Allison Kaplan Summer translates an Obama interview with the Israeli news source Ynet that is due to appear on Friday. Asked how he would deal with the threat of Iran and whether he would support military action if diplomacy fails, … Continue reading →
A.J. Dionne at the Washington Post is one of the few who thinks that, minus the sexual innuendos, the NY Times was onto a good story about McCain and the lobbyists. Paul Sheehan, in an exhaustive and definitive fisking of … Continue reading →
The Presidential campaign has so dominated the news cycle that other important events, such as Kosovo independence, have gotten short shrift. The Sanity Squad has attempted to remedy that in its latest podcast at Blog Talk Radio. So click and … Continue reading →
It isn’t often you get to watch a lie become entrenched truth. Or maybe it is often, if you pay enough attention. Once it’s repeated enough, and by the right people, it becomes the revealed truth, and there’s almost no … Continue reading →
Well, at least no one’s beheading them (hat tip: Pajamas Media): …57 young men…were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca. For those of you puzzled by my “Mikado” reference, the very handy You Tube … Continue reading →
A recent commenter, a teacher, asked for my recommendations for poems for 6th-8th graders to memorize. The thought appealed to me. But when I tried to tackle it, I realized it’s harder than it sounds. Poems with cadence and rhyme … Continue reading →
…when the San Francisco Chronicle gives it a tongue-lashing for publishing gossip. Ouch. The Chronicle adds: Regrettably, the Times left itself and our profession open to such allegations of bias by publishing soft-focus evidence of what would be an outrageous … Continue reading →
Just when I was thinking of taking a vow to refrain from bashing the NY Times so often (not because it’s improved—au contraire!—but because it’s getting a bit tedious to have to keep on pointing out its myriad flaws) the … Continue reading →
Despite the force of the Obama “Yes, we can” train (no mere “I think I can, I think I can” choo-choo for him!), it looks as though he may not get enough votes in the primaries to win the Democratic … Continue reading →
Those who know me well know that, although I have no special interest in medicine and never, never wanted to be a doctor, I have a strange quirk of mind that means I happen to remember medical facts and histories … Continue reading →
Fred Barnes seems to be channeling neo-neocon in his latest Weekly Standard article. Towards the end of his piece describing Iraq’s recent progress towards reaching those benchmarks we used to hear so much about, Barnes asks some of the same … Continue reading →
It’s a little late for Valentine’s Day, but The New Yorker has published this love letter to McCain by Ryan Lizza. Okay, maybe it’s not exactly a love letter; there’s a bit of criticism in there as well. But not … Continue reading →