Archive for June, 2009
Who Owns The National Debt?
According to David Leonhart the tally is ~90% Bush and ~10% Obama. After analyzing the Congressional Budget Office projections of the budget surplus or deficit Mr. Leonhart sees two basic truths: “President Obama’s agenda, ambitious as it may be, is responsible for only a sliver of the deficits, despite what many of his Republican critics are saying [however] Mr. Obama does not have a realistic plan for eliminating the deficit, despite what his advisers have suggested.
The Problem Facing International Security
Camille Paglia, commenting on President Obama’s Middle East speech:
The problem facing international security is that people who believe something will always be stronger and more committed than people who believe nothing — which unfortunately describes the complacent passivity of most Western intellectuals these days.
