Tony Blankley from Creators Syndicate

Formed on the Anvil of His Captivity for 07/02/2008

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

As of today, Sen. Barack Obama is about halfway through his "patriotism theme week" message cycle. As of 2008, Sen. John McCain is about seven-ninths through his patriotism theme life cycle. I guess that is the difference between the new politics and the old patriotism.

The Obama campaign launched its new politics patriotism week last Sunday, with retired Gen. Wes "Speiche ...

Updated: Wed Jul 02, 2008

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The Obama Glissade for 07/09/2008

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Way back in June, Sen. Barack "middle name not permitted to be mentioned" Obama campaigned on the theme of "Change We Can Believe In." Now, several days later, his theme should be "Change We Can't Keep Up With." Apparently, the change he was calling for was not for Washington politics, but for his primary campaign positions. Abortion, gun control, capital punishmen ...

Updated: Wed Jul 09, 2008

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Tacking to the Center Is Tacky for 07/16/2008

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

From Australia to London to almost all points in between, if there are two things people know about Barack Obama, one of them is that he recently has changed his positions on abortion, gun control, capital punishment, FISA laws, the status of Jerusalem, faith-based federal programs, public financing of his campaign, welfare, NAFTA and free trade, the surge in Iraq, and his commitment to the Rev ...

Updated: Wed Jul 16, 2008

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The GQ Statesman for 07/23/2008

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Watching Obama glide through his foreign trip so far, nervous Republicans and other patriots have to hope that American voters will not view Obama through the eyes of a Hollywood casting director. That's because one could not cast a man who visually can portray a worldly statesman better. We all must envy his ability to effortlessly drape his tall, imperially slender form in gilded Louis XV cha ...

Updated: Wed Jul 23, 2008

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The Destroyer of Worlds for 07/30/2008

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

In the Birla Temple, a Hindu temple in Delhi, India, there is a plaque that reads: "He who is known as Vishnu the Preserver is verily Rudra the Destroyer, and He who is Rudra is Brahma the Creator." This fact (from Arthur Herman's book "Gandhi and Churchill") came to me over the weekend as I was rereading Sen. Obama's Berlin speech. Now, let me assure my easily offended frie ...

Updated: Wed Jul 30, 2008

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He Is Who He Is for 08/06/2008

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It's getting tricky to know how to refer to he who presumes to be the next president. It was made clear several months ago that mentioning his middle name is a forbidden act. (Pass out more eggshells.) Then, having nothing honorable to say, Obama warned his followers last week that Sen. McCain would try to scare voters by pointing to Obama's "funny name" and the fact that "he doe ...

Updated: Wed Aug 06, 2008

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Lessons From a Dance Slav for 08/13/2008

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"It's hard for us to understand what the Russian plan is," said a senior U.S. official who briefed reporters over the weekend on the Russian invasion of Georgia. One must hope that the claimed bafflement at Russian intentions is merely one of those diplomatic lies that honorable statesmen are obliged to recite from time to time.

In fact, Russian intentions are quite clear. Geor ...

Updated: Wed Aug 13, 2008

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Gosh, I Love the Liberal Media for 08/27/2008

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

With the world constantly changing, with Obama in favor of change, with Obama constantly changing, there remains only one fixed spot in a chaotic world: the mainstream moron media. It's odd, but I find their predictable nonsense quite comforting.

There is so much change in the world. I don't know whether Michelle Obama thinks America is "downright mean" and not a country of whi ...

Updated: Wed Aug 27, 2008

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It's Still the Economy, Stupid for 09/03/2008

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The No. 1 issue (in contrast to personality) in the presidential campaign, according to every poll of voter opinion, is the economy. More than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than the concerns about health care, the public's negative view of the economy is unambiguously driving the historically unprecedented 80 percent of the public who believe the country is on the wrong track.

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Updated: Wed Sep 03, 2008

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The GOP Resurrection for 09/10/2008

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

In the past 30 years or so, since presidential conventions no longer actually have decided the nominees, their usual purpose has been to focus and project a positive image of the already chosen candidate (and, of course, disparage the opponent). But last week in St. Paul, Minn., the GOP convention was different. It not only enhanced but also — at least for the moment — reversed-fiel ...

Updated: Wed Sep 10, 2008

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Finance, History and Politics for 09/17/2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

As of this Monday, United States Federal Reserve and Treasury Department policies have entered presidential political debate. While, as a rule, I am in favor of candidates for high office discussing policy, I am inclined to want to make an exception for these arcane, yet vital policy zones. None of the four candidates knows much about Federal Reserve policies, and even their advisers may not be ...

Updated: Wed Sep 17, 2008

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The Man Who Never Was for 09/24/2008

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign.

While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The Ame ...

Updated: Wed Sep 24, 2008

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Yet Freedom for 10/01/2008

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

There is nothing new under the sun. The United States has endured major financial panics in 1837, 1873, 1893, 1907, 1929, 1933 and now in 2008. Most of these economic events had ideological and political consequences — as well as the inevitable economic play-outs. And if history is any guide, contrary to the hope of some and the fear of others, this is not the end of capitalism as we have ...

Updated: Wed Oct 01, 2008

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Bafflement for 10/08/2008

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

There was a joke going around conservative circles during the mid-1960s that we conservatives were warned that if we voted for Barry Goldwater, America would get deeper into the Vietnam War. The punch line was that we did vote for Goldwater and America did get deeper into Vietnam. (Of course, President Lyndon Johnson had campaigned on that warning, and then it was he who got us deeper in.)

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Updated: Wed Oct 08, 2008

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McCain's Next Duty Call for 10/15/2008

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The essence of this election season couldn't be simpler. The American public is so appalled at the condition of the country (which it unfairly, but not implausibly blames on the despised President Bush) that with fate casting John McCain in the role of Bush's surrogate, a majority actually is considering voting for Sen. Obama. And when an electorate is intent on doing something, the last thing ...

Updated: Wed Oct 15, 2008

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The Birth of the Me-Too Conservative for 10/22/2008

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

With the rise to enduring power of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in 1933, a new type of Republican emerged in reaction to FDR's attractive and overawing power: the me-too Republican. Until the election of President Reagan five decades later, these me-too Republicans supported, rather than opposed, Democratic Party policies but claimed they would administer them better. Of course, this le ...

Updated: Wed Oct 22, 2008

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Is Obama Secretly Sensible? Don't Bet on It for 10/29/2008

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

As Obama's election has seemed to become more likely in the past six weeks, a quiet but public debate has arisen among both Republicans and Democrats that wonders which Obama we might get. Will it be the prudent, moderate, pragmatic, sensible president who will apply non-ideological, centrist policies? Or will it be the Obama who sought out the company of radicals, black racists, faculty-lounge ...

Updated: Wed Oct 29, 2008

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To Conservatives Who Are Thinking About Tomorrow for 11/05/2008

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Bring me my Bow of burning gold:

Bring me my Arrows of desire:

Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!

Bring me my Chariot of fire.

I will not cease from Mental Fight,

Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand

Till we have built Jerusalem

In England's green & pleasant Land.

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Updated: Wed Nov 05, 2008

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To Battle Stations for 11/12/2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Vox populi — the voice of the people — was uttered Nov. 4. But what did they say, and what will President-elect Obama and the Congress do based on that voice? All we know for certain about the first question is that about 66 million people cast their votes for Obama, and about 58 million cast their votes for McCain. Interpreting why they voted that way will be the first sub ...

Updated: Wed Nov 12, 2008

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Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities for 11/26/2008

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

As President-elect Obama's apparent choice for health and human services secretary and as White House health care czar, it is a fair guess that Tom Daschle's view on health care legislation may be decisive.

So it is worth reading his book "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis," in which the gracious former Senate leader lays out without equivocation both the po ...

Updated: Wed Nov 26, 2008

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