Believing the worst
ISIS has done the world one favor, and one favor only. Favor, you say? Are you mad? What sort of favor could ISIS be doing anyone? That favor is to make more people believe that evil exists. One would think … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Historical figures
John Quincy Adams: on Islam
Here are excerpts from some essays written in 1830 by John Quincy Adams: In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural … Continue reading →
John Kerry: treason then and now
I was going to write a post on John Kerry’s outrageous conduct in the negotiations over a Gaza ceasefire, but Bookworm has already written much of it for me, comparing Kerry’s current appeasement of Hamas with his long-ago attempts at … Continue reading →
Revisiting Allende
I’ve written before that Obama reminds me of Hugo Chavez. But there’s a touch of Allende in Obama, too. Take a look. Note that a coalition of groups in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies attempted to stop Allende when they … Continue reading →
The border crisis is not Obama’s Katrina
Katrina was, after all, a natural disasster. No, it’s closer to being Obama’s Mariel boatlift. And even then it’s not the same. The difference between the border crisis and the Mariel boatlift is that Carter’s policies were not responsible for … Continue reading →
The bitter end: Vietnam
Anyone watching recent events in Iraq who wants a refresher course on the end of the Vietnam War and our withdrawal from that area would do well to take a look at this article. Here’s one of the most poignant … Continue reading →
Bush-bashing never goes out of style
My new piece is up at PJ.
Continue reading →Could it be?
Maybe. Wouldn’t this be exciting if it were true?: More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators think they may have discovered the vessel’s long-lost remains ”“ lying at the … Continue reading →
My obligatory Monica Lewinsky post
Why Monica, why now?: After 10 years of virtual silence (“So silent, in fact,” she writes, “that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking … Continue reading →
This is what it’s come to in Britain—and the bell tolls for us, too
Quoting Winston Churchill can get you into hot water. Mark Steyn writes : On Saturday, Paul Weston of Liberty GB, a candidate in next month’s European elections, was speaking on the steps of Winchester Guildhall and quoting Winston Churchill on … Continue reading →
Another May-December fun couple who ran into difficult times
The foibles of Donald Sterling and his mistress have somehow managed to remind me of these guys, another pair with a rather large age gap, and who represented what in those days (1974) passed for an ethnically diverse couple: For … Continue reading →
Rage against the Republican nominee
As a still-rather-newish ex-Democrat (I’m not a Republican, but I vote that way), I remain surprised at the persistence of opinions such as this one on the conservative side. Yes, I understand the frustration with the Republicans and share it … Continue reading →