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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Politics at 6:45 PM UTC
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Politics at 1:32 PM UTC
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Ethics, Politics, War on Terror at 1:14 PM UTC
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Death Penalty, Media at 5:31 PM UTC
LIBERAL FASCISM: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, by Jonah Goldberg, published by Doubleday.
“Jonah Goldberg’s startling thesis deserves serious attention. Going back to the eugenics movement there has been a strain of elitist moral certainty that allows one group of people to believe they have the right [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Books I Recommend at 4:26 PM UTC