Seriously strange
[NOTE: I wrote this post last night and had it set up in such a way that it would automatically be published in the morning. I don’t do that often, but every now and then I do. It turns out … Continue reading →
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A song for Memorial Day
I’ve posted this song before, but I think it bears repeating, especially on Memorial Day weekend. It’s Tim McGraw’s extraordinarily moving song “If You’re Reading This:” If you’re readin’ this My momma’s sittin’ there Looks like I only got a … Continue reading →
Cleaning Kleenex
I always go through my pockets before I put my clothes in the washer. But it’s inevitable that every now and then I’ll miss something, and that something has traditionally been a Kleenex. It used to be that, when that … Continue reading →
This is the way it’s done: Noam Scheiber on the IRS scandal
You know, I feel I need to thank the left for one thing. For much of my life, I’ve studied history but wondered how it was that certain things happened. How could people be so stupid, so gullible, so shortsighted, … Continue reading →
More evidence that the sun has not only set on the British empire,…
…it has set on Britain as well: If you’re thinking of getting steamed over [the Woolrich machete murder], don’t. Simon Jenkins, the former editor of the Times of London, cautioned against “mass hysteria” over “mundane acts of violence.” That’s easy … Continue reading →
Kudos, Jon Stewart
For this: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook I’ve seen quite a few clips of Stewart lately that show some good sense and some moxie. I’ve always thought he … Continue reading →
Those generic rioting “youths” in Sweden
I was going to write a long article about the press’s coverage of the riots by so-called “youths” in Sweden, but this article pretty much covers the same territory: In addition to the horrendous beheading of a British soldier in … Continue reading →
More prayers in Oklahoma
[NOTE: This is a sequel to yesterday’s post on prayers during the tornado.] During the Moore tornado, teacher Anna Canady had a prayer [emphasis mine]: She remembered that as the tornado bore down on this school in Moore, Okla., she … Continue reading →
It’s not Lerner’s first rodeo—or Obama’s
John Fund points out that Lois Lerner has a pre-IRS history of overseeing the same sort of abuses she supervised when she later came to the IRS: Conservatives have long tangled with Lerner, who was director of enforcement at the … Continue reading →
Well, now
Holder signed off on the Rosen email seizure, according to “a law enforcement official.” And today Obama had just put him in charge of “review[ing] Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve journalists.” Fox guarding the henhouse? Note that the … Continue reading →
When I first heard that Anthony Weiner was running for mayor of NY…
…I wondered if he was nuts. And his announcement today that more women might be coming forth with emails and photos from him of a sexual nature certainly seemed to validate that thought. But then again, he probably figures that … Continue reading →
“It’s always an accident…
and it’s always low-level employees.”
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