Forgetting Past Mistakes is to Repeat Them
Unlike many incoming students at Liberty University, Kevin Roose didn’t start school merely to learn from his instructors. Instead the Brown student went prepared to dig up material for a book deal he’d already signed to write about his experiences at Jerry Falwell’s Christian school.
Below the jump are links to the audio I took at tonight’s Economic Leadership Forum hosted by President George Bush at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at the George Bush Presidential Library Center.
I recently had about ninety seconds alone with Congressman John Culberson, the Republican representative from Texas district 7, which includes the west Houston area, and used the opportunity to ask him about congressional term limits.
“What do you stay to those who believe that term limits are necessary to restore representative government to our republic?” I asked.
I attended the Houston tea party on April 15th and came away with some nice pictures of the protesters signs/messages, some good audio clips that I’ve now posted, and a new respect for field journalism when it is practiced well.
Of course journalism isn’t always done right, as CNN’s Susan Roesgen showed us in no uncertain terms. So how did my venture into the field go?
The following are the audio recordings I made during the Houston tea party. They’re listed in the order in which they occurred the night of the event. Note that not every speaker was captured in full, so there may be gaps in the audio record. I particularly recommend Peter Batura and John O’Neill as both…
After hundreds of thousands of Americans protested his economic policies, Barack Obama batted 1.000 today by releasing the disputed Office of Legal Counsel memos authorizing the use of tortue on captured terrorists, declaring that intelligence officers responsible for the interrogations would not be prosecuted, and announcing that the U.S. will focus on enforcing existing gun smuggling laws rather than re-instituting the lapsed assault weapons ban.
What do you get when you mix a major economic slump, a new president with decidedly liberal ideals, an economic plan that calls for unprecedented levels of spending and debt, and at least 4000 Texans concerned about the situation? Call it a Texas Tea Party!
The Pew Hispanic Center reports that 73% of illegal immigrants’ children are U.S. citizens, an increase of 10% in the last 5 years and a jump of 1.3 million in absolute numbers over the same period. Conversely, the number of juvenile illegal immigrants actually declined by 100,000. All told, there are at least 16 million illegal immigrants and their children living in the U.S.
Like the men on the scene, President Obama deserves kudos for the successful military operation that resulted in the rescue of kidnapped America Captain Richard Phillips. His guys kicked some ass getting Phillips back and the guy in the big chair in D.C. deserves credit for it.
But President Obama has a long way to go before he can claim the kind of steadfast resolve that characterized President Bush’s commitment to the peace in Iraq. But we can’t assume that one small operation, no matter how successful, indicates he will continue to demonstrate such leadership.