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Like everyone else on the morning of Oct. 9, the major media's first reaction to Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize was shock and disbelief. NBC's Matt Lauer spoke for the pack when he said he didn't want to be "rude," but how did Obama earn it? Washington Post columnist (and former reporter) Ruth Marcus was blunt: "This is ridiculous -- embarrassing, even." She said the award is supposed to be for "doing, not being."
That is true, but for the swelling group of Americans who are not enamored of Obama, that could easily be turned around on the...
The Nobel Surprise
"Saint Ronald said "Government isn't the solution, Government is the problem." Great aphorism that history has just shown us to be totally false. "
Is it totally false? Governments were by far the largest killers of their own populations in the 20th century, has this financial meltdown completely erased that history? Does the government really have no responsibility for what happened?
We're sold this bill of goods that we must constantly compromise, but all that leads to is incrementalism of...