And it’s still a festering hell hole.
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under New Orleans | You Tell Me (Comment)
If someone asked you how much the federal government has spent on New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina two years ago, could you tell them? I knew it was a lot. But I was unprepared for the actual number that I read in this article by Larry Kudlow.
Click the link and then be sure you’re sitting [...]
Most redemption comes late.
Posted on August 29, 2007 - Filed Under The Iraq War | You Tell Me (Comment)
French prime minister Georges Clemenceau nailed it when he said that war is a series of catastrophes that culminate in victory.
We look back on the wars we won and we fail to see that in almost all cases, the outcome was in doubt until very late in the contest. Peter Wehner draws on the history [...]
Listen to Lieberman
Posted on August 20, 2007 - Filed Under The Iraq War | You Tell Me (Comment)
I have developed a Pavlovian response to seeing the name Lieberman in the byline of an article. I pick up or click on a Lieberman article as quickly as I possibly can.
The independent Democrat senator from Connecticut, in a break with the overwhelming majority of his lifelong party, has been crystal clear and uncommonly eloquent [...]
