I think the WaPo’s Dana Milbank…
…may have just called President Obama “boy”. Take a look at the last sentence of Milbank’s column to see what I’m talking about. [Hat tip: Ace.]
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Purists, changers, and elections
In this recent post, I highlighted some WaPo comments from a guy who calls himself “sayoung809132001,” who claims to be a former Democrat union man from Michigan who got laid off and is currently unemployed. The whole experience has led … Continue reading →
Gibbs: leftist Obama critics should pipe down…
…and stop asking for too much change too fast. After all, we’re dancing as fast as we can. Obama spokesman Gibbs criticizes the left for criticizing Obama too much for not doing enough. And not just the left, either: the … Continue reading →
Ezra Klein: cub journalist
Ezra Klein has quite a few liberal/left journalistic credits to his name. He’s written for the Washington Post for over a year, for example. He was the founder, head honcho, and gatekeeper of the now-ill-fated listserve JournoList, controlling who among … Continue reading →
Notes from another changer
Please read this cri de coeur, found on a comments page at the WaPo, written by commenter “sayoung809132001” and posted on August 7, 2010 at 1:07:14 PM,: I urge the new republicans who are now running to reach out to … Continue reading →
Defying the abyss: a witness to the Nazi takeover
Commenter David Foster has written a two-part book review of historian and author Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler (part I is here, part II here). I would say “read the whole thing.” But I’ll amend that a bit and say instead, … Continue reading →
Coming soon to a country near you: decoy Jews?
Decoy Jews are now being used by police departments in the Netherlands—that is, cops disguised as Jews—a response to increasing reports that Jews wearing skullcaps cannot travel the streets of some European cities such as Amsterdam without being harassed: Since … Continue reading →
Kurtz on same sex marriage
Some years ago, Stanley Kurtz wrote a series of articles on the subject of what effect the legalization of same-sex marriage might have on the institution of marriage itself. They make for sobering reading, although (like almost all other social … Continue reading →
Hair: the long and the short and the aging
To take up a topic suggested by a number of comments to my earlier post today (and to avoid talking about Obama just a little bit longer): why do older women, or even middle-aged women, so seldom wear their hair … Continue reading →
Call it pixie, call it gamine, call it…
…difficult to wear. It takes a very special woman with a very special face to make the pixie haircut work (confession: I am not now, nor have I ever been, that woman). But Emma Watson of “Harry Potter” fame has … Continue reading →
Hiroshima, 65 years later
[NOTE: The following is a reposting of a piece that appeared here on a previous Hiroshima anniversary. If you follow the links in the second paragraph, you’ll find three other pieces I’ve written about the decision to drop the bomb … Continue reading →
China takes aim at US aircraft carriers
I guess it’s not enough that we’re deeply indebted to China, and getting more so each day. Now comes the news that China has nearly perfected a missile aimed at our supercarriers: …an unprecedented carrier-killing missile called the Dong Feng … Continue reading →