Just as the first President George Bush left the ingredients in place for a second war when he failed to depose Saddam Hussein in 1991, so Obama will fail to finish the job and invite yet another war if he abandons Iraq before our gains have been consolidated.
Writer Jon Coupal reports on his address to a joint tax committee of the Utah Legislature to discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of various methods of taxing real property.
Writer Jon Coupal notes that certain judges are taking a sledge hammer to fundamental precepts of federalism as well as usurping the California Legislature's power to appropriate taxpayer dollars.
Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru write: "McCain is in a better position to use this strategy against Obama than Hillary Clinton was. She was never wholly convincing in her adopted role as a working-class warrior. McCain, on the other hand, has the warrior part of the persona in his genes.''
For decades, Proposition 13 has been cast as the bane of cash-strapped local government, limiting property tax revenues even as California's housing market soared. But during the current housing slump, it is seen as a revenue stabilizer.
Writer Doug McIntyre fumes that California's vertebrae-challenged governor has taken the energy debate into a logic cul-de-sac from which it may never return.
Dick Morris writes: Obama has carried flip-flopping to new heights. In the space of a month and a half, this candidate--who we don’t really yet know very well--reversed or sharply modified his positions on at least nine key issues.
Its soaring beauty and well known orange color defines San Francisco worldwide--the Golden Gate Bridge. It's also a magnet of sorts for those attempting to end their lives.
As Mark Krikorian argues in this provocative book, what's different today is not the immigrants, but us. Today's immigrants are very similar to those of a century ago, but they are coming to a very different America--one where changes in the economy, society, and government create fundamentally different incentives for newcomers.
Michael Reagan wrote: "In his mind, Jesse Jackson has every reason to want to take a cutting knife to Obama's private parts in retribution for his own public loss of manhood at Obama's hands. Thanks to the ascendency of Barrack Obama, Jesse's long reign as THE Black leader--a position he more or less shared with the Rev. Al Sharpton all these years--has finally come to an end."
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