by Jeffery Battersby | May 18, 2010 | Asides
Oh, wait… he wasn’t joking. Woody Allen thinks Obama would get much more done as dictator | via LA Times
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 31, 2009 | Commentary
Great opinion piece by Maureen Dowd in the NY Times on Tuesday. But one particular bit strikes me as odd: Even before a Nigerian with Al Qaeda links tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet headed to Detroit, travelers could see we had made no progress toward a...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 9, 2009 | Asides
I couldn’t agree more… Beware Premature Prizes: Interesting Times | via The New Yorker “This seems like a prize for Europeans, not Americans, and I worry that at home it will damage him politically by reinforcing the notion that he is—and will...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 9, 2009 | Commentary
President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize | via Washington Times “The announcement was unexpected considering Mr. Obama received the award after winning the presidential election just nine months earlier and took office only weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 24, 2009 | Asides, Politics
Sounds like an impulse buy to me. Impulse buys are never a good thing… We’re very late in doing this, but we’ve got to move quickly to try and do this because, again, it’s a necessary thing for any government to have a broader range of tools...
