*Please, No More “Half-As-Much” Republicans, by J. Robert Smith.
“What’s a half-as-much Republican? One who’s willing to do half as much as liberals on big government initiatives.”
*Book’im, Dan-o, by Stephen Green.
“I love my local funky used bookstore. But, dude, you’re hosed. Totally. Maybe you can borrow some Kleenex from the guy who used to own the local used record store.”
RELATED: Amazon vs. Apple: What should the price of E-books be? By Virginia Postrel.
*Best Headline of the Day: A Nation of Racist Dwarfs, by Christopher Hitchens.
“Unlike previous racist dictatorships, the North Korean one has actually succeeded in producing a sort of new species. Starving and stunted dwarves, living in the dark, kept in perpetual ignorance and fear, brainwashed into the hatred of others, regimented and coerced and inculcated with a death cult.”
*Next in Line for a Bailout: Social Security, by Allan Sloan.
*Obama Appears Blinded by His Own Ideological Biases, by Jonah Goldberg.
*Professor of Contempt: The legacy of Howard Zinn, by Roger Kimball.
“The one indisputably valuable thing about A People’s History of the United States is the way it illustrates a melancholy fact about the place of reasoned argument in human affairs. In brief, it occupies a lamentably attenuated place. Placed in opposition to a wish driven by the Zeitgeist (that’s German for “what the New York Times preaches”), reasoned argument doesn’t stand a chance.”
*Is Obama Ready to be President? By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
*What Obama Isn’t Saying, by Harvey Mansfield.
“He understands that his principle prospers best when it is not enunciated. His politics is apolitical; it wants to put an end to politics. It considers its measures to be progressive, and progress to be irreversible.”
RELATED: Mr. President, Words Matter. By Victor Davis Hanson.
“One cannot spend two years blaming America under Bush, and then suddenly claim, “That was then, this is now,” and expect the world to rally to the godhead of Barack Obama and his new, improved America.
How odd that Obama, the rhetorician, forgot that words matter — and that the truth is not a trifle, a mere construct predicated on the particular situation at the moment it is voiced.”
*A $2 Trillion Tax Hike, at the New York Post.
