Michael Sean Winters

What you thought of Barack Obama rsquo s speech in Berlin depends largely on what you thought of him beforehand nbsp nbsp If you have been swept up by Obamamania the specter of 200 000 Germans cheering an American waving American flags without so much as a whiff of protest is such a happy co

Yesterday the Matthew25 Network had a conference call with reporters to unveil their plans for the general election The group is composed of believers who are Democrats and who are ldquo inspired by the Gospel mandate to put our faith into action to care for our neighbor rdquo The group is the

Barack Obama rsquo s tour of Afghanistan and Iraq is already paying dividends politically The pictures of enthusiastic troops cheering him on were worth a thousand words He is no peacenik a la Jane Fonda Ditto the photos of Obama in a helicopter with General David Petraeus They may not agree abo

Today is a great day to be alive This morning rsquo s newspaper greeted me with the news that Radovan Karadzic the leader of the Bosnian Serbs who incited the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s has been arrested and will be brought to the Hague to face trial for war crimes Justice has moved slowly

The government is reporting a huge uptick in the number of arrests in their efforts to crack down on illegal immigration In 2004 there were only 845 arrests In 2007 there were 4 940 arrests Only 8 million more to go nbsp This is a farce except for the families who are arbitrarily chosen to

Of all the reasons to resent the tortured outcome to the 2000 election mess in Florida with its hanging chads strong-arm politics and less than convincing Supreme Court decision the absence of presidential leadership on environmental issues is one of the biggies This morning rsquo s Washington Po

ldquo What rsquo s the matter with Texas rdquo This morning rsquo s Houston Chronicle headlines the news that the Governor of Texas Rick Perry has refused to acknowledge an order from the World Court to stay the planned August 5th execution of a Mexican citizen convicted of murder ldquo The w

My previous 1 choice for Obama rsquo s vice-presidential pick Sen Jim Webb has taken himself out of consideration And none of the other choices possess the combination of national security experience bipartisan credentials and experienced winning a key swing state that Webb brought to the ta

The airwaves have been filled with moral posturing to an extraordinary degree as a result of the New Yorker magazine rsquo s cover art depicting Sen Barack Obama dressed in traditional Muslim garb fist-bumping his wife who is sporting an AK-47 standing in the Oval Office with a picture of Osama

Not everyday do we associate New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg rsquo s name with poverty The man is worth some 11 billion dollars having made his fortune first at Salomon Brothers and later his own firm Bloomberg L P But yesterday he proposed a new way to measure poverty that is worthy of much