I absolutely agree with this piece about whether or not Obama is incompetent. It’s by Ray Hartwell, written in 2010, and the answer he gives is: competent, if you know what the goals are. Unfortunately the sad occasion for my … Continue reading →
…show. Dreadful.
Continue reading →I don’t watch the Grammys; I just don’t like the way popular music is going these days. And what I just said about the music could go double for the fashions connected with the music. However, sometimes I click on … Continue reading →
I’ve avoided the latest Woody Allen sexual abuse furor so far, and this post isn’t going to be an exhaustive treatment of it. It’s one of those “he said, she said” arenas where what actually happened can be difficult to … Continue reading →
…to find that gambling is going on here! I thought that was the way local politics worked in New Jersey—and an awful lot of other places, too. Nor does Sokolich’s new statement shed any light on the question of how … Continue reading →
Was all the Republican discussion about immigration reform the set up, and this the spike? Was the intention always to end up saying some version of “our hearts are in the right place, but Obama is just too untrustworthy to … Continue reading →
Here’s a depressing poll: Five years into Obama’s presidency, only a third of the public believes that Obama and the Democrats are primarily responsible for the country’s current economic problems. More Americans continue to blame former President Bush and the … Continue reading →
If you’ve been reading this blog a long, long time you may remember that I hate juice. All juice. As I wrote in 2009: To make matters worse, I don’t like fruit juice. Even orange juice. Or maybe especially orange … Continue reading →
Mickey Kaus tackles a question that occurred to me many months ago when I was immersing myself in the Byzantine weirdness of the way Obamacare subsidies would be working (see this, for example). Here’s Kaus’ question: We know what happens … Continue reading →
…the science about this was considered settled before the new evidence came to light. Speaking of science and geology (and we were, weren’t we?), recently I was reading a book called Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 B.C.—AD 1000, and was … Continue reading →
In order to justify the latest Obamacare news, the party line is that growing unemployment as a result of Obamacare would be good because it frees people from the drudgery of jobs: An editorial in the Times celebrates the projected … Continue reading →
Communism/Socialism is an idea whose time has always come, ever-fresh and ever-new. It keeps rearing its ugly head wearing a new mask, like some vampire who keeps returning in a new guise. But can’t we finally drive a stake through … Continue reading →