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PRUDEN: Nothing gay about this mission

Friday, Feb. 5, 2010

There's really not very much gay about war, as anybody who has seen a battlefield up close and personal will tell you. The nation's Army and Navy are organized for a simple ultimate mission, to kill people and break things.

PRUDEN: An Alcatraz solution for Obama

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010

The White House has to be tuning up Barack Obama's teleprompter, which the president regards as America's Maginot Line. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is once more talking some big talk. Blabbermouth or not, he has to be taken semi-seriously.

PRUDEN: Racing towards destination unknown

Friday, Jan. 29, 2010

So it's full speed ahead, even if nobody knows where we're going. We can console ourselves that if we're lucky we might not get there. That's the main point of President Obama's eagerly awaited assessment of the State of the Union. He said, as all presidents do, that the state of the union is pretty good on his watch, considering that George W. Bush, his favorite bad boy, bequeathed a sad-sack union.

PRUDEN: When 'change' isn't all it's cracked up to be

Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010

The president himself is trying to rally Democrats ready to bail. Hang on, help is coming. One Democratic congressman who bailed on Monday, Rep. Marion Berry of Arkansas, says enough already.

PRUDEN: Is Obama the physician, or the embalmer?

Friday, Jan. 22, 2010

The gentlemen of the press (and the ladies, too) are mostly a decent sort, often a bit prideful and sometimes with not very much to be prideful about. They're comfortable only by running in a herd. Trying to think alone gives them a migraine.

PRUDEN: Spinning the lesson of Mass.

Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010

You have to be a true believer in Barack Obama's radical agenda to be a Democrat in Congress, and believe with the intensity of a suicide bomber. Mr. Obama can't even promise a harem of virgins in paradise.

PRUDEN: Google to China: No more dirty work

Nation urged to clean up its act after hack attack

Friday, Jan. 15, 2010

Shortly after it officially told the Chinese to buzz off, the Google Web site answered questions about the infamous massacre at Tiananmen Square and other "sensitive" events the Chinese government pretends never happened and tries to punish anyone who doesn't play its game. Google even got an assist from Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, who is said to be throwing her weight, such as it is, behind the campaign against China's suppression of speech (and thought). She has already met with executives of Google and its rival, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems, one of the designers of the Chinese Internet technology to talk about how to deal with China's war on free inquiry.

PRUDEN: Another raid by the Gaffe Patrol

Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010

What this country really needs, more than that famous "good nickel cigar," is a federal agency to regulate the apologies of public officials.

PRUDEN: There's no penalty for sleeping on the job

Friday, Jan. 8, 2010

If it's true, as Dr. Johnson famously told us it was, that the prospect of hanging focuses the mind in a wonderful way, maybe the prospect of facing angry voters sharpens a politician's instincts (if not necessarily his mind).