Two Sisters' Best Weekend Reads

It's the end of summer, and the beginning of school.  Many of you are as busy as bees getting your youngsters ready for school, or to make the major leap to college.  Few have time to read journals or online articles.

Two Sisters have put together a compilation of some interesting articles on the web this weekend.  When you have the time, grab a cup of coffee and sit down to read an article or two.  We've done the research, just point and click.  These are troubling times for our nation.  As we face what might be the most important presidential election of our time, we are dedicated to bringing you some interesting reads which will hopefully make us all more informed and educate voters. 

This is one time in our history that we cannot afford to make a mistake in judgement.  At Two Sisters From The Right we believe that the future of America's younger generations is at stake.  We need to take our country back to its rightful place in the world, and we are in dire need of political leaders who will help guide us in the uncertain future. 

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Let the Perry Hatred Begin - National Review Online
by Rich Lowry
Perry should work to belie the image of Texas.

Texas governor Rick Perry is about to stride purposefully through every cultural tripwire in the country.

He may not become as despised as Sarah Palin, but that’s because he’ll never be a pro-life woman — the accelerant for the conflagration of Palin-hatred. The disdain for Perry won’t burn as hot, but it’ll burn just as true. He’ll become a byword for Red State simplemindedness in the New York Times and an object of derision for self-appointed cultural sophisticates everywhere....Read more



Bad luck? Bad faith? - Washington Post
by Charles Krauthammer
“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. . . . But over the last six months, we’ve had a run of bad luck.”— President Obama

A troubled nation wonders: How did we get mired in 9.1 percent unemployment, 0.9 percent growth and an economic outlook so bad that the Federal Reserve pledges to keep interest rates at zero through mid-2013 — an admission that it sees little hope on the horizon?

Bad luck, explains our president. Out of nowhere came Japan and its supply-chain disruptions, Europe and its debt problems, the Arab Spring and those oil spikes. Kicked off, presumably, by various acts of God (should He not be held accountable too?): earthquake and tsunami. ...Read more

The Predisent's Island Retreat - Wall Street Journal

by  Peggy Noonan
Is his visit to Martha's Vineyard a sign that he's giving up?

The phrase of the day is "new lows."  It blares from every screen.  The number of Americans satisfies with  the ways things are going hits new lows—11%. President Obama's popularity: new lows. The Dow Jones Industrial Average this year: new lows. Maybe it will enter ordinary language. "Charlie, it's been ages. How are you, how's Betty?" "I'm experiencing some volatility, but she's inching toward new lows."

The market is dispirited. I'm wondering if the president is, too, and if that won't carry implications for the 2012 race. You can imagine him having lunch with political advisers, hearing some unwanted advice—"Don't go to Martha's Vineyard!"—putting his napkin by his plate, pushing back from the table, rising, and saying in a clipped, well-modulated voice: "I'm tired. I'm going. If they want this job so much let them have it."...Read more



Where Have All The Millionaires Gone? - Washington Examiner
by Barbara Hollingsworth

Newsalert has posted a chart from a Wall Street Journal blog titled “Recession and the Rich.” The chart, based on 2009 IRS figures, shows that the number of taxpayers reporting annual income over $1 million fell 39 percent between 2007 and 2009; the number of super-wealthy individuals making over $10 million annually plunged 55 percent...Read more


The Imperial Presidency - National Review Online
by Mark Steyn
European royals make do with a less lavish lifestyle than the supposed citizen-executive of a so-called republic.
Rick Perry, governor of Texas, has only been in the presidential race for 20 minutes, but he’s already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign:

“I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.”

This will be grand news to Schylar Capo, eleven years old, of Virginia, who made the mistake of rescuing a woodpecker from the jaws of a cat and nursing him back to health for a couple of days, and for her pains, was visited by a federal Fish & Wildlife gauleiter (with accompanying state troopers) who charged her with illegal transportation of a protected species and issued her a $535 fine.... Read more

Straying From Reality - The Weekly Standard
by Phillip Terzian
Full marks to Jay Cost for his deft evisceration of Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman, and their resurrection of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a liberal Democrat. What Fineman and Matthews don't know about American history could fill a book—and in each instance, has done so.

My subject, however, is the recurring Democratic complaint—or, more properly, talking point—that the Republican Party has now ‘strayed’ so far to the right that its onetime standard bearers, from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush, would not only fail to recognize their political home but would be estranged from it.... Read more