From the start, President Obama’s confrontation (for want of a better word) with Syria’s Assad was odd, then meandering and contradictory, but always somewhat mysterious. What was Obama’s goal? Was it just to appear a certain way for political reasons? … Continue reading →
Here’s what Kerry said: “We’re not going to war,” Mr. Kerry told reporters Monday after meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in London. “We will be able to hold [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging troops on the … Continue reading →
I have a new post up at American Thinker entitled “Obama and Syria: Words versus Deeds”: In trying to puzzle out what might be going on with President Obama’s muddled, non-strategic, and fundamentally “unserious” approach to Syria, it helps to … Continue reading →
Here’s an article entitled “Lobsters may hold the key to eternal life.” I don’t know that “eternal” is quite the right word for it. But certainly “very long” would seem to fit. Apparently it’s all in the telomeres: Although they … Continue reading →
NOTE: I thought everyone might enjoy a break from politics and world events, and so I’m recycling the following old post with some minor updating.] In an effort to boost my traffic, I am writing about breasts today. Small breasts. … Continue reading →
…till President Obama weighs in on this case: A man allegedly went on a rampage in Union Square on Wednesday afternoon and left a complete stranger brain-dead in the process. Police said that the attack may have been a hate … Continue reading →
The Kindle Paperwhite is coming out on September 30, and although I don’t know that it’s “the best device for reading, period,” as the ad claims, it seems like a pretty nifty gadget nonetheless. As this reviewer says, it represents … Continue reading →
Our highly-credentialed UN Ambassador Samantha Power either believed, or pretended to believe, that Iran and/or Russia would be cowed by the international community’s revelations about and reaction to Syria, and would be convinced to turn on Assad as a result: … Continue reading →
…and offers the answer “both”: The chaos we see throughout the world results from the Obama misadministration’s lack of preparedness and manifest incompetence from the start. Or does it? Either that or we are left with a much darker possibility: … Continue reading →
Read it and weep. Too little, too late, doesn’t matter any more. “I told you so” doesn’t work in history, unless people learn from their mistakes, which most do not.
Continue reading →Cow-tipping is a myth. Say it isn’t so, Joe.
Continue reading →…because it’s much more fun to, you know, make stuff up. Facts are not stubborn things, they’re slippery things.
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