When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like 鈥渢ombstones鈥� across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers, and entire malls reduced to rubble?He promises 鈥減rotection鈥� to prevent foreigners from 鈥渄estroying鈥� manufacturing jobs by exporting to ...
"He flabbergasts the Human RaceBy gliding on the water鈥檚 faceWith ease, celerity and grace;But if he ever stopped to thinkOf how he did it, he would sink.鈥� 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 Washington鈥檚 Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years.Wilson鈥檚 embittering foreign policy failure was the ...
Any summation of Barack Obama鈥檚 impact on domestic policy and politics should begin with this: In 2008, he assured supporters, 鈥淲e are the ones we鈥檝e been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.鈥� Soon he will be replaced by someone who says, 鈥淚 alone can fix it.鈥� 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 today鈥檚 revival of protectionism, which is a plan to make America great again by making it 1953 again.This was when manufacturing鈥檚 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 鈥渇or having ...