Elect Democrats, empower communists

Pundits who are fixated on a particular subject can start to sound cranky. Often, though, the fixation is a correct one: Our world is so complicated, and many of these issues deserve far more attention than most of us are able to give. None of us is able to devote ourselves adequately to every subject that deserves devotion. Thus, those among us who focus on these issues do us a great service. Islamist terrorism, entitlement reform, gun control . . . whatever the issue is, we know we can count on these pundits to get us the latest.

Those whose focus is on the left as a political movement are up against a challenge: use the word....

Spoiled rotten

It's a meme we've hit before. Americans have it so good, we don't even know how good we have it anymore.

We hit the topic hard in What a bunch of whiners we are! and What a bunch of whiners we are, Part 2. We also hit a related theme in a thorough essay on the perils of jealousy in I really don't care if someone has more money than I do.

These themes cannot be stressed enough. If you're sick of 'em . . . if you already "get it," then forward . . .

If America is such a racist country, how is it a black man is leading?

A few days ago, I wrote an article that has generated both compliments and controversy. Titled What is white America afraid of?, the contention is simple: Skin color has nothing to do with most white people's negative reactions to Obama. Rather, it is a combination of things unrelated to race (his positions, his inexperience, etc.) and things that may appear to have a racial component but are in fact cultural, or more...