November 16, 2005 Text of Remarks By Vice President Dick Cheney (As prepared for delivery) "As most of you know, I have spent a lot of years in public service, and first came to work in Washington, D.C. back in the late 1960s. I know what it's like to operate in a highly charged political environment, in which the players on all sides of an issue feel passionately and speak forcefully. In such an environment people sometimes lose their cool, and yet in Washington you can ordinarily rely on some... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
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PEGGY NOONAN To Boldly Go... A peppery peep at the postelection players. Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST This column, and the world, have been very serious lately. Let's take a not-too-solemn look at postelection players. Warren Beatty has been all over the news as the leader of the anti-Schwarzenegger forces in California. He has emerged, and good for him. He's been making heavily covered speeches and shadowing GOP rallies along with his wife, Annette Bening, a truly great actress.... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
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PARIS BURNING Why Immigrants Don't Riot Here................................... France's rigid economic system sustains privilege and inspires resentment. BY JOEL KOTKIN Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST The French political response to the continuing riots has focused most on the need for more multicultural "understanding" of, and public spending on, the disenchanted mass in the country's grim banlieues (suburbs). What has been largely ignored has been the role of France's economic... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, November 6, 2005
In French "banlieues" means ghetto, not Arabic neighborhood: WSJ Opinion
REVIEW & OUTLOOK Les Misérables France's Muslim underclass goes to the barricades. Sunday, November 6, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST Every night for more than a week, the suburbs of Paris have been a showcase of Europe's failure to integrate its immigrants. Most of the rioting youths were born in France to African parents and speak French. Yet these second- and third-generation immigrants feel little attachment to France, much less a bright future there, and herein lies the problem. Home to Europe's... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, November 4, 2005
A Review of the Truman Capote Movie, from the WSJ: "Wonderland"...........
WONDER LAND Truman Capote's Dark Visitation To a Red State This isn't anything like George Clooney's Edward R. Murrow message film. BY DANIEL HENNINGER Friday, November 4, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST Recently I was speaking with a young woman at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute while standing amid the beautiful ceramic sculptures of contemporary architect Santiago Calatrava. We were talking about the attractions of People magazine. Life's like that in New York, where the low celebrity culture of People... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Nothing like the calming tones of The Dean to bring context and perspective
The Dean's Scream Bush didn't get rolled. He rolled with the punches. Thursday, November 3, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST "The conservative screamers who shot down [Harriet] Miers can argue that they were fighting only for a 'qualified' nominee.... But whatever the rationale, the fact is that they short-circuited the confirmation process by raising hell with Bush.... A cabal of outsiders--a lynching squad of right-wing journalists, self-sanctified religious and moral organizations, and other frustrated... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Bush was the annoying pest...Sen Reid could have been talking about himself
Dirty Harry The Senate Minority Leader throws a roundhouse. By John Dickerson Posted Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005, at 6:13 PM ET Harry Reid speaks so quietly that reporters who interview the Senate minority leader in a breeze have to hold their tape recorders to his chin, as though they were giving him a shave. Some liberals find him too soft-spoken. They didn't like his caution during Roberts' nomination and his quasi-support for Miers'. Yesterday, all he could do was gripe that President Bush hadn't... Sign in to see full entry.
Iranian-al Qaeda terrorist threat is here... the time for action..........
November 1, 2005 The Iran-al Qaeda Axis By Peter Brookes The most immediate threat Iran poses to American national security isn't its nuclear (weapons) program. It's the safe haven Tehran is giving al Qaeda terrorists, who are planning and directing jihad across the globe. If the United States and its allies in the War on Terror don't take firm action against Iranian support to al Qaeda, the price in blood and treasure attributable to Osama bin Laden's killers — in Iraq and elsewhere — will... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, October 31, 2005
Today's Op-Ed Piece from the WSJ...........................................
BELTWAY BRAWLS What Goes Around, Comes Around The Plame kerfuffle has made hypocrites of just about everyone. BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Monday, October 31, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST The Republicans who drafted and proposed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in the early days of the Reagan administration, in a vain attempt to end the career of CIA defector Philip Agee, could not have known that their hasty legislation would one day paralyze the workings of a conservative wartime administration.... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Bush's No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Month: Two Views.......................
LAST WEEK THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S second-term bear market bottomed out. On Monday, Bush nominated as the next Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, who of all the leading candidates will be the central banker least hostile to tax cuts and least likely to direct monetary policy to any end other than combating inflation. At the end of the week, the Commerce Department announced that economic growth in the third quarter had been 3.8 percent, suggesting that, thanks in large part to Bush's... Sign in to see full entry.