Pruden On Politics
PRUDEN: Only a president can cool this lynch mob
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
This could be Barack Obama's finest moment. He wouldn't have to invite anyone in for a beer. He wouldn't have to find a foreign potentate to bow to with abject apologies for the manifold sins of the America of liberal and "progressive" imagination. All he has to do is act like a president. Published 7:55 p.m. January 10, 2011 - Comments
PRUDEN: The clatter of dirty dishes in the sink
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Babes and bonhomie replaced bombast for a few minutes this week in Congress, striking dumb with delight the easily impressed folks who think that all it takes to solve the nation's problems is an infusion of civility, making nice and what used to be called good manners. Published 8:39 p.m. January 6, 2011 - Comments
PRUDEN: Grits to enliven a diet of custard
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Occasionally preachers, prelates and even popes, like presidents, tell fibs, stretchers, little white lies and sometimes whoppers in the pursuit of peace. It goes with the territory. Published 8:38 a.m. January 4, 2011 - Comments
PRUDEN: A little learning to teach the teachers
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Sometimes even The Washington Post, like that blind hog in search of an acorn, finds something beyond its usual diet of gloom, doom and unrelenting pessimism. Published 5:39 p.m. December 30, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: Fitting free speech into elite 'context'
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
It can be dangerous to make free with free speech in modern America, lest you offend someone with a perfectly harmless remark. Agents of the Thought Police are lurking everywhere, searching for something to be offended by. Published 8:20 a.m. December 28, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: The amazing grace of Christmas morn
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
The malls and the Main Streets fall silent. The ringing of cash registers fade in ghostly echoes across silent streets. But the Christ born in a manger 2,000 years ago lives through the centuries, liberating the hearts of sinners and transforming the lives of the wicked. Published 5:37 p.m. December 23, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: Nothing neutral about this unholy scheme
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Hugo Chavez, the rowdy left-wing president of Venezuela, doesn't have to nibble at freedom of speech via the Internet. Unlike government officials here and elsewhere, Mr. Chavez runs an "efficient" government. He just scarfs down everything in his way. Published 6:06 p.m. December 20, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: The noisy display of dead ducks
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Those aren't lame ducks in session on Capitol Hill. They're dead ducks, but like chickens that can still take a few steps once their necks are wrung, these dead ducks are flailing and flapping across the barnyard, leaving a trail of blood and gore. Published 5:48 p.m. December 16, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: The second banana at the White House
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
What can you do with a good ol' boy like Bubba? He only does what Bubba does. You probably shouldn't blame a distracted and overwhelmed Barack Obama, either. But that was a remarkable show the two presidents put on at the White House the other day. Published 5:13 p.m. December 13, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: A bitter retreat into the politics of envy
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
The defining difference between liberal and conservative, Republican and Democrat, tea sipper and addict to castor oil, is envy. Bitter, unyielding and unforgiving envy. Published 4:52 p.m. December 9, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: Where have all the grown-ups gone?
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Just when the government needs adult supervision as never before, grown-ups have all gone over the hill. It's getting scary out there. Published 5:00 p.m. December 6, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: Turn out the lights, the party's over
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Scams die hard, but eventually they die, and when they do, nobody wants to get close to the corpse. You can get all the hotel rooms you want this week in Cancun. Published 4:58 p.m. December 2, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: All atwitter about news of the obvious
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
That leaked cable traffic between U.S. embassies in the Middle East and the government in Washington, which has officials in a dozen capitals all atwitter, so far only confirms what everyone who reads newspapers already knows: Published 5:32 p.m. November 29, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: Wild, crazy guys and sheeps for shearing
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
"Extortion" is an ugly word to describe an ugly art, and nobody is better at extortion than those wild and crazy guys in Pyongyang. But who's crazier than foolish marks who fall all over themselves to submit, like sheep for shearing, to an extortionist's evil scheme? Published 5:54 p.m. November 25, 2010 - Comments
PRUDEN: Plain English gets a November revival
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Life is not easy out there for a liberal, or a progressive or an elitist or whatever liberals are calling themselves this morning. Published 6:35 p.m. November 22, 2010 - Comments
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Happening Now
TSA chief seeks less 'invasive' methods
By Joseph Weber - The Washington Times
Transportation Safety Administration chief John Pistole said Thursday the agency is looking at new technology such as scanner images that show passengers as "stick figures" and security methods used in Israeli airports as part of his pledge to make air travel "as minimally invasive as possible." Published 10:13 a.m. January 13, 2011
Banks repossessed 1 million homes in 2010
By Janna Herron - Associated Press
Lenders are poised to take back more homes this year than any other since the U.S. housing meltdown began in 2006. About 5 million borrowers are at least two months behind on their mortgages and more will miss payments as they struggle with job losses and loans worth more than their home's value, industry analysts forecast. Published 9:07 a.m. January 13, 2011
Lebanese coalition collapses in turmoil over probe
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
Lebanon's year-old coalition government collapsed Wednesday amid fears that a United Nations report into the 2005 assassination of the country's prime minister will trigger a new civil war and plunge the Middle East into another conflict. Published 8:36 p.m. January 12, 2011
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