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Ross Mackenzie: Vicarious Conversation: In the Company of Fools

Mr. President, it's the anniversary month of your election, and -- Not well, as noted most recently by the voters in Virginia, New Jersey, and Albuquerque -- where Republicans scored upset councilmanic and mayoral victories in a reliably Democratic ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Central Intelligence Agency,  Al-Qaeda,  Bill Clinton,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Ross Mackenzie: Quotables: 'Get Tough and Then Get Out'

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan: "I believe that the loss of stability in Afghanistan brings huge risks that transnational terrorists such as al Qaeda will operate from within Afghanistan again." Retired Marine John ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Taliban,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  John Bernard,  Pervez Musharraf

Ross Mackenzie: A Conversation on Manipulation and Consensus

Aren't you pushing the season a little? Not any more than small retailers -- in the darkening economic gloom -- trying to get a jump on the season to save their bacon. So is it the economy that's on your mind this time? No, sir. Public sentiment -- ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Congress,  Washington Post Company,  Amtrak

Ross Mackenzie: Just in Case: Items Suggesting the Direction of Things

On the landscape of happenings suggesting the direction of things these days, maybe you missed... That Democrats supposedly are "vexed" (in the words of at least one headline) -- vexed -- that the wacky group Acorn is receiving hefty infusions of cash ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Service Employees International Union,  Wall Street Journal,  Chrysler,  Barack Obama

Ross Mackenzie: On Stimulus Money, CEO Pay, Theses, Coffee Snobs, Etc.

Wandering among issues currently in the news... -- The unemployment rate hit 9.8 percent in September -- the 21st consecutive month of job losses. Since the beginning of the recession in December 2007, the United States has erased about 7.2 million ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Eliot Spitzer,  Roman Polanski,  John Ensign,  David Letterman

Ross Mackenzie: In Honduras, Etc.: Pas d'Ennemis a Gauche

S'funny in this hour of Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, and Iraq that perhaps nothing tells us quite so much about the incumbent D.C. administration as its behavior regarding Honduras. The situation is this: Three months ago, the Honduran military ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Manuel Zelaya,  Hugo Chávez,  Wall Street Journal,  U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama

Ross Mackenzie: For the Community Organizer, Peanut Farmer Simpatico?

Barack Obama has rescued the nation -- verily, the world -- from economic collapse. He stands on the cusp of achieving higher quality health care at lower cost -- for every American. Now he's moving to extend his magic to matters foreign. -- At his ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  White House

Ross Mackenzie: Time to Go Wheels-Up For 'The Good Place'

In his "Big Two-Hearted River," Hemingway wrote of his autobiographical Nick Adams: He was there, in the good place. We went wheels-up for our "good place" when, in this dubious summer of our discontent, the ayatollahs and newsbunnies of video and ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Nick Adams,  Barack Obama,  Dodge,  William Young

Ross Mackenzie: Random Walk: On Yucca, NICE, Locavores, Sarah and John, Etc.

Comments on a summer-garden variety of issues in the news.... In a Washington Post op/ed, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin opposed a cap-and-trade energy tax on energy, economic, environmental, and national security grounds. Massachusetts Senator ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama,  John Kerry,  National Health Service,  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

Ross Mackenzie: Random Walk: On Apologies, Chavistas, Ethics, Michelle's Staff, Etc.

Queries on curiosities in the news.... -- In enthusiastically supporting the kooky health-care measure approved by Madame Pelosi's House Democrats, how can the gargantuan AARP - so often cited blandly as an advocate for senior citizens - be anything ...

From ROSS MACKENZIE, Town Hall,  3 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Hugo Chávez,  Manuel Zelaya,  Fidel Castro

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