They don’t wait for facts to be known, because facts might ruin the narrative. So the news post-Navy Yard massacre has been filled with cries to ban semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15, initially reported as having been the weapon … Continue reading →
Summers was forced to withdraw by a bunch of Democrats who didn’t like Obama’s pick. As far as I can see, there were three reasons for this: (1) Summers had been insufficiently in favor of financial regulation during the 90s. … Continue reading →
…about this, but it sounds bad. Preliminary reports make it seem like it actually was workplace violence. Then again, workplace violence doesn’t usually involve three shooters. Stay tuned.
Continue reading →Joyce Maynard has made a kind of cottage industry out of her long-ago relationship with J.D. Salinger, who seduced her when she was a wunderkind of 18 and he a famous writer of 53 and then abruptly threw her out, … Continue reading →
I don’t know tons about Jim DeMint, but what I do know I like. Back when the candidates were throwing their hats in the ring for the 2012 race (it seems like eons ago), he was one of the people … Continue reading →
And he knows whereof he speaks: Let’s say, though, just for the sake of discussion, that the process goes just as smoothly in Syria as it did in Oregon, that it will take precisely the same amount of time to … Continue reading →
Something lovely to contemplate over the weekend. They’re called Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds: When two different layers of air are moving at different speeds in the atmosphere, a wave structure will often form. The upper layers of air are moving at higher … Continue reading →
…till Ted Cruz credits me for coming up with this phrase, but I think I may have originated it. Here’s Cruz: “I call them the Children of Reagan,” he says. He means the rising group of Republican officeholders who came … Continue reading →
The anniversary of 9/11 the other day got me to thinking about other terrorist attacks that were foiled rather than successfully accomplished. I remembered there had been a previous plan to bomb LAX, timed to coincide with the millenium, and … Continue reading →
In the comments to yesterday’s post about Obama’s immunity, a discussion developed about Obama’s intentions. It began with this comment by “southpaw,” and the back-and-forth went on for some time: [Obama’s] whole act was supposed to win over the world … Continue reading →
Today I’m visiting a relative and, wouldn’t you know it, there are major connectivity problems. So I’ll be uncharacteristically–and perhaps blessedly–brief (and please forgive any grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors; I’m not on a regular computer and can barely read … Continue reading →
You cannot make this stuff up. But apparently Jay Carney can: …Carney [was asked] to respond to a criticism of the president leveled by Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) who said he was “disappointed” with Obama’s seeming indecisiveness on whether or … Continue reading →