Unca Darrell

MAY 22 / One newspaper reports, the other takes sides

THE NEWSPAPER: Suzanne Sataline, Chad Bray, and Gary Fields, "Four Men Held in U.S. Terror Case," Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2009:

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Four men were in federal custody Thursday after being arrested on suspicion of conspiring to bomb two New York City synagogues and shoot down U.S. military planes.

MAY 22 / Chronicle says something nice about the free market . . .

. . . in India.

[India's election, which removed communists from the governing coalition] frees the Congress Party to offer even more robust support of the country's innovative, sophisticated free-market economy.

MAY 22 / The Gipper on deficits

FOR DECADES, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavels.

MAY 22 / But enough about national security

DICK CHENEY's national-security speech yesterday had 5,885 words. "I," "me," and "my" accounted for 47 of them. That's an average of one first-person singular pronoun ever 125th word.

President Obama's prebuttal . . .

MAY 21 / Barone on global warming and religious faith

FOR LIBERAL elites, belief in . . . global warming has taken on the character of religious faith. We have sinned (by . . . driving sport utility vehicles), we must atone (by . . . recycling), we must repent (by supporting . . . cap and trade schemes). You may notice that the "we" in question is usually the great mass of ordinary American citizens.

MAY 21 / Stuart Taylor on Supreme Court nominee

STUART TAYLOR, Jr., is "cautiously betting that Obama will choose a moderate liberal who believes in judicial restraint."

MAY 21 / Samuelson: "Obama sacrified substance for grandstanding."

Including state taxes, America's top corporate tax rate exceeds 39 percent; among wealthy nations, only Japan's is higher (slightly).

MAY 21 / How can he criticize that which yielded a Sheila Jackson Lee?

RESPONDING to a Texas case, Stuart Taylor, Jr., criticizes racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act: 

MAY 20 / Next time, read the transcript

Editorial, "Plea for dialogue," Houston Chronicle, May 20, 2009:

[President Obama] recounted a letter he had received after winning the Democratic presidential nomination from a doctor who described himself as a pro-life Christian.

MAY 20 / Guess who wants to be less like California?

Californians.