No less an authority than Lech Walesa (you remember him, the former electrician who stood up to the Soviet puppet government in Poland, which ultimately, with a little help from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and the Pope, led to the fall of the Soviet empire) recently made an insightful observation: “The world has no leadership. […]
Archives for March 2010
The Cult of Fairness
For as long as there has been an American party of the left, it has been associated with an obsession with the notion of “fairness” and a related hatred of social and economic inequality of condition, which is often closely allied with envy and even hatred of the “rich”. This began long before the late […]
The Russia-U. S. “Reset”
At the dawn of the Obama administration, the mission of U. S.-Russian relations was characterized by “reset”, even to the point of a silly reset button visual aid presented to Russian leadership by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. What reset means to the Russians was described by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as “to move beyond […]
Another Significant Bush Legacy…
and maybe the most significant aside from the future evaluation of success in Iraq, will be his appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, on which I have previously commented. More recent evidence here are the decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission and the likely decision in McDonald […]
More Bush Vindication
Recently I have indicated a number of areas of foreign and defense policy in which the legacy of the administration of George W. Bush continues to thrive, despite the campaign promises of Barack Obama to roll back much of it. One of the best examples is in Iraq, where we have been presented with the […]