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Our future?
Detroit.
Continue reading →Obamacare: well now, it seems that…
…it’s the honor system for Obamacare income subsidies. Oh, that’ll work just fine. Unbelievable. And yet at this point, ever so believable: The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On … Continue reading →
Today in the Zimmerman trial…
…powerful testimony that the screamer on the tapes was Zimmerman: A pleasant older man, Donnelly was introduced to the jurors as a physician’s assistant. It also soon emerged, however that he was a close personal friend of Zimmerman’s, and indeed … Continue reading →
Spambot of the day
Bearing-of-glad-tidings bot: I have to say, japan is going well. Well, if you have to, you have to.
Continue reading →Morsi supporters killed in Egypt: finding the truth-tellers* on that island
Many Morsi supporters have been killed by the military in Egypt—but why, and who attacked first? I don’t profess to have a clue. But when I read this I began to wonder (and by the way, the number dead has … Continue reading →
The San Francisco airplane accident: was someone negligent?
The tragic crash of an Asiana flight Saturday while landing in San Francisco is a terrifying event despite the fact that “only” two people died. It’s tragic because two people dying is, of course, too many people—although everyone realizes it … Continue reading →
Spitzer says…
…if Weiner can do it, so can I. Well, he didn’t really say that. But I assume that Weiner’s run for mayor has given Spitzer the courage to re-enter politics himself and run for comptroller. What a team! And this … Continue reading →
“I grow old, I grow old…
…I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.” The lines are from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” a masterpiece he began writing at the ripe old age of twenty-two. It’s not uncommon for youth … Continue reading →
Obama’s Middle East and foreign policy blunders: are they blunders at all?
The brilliant Richard Fernandez totes up Obama’s blunders in the Middle East, in this article and in this one. He says, among other things, that, “The administration’s foreign policy is unwinding like a busted spring.” Or is it? Certainly, if … Continue reading →
Hinderaker on the Zimmerman trial
Yesterday there should have been a directed verdict, and Hinderaker states why. But of course that’s not what happened. And no one realistically expected it to, either, because this case has been fatally compromised from the start. Hinderaker agrees that … Continue reading →
The options in Egypt
Shorter Caroline Glick: There are no good options in Egypt. Unfortunately, it seems to have the ring of truth: As was the case in 2011, the voices of liberal democracy in Egypt are so few and far between that they … Continue reading →