American links
A lovely tribute from a liberal commentator about a conservative colleague who died of cancer recently.
Study finds American university faculties are very liberal.
A case of Newsweek living down to expectations.
Obama is a product of Chicago Democratic machine politics: his career is very much one of each position being a stepping stone for the next one.
McCain on policy for Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama on Iraq: he is not offering victory. If the only thing one thinks important is the fight over whether the US and allies should have overthrown Saddam Hussein, then Obama is the candidate. If one thinks understanding the current situation and dealing with it is important, McCain was clearly right over strategy in Iraq and Obama clearly wrong.
Obama shifting his shift on Iraq. His withdrawal plan is logistically difficult. Obama apparently not grasping how US military command works. Philosopher Michael Walzer on the foreign policy differences President Obama would make. Obama’s increasing centrism is not playing well about his more left supporters. Nor to Arab pundits.
Obama promises to fix the public school system (but not with vouchers) that he doesn’t send his own daughters to: instead of offering to extend that same choice to all families, Senator Obama wants the poor to wait for the public school system to be “fixed.”
Obama’s website has sections on all the various categories of “we, the people” his policies target. There is a very large group who may feel a little left out. The latter piece also makes a good point that is too often ignored: poor people fret more about family breakdown because they see more of it than rich people do and its consequences, for them, are worse. Social conservatism among lower-income people is not irrational.
Study finds American university faculties are very liberal.
A case of Newsweek living down to expectations.
Obama is a product of Chicago Democratic machine politics: his career is very much one of each position being a stepping stone for the next one.
McCain on policy for Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama on Iraq: he is not offering victory. If the only thing one thinks important is the fight over whether the US and allies should have overthrown Saddam Hussein, then Obama is the candidate. If one thinks understanding the current situation and dealing with it is important, McCain was clearly right over strategy in Iraq and Obama clearly wrong.
Obama shifting his shift on Iraq. His withdrawal plan is logistically difficult. Obama apparently not grasping how US military command works. Philosopher Michael Walzer on the foreign policy differences President Obama would make. Obama’s increasing centrism is not playing well about his more left supporters. Nor to Arab pundits.
Obama promises to fix the public school system (but not with vouchers) that he doesn’t send his own daughters to: instead of offering to extend that same choice to all families, Senator Obama wants the poor to wait for the public school system to be “fixed.”
Obama’s website has sections on all the various categories of “we, the people” his policies target. There is a very large group who may feel a little left out. The latter piece also makes a good point that is too often ignored: poor people fret more about family breakdown because they see more of it than rich people do and its consequences, for them, are worse. Social conservatism among lower-income people is not irrational.