I am a principled individual and I gravitate to the WSJ for news because I believe it to be principled as well. On the other hand, the New York Times consistently leads the way in agenda based news and they have a propensity to “leak” classified information that would, in fact, aid and abet terrorist organization. Not only does the New York Time lack principle, they lack courage.
The Wall Street Journal continues:
We suspect that the Times has tried to use the Journal as its political heatshield precisely because it knows our editors have more credibility on these matters.
As Alexander Bickel wrote, the relationship between government and the press in the free society is an inevitable and essential contest. The government needs a certain amount of secrecy to function, especially on national security, and the press in its watchdog role tries to discover what it can. The government can’t expect total secrecy, Bickel writes, “but the game similarly calls on the press to consider the responsibilities that its position implies. Not everything is fit to print.” The obligation of the press is to take the government seriously when it makes a request not to publish. Is the motive mainly political? How important are the national security concerns? And how do those concerns balance against the public’s right to know?
So, for example, it promulgates a double standard on “leaks,” deploring them in the case of Valerie Plame and demanding a special counsel when the leaker was presumably someone in the White House and the journalist a conservative columnist. But then it hails as heroic and public-spirited the leak to the Times itself that revealed the National Security Agency’s al Qaeda wiretaps.
Perhaps Mr. Keller has been listening to his boss, Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who in a recent commencement address apologized to the graduates because his generation “had seen the horrors and futility of war and smelled the stench of corruption in government.
“Our children, we vowed, would never know that. So, well, sorry. It wasn’t supposed to be this way,” the publisher continued. “You weren’t supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights,” and so on. Forgive us if we conclude that a newspaper led by someone who speaks this way to college seniors has as a major goal not winning the war on terror but obstructing it.
The forecasting faux pas is actually larger because those estimates excluded the impact of at least three major tax cuts (in 1997, 2001 and 2003) that subsequently passed Congress. These tax cuts were estimated by the wizards at Joint Tax to deplete federal tax collections by an additional $1.24 trillion through 2006, according to the Shareholders Association study.
So if you add those together, CBO and JTC have managed to underestimate revenues by $2.04 trillion over the past decade. Here’s one way to appreciate how large this error is: It would be as if CBO forgot to count all the federal income tax payments made by every resident of Florida for an entire decade. Tied to their outdated forecasting models, these agencies refuse to acknowledge that there is any Laffer Curve effect from changes in tax rates that help the economy grow and revenues increase. Thus CBO also managed to project a decade ago that the U.S. economy would be $1.3 trillion smaller today than it actually is.
Sen. Allen is a supporter of fiscal conservativism and introduced legislations to require a balanced budget. He also supported a law that would dock congressmen’s paychecks if they failed to produce a budget by October 1st. The idea that legislators should be penalized for failure to do the few things they must do is one that should be whole-heartedly supported.
While Senator Allen does support accountability for school systems and supporting programs that succeed, support for school choice is notably lacking. There is no better accountability than allowing people to leave failing schools, taking tax dollars with them.
Illegal immigration is an issue many legislators are running away from while Senator Allen has the courage to take a stand. He understands what should be common-sense, immigrating legally is a good thing, immigrating illegally is a bad thing. It is obvious that decades of not enforcing immigration law hasn’t worked and perhaps it’s time we give law and order a chance. We don’t need to demean the people who came here while the government basically said it wouldn’t enforce the law, but that doesn’t mean blanket amnesty… or for that matter, lavishing rewards on illegal immigrants.
Lastly, while it has become chic for members of Congress to suggest it’s time to surrender to America’s enemies and to proclaim that America is the cause of every world problem, Senator Allen understands that no victory came through surrender. The war on terror and Iraq are difficult problems that lesser men run away from by planting their heads in the sand. Winning the War in Iraq takes time and with plans for troop reductions under way, it’s clear that “stay the course” is not only a strategy, but a strategy that’s working.
Please considering donating to Sen. Allen’s reelection campaign or volunteering your time.
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