Fashion statement
There are many many things one might say about this photo. But I’ll stick to: the shoes. Why? How? Your turn.
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Spambot of the day
The philosopher-spambot: Research: What I’m doing, when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Continue reading →Totten and Hanson discuss war and peace
Two of my favorite people talk to each other: Michael Totten interviews Victor Davis Hanson. Here’s Hanson on the value and purpose of studying war, his particular specialty: Military history is didactic, and those who study it can get some … Continue reading →
Pigs fly, and the Times chides Obama on the oil spill
Yesterday I noticed what passes for a hard-hitting editorial in the NY Times. Despite the usual boilerplate Obama excuses (“…he took office under an extraordinary burden of problems created by President George W. Bush’s ineptness and blind ideology. He has … Continue reading →
That old HCR bait and switch
Is anyone actually surprised by this news?: Late last week saw the first leaks of the administration’s draft regulations for implementing the ObamaCare law — and everything is playing out just as the critics warned. The 3,000-odd pages of legislation … Continue reading →
The press and Obama: where’s that lovin’ feeling?
Please go to PJ for this piece of mine about the end of the press’s love affair with Obama. Did I say “the end?” To paraphrase (and invert) the famous Churchill quote: Now this is not the end. It is … Continue reading →
What’s going on with the feds…
…and those Maine booms?
Continue reading →Genetic studies indicate what Jews already knew…
…which is that Jews are more closely related to other Middle Eastern peoples than they are to the natives of the countries they encountered in their millenia of wanderings, and that they are also very closely related to each other: … Continue reading →
Who would have been the best president to handle the oil spill crisis?
Whatever else you may think of her, I think the answer has to be “Sarah Palin.” She’s got the experience dealing with the oil companies, and the requisite gumption to do so. And, if they were being honest, the left … Continue reading →
Requiring viewing of pre-abortion ultrasounds: I’m with Crist on this one
Governor Crist of Florida has vetoed legislation that would have made viewing of their sonograms mandatory for women contemplating first-trimester abortions: Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a Republican-backed bill that would have required women seeking a first-trimester abortion to pay for … Continue reading →
The Sarah Palin tata brouhaha
Just when you think political debate can’t descend any lower, it goes and takes a nosedive. Case in point: the burning controversy over whether Sarah Palin’s breasts have had some recent enhancement of the surgical variety. The rumor was fueled … Continue reading →
Estrich on political inexperience
With not a hint of self-awareness or irony, Susan Estrich pens a column devoted to the idea that electing the politically inexperienced is dangerous—without acknowledging that, with some mild tweaking, her argument fits President Obama quite nicely. Now it’s true … Continue reading →