About the Thursday's Commentary:
Each Thursday morning a commentary is posted in this category. Questions are found below the article.
Canada-Care’s Secret
February 4, 2010 (by the editors of Investors.com) - A Canadian premier, Danny Williams, said Tuesday he was headed for the U.S. for heart surgery. ... Read more...
Bowing to “World Opinion”
January 28, 2010 (by Thomas Sowell, Townhall.com) - ...nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes. Read more...
Who Needs Energy Independence?
January 21, 2010 (by John Stossel, Townhall.com) - When you gas up your car, do you think that you're doing something evil? After all, I'm told that burning gasoline helps "murder the Earth," not to mention fills the coffers of terrorists and despots. Read more...
Profile Me if You Must
January 14, 2010 (by Michael J. Totten, CommentaryMagazine.com) - I don't want to be profiled at the airport. It has happened before, and I hate it. Volunteering for more isn't what I feel like doing right now, but our airport security system is so half-baked and dysfunctional it may as well not even exist, and flying is about to become more miserable anyway. So rather than doubling down on grandma and micromanaging everyone on the plane, we might want to pay as much attention to people as to their luggage, especially military-aged males who make unusual and suspicious-looking travel arrangements. That's what the Israelis do... Read more...
The Hospital Where I Grew Up
January 7, 2010 (by Jonathan Aitken, Spectator.org) - I spent three and a half years of my early life immobilized on a frame in the children's TB ward of [Cappagh] hospital [in Dublin]. Read more...