“We’re going to find out whether Republicans have an appetite for a substantial reform agenda against pork spending, out of control budgets, and deal-making politics in this town”.—Rep. John Shadegg, candidate for House Majority Leader. Well, maybe we just did, because as I write, Shadegg, the most aggressive change agent and spending reformer in the […]
Archives for February 2006
Oprah and the Truth
The recent tribulations and mea culpa of Oprah Winfrey over her endorsement of James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, a book of fabrications sold as a true story of triumph and redemption, brought together for me several strands related to the current state of truth and objectivity in our culture. For example, the movie “Munich”, […]
The Alito Hearings – The Debate Postponed Again
Last month I argued for making good use of the Senate confirmation hearings of now Justice Samuel Alito as a “teaching moment” that would take to the country the real jurisprudential issues underlying the judicial confirmation process. We didn’t get this; what we had instead was an embarrassment to the country and a disservice to […]
Stupid Is as Stupid Does
Every American leader with any sphere of influence in whatever walk of life should see the recent ABC television report by John Stossel entitled “Stupid in America”, a scathing expose of the irrational perversity that is so deeply imbedded in the American public school system and the severe damage that this archaic culture and delivery […]