The Sanity Squad is trying a new format. We’ll be on the air, live, at Blog Talk Radio at 8 PM this evening. Here’s the link, with a call-in number. The podcast can also be listened to after the fact.
Continue reading →For quite a while now the liberal/Left position vis-a-vis 9/11 has been that those on the Right are a bunch of namby-pamby fraidy cats, motivated by an unwarranted and pathological fear of terrorists. Or, alternatively, that the Right is not … Continue reading →
I’ve always had an excellent recollection for early events in my life, with the peculiarity that my memories tend to be visual as well as auditory and emotional. That is, not only can I remember a great many incidents occurring … Continue reading →
…underwear. Maybe they should rename it, though. Apparently, underwear isn’t so very “under” any more. It’s come out of the closet, as it were, according to the NY Times, which reports that “showing off your lingerie has become very much … Continue reading →
Ah, the compromises politicians will make. Now it turns out that New Yorker Giuliani, the quintessential Yankee fan, is rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series. This has earned him no end of condemnation. It’s also a bit … Continue reading →
As Exhibit A, we have the exquisite sarcasm of General Robert E. Lee: It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers. In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers … Continue reading →
Here’s another article about the success of the the so-called “surge.” In it, Jeff Emanual writes that the results—which so far have exceeded expectations—are attributable not only to the increase in numbers that the word “surge” signifies, but to a … Continue reading →
I don’t make any promises, but I’m planning to start work this week on the next installment or two of my “A mind is a difficult thing to change” series. It’s long overdue.
Continue reading →Michael Yon describes the extreme disconnect he sees between the facts in Iraq and perceptions about it. Never the twain shall meet; at least not yet, although he’s doing his bit to change that. Why has the corrective news of … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you, but I’m bone tired of the 2008 election already. I can’t remember ever feeling this level of fatigue so early in a campaign before. Maybe in previous years I didn’t follow politics so closely, although … Continue reading →
There’s no dearth of conspiracy theories to explain the audacious attack on Bhutto’s convoy, and Bhutto herself has hinted that the government may have been involved. Has she just been watching too many Oliver Stone movies? No. The sad fact … Continue reading →
Those who are so certain they know how history will judge George Bush—or any other president, for that matter—show their ignorance of history itself. It’s not just that contemporary perceptions of a leader are often quite different from their evaluations … Continue reading →