Osama Bin Laden: dead
When I first saw the news I did a double or even a triple take. Osama Bin Laden? Wasn’t he already dead? Or at least, hardly a presence in the world at all? Sort of like killing a ghost. His … Continue reading →
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Qaddafi’s youngest son and three grandchildren killed by NATO blast
Do you care? I do. Here’s the reason why: And when bunkers get hit the occupants perish without distinction. The truth is that the families of enemy leaders die during a time of war. It is often unavoidable. But therein … Continue reading →
My smart phone has outsmarted me
I’ve had a smart phone for about a month. I have no doubt it’s highly intelligent. It can get online in an instant, locate me in time and space much better than I can, and tell me what restaurants are … Continue reading →
What’s wrong with this picture #2?
Again, an excerpt from Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker piece on Barack Obama’s foreign policy: During the peak of the protests in Iran, Jared Cohen, a young staffer at the State Department who worked for Slaughter, contacted officials at Twitter and … Continue reading →
What’s wrong with this picture?
From this New Yorker piece by Ryan Lizza: The two most influential foreign-policy advisers in the White House are Thomas Donilon, the national-security adviser, and Denis McDonough, a deputy national-security adviser. Donilon, who is fifty-five, is a longtime Washington lawyer, … Continue reading →
Andrew McCarthy on the al Qaeda Seven
Worth reading. Here’s an excerpt: Never had it been the case, prior to the Lawyer Left’s activism in this war, that the rule of law was thought to require giving enemy detainees access to our courts. In fact, the post”“World … Continue reading →
Lara Logan and the wilding of the mob
The details of Lara Logan’s terrible treatment at the hands of an Egptian mob emerge, and they are about what one would have thought from previous accounts: She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of … Continue reading →
Let’s hear it for the royal wedding
Yeah, I know. It’s fluff. Or, as Obama would say: silly. We’ve got more important stuff to do. But still, I had quite a bit of fun last night watching it. After having assiduously ignored the impending royal wedding and … Continue reading →
RIP Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Snow has died. For those of you who might not be familiar with her, she was a young phenom in the 70s, a singer/songwriter with a uniquely bluesy style. Her life was not an easy one; a hydrocephalic daughter … Continue reading →
Libya’s loyalists
We still don’t really know who those Libyan rebels although we’re supporting them. But this article takes a stab at telling us something a bit easier to ascertain: who the Qaddafi loyalists might be.
Continue reading →Birther and “racism” exhaustion
It began early in the Obama campaign. The way it went was this: Obama would make predictions about his opponents and insinuate their criticism of him would inevitably have racist roots (they’ll say “he doesn’t look like all those other … Continue reading →
Coded racism: get off the basketball court!
Racism is so hard to find these days that it must be embedded, hidden, covert, indirect—that is, “coded.” So of course Donald Trump—who is many things, including a self-serving, narcissistic, publicity-hound—is of course a coded racist for questioning Barack Obama’s … Continue reading →