Wesley Pruden

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PRUDEN: America's Princess Di moment

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Good career move. The Hollywood assessment of the death of Elvis Presley 30 years ago eerily applies to Michael Jackson, too. Every great entertainer knows it's important to get off the stage before the hook.

PRUDEN: Shriek of outrage

Monday, June 29, 2009

Before there was Fox News, before there was the Internet, before there was talk radio, before there was a wide range of opinion magazines, there was only a barren wasteland of tired, tedious columnists and Op-Ed pages, all repeating the same dreary line of conventional (liberal) wisdom. That was even before the liberals, having ruined one perfectly good word, started calling themselves "progressives."

PRUDEN: The hot one from the Democrats

Friday, June 26, 2009

You can't blame the Democrats for hurrying to enact their hot-air legislation. The public is finally paying attention, recognizing the global warming crisis for what it is, a giant scam that will cost every American plenty. The globe isn't warming - it's actually cooling, in fact - and there's no crisis.

PRUDEN: Stopping the bomb what counts

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Raw numbers don't mean very much in the Middle East, where running into the streets to demonstrate, usually but not always against the Great Satan, is the national sport. It's more fun than evening prayers at the mosque.

PRUDEN: Obama feels the clenched fist

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Silver linings are deceptive and often hard to find, but that might be a tiny sliver of silver in that dark cloudbank over Iran. Barack Obama got notice from the election results that his tongue, golden and honeyed though it may be, is no match for reality.

PRUDEN: When discontent stalks the land

Friday, June 12, 2009

Suddenly it's the summer of everyone's discontent, and we're not even to the Fourth of July. The Democrats are plotting mutiny over Nancy Pelosi's vast and costly scheme to make the weather behave. Bankrupt General Motors gets a new president who says he doesn't know anything about cars. Barack Obama wants the feds to decree how much an executive should be paid for his work. The president's erstwhile pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is baaaack, with more tall tales of Jewish perfidy. Hil and Bill (he no longer gets top billing even at home) not only can't elect a governor of Virginia but can't even get a pal elected the a state legislature, and Barney Frank, ever alert to the sight of a camera, walks out of a television interview.

PRUDEN: Every man had to be a hero

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The reunion of old soldiers becomes ever more poignant as the boys of an earlier summer move closer to the shadows that eventually embrace us all. The old battlefields that once commanded the rapt attention of everyone become remembrance colored in fading shades of sepia.

PRUDEN: 'Inner Muslim' at work in Cairo

Friday, June 5, 2009

Now it's on to Normandy, to apologize to the Germans. It's the least an American president can do after the way the Allied armies left so much of Europe in rubble. There's a lot of groveling to do for what America accomplished in the Pacific, too.

PRUDEN: Walking the talk back to Arabia

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Barack Obama is off to see the Arab world, taking carefully polished apologies and regrets and an assortment of grovels, but probably all unavailing. The Muslims want deeds, not words.