Some of you may remember that my ninety-one-year-old mother had a stroke in late July. How’s she doing now? Fair. It’s been a long, long five months. In the beginning, she was able to move her left leg only a … Continue reading →
I ended up being far more busy today than expected–and now I’m off to have some fun. So, no post today, see you tomorrow!
Continue reading →Others are covering the news in great depth (I recommend, in particular, the entire front page of Mudville Gazette for a good roundup and links; as well as the horse’s mouth, the one and only Iraq the Model). But I … Continue reading →
Michelle Malkin has a post entitled, “Baghdad Jane’s Bloviations,” excoriating our old friend Jane Fonda for these remarks (offered here in their entirety): “Hanoi Jane” Fonda is claiming that ever since Vietnam, U.S. troops have been trained to commit atrocities … Continue reading →
I thought this comment from Nicholas on a previous thread was worth highlighting: I think the home battle is between the two types of children of Vietnam… Type “A” is “Never Again!” in the sense of never getting into [a] … Continue reading →
…you go to the library to read Commentary and find yourself spending four dollars to xerox the entire issue instead. Maybe it’s even time to get a subscription. It’ll go nicely with my New Yorker.
Continue reading →This is just to let you know that the next “change” piece is being worked on. That means–well, what does that mean? It means that it should be out within the next week or two, if all goes according to … Continue reading →
Roger Simon has a wish: I wish Tom Lehrer were around to write new lyrics to his amusing song about our most distinguished university [Harvard], whose Islamic Studies department is now the recipient of a multimillion dollar donation from Saudi … Continue reading →
You might want to go over and wish Kesher Talk a happy fourth birthday. Four years! I’m impressed. In blog-years (the opposite of dog-years), that’s practically ancient. And to think they still have the energy to blog after all that … Continue reading →
Well, perhaps not quite. But, in honor of my recent renaming by Gerard van der Leun of American Digest, I thought I’d try my best to live up to my elegant new alias, moniker, appellation: Neo. What’s with the black … Continue reading →
They seem like strange bedfellows: Bianca Jagger and Ramsey Clark. But I think something the former said can shed a bit of light on the dark and murky thought processes of the latter. Writing in Friday’s NY Post, Amir Taheri … Continue reading →
Reading the news of Richard Pryor’s death yesterday, I have to say that it surprised me—not that he died, but that he’d still been alive. He had been so sadly debilitated in recent years that it seemed remarkable that he’d … Continue reading →