHINGTON — “Can we all get along? . Let’s try to work it out.” That was Rodney King’s plaintive plea in May 1992, after his highly controversial confrontation with the Los Angeles Police Department led to arson and…
Mar 05 2009
Be Happy
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s remarkable inability to say or do the right things to aid our sinking economy, stay the collapse of our equities markets, or even build a competent Cabinet is now the stuff…
