There Used To Be A Cruel Joke

In The Course Of His Presidency, Obama Has Gone From An Almost Magical Charismatic Figure To An Ordinary Politician. Ordinary. Average.

Where Religion Is Trivialized, One Is Unlikely To Find Persecution.

Hawks Favor War On The Grounds That Saddam Hussein Is Reckless, Tyrannical And Instinctively Aggressive, And That If He Comes Into Possession Of Nuclear Weapons In Addition To The Weapons Of Mass Destruction He Already Has, He Is Likely To Use Them Or Share Them With Terrorists. The Threat Of Mass Death On A Scale Never Before Seen Residing In The Hands Of An Unstable Madman Is Intolerable – And Must Be Preempted.

It Doesn't Take A Genius To See What Happens When The Entitlement State Outgrows The Economy Upon Which It Rests. The Time Of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, The Rest Of Insolvent Social-democratic Europe — And Now Detroit — Is The Time For Conservatives To Raise The Banner Of Stein's Law And Yell "stop." You Can Kick The Can Down The Road, But At Some Point It Falls Over A Cliff.

Winning Control Of The Senate Would Allow Republicans To Pass A Whole Range Of Measures Now Being Held Up By Reid, Often At The Behest Of The White House. Make It A Major Reform Agenda. The Centerpiece Might Be Tax Reform, Both Corporate And Individual. It Is Needed, Popular And Doable. Then Go For The Low-hanging Fruit Enjoying Wide Bipartisan Support, Such As The Keystone Xl Pipeline And Natural Gas Exports, Most Especially To Eastern Europe. One Could Then Add Border Security, Energy Deregulation And Health-care Reform That Repeals The More Onerous Obamacare Mandates.