[NOTE: This is a post that originally appeared in 2008. I came across it today while responding to a comment, and I thought it worth repeating.] As a child who loved poetry, I memorized it almost without intending to. Just … Continue reading →
Cornhead reports on the new, improved Hillary Clinton in Iowa.
Continue reading →Hillary Clinton’s audacious renunciation of the trade agreement she helped negotiate and has bragged about and praised highly in the past is a naked political move that she must have calculated would help her: With news leaking out that organized … Continue reading →
That’s a quote from erstwhile would-be Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who abruptly announced his withdrawal from the race: There is no clear successor who can overcome the deep divisions in the party and win the post. An influential group of conservatives … Continue reading →
Spencer Stone is in the hospital with stabbing injuries that have been described as “non-life-threatening.” All three of the American friends who helped subdue the French train attacker are from the Sacramento area. Sacramento is a pretty rough town, crimewise. … Continue reading →
Yesterday I read this article by John Hinderaker at Powerline: During our previous wave of mass immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both immigrants and American officials understood that assimilation into American culture, most importantly learning to … Continue reading →
Here’s the link to my new article at the Weekly Standard. An excerpt: Whenever I read about the European response to the current wave of “migrants” to Europe, one of the first questions that comes to mind is, “Why?” Why … Continue reading →
I admire Victor Davis Hanson’s writing and thought, and very often I agree with him. But this time? Not so much. Hanson lists a host of ills that the Obama years have wrought, and then asks: Was all this due … Continue reading →
Democrats are deeply into identity politics, and it’s a well-known fact that a great deal of Hillary Clinton’s appeal—what’s left of it, that is—among women is the fact that she is a woman. So Democrats who are predisposed to care … Continue reading →
That’s the title of this article, and that’s the subject matter: scientists in Antarctica drink a lot. Well, you might say, why not? It’s Antarctica, Jake. NSF managers in Washington say they’re still looking at whether shipping a few breathalyzers … Continue reading →
[NOTE: To make sense of this post, it would help to have read Part I and Part II.] In Parts I and II I wrote about Peter Singer’s strange and ultra-“logical” ideas about the value of human life and of … Continue reading →
There really are no good guys in Syria, says Andrew C. McCarthy: To repeat, in Syria, there has never been a vacuum – i.e., a void created by the failure to cultivate a viable opposition. Yes, there are some moderates … Continue reading →