…while looking nicely coiffed and wearing tasteful makeup. And yet I’m not going to hit her for hypocrisy. Hillary Clinton is now sixty-four years old, and although she’s no glamour puss, she looks perfectly fine for her age. Every now … Continue reading →
This is absolutely terrible on both the human and the economic level, and for the Russian aviation industry specifically: …[A] a Sukhoi SuperJet-100, the first completely new post-Soviet jetliner, went missing during a promotional tour in Indonesia. The plane is … Continue reading →
Richard Mourdock primaried and yesterday ousted six-term Republican senator Dick Lugar in Indiana, and the MSM is very upset. As Michael Brendan Dougherty of Business Insider succinctly points out: The only time the press weeps at the loss of a … Continue reading →
…is a plus-sized model. Go figure.
Continue reading →Richard Cohen advises Obama to read Robert Caro’s latest biography of LBJ and learn how to make friends and influence people like Johnson did. Dream on. In an alternate universe, maybe. In this one, a person can learn a few … Continue reading →
…of gloves can Obama take off and still have more to go? I am so, so tired of reading that Obama is finally taking the gloves off. And amazingly enough, Obama seems to be asking people to keep hoping. It’s … Continue reading →
…that this story can only redound to Romney’s credit. But maybe that’s just cause I’m such a rebel. Question authority! Power (boats) to the people!!
Continue reading →I don’t pretend to be an expert on internal French politics, but here’s a little summary of what winner Hollande stands for: He’s a Keynesian (although the article doesn’t mention that word) who favors stimulus as the answer to France’s … Continue reading →
…another round of socialism, first in 17 years. Dominique Strauss-Kahn must be kicking himself: shoulda, coulda, woulda. And Greece is confused, but it sounds like the voters might like more socialism, too, only with a different party in charge than … Continue reading →
Did you see the supermoon last night? I was driving my car right around the time the moon rose, and I saw it without having read anything about the phenomenon beforehand. So I didn’t know what I was seeing, but … Continue reading →
This dress isn’t as spectacularly awful as most I feature here. But it’s awful in a particularly odd way, I think. There’s a certain combination of Flash Gordon, Transformers, upholstery, 1950s apron, old antimacassars, and Octoberfest barmaid: For those who … Continue reading →
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of 9/11, is now on trial along with four accomplices. And it’s in a military court rather than the civilian courts the Obama administration would have preferred. Thank goodness. One of the worst excesses of the … Continue reading →