Ron Rosenbaum has written his reflections on the mixed legacy of Boris Yeltsin, who died last Monday. Rosenbaum focuses on the hope those times represented, when the once-mighty Soviet Union withered away and died and was replaced by a fledgling … Continue reading →
The Democratic leadership is pushing vigorously for further confrontation with the Bush administration over a timetable for a pullout. They clearly seem to think they have a winner for themselves in the political sense, whatever the fallout for Iraq itself. … Continue reading →
Well, he may be “relentlessly centrist.” But still, David Broder writes for the liberal Washington Post, and he’s out for Harry Reid’s blood (as well as Gonzalez’s). I’m not sure I agree with Broder, though, that “the Democrats deserve better” … Continue reading →
Clean-up time.
Continue reading →I haven’t been especially easy on Harry Reid lately. I think his behavior despicable, shortsighted, pernicious, self-serving, and bordering on the traitorious. But it doesn’t fit the definition of treason, even though Tom Delay recently has called it “very, very … Continue reading →
This week’s Sanity Squad podcast at PJ deals with the question of how therapists figure out who is likely to be dangerous, and what to do about it. Listen to Dr. Sanity, Shrink, Siggy, and me wrestle with this knotty … Continue reading →
Here’s Naval officer Jason Nichols’s letter to Harry Reid on the subject of Reid’s recent declaration of defeat in Iraq. He makes the excellent point that statements such as Reid’s strike fear into the hearts of any Iraqis who might … Continue reading →
Are clients best served by therapists who’ve had life experiences and backgrounds similar to theirs? Clients certainly often seen to want this, but do they need it for the most effective therapy to take place? And, in fact, can such … Continue reading →
While I was away there was another “storm of the century”—the third, by my count, since this century has begun. I was overjoyed to have been safely away when it happened; my neighbors, hearty New Englanders all, report cowering in … Continue reading →
The first round of the elections in France have produced the two candidates for the runoff: Sarkozy and Royal. It turns out after all that most people were not lying to the polls because they were ashamed to say they … Continue reading →
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has called the war in Iraq a failure. How does he know this? Because of the “extreme violence in Iraq this week.” And what did that violence consist of? A series of terrorist bombings … Continue reading →
The first round of French elections are coming this Sunday, followed by another (and deciding) one two weeks later. The field is unusual for France. As Jane Kramer points out in the New Yorker, all three leading candidates are relative … Continue reading →