Folks who follow my updates from time to time on Facebook know that Saturday evening was the 50th anniversary gala for the Lincoln Club of Orange County, a simply unbelievable organization founded 50 years ago here in the southland by such business titans as Arnold Beckman, Walter Knott, and Si Fluor. The club has a 50-year history of playing in local and state politics, and was insturmental in such historical events as the passage of Prop 13 here in California, the recall of Governor Gray … [Read more...]
John Bolton’s Extraordinary Speech
May 14, 2011 By
Last night I had the honor of introducing Ambassador John Bolton as the keynote speaker at the 49th annual dinner of the Lincoln Club of Orange County. He is one of the most extraordinary thinkers in our country when it comes to foreign policy (for many newcomers to concerns about politics, ethics, and society, "foreign policy" deals with considerations usually considered much less important than medical ethics and marriage and health care - trivial things like Islamic terrorists with nuclear … [Read more...]
Calling a Spade a Czar: The Democrats Lie on Purpose
September 18, 2009 By
The Democratic National Committee has a clever little campaign going at the moment, and it can be seen here. Taking a real life clip of Glenn Beck complaining about the countless "czar" appointments of Barack Obama, but running footage next to Beck of all the "George Bush czar appointments" is a neat idea. Surely blaming Obama for something that Bush himself excessively did would be hypocritical of the right, and the DNC packages the whole thing together very nicely. There is just one … [Read more...]
