The contest for the Republican presidential nomination now appears to be between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Of course, at the equivalent point in the 2008 campaign, the two leading GOP candidates were Rudy Guliani and Fred Thompson. Still, for Tea Party members and sympathizers, it is becoming increasingly likely that they will have to support an establishment Republican...
Second: a modest view of the presidency (and the president). If Calvin Coolidge exists at all in the popular imagination, it is as the president most sparing in his words and daily labors. “Silent Cal” of the four-hour work day and afternoon naps seems a president for a time long ago and a land far away. Don’t need a...
The President’s recent State of the Union Address opened and closed with tributes to the military. In between, his focus was domestic, calling upon Congress and the American people at large to attack our economic challenges with military-style efficiency, unity, and singleness of purpose. Not enough tech-savvy workers? No problem: “We know how to fix it.” Troubles with our...
The defining moment of President Obama’s 2008 campaign came on the night he clinched the Democratic Party nomination. In a statement capturing all the messianic hopes and solipsistic hubris of the campaign, he outlined a remarkable vision for his presidency: “If we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am...
When your federal government takes fifteen cents of every American dollar earned, you have a problem. When that same government spends twenty-five cents for every dollar earned, you have a disaster. Time for a little homespun common sense: We’d probably all like to be able to spend more than we make each year, but we know that it’s not right to leave our...
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