President Obama made a major mistake this week by attacking the police officer that arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It was a mistake that could cost him significantly. The President got elected largely on his ability to transcend the racial politics of the past. He presented himself as a post-partisan healer who rejected [...]
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, culminating in the first human footsteps on the Moon. Charles Krauthammer has a deeply thoughtful piece on the Moon we left behind: But look up from your BlackBerry one night. That is the moon. On it are exactly 12 sets of human footprints — [...]
Carlos Watson argues that the solution to our fiscal problems is to tax the living daylights out of the “rich” in the hopes of making up for a $5 trillion hole in our national finances. That solution will not work. For one, there aren’t enough “rich” people to make up for the current deficit. We [...]
Ross Douthat has the best take on the Sarah Palin brouhaha out there: Palin’s popularity has as much to do with class as it does with ideology. In this sense, she really is the perfect foil for Barack Obama. Our president represents the meritocratic ideal — that anyone, from any background, can grow up to [...]