The problem with the Social Security reform is that it was poorly formulated from the start. It wasn’t going anywhere long before Katrina blew into the Gulf Coast.
Making the tax cuts permanent is going to require a deft realignment of the budget, with the White House insisting that every dollar of hurricane relief for New Orleans be matched by a dollar cut from the pork deposits in the energy and highway bills or elsewhere.
p>But you folks at the Spectator really ought not to be holding the egg carton for the lunatics at the New York Times and Newsweek . It’s unseemly.
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A man of faith in a godless age is hitting Americans where it hurts.
Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O’Rourke talk sense to your kids.
In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our culture.
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it?
Was the President done in by the economy, or by the politics of the economy?