Why, isn’t this what a nice Orwellian Department of Justice ought to be doing? Protecting Obama’s friends: The Justice Department will not seek criminal contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner, the central figure in a scandal that erupted … Continue reading →
Recently I wrote a post that featured the Yeats poem “The Second Coming.” Today I decided to look up more about the poem’s background, and came up with this: Modernists read the poem as a dirge for the decline of … Continue reading →
…is that he’s a fool rather than a knave. It’s come down to that. There are still defenders (or at least partial defenders) of Obama’s Middle East policy, and they’re not even all liberals. Ross Douthat, one of those partial … Continue reading →
This is a good article on the subject, which pretty much summarizes my opinion, which is the basic “moderate libertarian” (is that an oxymoron?) point of view. It doesn’t really deal with the issue I see as vital, however, which … Continue reading →
I’ve seen the meme over and over and over on the right: stupid Boehner ruled out impeachment for Obama. But as I see it, nothing of the sort was done, nor could it be done. Congress can’t waive its right … Continue reading →
Expect an indictment as early as Wednesday: The FBI and the Justice Department have been investigating Menendez’s ties to Dr. Salomon Melgen, a close friend and financial backer of the New Jersey senator, for months. It’s not clear exactly what … Continue reading →
For a long time the right has been sounding the theme of the relative lack of experience of Obama’s advisors. Obama surrounds himself with sycophantic worshippers and/or neophytes, word-people whom he has elevated to positions of power. With all that … Continue reading →
This has been alluded to before, but more details can be found here. I have little doubt that Obama plans to stab Israel in the back as forcefully as possible, and that this is not a new idea for him. … Continue reading →
Commenter “Mrs Whatsit” asks: Is anyone besides me wondering whether the reason that the Obama administration has been so quick to throw Hillary under the bus might be to make room for a new candidate who’d offer the trifecta of … Continue reading →
…and the firestorm around it— The topic makes me weary, weary, weary, to see that everything that we predicted is coming to pass. What began as a simple “gay people ought to be able to get married” morphed seamlessly into … Continue reading →
The motivations behind the extraordinarily destructive act of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz remain a mystery. We know a little more about him, though—the most salient fact so far being that investigators found a torn-up “doctor’s note that called for him … Continue reading →
…it worked so well for Lois Lerner, it will work for me. And perhaps it will. Seems to me, though that it’s a potential felony: While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails … Continue reading →