I’ve got this article up today at Pajamas Media, on Obama and Iran. Of course, it was written before the Nobel Peace Prize news trumped just about everything else. But in the end, Iran will matter a great deal more, … Continue reading →
My first reaction was to check my calendar when I heard the news that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. But since it stubbornly remained October 9 rather than April 1, and the TV I turned on insisted … Continue reading →
Perhaps this phenomenon explains this phenomenon.
Continue reading →What makes Obama tick?. Read the whole thing. [NOTE: Moved up from yesterday.]
Continue reading →Whoever said our legislators (approval rating: 21%) weren’t creative? They sure are working hard to figure out a way to get enough votes to slide some sort of public option by, whether Americans like it or not—although if certain recent … Continue reading →
Why do we have to keep rediscovering—as the state of New York recently has—that raising taxes on the rich is so often of illusory benefit? Probably because it’s such a tempting thing to do. After all, there the rich are, … Continue reading →
Presidents are civilians, but they are also Commanders-in-Chief. Generals advise them in times of war, but there is an inherent conflict present in the relationship. The buck stops on the president’s desk. But especially when he has no military experience … Continue reading →
This is troubling news.
Continue reading →I noticed an interesting and controversial discussion at Ann Althouse’s blog in response to a post involving the abominable Michael Moore’s latest movie, the anti-capitalism screed about which Ann writes: in attacking the banking system, Moore presented quite a parade … Continue reading →
I came across the name of Conor Cruise O’Brien the other day, and as Google led to Google, I found a strangely prescient article of his from the Atlantic of 1986 on the subject of terrorism . Take a look. … Continue reading →
It’s high time for another jello interlude, is it not? A reader’s tip led me to this fabulous site. There are so many wonders there it behooves you to go visit. I’ll just reproduce a tempting few here. Jello Saran … Continue reading →
I read Orwell’s masterful dystopic political vision 1984 when I was about twelve years old, old enough to get what it was aiming at but young enough to be especially frightened by some of its most memorable images, which have … Continue reading →