Posted by Tod Lindberg on 27th June 2000
The Washington Times
REYKJAVIK. – Iceland looks so old, someone once remarked, because it is so new. The 40 minute drive from Keflavik airport into the capital, Reykjavik, juxtaposes to the east an impossibly craggy rolling landscape of near-lunar desolation and to the west, the implacable steely cold of the sea. They combine in a declaration of permanent hostility.
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Posted by Tod Lindberg on 20th June 2000
The Washington Times
Why, conservatives sometimes ask, were the 1980s reviled as the “decade of greed” when the 1990s get off scot-free, notwithstanding the obvious excesses of the “New Economy”? To many, the answer is obvious: because Ronald Reagan was in the saddle in the 1980s and Bill Clinton has been president in the 1990s. The very people who railed against the “decade of greed” are Bill Clinton’s staunchest defenders; ergo, no problem. In fact, there are a number of left-wing Democrats, especially those around the lively American Prospect magazine, who are unhappy with Bill Clinton on “decade of greed” grounds. They think he has sold out the party’s traditional mission as guardian of the interests of the poor and dispossessed in favor of an unholy alliance with Wall Street.
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Posted by Tod Lindberg on 13th June 2000
The Washington Times
Conservatives, myself included, have not infrequently found ourselves puzzling over the following question: If the 1980s were “The Decade of Greed,” what about the 1990s? Why isn’t the 1990s, likewise, a decade of greed?
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Posted by Tod Lindberg on 6th June 2000
The Washington Times
Today in New Jersey’s 5th Congressional District, moderate Republican Rep. Marge Roukema faces a primary challenge from conservative state Assemblyman Scott Garrett. Mrs. Roukema narrowly defeated the underfinanced Mr. Garrett in a primary two years ago. This time around, the race is drawing attention nationally because of the involvement on Mr. Garrett’s side of the Club for Growth, a group of Republican activists dedicated to funding conservative Republican candidates, even against Republican incumbents.
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