Ever since Athens Polytechnic University was seized by students in 1973 in an ultimately successful attempt to end the hated military regime of the Colonels, the image of the student protester in Greece has retained an almost mythical status. He stands up for justice and against tyranny most of all. However, much wrong has been done in the name of good because of it. Often, but certainly not always, young Greeks have the storied images of their revered Junta-slaying predecessors in mind more than the perceived injustice at hand as they …
Today at the Conservative Bloggers Briefing, Heritage President Ed Feulner described a path back to dominance for conservatives that relies heavily on viral marketing and communicating via the Internet. He described an interaction in the last couple days with an unnamed Republican in Congress who gloated about “6,000 emails lauding his opposition to the TARP bailout.” Feulner asked the congressman what he did with the email addresses. The congressman responded, “Well, I read most of them.” Feulner sees this as a too-common and dangerously naive response on behalf of conservatives today. “Some of them …
Chicago business leaders recently told Mayor Richard Daley that their companies plan massive layoffs throughout the city that will continue into the new year. Certainly, the cost of doing business in Daley’s Empire is partially to blame for the pending pink slips: The Second City’s 10.25% sales tax makes it First in the nation, trouncing even New York and Los Angeles, where sales tax levels remain below 8.5%. This summer, the debt rating of Cook County, where Chicago resides, was moved from “stable” to “negative” by Fitch Ratings, a major financial ratings service. The county …
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) went on the Jim Villanucci Show on Tuesday and lauded the “more intelligent level” of public discussion that the Fairness Doctrine fostered in decades past. Bingaman obviously doesn’t believe the Fairness Doctrine gives Americans a raw deal. Hear it for yourself below. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veF2KNlHW6w[/youtube]
It’s the difference “between a fork and a spoon,” John Bolton said at Heritage today. The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was clarifying what Barack Obama’s narcissistic fantasy of negotiating with Iran really means. “Negotiating with Iran is not a policy, it’s a technique,” he said. Furthermore, the technique “is hardly a new idea — it’s an old idea that has failed.” Cutlery lessons aside, France, Germany and Britain have negotiated with Iran for the last five years, and all along Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has understood that the …
Where Chairman Mao believed that all power comes from the barrel of the gun, the late Mayor Richard J. Daley believed that all power comes from the barrel into which precinct totals have been tossed. –David Nyham, The Boston Globe, Dec. 16, 1982 In America, it’s understood that power lies at the ballot box. So why is it we shake our heads and wag a finger at news coverage of election fraud thousands of miles away, yet ignore the same swindle when it happens right under our nose? Roman Buhler, …
Make a list of the things you think government does really well. Almost everyone can agree it is pitifully short. Why, then, would we want government to run something as important as health care? The argument for a federal solution to affordable health care assumes the feds will do a good job, and is marked by a lack of understanding about what has made America the wealthiest country in history. Our meteoric rise was ignited by doing less, not more, when it came to regulating the choices people could make …
