…Joe Biden announces he’s not running. I know; it’s news, not non-news. But for whatever reason, I never took the possibility of Biden running especially seriously, and wrote very little about it (although in one very short post I did … Continue reading →
I have an article up at Weekly Standard today entitled “Trump vs. the Bush family: an old animus.” Take a look, but if you want to comment, you have to come here.
Continue reading →This song was playing on my clock radio the other day to wake me up. I’d never heard it before, but it certainly brought me to attention–haunting voice and lyric:
Continue reading →Read this and weep. One thing I’ve long felt about the Obama presidency is that it showed the way and blazed the trail, at least for American leftists since the 60s. Particularly since Reagan, the left in this country used … Continue reading →
Now, this is depressing news: More than half of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of Barack Obama’s job performance, a first in nearly two and a half years.
Continue reading →So, why did Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party win yesterday’s Canadian election? It seems that voters wanted hope and change. In particular, they seem to have wanted a change to a Prime Minister with very little political executive experience. Sound familiar? … Continue reading →
Most readers here know I pretty much can’t stand Jeb Bush. I don’t mean personally; no doubt he’s a nice man who loves his wife and all that. I can’t stand him as a candidate and know no one who … Continue reading →
This Yahoo story about two siblings who came here illegally attempts to play the heartstrings: When Vladimir Gongora arrived in New York City three years ago, he didn’t know his own name. Vladimir was born deaf in the small village … Continue reading →
The other day I came across an interesting fact about Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent credited for having saved Reagan’s life by pushing him into the car when Hinkley tried to assassinate him, and making the decision to go … Continue reading →
The seventh Star Wars film is due to be released in two months, and I’m starting to see a lot of hype about it. Seven is an awful lot of Star Wars. Way too much for me. I’ve never been … Continue reading →
In the past couple of days I’ve taken some time to drive around New England photographing the fall. I had thought this would be a less colorful fall than usual because of the dry weather we’ve had. But when it … Continue reading →
Well, this is the last day of my asking for donations for this cycle. I usually only ask for donations twice a year. Sometimes I even go longer in between pleas, because of some innate reluctance to do it. But … Continue reading →