I’ve been on travel the past week, visiting with college administrators, staff, and students. I’m often asked by concerned young people: “Has it ever been this bad before?”

Oh, my yes. When I was your age, I tell them, 300 American cities went up in flames after Dr. King was assassinated, riots in the streets turned huge areas of America’s cities into no-go zones. Bob Kennedy was assassinated en route to a likely presidential nomination. Three hundred young Americans were dying in Vietnam every week, with no strategy for victory and no end in sight. Inflation was rampant and few Americans could see our country healing after such terrible divisions.

But heal she did. Last week, I witnessed American troops coming home from Iraq in two of our major airports. Welcoming committees cheered them wildly. What a great improvement on the sullen indifference that greeted too many of our returning Vietnam vets. One of my pool pals–guys I swim with every morning–was one of those Vietnam vets who came home to no welcome. Today, he joins the welcomers in applauding our magnificent troops. God bless you, Bob Hogan!

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Tags: Bill Clinton, Ernest Furgurson, George W. Bush, Martin Luther King Jr., Norman A. Graebner, President Barack Obama, Robert Kennedy, Robert Reich, Roger B. Taney, Rush Limbaugh, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sarah Palin

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It was announced this morning that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Reuters reports that The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for “his
extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation
between peoples.”

But this prize was apparently awarded *prospectively*, since the nomination
deadline for the prize came less than two weeks after Obama took office.

So what actions did Obama as President take before the February 1st deadline
that gave the committee such assurance of his future worthiness of the
prize?

On January 20 he called for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and
declared his intention to give multiple rights and privileges to homosexual
couples.

On January 22 he issued an order announcing his intention to close
Guantanamo Bay.

On January 23 he issued an order authorizing tax dollars for abortions
abroad.

As Michael Novak wrote in National Review Online at the time: “These first
steps were unworthy of a great nation and unworthy of a serious leader.”

Mother Teresa called abortion the greatest destroyer of peace.   But
according to the Nobel committee, forcing taxpayers to fund it gets you a
peace prize.

Tags: Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama

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