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If you missed this powerful essay by Angelo Codevilla, “America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution,” I highly recommend it. I learned yesterday that Dr. Codevilla, a professor of international relations at Boston University and a senior editor of The American Spectator, has expanded his article into a book, The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America [...]

In yet another victory for the Tea Party, Marco Rubio, has won Florida’s Republican primary election for U.S. Senate in a landslide with over 84% of the votes. Rubio is now up against Kendrick Meek, the Democrat primary winner, and Charlie Crist, running as an Independent, in one of the most interesting races in the [...]

The New York Times editorial board predictably came out in defense of the Cordoba Initiative’s Ground Zero mosque project and praised President Obama’s stance on the issue (his first stance anyway). Obama, speaking at a Ramadan dinner at the White House last week, stated that the Muslims (led by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf) have every [...]

In case you are not familiar with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman’s take on our current fiscal crisis, he thinks the only way to avoid a longer recession (or possibly a Long Depression) is to have government spend our way back into prosperity. “Spend now, while the economy remains depressed; save later, once it has [...]

This somewhat dated but still relevant article, “U.S. foreign policy:  Waiting on a Sun King,” by Edward Luce and Daniel Dombey published at FT.com in March 2010 sheds some disturbing light onto Obama’s approach to foreign policy, which is described as a highly centralized process in which “all roads lead to and from him.” This [...]

While you sipped your coffee or played with the kids, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today (around 11 p.m. EDT on Sunday, March 21st to be exact; 219 to 211) on passage of the Senate health care bill (yes, the one the Senate passed on Christmas Eve), and they also voted (at 11:36 p.m. [...]

Robert Tracinski writes at RealClearPolitics.com on the “scandal of the century” — that the science behind global warming is bogus. In case you haven’t heard, thousands of emails have been obtained by a hackers that expose how scientists working at Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at Britain’s University of East Anglia manipulated data and lied [...]

This speech by Liz Cheney at a recent Redstate Gathering is worth reading. The title says it all: “We have grave concerns about the path they’ve put us on.” Posted by Liz Cheney at Redstate.com. I would post the Youtube video of it, but it appears to be down.

I found this old, half-written post in my drafts, dated January 24, 2009: It gets more fascinating by the minute, with the “unchartered” economic waters and the New Left controlling the White House (and the House and Senate). Watching the inauguration, I was momentarily hopeful that Obama will prove to be a centrist leader, a [...]

John David Lewis (via RealClearPolitics.com) on the rising cost of health care: “Those who want to see an end to spiraling medical costs should challenge the premises behind the government interventions.”