Obama continues in his relentless attempt to follow in Nixon’s footsteps
Executive privilege claimed for the Fast and Furious documents.
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Alice Walker: no Color Purple for Israel
You’re probably familiar with Alice Walker’s Pulitizer prizewinning novel The Color Purple. It caused a sensation when it was published way back in 1982, with its story of a poor black woman who rises from a history of abuse and … Continue reading →
Yahoo email…
…is driving me crazy. It seems to be malfunctioning at the moment. And I know, I know—a lot of you will tell me to go to Gmail, because it’s so much better. I have a Gmail account, too, and have … Continue reading →
Literary leftists: Will Durant
[NOTE: This is another installment in my series on literary leftists.] You may know Will and Ariel Durant as the authors of a series of books on world history called The Story of Civilization, which I read one long-ago summer … Continue reading →
“New” Egyptian crisis
When I saw the headline for this article—“Egypt analysts warn of new political crisis brewing”—I clicked on it because I actually thought for a moment that it meant there was a new crisis brewing in Egypt. But of course, it’s … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson…
…on Securitygate: What I call “Securitygate” ”” the release of the most intricate details about the cyber war against Iran, the revelations about a Yemeni double-agent, disclosures about covert operations in and against Pakistan, intimate details about the Osama bin … Continue reading →
Somebody tell Mayor Bloomberg…
…that the large-soda ban isn’t even likely to work. So saith the economists who did the study he cited to justify the ban.
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Continue reading →SCOTUS and HCR: thinking it over
Not yet, but soon, the Supreme Court finally will be issuing its long-awaited ruling on HCR. When? By the end of the month, and speculation abounds. I won’t even try to predict what will happen; I’ve discussed the legal issues … Continue reading →
Juliet Poynz, changer?
About a week ago marked the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of Juliet Poyntz. She’s hardly a household word, but her story is not atypical of those highly-placed Communists who turned on their former colleagues. Poyntz was a Barnard history … Continue reading →
Happy Father’s Day
[NOTE: This a slightly edited version of a previous post of mine.] It’s Father’s Day. A sort of poor stepchild to Mother’s Day, although fathers themselves are hardly that. They are central to a family. Just ask the people who … Continue reading →
Dance: three genres
A friend sent me two videos of the precocious preteen dancer, Israeli Gaya Bommer. The first featured Bommer in the sort of weird, techno, robotic, gymnastic sort of choreography that’s known as “contemporary” but that I don’t quite get and … Continue reading →