EDITORIALS
After years on the public stage, Mayor Bloomberg is a puzzle even to those who watch him closely. On the one hand he has thrown himself into the mayoralty, winning re-election — and, in political terms, vindication — by a wide margin. On the other hand, his public flirtation with the presidency ended up raising more doubts than it answered. The more the current presidential race grinds on, the greater the impact it appears, at least to the editors of these columns, he could have had had he not pirouetted away.
By GEORGE W. BUSH | May 16, 2008
The following are excerpts of remarks made by President Bush on Thursday to members of the Knesset in Jerusalem:
We gather to mark a momentous occasion. Sixty years ago in Tel Aviv, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s independence, founded on the “natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate.” What followed was more than the establishment of a new country. It was the redemption of an ancient promise given to Abraham and Moses and David — a homeland for the chosen people Eretz Yisrael.
THE NEW YORK SUN | May 15, 2008
‘The Stimulus Impact May Be Short-Lived’
Columnist Liz Peek rightly states that rebate checks might be the silver bullet to pull us out of the economic downturn, but only for the next two quarters [Business, “The Stimulus Impact May Be Short-Lived,” May 6, 2008].
She goes on to ask the logical, if often unexplored, follow-up question: What next?
Even before the credit crisis, economists at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis released data that makes clear the long-term benefits of public investment in our national infrastructure.
