An excellent interview with Thomas Sowell. The point he makes reminds me of the following, one of my favorite quotes from the work of Czech novelist Milan Kundera: For example, communists used to believe that in the course of capitalist … Continue reading →
Yesterday John Patick Bedell walked up to the Pentagon and shot two officers there before being killed himself. Bedell hated George Bush and was a 9/11-truther. And yet Peter Grier of the Christian Science Monitor calls him he was a … Continue reading →
It appears that a military trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is looking mighty good to the Obama administration right about now. The strange thing is that those legal geniuses, Obama and Holder, didn’t see that to begin with. I’m not … Continue reading →
Our MSM has been relatively quiet about it, but Iraq is having another election, and democracy seems to be taking hold there. Oh, how awful those evil neocons were to have ruined a perfectly good country!
Continue reading →Parsnips have gotten a bad rap. Although I’m not sure why they are so often either detested or ignored, I’ve got some ideas. For starters, they look like wan and bleached-out versions of their cousin the carrot. But I think … Continue reading →
Last fall Obama engineered a photo-op featuring an audience of white-coated doctors to show he had the support of the medical profession for health care reform. As he stood at the podium, he was also flanked by four more of … Continue reading →
Could this be just more of the Chicago Way? Poor Blago got impeached for somewhat similar shenanigans. What will Obama get—his health care reform bill passed?
Continue reading →What a difference an election makes. Obama used to sing quite a different tune on why a strong and bipartisan majority was needed to pass a transformative bill such as HCR. There are lots of previous Obama quotes to that … Continue reading →
I haven’t read it, but this book, an exploration of how free societies descend into tyranny, sounds like an idea whose time has come (hat tip: Instapundit).
Continue reading →Today’s thoroughly excellent WSJ editorial on using reconciliation to pass health care reform makes the point that Democrats’ comparisons to previous transformative bills such as Social Security, Medicare, and welfare reform are inappropriate, because all those measures enjoyed significant bipartisan … Continue reading →
It has become impossible to dismiss the idea that the Obama administration has decided that Britain is no longer to be treated as our ally. A series of disses, beginning with but hardly limited to the return of a bust … Continue reading →
This WaPO piece is another in a series of recent articles about how Rahm Emanuel is the only voice of practicality, incremental change, and reason in the Obama White House (I wrote about an earlier piece here). I’m not at … Continue reading →