Finally, the president is done taking guff from terrorists. Unfortunately it’s the university president of The New School, Bob Kerrey:”The band of hooligans who launched an ill-fated bid to take over the New School are a bumbling brood of terrorists that deserve to be locked up, the university’s embattled president said today.”
Victor Davis Hanson: “The Obamists better be careful in their serial apologetics, ‘Bush did it’ throat-clearing, and caving to European, Russia, Turkish, etc. agendas. Slowly, but clearly we are establishing a new atmosphere in which the old unpredictability, military preparedness, and deterrence will be lost, replaced by a touchy-feely sort of seminar discussion, laced with atonement, reaction. And then the two-bit pirates who boast ‘We are not afraid of the Americans’ will be the least of our problems.”
Tom Wilkerson, CEO of the United States Naval Institute, explains: “The problem today is that we have refused to take the Jefferson model. We’ve confined our anti-piracy efforts to the open seas and left the pirates’ home bases on land as a sanctuary. Thus, the pirates continue to operate with relative freedom and stealth. We and our allies only respond, never seizing the initiative. The Jefferson model is a better answer: Take on the pirates where they are, rather than guessing where they will be. In short, attack them at their home bases.”
Oy: “FBI agents are investigating the Somali pirates who hijacked a U.S. ship and are holding its captain hostage, U.S. officials said Saturday, raising the possibility of federal charges against the men if they are captured.” Better hope they read the pirates their rights and have search warrants for communication intercepts.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty reminds us that candidate Obama ran on a platform with a number of tax cuts, but President Obama’s budget doesn’t include any of them.
Commenting on the ASU controversy, Larry Sabato makes a great point: “Why are universities handing out these ‘honorary’ doctorates? . . . It is obvious what colleges are attempting to do. They are currying favor with powerful politicians, journalists, industrialists, large contributors, and others. It can be a corrupting practice, partly because it is the role of universities (and tenured faculty) to speak truth to power. In a sense, it is also insulting to the young men and women who have spent years toiling and paying for real doctorates.”
No surprise here: “As Washington cracks down on compensation and tightens regulation of banks, a brain drain is occurring at some of the biggest ones. They are some of the same banks blamed for setting off the worst downturn since the Depression. Top bankers have been leaving Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and others in rising numbers to join banks that do not face tighter regulation, including foreign banks, or start-up companies eager to build themselves into tomorrow’s financial powerhouses.” The administration and Congress seem blissfully unaware of the international market for skilled labor.
Elaine Chao gets it right on “card check”: “There’s irreconcilable cognitive dissonance in the Democratic Party’s self-image as pro-worker and its congressional leaders’ push for the ‘card check’ bill. The cynically titled Employee Free Choice Act would deny workers the ability to cast private ballots in unionization elections and then deny them the right to ratify, or not ratify, labor contracts drafted by the government when negotiations in newly unionized workplaces exceed the bill’s rigid timetable.”
Think the tax code is unfair or burdensome? It is — watch this.
And they have the nerve to criticize Wall Street: “In 2001, The New York Times celebrated its 150th anniversary. In the years that have followed, Arthur Sulzberger has steered his inheritance into a ditch. As of this writing, Times Company stock is officially classified as junk.”
