This is an outrage. An absolute outrage. Don’t read it if you don’t want to get very, very angry. PC insanity run amok allowed Hasan to commit his crime—which could have been seen coming several miles away on a foggy … Continue reading →
No, the BBC doesn’t actually say “Tea Party member.” Here’s what it does say: One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Panorama … Continue reading →
On Saturday Robert Mugabe won the election in Zimbabwe handily against challenger Morgan Tsvangirai. Republicans: take note, and don’t make the mistakes Tsvangirai made. As for Obama and his fellow leftists: they’ve been taking notes all along. And here’s how … Continue reading →
…are racists calling me uppity. No, Obama didn’t say those words, not exactly. But that’s what he said anyway. For years I’ve marveled at Obama’s subtly clever use of the racism charge, performed while he simultaneously pretends to take the … Continue reading →
The House cast a vote (unfortunately merely symbolic, because the Senate won’t be agreeing) to keep the IRS from enforcing Obamacare. Look at the way the article describes the impetus for the bill [emphasis mine]: The House voted Friday to … Continue reading →
…move: The Office of Personnel Management, under heavy pressure from Capitol Hill, will issue regulations saying that the government can continue to make the employer contribution to the health plans of members [of Congress] and aides, according to several Hill … Continue reading →
So now we have word that the Smithsonian is “eyeing” Trayvon Martin’s hoodie for its new branch, the National Museum of African American History and Culture. According to the branch’s director Lonnie Bunch: It became the symbolic way to talk … Continue reading →
The host of this blog has been down—or rather, somewhat troubled, because apparently the servers have been working for some people and not for others (I’m in that latter group)—for many many hours. This always throws me, despite the fact … Continue reading →
In Russia, that great libertarian stronghold. Let freedom ring. Is anyone surprised? Putin has Obama’s number. Although, who knows? Maybe Obama doesn’t much care if Snowden never returns. As for Snowden himself, he’s been offered a year’s asylum, renewable at … Continue reading →
Quite a few commenters questioned my decision in this post to assume that a certain liberal named Steven Rattner, former counsel to Obama’s Treasury Department, has good intentions. Here’s what I wrote in that post: If you believe Rattner to … Continue reading →
Yesterday I went to the eye doctor for my annual exam. All went well, fortunately. But the experience reminded me that those questions the eye doc asks when he makes you don those weirdo glasses drive me nuts: “Which is … Continue reading →
The poet Yeats often wrote about how dreadful old age was, especially its physical manifestations. In the poem “Among School Children“, he describes himself as having looked pretty nifty in youth and terrible at sixty: And I though never of … Continue reading →