General Stanley McChrystal, top guy in Afghanistan, was summoned to the White House with some splainin to do after an incendiary piece appeared in Rolling Stone in which the general and his aides criticized the US ambassador to Afghanistan, as … Continue reading →
[Hat tip (literally): Vanderleun at American Digest.] It’s not easy to look good in a hat, although it helps to be beautiful to begin with, and to have classic features and well-defined cheekbones. Hats used to be part of most … Continue reading →
This Mark Steyn piece is well worth reading. In it, he offers an excellent description of that widespread, long-lasting, multi-faceted, over-determined, much-explained yet ultimately mysterious phenomenon: anti-Semitism. Wherever a Jew is, whatever a Jew is, he should be something else … Continue reading →
Richard Fernandez speculates on the news that Rahm Emanuel is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year. As with most administrations, the true story of the inner workings of Obama’s has yet to be told, … Continue reading →
Isn’t it interesting how those defending Obama seem to have come down for the most part to the repetition of a single assertion: “Bush did it, too!” Their statement isn’t even necessarily true, although sometimes it is. Nor is the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’ll be bumping this post up to the top for only a couple more days. Please scroll down for new posts.] [ADDENDUM 6/17: For those who mentioned that I should change from PayPal because of what they did to … Continue reading →
You be the judge. Of course, that’s merely a rhetorical question. With this particular Congress in place, there is no offense Obama could commit that would result in his impeachment. And it’s all Bush’s fault, anyway.
Continue reading →[NOTE: This a slightly edited version of a previous post of mine.] 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 never … Continue reading →
…explains what led up to it, and what it’s like living in a post-“oooh” world.
Continue reading →Mort Zuckerman, former Obama supporter, answers the question and says “fool.” I beg to differ (I believe the answer is that he is both). But it’s still interesting to see Zuckerman come this far in his condemnation. He doesn’t quite … Continue reading →
The recent news that the federal government is planning to mount a legal challenge to the state of Arizona’s new immigration law is just another outrage in a long series of outrages by the Obama administration. Even though the state … Continue reading →
Some of you may recall a post I wrote in 2005 about Clive Wearing, the man with such profound memory loss that he lived in a single repeating and ever-changing present moment disconnected from those that had gone before. To … Continue reading →