Peggy Noonan Meditates on Transgressive Speech
Peggy Noonan dispels all the politically correct posturing and moralizing cant with some simple wisdom. Here is what has been said the past week or so that sparked argument: Bill Maher, on HBO, said a...
View ArticleTo Vote For John McCain… Alone… in the Rain?
(* punchline to a proposed “Why does a Republican cross the street” joke. The famous Ernest Hemingway version of the “Why Does the Chicken” joke, you see, ends with: “To die… alone… in the rain.”)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Peggy Noonan’s Comeback
Women’s Wear Daily profiles the Republican Party’s female Celtic bard, noting that she has recently developed a certain cross-over appeal. Ordinarily, Noonan loves giving interviews. She particularly...
View ArticleMe-Too Republicans Are Back
Back in the days of Dwight Eisenhower, we had Me-Too Republicans who were simply too timid to challenge a conventional liberal orthodoxy for fear of being labeled radical. Tony Blankley finds today a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Terrifying America
Obama on the run Peggy Noonan went scurrying back toward what she perceived as the center in the last election, and she is finding, only months later, that Barack Obama and the democrat Congressional...
View Article“A Nation Fully Settled By Government”
Peggy Noonan contends that the Progressive Frontier of government expansion closed some time ago. Americans already have all the government, all the services, taxes, and regulations they can stand....
View ArticleCallous Children
Peggy Noonan is feeling a bit depressed today contemplating 1990 unreadable pages costing $2.24 million dollars a word. While Americans feel increasingly disheartened, their leaders evince a mindless...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barack Obama, Disaster
I can remember, oh, so well, just how much Peggy Noonan liked Barack Obama back in 2008. Well, things certainly have changed. This week, Peggy Noonan says that the presidency of Barack Obama is What a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama Takes the Road to Demon Pass
Peggy Noonan catches out Obama’s evasive manuevers and efforts to pull rank during an unusual interview this week on Fox News and in her own distinctive Celtic Bard manner produces an early draft of...
View ArticleMeritocracy and Socialism
Peggy Noonan reflects on the ironies of American meritocracy laboring mightily… and delivering an establishment full of socialists. And exactly how committed to socialism is the successful gamesman...
View ArticleFriday, May 28, 2010
“I missed him even before he was gone.” Steve Bodio remembers long-time Audubon magazine editor Les Line, who evidently had a Weatherby cartridge board and a poster of a Smith & Wesson Model 29 in...
View ArticleAmericans Hate Elites For Changing America
The liberal elite, when faced with resistance to its agenda, invariably contemptuously labels its opponents as people afraid of change. Peggy Noonan, in one of her better columns, (alas! for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The Worst Thing You Can Say About a President”
Back at the end of October in 2008, Peggy Noonan hurriedly jumped on the express train to the Finland Station, endorsing Barack Obama in quite warm terms, and dismissing regrets or apologies by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Angry Obama
Peggy Noonan marvels at Barack Obama’s approach to cheerleading for compromise. We have not in our lifetimes seen a president in this position. He spent his first year losing the center, which elected...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Peggy Noonan on Obama: “Nobody Loves a Loser”
Peggy Noonan has her faults. She runs with the herd, she is totally incapable of standing up to a solid elite consensus, and she has a tendency to specialize in bathos and sentimentality. You can tell...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recipe For Electoral Disaster
Peggy Noonan reflects on how the current president decidedly worsened his relationship with his opponents, while never really developing much of a relationship with the general electorate. Something’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Assessing Last Night’s Debate
Amusingly, partisan commentators from both sides are claiming victory. So the way to tell who really won is to check what the kind of commentator who can be counted to be found jumping on the winning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Peggy Noonan Explains the Obamacare Website Debacle
Oh, how things have changed. I can remember 2008 when Peggy Noonan was smitten by the man of Destiny. Well, the bloom is off the rose now, and Peggy has Obama’s number this time. It’s a leader’s job...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jeff Goldstein Unloads on Peggy
Jeff Goldstein also read Peggy Noonan’s latest, her devastating critique of Obama’s leadership, and he’s a lot less forgiving of her behavior in 2008 than I am. We learn that Peggy Noonan is at her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama: Incompetent
In 2008, when Barack Obama was advancing on the presidency by means of successfully turning himself into the year’s most popular fashion statement, the fact was occasionally remarked that Barack Obama...
View Article
