“What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.” StatesBigsSimpleUnitedUnited StatesFailing Author:John Podhoretz
“Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.” StatesBigsAmericaNextCitiesBillsWorkersCurrentsDuesDecadesContractsCompelledBeltsPension Author:John Podhoretz
“In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.” StatesUseTeamStrategyDemocraticClintonComplicatedPrimariesSneakInspirational TeamDelegatesCaucus Author:John Podhoretz
“The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.” WorldYearsFirstsIdeasWarCountryStatesRealityExistenceConflictBasesIsraelActiveIsraeliHostageArab Israeli Conflict Author:John Podhoretz
“The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.” FirstsTwoWarCountryStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesDebtDecadesNewspapersObligationRevolutionaryFoundersTrustworthyHamiltonRevolutionary War Author:John Podhoretz
“This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night's State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.” FirstsStatesNightCoursesChancePartyMembersUnionsResponseRagePassingPassingsAddressesNotableOpposingTuesdayTuesday Night Author:John Podhoretz
