Unca Darrell

MARCH 17 / Every fact, true; the conclusion, wrong

 GOP POLITICAL INSIDER Ed Rogers says President Barack Hussein Obama is on the verge of being exposed as a failed president.

If Obamacare is hobbled by the courts and the president's executive actions on immigration are brought to a screeching halt, combined with the anemic economy and a foreign policy in disarray, it's hard to make the case that this is anything other than a failed presidency. (Ed Rogers, "The Insiders: Obama's governing legacy hangs by a legal thread," washingtonpost.com, February 19, 2015)

Mr. Rogers is wrong: It's not hard . . .

MARCH 16 / If you missed this typically excellent . . .

. . . column from early February by George Will, here is an invitation to catch up.

Two phrases that Daniel Patrick Moynihan put into America's political lexicon two decades ago are increasingly pertinent. They explain the . . .

MARCH 11 / My father was a dairy farmer with a high school education

HE WAS a conventional FDR-style liberal Democrat. Other than that, nothing would have recommended him to intellectual elite of his time. They would have seen him -- to borrow from the essay quoted below --  as a member of "the hapless 'herd,' the 'booboisie,' all of whom [Mencken] deemed the 'peasantry' that blighted American cultural life."

Yet one night each week, while we lived on the farm, he . . .

MARCH 10 / The Houston Chronicle once had a . . .

. . . South America Bureau consisting of one John Otis.

Mr. Otis was the Walter Duranty of Venezuela. He picked up story ideas from a hard-left Washington, D.C., think tank and filed regular stories about . . .

MARCH 3 / Rush is right

NETANYAHU'S SPEECH was about civilization. The press thinks it was about . . .