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Our Inescapable President

Our nation faces extraordinary challenges right now, and our ability to tackle them will depend on our willingness to recognize that we’re all in this together, that we each have an obligation to give back to our communities, and we all have a stake in ...

From GENE HEALY, Cato@Liberty,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  George Lopez,  Barack Obama

Obama: “All Part of the Job”

“Why do people hate you?”, a fourth-grade boy asked Obama …. “They’re supposed to love you. And God is love.” Obama’s answer is actually pretty reasonable. But this is what happens when you make a mere elected politician assume the status of ...

From GENE HEALY, Cato@Liberty,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

The Emperor’s Green Clothes

According to today’s New York Times, “the Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it was moving forward on new rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from hundreds of power plants and large industrial facilities.” President Obama has said ...

From GENE HEALY, Cato@Liberty,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Elena Kagan,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Environmental Protection Agency,  Ronald Reagan

You Don’t Have to Be a Czar, Baby, to Be in My Show

Conservatives ought to be concerned about the growth of executive power. But as I argue in my Washington Examiner column this week, “czars” are pretty far down any serious list of executive-power concerns: conservatives’ current bout of czar mania ...

From GENE HEALY, Gene Healy,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  Tom Ridge,  Barack Obama

The 9/12 Protest

If you’ve been fed a steady media diet of MSNBC over the last few months, though, you could be excused for fearing a Pennsylvania Avenue takeover by a rabble of pitchfork-wielding cranks and extras from “Deliverance.” But the crowd — “in excess of 75,00 ...

From GENE HEALY, Gene Healy,  15 Sep 2009

Related Topics: MSNBC,  Center for American Progress,  Barack Obama,  John Galt

Good News: 9/11 Didn’t “Change Everything”

On the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and DC, things are going much better than most of us dared hope in the initial aftermath of that horrible day. We’re still a secure, prosperous, and relatively free country, and the ...

From GENE HEALY, Gene Healy,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  George W. Bush,  David Brooks,  George Packer,  William James

The Pedagogy of Collectivism

“I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement,” says Brett Curtis, a parent from Pearland, Texas who told the New York Times he’d keep his kids home today during Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren nationwide. Me either! Like I ...

From GENE HEALY, Gene Healy,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Hey, Mr. President, Leave Those Kids Alone!

Is the president’s speech part of a sinister plan to create a socialist Obama Youth movement? Hardly. The transcript, released yesterday, reveals a pretty standard homily to educational excellence, and there’s no evidence it was ever supposed to be ...

From GENE HEALY, Gene Healy,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

More Examiner Columns

…here are the rest: With his square jaw and flawless salt-and-pepper hair, Romney certainly looks presidential: Like a character actor playing the president in a superhero movie — or, less charitably, like a creature genetically engineered and grown in ...

From GENE HEALY, Gene Healy,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Jeffrey Rosen

Recent Examiner Columns

And since I last updated the blog, I’ve written eight columns for the DC Examiner. Here are the first four; I’ll put the others up tomorrow: 1. “Sarah’s Swan Song”: prompted by Palin’s resignation, it argued that “Conservatives undermine their movement ...

From GENE HEALY, Gene Healy,  3 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Barack Obama,  William F. Buckley, Jr.,  Harvard University,  Microsoft Corporation

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