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Organized Protests Over Health Care

Playing hardball has become the calling card of the Obama administration.  When it doesn’t get what it wants, threats emerge -- what some now call the Rahm Emmanuel method. But it isn’t only the formal apparatus of government that is used in a coercive ...

From HERBERT LONDON, HumanEvents.com,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  ACORN,  Samuel Adams

Beyond Appeasement

When Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in 1936 he noted that based on his appeasement stance with Hitler “peace was at hand.” Alas, Chamberlain was duped and, as might have been expected, history has not treated him kindly. But, however false ...

From HERBERT LONDON, HumanEvents.com,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Neville Chamberlain,  United Nations

Weaker U.S. Leads to Insecurity in Taiwan

Obama's timidity puts the island at China's mercy. Despite the “era of good feeling” that has emerged between Taiwan and China, tensions in the Taiwan Strait have not disappeared. There are 1,500 missiles aimed at Taiwan. It is also the case that ...

From HERBERT LONDON, Pajamas Media,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Ma Ying-jeou,  New York University

The Social Justice Chimera

During the recently passed Jewish holidays I heard one rabbi after another speak of “social justice.”  Uttered with remarkable sincerity, this expression and its meaning elude me.  I recognize justice as the adjudication of competing positions in a ...

From HERBERT LONDON, HumanEvents.com,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Obama: A Man Apart

Albert Camus was expert at describing a man apart, an existential man The Stranger, who didn’t belong in the society in which he found himself. He didn’t have emotional roots; in fact, this character was haunted by shadows -- the real and the ...

From HERBERT LONDON, HumanEvents.com,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Albert Camus

What Is ‘Social Justice’ Anyway?

In actuality, the words don't have any real meaning. During the recent Jewish holidays I heard one rabbi after another speak of “social justice.” Uttered with remarkable sincerity, this expression and its meaning elude me. I recognize justice as the ...

From HERBERT LONDON, Pajamas Media,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  New York University

No Taxation With Representation

The American Revolution had one inspirational lament that echoed through the pages of our national history: “No taxation without representation.” For our Founding Fathers these poignant words meant that the British imposition of taxes was unacceptable ...

From HERBERT LONDON, Human Events Online,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Barack Obama: A Man Apart

Denying America's exceptionalism, the president seeks to recondition our national instincts. Albert Camus was expert at describing a man apart, an existential man, The Stranger, who doesn’t belong in the society in which he finds himself. He doesn’t ...

From HERBERT LONDON, Pajamas Media,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Albert Camus,  New York University

The Race Ploy

In 1994, during my campaign for New York State Comptroller against Carl McCall, the race card was played persistently by members of the press and by my opponent. Since I had been active in civil rights causes, opened a headquarters in Harlem, was a ...

From HERBERT LONDON, Human Events Online,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Carl McCall,  Bob Herbert,  New York Times Company,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party

Losing Liberty

There is a shift occurring in the United States, a tectonic shift that is imposing statism in a land predicated on limited government. In the past, the not very distant past, mediating structures served as a barrier against managerial despotism. But ...

From HERBERT LONDON, Human Events Online,  7 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

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