In the aftermath of the Jeremiah Wright controversy, I keep reading that his assertion that the US government “lied about inventing the AIDS virus as a means of genocide against people of color” is understandable because, after all, the government … Continue reading →
I watched Obama’s speech, and then listened to a bit of commentary: hedging and doubts on Fox, glowing dewy-eyed awe on CNN. I’m not a fan; never have been. I see Obama as a typical liberal of an extreme but … Continue reading →
It’s getting to be a qualification for office rather than a drawback.
Continue reading →Click here to listen to tonight’s Sanity Squad: Tonight, Neo, Siggy, Shrink and Dr. Sanity shine the psychological spotlight on the Obama-Wright connection; and analyze the study of Al Qaeda suicide bombers that was recently released by the US military. … Continue reading →
I’ve found the key to Obama’s pastor and his fiery sermons: blame it all on his first name. The prophet Jeremiah was the inspiration for the expression “Jeremiad”, a “prolonged lamentation or complaint; also : a cautionary or angry harangue.” … Continue reading →
McCain is fond of saying he’s “older than dirt.” He’s really not quite that old. But perhaps he—like most politicians—can be forgiven a little hyperbole. Nor is he as old as the oldest profession. But he is older than any … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: the Anchoress.] I don’t know quite what to make of this You Tube video, except it made my jaw drop at around minute 3:22 and thereafter. Before that, it’s somewhat weird, but rather boring and silly. After minute … Continue reading →
As I was going up the stair I saw a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish, he’d stay away. The above ditty, “Antagonish,” is a children’s poem written at the turn of the … Continue reading →
John Heileman has an article in New York Magazine listing ten reasons Eliot Spitzer was politically undone by his infidelities while Bill Clinton managed to survive his. The most important reasons seem to be that Spitzer had already become very … Continue reading →
Peter Wehner presents an absolutely devastating critique of Obama’s most visible foreign policy record, his position on Iraq. It’s also the record of which Obama is most proud. But if one closely follows his shifting statements, it’s hard to conclude … Continue reading →
David Mamet’s Village Voice piece on his political conversion—“Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’”—has caused a minor sensation. To me, of course, it’s an old story, not only because I experienced something of the sort myself, but because … Continue reading →
No, there’s not really any relation between Mamet, change, and Eliot Spitzer. Except that I was planning to write a post today on playwright David Mamet’s Village Voice essay “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal.’” It seemed tailor-made … Continue reading →