Are reports of the euro’s imminent demise greatly exaggerated? Or will we see its end in the not-too-distant future, because the life support system its richer members are trying to construct is doomed to failure? Jeff Randall thinks it’s the … Continue reading →
Seems there’s a rash of military impostors, although this one certainly differs in kind and degree from the Blumenthal case: A Texas man with no military experience managed to trick the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as … Continue reading →
Timothy Garton Ash says that Europe needs a new Churchill to add “dynamism” to the moribund EU: The European Union is still the world’s largest economy. It has enormous resources of hard and soft power, at present much bigger than … Continue reading →
Robin of Berkeley makes an important distinction between liberals and leftists. And it is hardly limited to Jews.
Continue reading →Here’s an excellent analysis by Jay Cost. And John Podhoretz has some observations (surprisingly, Joe Trippi says much the same thing): The era of political stability for incumbents and veteran political players has truly reached its end. The point is … Continue reading →
So, is Burns’ defeat in the Pennsylvania 12 special election a debacle for Republicans? Does it mean their prospects are much poorer than previously thought for 2010? To read the press and bloggers on the left, one might think so. … Continue reading →
One thing I will never quite understand is this business of a person confessing that he/she misspoke. You hear it all the time these days from public figures (actually, you increasingly hear it in private, too). Richard Blumenthal is only … Continue reading →
Today is primary day in four states: Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Oregon. It may not sound like much, but the results will tell us a lot about current electoral trends and anti-incumbent fever. Here’s the place to discuss it if … Continue reading →
…Indiana Republican Representative Mark Souder has been caught with his pants down (metaphorically speaking) and will be resigning. The 59-year-old Souder was a big family values guy and a conservative Christian, but that didn’t stop him from having an affair. … Continue reading →
Democratic senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal has succumbed to an occupational hazard of boomer political candidates: alluding to some details of military service that turn out to be a lie. In Blumenthal’s case, his Vietnam-era stint was in a Washington DC … Continue reading →
Remember Henry Gates, Obama’s buddy who had a run-in a while back with a Cambridge cop? A few weeks ago he published a surprisingly balanced and thoughtful opinion piece in the NY Times that admitted the role of Africans in … Continue reading →
There are frightening financial rumblings from Europe. It’s not just about Greece, either, nor even limited to Europe. The last few decades have intertwined the economies of the entire world more tightly than ever. This seemed like a good idea … Continue reading →