Author Archives: Merrick "Mac" Carey
Obama Crashes Through 50% Floor for First Time President Barack Obama has just fallen below the 50% job approval rating mark for the first time in the RCP polling average (www.realclearpolitics.com).
The RCP average is useful because it averages many polls over a several week period, [Read More...]
George Washington’s Thanksgiving The reputations of Jefferson, Hamilton and Adams tend to ebb and flow with cultural, economic and political trends, while George Washington is a massive glacier, grinding down the generations and leaving little in his path. Only Lincoln can compete with [Read More...]
China’s Economy: A Peek Behind the Curtain This blog has raised some issues over the months about the actual as opposed to perceived strength of the Chinese economy, their published economic statistics, and underlying social and political pressures in that country. The Financial Times reminded us a [Read More...]
Strong Navy Department Team Under Mabus President Barack Obama has put together a high-powered team of political, uniformed and civilian appointees at the Navy Department.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is a politician’s politician with strong Gulf Coast/shipyard connections. He was an active Obama supporter [Read More...]
Waning Warming Puzzles Proponents Global warming appears to have stalled, according to scientists interviewed in the November 19 issue of Spiegel Online. “Climatologists are baffled by Global Warming Time-out” is the headline.
Britain’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research calculated that there [Read More...]
20 Years After: Berlin Wall Gone, But Collectivist Spirit Lives On It was twenty years ago today when the Berlin Wall came down and democracy began spreading fast into Eastern Europe. I made two predictions that day.
The first was since socialist economics had been discredited with the collapse of the [Read More...]
Republican Outlook Brightens, But Obama Still Strong Election Day is scheduled in early November because in the Good Old Days when everyone was farming the onset of winter was the first time anyone actually had time to vote. It also comes right after Halloween, and I went [Read More...]
Jack Kemp Had A Remedy For American Decline The Jack Kemp Foundation turned on its lights this week, and held a successful fundraiser in downtown Washington. It will be interesting to see if the foundation can live up to its namesake. If I was management over there, I [Read More...]
Warfighters Should Focus On Core Skills, Leave Repairs To Contractors We promised you the Lexington blog would keep a close eye on the defense department insourcing and outsourcing fight, as well as emerging technology issues and program pressures. I hope you have been finding our past coverage useful. Is there [Read More...]
Hate Big Government? Don’t Just Blame The Democrats I am a life-long Republican. I worked on numerous political campaigns (most lost), was a senior aide to two Republican Congressmen, a Republican Governor from a big state, and volunteered on Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign for president. (I’m sorry to [Read More...]