Bradley J Gitz makes an important observation here
“The bare minimum that we should expect of our public officials-that they should weigh the impact of various policy options on the national interest…”
His point this week is that the Democrats just are not thinking long range or strategically concerning Iraq.  Well, I’d like to know where the hell Gitz […]

Too many snafus for a snit
Six million prepared meals valued at about $ 43 million: That’s the tally on FEMA’s latest snafu. The latest one we know about anyway. Was ever an agency of the federal government so mismanaged ? Don’t bother trying to come up with an answer. It was a purely rhetorical question. […]

 
Kindness counts  
They say a system that’s broken and unfair to those who immigrate legally. The problem is cities and counties have their hands full with providing traditional municipal services, and we’re pretty sick of the trend at the federal and state levels of letting local governments pick up the tab on issues they’re failing to […]

 
A week in the illegal-immigration debate
The problem is still there, and still growing. But things aren’t all bad. When viewed from the right angle, one can even see encouraging signs of progress amid the chaos of this national debate.
At the very least, it’s off the back burner — and the lid seems to have blown […]

 
Democrats’ Welcome Discipline

By David S. Broder

Fortunately, for my siblings, and myself our folks as still here, the old man served in the Navy in WWII and mother worked in a munitions plant. She lived with 5 other young women in a one bedroom apartment, cramped, underpaid and over worked, but proud to do it. We were at war […]