Washington, DC – Having completed his three-state, “Midwest listening tour,” our president is now on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. According to his handlers, in between golf outings and cocktail parties, Mr. Obama also is working on yet another speech on how he will balance our government’s books and put Americans back to work. Those who […]
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Easter in the East
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – Easter morning sunrise services are part of a long tradition in Christianity. For millenniums, believers around the globe have gathered in the open at dawn on Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and profess their faith. This year, there will be far fewer such assemblies in the Middle East […]
Read more POTUS’ Attention-Deficit Disorder
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – Try this for a timeline of recent events that affect Americans, and see if you can determine whether the leader of the Free World suffers from presidential attention-deficit disorder: Wednesday, March 9: The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, is alerted to deploy with all possible haste for the […]
Read more Numbness on the Nile
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – On Thursday morning, the heads of America’s intelligence services went to Capitol Hill to testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on “World Wide Threats to the United States.” We won’t know what was said in the committee’s closed sessions until it’s leaked by one of the participants. But […]
Read more Avoiding a Jimmy Carter Moment
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – When Barak Obama went to Cairo in June 2009, he was lauded for seeking “a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.” His speech was spiked with apologies for what he believes are past American errors and omissions and peppered with Utopian calls for “peace in the Middle […]
Read more Hard Reality
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, D.C. – This year’s State of the Union address (SOTU) has now been parsed, analyzed, applauded (80 times), celebrated and derided. The rhetoric has been described as “visionary” and “myopic.” The president’s promises and pledges have been depicted as “important” and “hollow.” None of that really matters in the near term. What’s most important […]
Read more The SOTU, Hope and Change
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – When the world tunes in for the State of the Union (SOTU) address next week, viewers will be treated to a dramatic improvement in the background scenery. Thanks to American voters, House Speaker John Boehner’s well-tanned smile will be behind the president instead of Nancy Pelosi’s surgically enhanced grimace. But if Mr. […]
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