Posts Tagged ‘washington-post’

Alvaro Vargas Llosa hearts Roman Polanski

September 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Alvaro Vargas Llosa wrote an article for The Washington Post.  For a very brief background of what happened circa 1977, Roman Polanski had sex with a thirteen year old girl.  Rather than going to trial, Polanski plea-bargained to avoid prison.  The judge in the case refused to accept the plea deal.  Polasnki fled the USA [...]

Cash for Clunkers redux ( Don’t buy green cars to save the environment? )

August 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Two things happened instantly after I posted my life-altering expose on the disaster that the Cash for Clunker program is. Unwittingly, I have teamed up with the Greens and the Washington Post simultaneously.  Gwen Ottinger has a different reason for not giving Cash for Clunkers $2 billion RIGHT NOW:  First, even when new cars and [...]

Unions aren’t the problem, employers are?

December 9th, 2008 | No Comments

I read an article by Marie Cocco of the Washington Post in RealClearPolitics.  it just confounds me.  Per Marie: Unions aren’t the problem. They are the solution. ….. Creating a viable middle class has been the goal of organized labor since labor first became organized. And it is this goal that was abandoned outright by [...]

The Plan to Replace Cheney?

June 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Just read this: The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office. Even before this week’s blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising. That’s Sally Quinn’s assertion. I’m a Republican, and I had never heard that “big question” before. Ever. She then continues with…. [...]