[NOTE: While we’re talking about Brazil (and why not? I’m tired of talking about Obama) let’s revisit an old post of mine with a Brazilian theme: “Lost in translation: the girl from Ipamema.”] A while back we had a discussion … Continue reading →
Brazil’s President Lula de Silva has some insightful remarks on the world economic crisis: This crisis was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who thought they knew everything and now show they know nothing, Unlike … Continue reading →
Yesterday Daniel Hannan was just a backbench member of the European Parliament from South East England, probably known only to his constituents, some Conservative fans, and some Labor enemies. Today—although this may just be his obligatory Warholesque fifteen minutes of … Continue reading →
My, my. Interestingly, it was an attempt at a joke by Obama that finally got Andrew’s goat. it seems that every time Obama tries to be funny, he annoys someone.
Continue reading →There’s been some relabeling going on in the Obama administration. The “Global War on Terror,” a term criticized by the Left as too simplistic and truculent, and on the Right as too general and nonspecific, has been rebranded. The “solution” … Continue reading →
Please go here to learn about a chilling experiment in indoctrination recently embarked upon by faculty at the University of Delaware. Be sure to watch the You Tube videos, and if you want to see the details of the reading … Continue reading →
I didn’t make that line up. It’s an idea voiced by Daniel Henninger in this WSJ article. Henninger believes the disconnect between the majority of Democrats in Congress and the private sector has become profound, leading not only to the … Continue reading →
I noticed this, too, during Obama’s press conference: the setting up of another straw man. He slipped it in so smoothly it was easy to miss. But that’s his modus operandi.
Continue reading →Speaking of movies—and we were—there’s another I’d place on my list of a hundred favorites, and it would be pretty high up at that. It’s Terry Gilliam’s “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” a box office and financial disaster when it … Continue reading →
If even the previously Obama-besotted Tina Brown has begun to tire of the president, that’s news. Was it a mere two months ago, right after the inauguration, that Brown wrote this love note to Obama? Brown is not a deep … Continue reading →
Moderate Democrats in Congress represent our best—and perhaps our only—hope of keeping the ocean liner (Obama’s metaphor, not mine) of our economy from hitting the devastating iceberg of the proposed Obama budget and becoming the Titanic. I’ve decided to call … Continue reading →
I’m pleased to see that “Groundhog Day” made the cut. But no “High Noon?” For shame, for shame! And whatever is the transcendently schlocky “Titanic” doing there? Special effects and teenage heartthrobs should only get you so far. As for … Continue reading →