I’m reading a book I find exceedingly fascinating. It’s called American Brutus, and it’s a fairly new biography of John Wilkes Booth, by Michael W. Kauffman. John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln are two figures about which most of us think … Continue reading →
Remember “Operation Lightning” in Iraq? Heard much about it lately? Well, it’s still going on, but I haven’t been able to find any coverage of these events in the MSM. I guess they’re not important. Iraq the Model provides the … Continue reading →
Clive Davis posts an interview with one Jesse Larner, an interesting fellow who wrote a book criticizing Michael Moore. What’s so interesting about that, you say? Hasn’t that been done quite a few times before? Well, not from the left, … Continue reading →
This news is a shock–Anne Bancroft is dead at age 73. I realize now that in the list of my ten favorite movie stars, she should have had a place. But maybe I forgot to list her because she wasn’t … Continue reading →
Amnesty International, the organization to which I belonged for 20 years (but no longer do), still does some good work. As some commenters here have pointed out, AI has reported on bad conditions in prisons in Castro’s Cuba–not quite a … Continue reading →
In my previous post on the Koran/urine-splashing incident, I spent some time wondering why this story got so much coverage. Some things were fairly obvious: yes, the MSM seems determined to report anything that might reflect badly on Bush and … Continue reading →
I’m a sucker for dog stories, and this one is epic. There are so many heroes here, I don’t know where to begin–Dawn Montiel and her son, the victim’s little sister, the staff at the school. But all the medals … Continue reading →
The subject? Today’s elections in south Lebanon. The assignment? Compare and contrast: Here’s exhibit A, an article submitted by Reuters, via Yahoo News. Here’s exhibit B, an article submitted by IC Publications (I’d never heard of them before, but they … Continue reading →
Cannibalizing from my own comments again, from Roger’s: As I went to my computer today, and my home page came up (Yahoo news), and I saw that the lead story (AP, naturally) was headlined, “U.S.: Gitmo Quran Was Splashed With … Continue reading →
I didn’t know that Christopher Hitchens even had a brother—he hardly seems like a person who has relatives at all, but rather to have sprung, full-grown, from the head of some fairly malicious Zeus . But he does have a … Continue reading →
As this article appearing in today’s NY Times itself mentions, the theory isn’t very PC. I see some possible flaws in the reasoning–at least as it’s described in the article. Of course I’m no scientist (obligatory disclaimer), but I do … Continue reading →
There are certain bloggers with whom I seem to be in synch–we’re interested in the same issues, often at the same time. Sometimes I find myself writing a post only to discover that one of these simpatico bloggers has just … Continue reading →