A New Address

After intermittent posts amounting to a hiatus, as of July 1st, 2010, Pleasant Valley Sunday has moved to new climes, with the same name: Pleasant Valley Sunday.

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Superb piece by Kathleen Parker today:
It's Obama's Ball Now

"What does it take to get a rise out of Barack Obama? Not that we need bombast and flared nostrils. Calm in the face of potential disaster is laudable, but it's a fine line between executive tranquility and passive nonchalance. Like a tone-deaf disk jockey, Obama plays elevator music when the crowd wants John Philip Sousa."

Pat Buchanan:
A Decade of Self-Delusion - HUMAN EVENTS

"After Sept. 11, the nation was united behind a president as it had not been since Pearl Harbor. But instead of focusing on the enemies who did this to us, we took Osama bin Laden's bait and plunged into a war in Iraq that bled and divided us, alienated Europe and the Arab world, and destroyed the Republican Party's reputation as the reliable custodian of national security and foreign policy."

Toby Harnden:
Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – and he knows it - Telegraph

"...the violence wasn't senseless, it had a calculated objective - just as Abdulmutallab was not, as Obama described him, an "isolated extremist". No wonder many Americans want to grab Obama by the lapels and scream: "It's the Jihad, stupid." Dick Cheney, the former vice-president, clearly struck a nerve when he charged last week that Obama was "trying to pretend we are not at war".

Event of the Decade