A story to warm the cockles of the heart
Never underestimate what a fine wine can do. Or the creativity of someone named “Cha-cha.” Virtual group hugs all around.
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Blog week in review
Now that the Sanity Squad is on summer vacation, those of you who may have been aching for the sound of my voice can listen to this week’s “Blog Week in Review,” in which I discuss the recent Live Earth … Continue reading →
Jewstalgia: after they’re gone, you may even start to miss them
This NY Times article was both touching and disturbing, almost in equal measures. It describes a phenomenon in present-day Poland that might be described as philo-Semitism, the opposite of anti-Semitism. Now that there are virtually no Jews in that country—a … Continue reading →
Neocons and Sowell’s vision of the anointed
I’ve been reading an extremely thought-provoking book by Thomas Sowell entitled The Vision of the Anointed. In it, Sowell attempts to describe the differences between the liberal/Leftist (“the anointed”) worldview and that of the Right. The book is far too … Continue reading →
RIP Claudia Taylor Johnson, aka Lady Bird
Lady Bird Johnson has died at the age of 94. I’ve referred to her by her given name in the title of this post, not just because I always thought her nickname silly, but because she did: Lady Bird Johnson … Continue reading →
56-41 and fight: the Senate’s latest vote on Iraq
It wasn’t really a vote about Iraq, not directly. The bill was a proposal by Senators Hagel and Webb that members of the US military be given the same amount of time at home as they’ve served overseas. If passed, … Continue reading →
Reid to Iraqis: do as I say, not as I do
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has presided over a legislature that so far has done very little that the Democrats set out to do when they won the 2006 election, except to further political squabbling. The country remains bitterly divided … Continue reading →
Petraeus reports the surge is surging: in time, or too late?
The BBC, for all its negativity towards the Iraq war, is reporting that the violence: …has subsided in Ramadi over the past six months—largely, correspondents say, because tribes have turned against al-Qaeda. The Americans have taken parts of Baquba, but … Continue reading →
Sanity Squad: on summer vacation
You may have noticed that there hasn’t been a new Sanity Squad podcast for a bit. That’s because personal and professional matters have been consuming so much time that we’ve decided to take the summer off. We plan to return … Continue reading →
Why the rush?—The New York Times, the Iraq pullout, and the Nixon scenario
Jules Crittenden has a well-worth-reading takedown of the NY Times’s editorial demanding that we get out of Iraq ASAP. I’m not going to spend a great deal of time exhaustively fisking the Times piece; Crittenden and others have done so … Continue reading →
Now, this is inept
I think that I shall never see, a bank robber lovely as a… (Well, it was on Elm Street…)
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I recently read two diametrically opposed pieces about the dangerousness—or lack thereof—of the recent terrorist bombing attempts in Britain. The first, by Steve Schippert at National Review Online, criticizes the reasoning of those who would buy into what I’ve called … Continue reading →