Posted on 06/04/2006 11:39:50 AM PDT by neverdem
President Bush appointed a longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday to be his top domestic policy adviser, a post that has been vacant since February, when Claude A. Allen stepped down after being charged with stealing more than $5,000 in a phony refund scheme.
Karl Zinsmeister, who has worked the past 12 years as editor in chief of the American Enterprise magazine, is slated to assume his White House post June 12. At the institute, he focused on examining cultural issues, as well as social and economic trends. His columns for the magazine included pieces praising Wal-Mart's efficiency and extolling the role of religion in forming the glue that bonds communities.
Zinsmeister, 47, also has written three books defending the war in Iraq, a nation he has visited four times as an embedded journalist. His books focus on the everyday work of U.S. troops, whose progress in fulfilling a noble mission, he argues, is often overlooked by much of the media.
"What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over," Zinsmeister wrote in his column last June. "Egregious acts of terror will continue -- in Iraq as in many other parts of the world. But there is now no chance whatever of the U.S. losing this critical guerrilla war."
Zinsmeister also has shot a documentary about soldiers in Iraq, scheduled to air on PBS stations next year.
"Karl has broad policy experience and a keen insight into many of the issues that face America's families and entrepreneurs, including race, poverty, welfare, and education," Bush said in a statement. "He is an innovative thinker and an accomplished executive. He will lead my domestic policy..."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
" race, poverty, welfare, and education,"
This is a list of top Liberal concerns.
A post that has been vacant since January of 2001.
What are you implying?
How can you say that? You don't know anything about this guy.
I have really enjoyed Zinsmeister's articles and magazine. My wife read "Boots on the Ground" (I haven't yet) and she is a Karl Zinsmeister fan. He looks like a very good choice.
You trust those unemployment numbers?
This is a list of top Liberal concerns.
AEI's Diamond Jubilee, 1943-2003
From the beginning, however, the Association's spirit was libertarian and conservative rather than simply "probusiness."
Yep, and everyone of these is directly impacted by illegal immigration and exactly why the "one-issu-bots" want our President to address and Congress to address it now!
Thanks for the ping!
"What are you implying?"
Bush sounds like a liberal in this statement.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.