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In a startling turnaround, the Senate Majority Leader hinted even he has noticed a positive change in Iraq. Interviewed on Jim Lehrer’s Newsmaker program December 21, Democratic Senator Harry Reid grudgingly acknowledged “the surge certainly hasn’t hurt. It’s helped. I recognize that.” Faint praise to be sure, but nonetheless quite an adjustment from his declaration eight months ago ”that this war is [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Politics, War in Iraq at 4:26 PM UTC
Free Market Capitalism is, by far, the greatest economic engine ever created. All other economic systems, including barter, feudalism, mercantilism, colonialism, socialism, and communism, pale in comparison to the fantastic economic development brought about by applied Free Market Capitalism. It is the dynamo that propelled America past older, richer, more populous nations. Free Market Capitalism [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values at 2:03 PM UTC
Until recently, most discussions of government assistance of the poor focused on the positive benefits derived from legislated generosity. Giving folks a hand up (not a handout), a head start, equal opportunity, and a chance to pursue the American dream took their turns as phrase-of-the-moment justifications for housing subsidies, food stamps, and welfare checks. Now fifty years into America’s greatest social experiment, [...]
We Bruin football fans have grown accustomed to disappointment. For most of this century, UCLA’s teams have been characterized by inconsistency, punctuated by periods of outright ineptitude, all mercifully counter-balanced by occasional flights of heavenly accomplishment. Beating USC 13 to 9 last year comes to mind. But by and large, we true Bruins have settled into resolved despair, holding hope and [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 10:12 AM UTC
Never one slow to criticize major news outlets, today my hat is off to the Associated Press. Three AP articles appeared in my local paper, warning average Americans there will be a payday someday, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and no limit on what politicians will spend. Provided, of course, they [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Politics at 6:45 PM UTC
Private Property Rights are indispensable to Individual Liberty. Put simply, unless a citizen can own something which cannot be taken away, liberty does not exist. Communism’s core value of the abolition of private property rights — unevenly applied due to its disastrous results — is not without design. State ownership of property is [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values at 12:49 PM UTC
Reminding political observers of Bill Clinton in 1991, Mike Huckabee is making headlines as he moves from fringe candidate to front-runner. Is it possible another little-known Arkansas governor will defy political convention to capture the White House? Not likely, say many astute, experienced campaign chroniclers. Huckabee lacks organizational networks, woefully lags in fundraising, [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Politics at 1:32 PM UTC
"In the first detailed account by a CIA operative of the controversial interrogation technique known as ‘waterboarding,’ John Kiriakou said a suspected al-Qaeda lieutenant called Abu Zubaydah had responded ‘like flipping a switch,’" Britain’s Telegraph reported today. "The information Zubaydah gave after 35 seconds of waterboarding probably disrupted ‘dozens’ of planned attacks, Mr. [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Ethics, Politics, War on Terror at 1:14 PM UTC
Those of us deeply suspicious of the mainstream media have become adept at finding "the rest of the story," to borrow a Paul Harvey apothegm. Believing there is more to many compositions than meets the eye, we skeptically scan our local papers — are they friend or foe? — searching for slits in [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Death Penalty, Media at 5:31 PM UTC
LIBERTY AND TYRANNY: A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R Levin, published by Threshold Editions (Simon & Schuster).
From the inside flap: “In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has steadily snowballed since President Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s and resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Books I Recommend at 4:26 PM UTC