By now you have probably heard the news of the crash of Air India Flight IX-812. The plane overshot the runaway and broke into pieces, bursting into flames. Fire seems to have claimed the lives of most of the passengers … Continue reading →
Yeah, yeah, I know she doesn’t. But a while back I recommended a better look for Michelle Obama at state functions—something like the Oleg Cassini ball gown once worn by Jackie Kennedy at a 1962 White House dinner honoring Nobel … Continue reading →
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 →