09-17-08

Constitution Day 2008: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America… Done… the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.” —George Washington and the delegates

A Different take on “Mac” Vs “PC”

Mary Katharine Ham: When Life Imitates Saturday Night Live!

Glenn Reynolds on Charlie Rangel’s Tax problems: Seems to me that the inability of somebody like Rangel to keep his taxes straight is, at the very least, an argument for radical tax simplification of some sort. Not that that gets Rangel off the hook, any more than it would for you or me.

Christopher Hitchens: And that, I think, is another reason why so many people are reluctant to employ truthful descriptions for the emerging Afghan-Pakistan confrontation: American liberals can’t quite face the fact that if their man does win in November, and if he has meant a single serious word he’s ever said, it means more war, and more bitter and protracted war at that—not less.

Strategy Page on the Af-PaK War: The war here is described as “complicated,” which is another way of saying that there are several different factions fighting, sometimes as allies and sometimes against each other. The major players are:

Ed Morrissey: McCain’s attempt to fix Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in 2005; Update: Obama can’t get AIG right!

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