Dean Esmay wrote a short post with the following statement that caught my eye: …I still note with some mild annoyance that apparently it’s okay to loudly proclaim for “a woman’s right to choose,” and evil and wicked and oppressive … Continue reading →
Last night, as I was driving home at 7 PM in the dark and the cold, I saw some lights up ahead where there hadn’t been any lights for a while. It took a moment for it to penetrate my … Continue reading →
He’s done it again; here’s a must-read post from Wretchard of Belmont Club. It was sparked by an article by Robert Kaplan appearing in the Atlantic (subscribers only), entitled “The Coming Normalcy.” This, in turn, was a sequel to an … Continue reading →
This extremely sad news greeted me when I went to Yahoo to check my email today: “Christopher Reeve’s Widow Dies at Age 44.” I can’t say I followed the entire saga of the Reeve family all that closely, but I … Continue reading →
Whatever could be good about spam? No, not that kind, this kind. The kind I remember not all that fondly from my youth, when every home (including mine) sported a few cans in the cupboard. In my house, they were … Continue reading →
Yes, I watched the Oscars last night, at least intermittently, although I probably wouldn’t have if I hadn’t been invited to a party where Oscar-watching was the stated activity. And I just need to say this: what’s up with the … Continue reading →
I often get emails or comments asking me why don’t I write about this or that or the other topic. Every now and then I do take people up on one of these suggestions (for example, this post was written … Continue reading →
There are certain themes I keep coming back to, and one has to do with the mindset of liberals and those on the left (different, but at times related). It may seem to be an obsession of sorts, but I … Continue reading →
Dr. Sanity has posted another of her wonderful takeoffs. Usually she specializes in song lyrics, but today she has outdone herself and channeled an old favorite, T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Enjoy.
Continue reading →The cover of last Sunday’s NY Times caught my eye with the following teaser: He was the Taliban’s spin doctor. So what’s he doing at Yale? Okay, I’ll bite. What’s he doing there, indeed? Well, according to the article, by … Continue reading →
Michael Totten, posting from Kurdish Suleimaniya in Iraq, reminds us of a few things some may have forgotten.
Continue reading →Dean Esmay has an interesting theory on the bottom-line cause of war. He writes: I believe that the source for all real wars–not violent outbursts, but wars–is: those who fight believe it is ultimately in their self-interest to fight…. En … Continue reading →