I guess they ran out of other people’s money before they even started. Fancy that. Vermont, the nation’s most leftist state, has given up on single-payer health insurance. For now: “It is not the right time for Vermont” to pass … Continue reading →
The WaPo’s editorial board keeps hammering home on this issue: …[I]t’s important to know the reaction of those Cubans who have put their lives on the line to fight for democracy and human rights. Many have supported engagement and opposed … Continue reading →
Commenter “janetoo” asked a good question in the thread about Obama’s Cuba “negotiations”: What I want to know is this: what is Obama’s end game? What does he want from all this discourse with our enemies? My answer, which I … Continue reading →
The ebola news has been quiet since the flare-up in the US has died down. But ebola’s destructive power goes on. Note that Dr. Willoughby died after treating a patient who was not known to have ebola, but who later … Continue reading →
Here’s an update for those who are still interested in the continuing subsequent unraveling of the UVA rape story. It has now been revealed that the emails supposedly sent from Jackie’s attacker to Jackie’s buddy Randall/Ryan after the rape were … Continue reading →
The bad news just keeps coming, so here’s an antidote—a shoulder-level double amputee has been fit with robotic arms whose movement is controlled by his mind. This process has involved a series of training steps: In order to prepare his … Continue reading →
…when it responded to the North Korean cyberattack by pulling the film that satirized North Korea. “I wish they had spoken to me first,” he said (the “they” referring to Sony, not to North Korea). He also again vowed to … Continue reading →
When I first read about the cyberattack on Sony I didn’t pay all that much attention. That turned out to be wrong. This attack on a US company, almost certainly by the government of North Korea, is a devastating blow … Continue reading →
If you’re interested in some in-depth coverage of the Cuba news, go to Fausta’s blog and start reading. There’s a lot there to digest.
Continue reading →Lately the WaPo has been backing off from its kneejerk approval of the Obama administration, but this editorial along those lines is especially strong: IN RECENT months, the outlook for the Castro regime in Cuba was growing steadily darker. The … Continue reading →
Marco Rubio, among others, thinks that Obama is a bad negotiator: I don’t know what his intentions are. His foreign policy is at a minimum naive, and perhaps even truly counterproductive to the future of democracy in the region. Just … Continue reading →
In retrospect, Obama’s push to normalize relations with Cuba shouldn’t have been any sort of surprise. As a leftist and a statist he is ideologically simpatico, and such a move would also appear to be supported by a majority of … Continue reading →