I was impressed by Richard Fernandez’s recent piece on—what else?—Obama: Peretz, Brooks, and Noonan are intelligent, well-educated people. Nobody has seriously suggested they are either perverse or evil. Now they see the truth. But once upon a time they didn’t … Continue reading →
Bill Kristol writes that the Weekly Standard’s reaction to last night’s Republican debate, and the mail he’s received about it, is “Yikes!” And that’s not a good “yikes,” it’s a dismayed “yikes”. As a commenter on another blog wrote, Sarah … Continue reading →
Scientists at CERN are astounded to report that they have recorded neutrinos that travel faster than the speed of light, long thought to be a constant that defined the upper limits possible for speed in the universe: “We have high … Continue reading →
Troy Davis has been executed by the state of Georgia after 22 years on death row. Before his death he had become a cause célé¨bre, and—unlike some such cases—it was with good reason. I had never heard of him before … Continue reading →
…”Obama who?”
Continue reading →Grateful spambot and his grateful family: My wife and i felt comfortable that Louis managed to do his inquiry from your precious recommendations he was given using your site. It is now and again perplexing just to possibly be giving … Continue reading →
This article at PJ by Abraham H. Miller concludes that not only is anti-Semitism on the rise, but that it is pushing US Jews to the political right. I’m not at all sure about the second, but I have observed … Continue reading →
Not that we needed more evidence, but new research is explaining just why it’s so hard for most people to lose weight and maintain the loss. I already knew about this from personal experience and observation. And don’t get me … Continue reading →
Shorter Daley on the EU: good fences make good neighbors. “Consensus” has become coercion. The imperatives of federalism and ever closer union have come bang up against the basic principle of democracy: that elected governments should be answerable to their … Continue reading →
Very good indeed. The human mind is still pretty ingenious.
Continue reading →This AP article fact-checks Obama on the topic of millionaires paying at a lower tax rate than their secretaries: On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to … Continue reading →
[The following is a reprint of a post I first wrote about a year ago. It still seems timely, so I thought I’d post it again.] Even the left appears to have fallen out of love with Obama, and wonders … Continue reading →