The following photo, which I saw for the first time the other day, is of the Grand Duke Ferdinand and his wife on the day of the famous assassination. It immediately reminded me of this—the motorcade, the smiles, the roses, … Continue reading →
Let’s see: Congress passes the health insurance law that comes to be known as “Obamacare.” Obama seems to have taken the name to heart: it’s his law and he can do what he wants with it. So by executive fiat, … Continue reading →
…remember that Legal Insurrection is the go-to place.
Continue reading →…to remind me of the Flying Dutchman. Or Philip Nolan, The Man Without a Country:
Continue reading →We in America have been pretty lucky for quite a long time. Despite the fact that our method of electing presidents hardly guarantees greatness or even competence, we’ve mostly had presidents who displayed at least the latter, competence. And we’ve … Continue reading →
I enjoy comparing different versions of songs I like, especially ones that highlight changes with the passage of time, and the variations among interpreters. Here’s a “compare and contrast” of three versions of Richard Thompson’s “Down Where the Drunkards Roll” … Continue reading →
…protests against the Morsi government rise to a new level. It’s always somewhat difficult to estimate the strength of demonstrators in terms of how much they can really undermine a government willing to play hardball with them: how tough that … Continue reading →
…here’s what your hero has been up to lately. With more to come from that team of modest, self-effacing patriots, Snowden and Glenn Greenwald; and their mouthpiece of choice, the leftist Guardian; who only have our very best interests in … Continue reading →
Have you noticed the spate of concerned statements by Democrats giving Republicans advice about the immigration bill? It always makes me chuckle. How helpful! Such altruism and magnanimity on their part! Which is only what we would expect from the … Continue reading →
“Brave” doesn’t even begin to describe the men who voluntarily sign on to do this job: The 19 firefighters killed Sunday in Arizona were part of an elite crew known for working on the front lines of region’s worst fires, … Continue reading →
America has been so fortunate, and in many ways so outside of history’s darker corridors, that we have forgotten what we should have known, and neglected to teach it to our children. It’s like a population (think Native Americans before … Continue reading →
Or maybe it always was. Although I’ve had a Yahoo email account for years, the worst thing they ever did before to me was a forced-choice change to a new format I didn’t like. And even then, they walked it … Continue reading →