The big ruckus in the blogosphere today is that Journolist reporters conspired to downplay the Reverend Wright/Obama story during the campaign, and to attack and impugn anyone who didn’t play the same game. It is shocking, but unsurprising to those … Continue reading →
A number of people have told me they’re stumped by the title of one of the books in my masthead photo. They can see that the red one on the bottom is The Last Lion, the Churchill biography by William … Continue reading →
“Fascist” is a word that’s too freely thrown around and too widely misunderstood. But this article makes a persuasive case that it can rightly be applied to President Obama.
Continue reading →Gabriel Malor at Ace informs us that the movie “The Sorceror’s Apprentice” is “the lastest Disney and Nic Cage bomb,” which prompts me to observe that Nicholas Cage is the most talentless major film actor I’ve ever seen, a man … Continue reading →
…it gets worse and worse, and the misrepresentations become ever more clear. Although I must say that none of it is a surprise.
Continue reading →I see them in all the stores these days. They look like an exaggerated joke about the extent to which women will go to martyr themselves for the sake of beauty. I refer of course to the five-inchers, that latest … Continue reading →
I see perhaps a bit of clarification is in order about yesterday’s post about Palin. So let me just say: (1) I have always defended Palin, judge her to be savvy, and think the media campaign against her was abominable. … Continue reading →
Abe Greenwald of Commentary puts his finger on one characteristic of Obama’s that strikes an especially discordant note: his repetitive need to pass the buck and make excuses. It was one of the very first things I noticed about Obama, … Continue reading →
Here’s a new poll indicating that Palin’s support is strong among Republicans but not with the rest of the voters. That’s why I hope she is not the nominee. Yes, she’s got name recognition, all right. But people have made … Continue reading →
…writes a depressing column: Act One [of Obama’s plan] is over. The stimulus, Obamacare, financial reform have exhausted his first-term mandate. It will bear no more heavy lifting. And the Democrats will pay the price for ideological overreaching by losing … Continue reading →
Here we go again: another 2000-plus-page bill that is a pastiche of disparate elements that no one quite understands. It doesn’t do much to change the things that contributed most to the financial debacle in the first place (including both … Continue reading →
The Anchoress thinks that Hillary is positioning herself to run against Obama in 2012. I wouldn’t doubt it; in fact, back in September of 2009 I made the following speculative prediction: If Obama weakens more and more, and his unpopularity … Continue reading →