It’s the 47th anniversary of the JFK assassination. The death of Kennedy marked an abrupt and hugely traumatic transition for all of my generation from innocence to experience. It’s hard to convey to younger people how surprising and shocking it … Continue reading →
Commenter “expat” points us to this article about Obama’s constant references to and reverence for Gandhi, expressed during his Indian visit, and the fact that this isn’t exactly reassuring to the present-day Indian government and business leaders. Obama is many … Continue reading →
What would Reagan say about the dilemmas facing us today? Actually, we kinda know what Reagan would say, because he kinda said it already. I was listening for the first time to a well-known speech Reagan gave back in Goldwater … Continue reading →
Rush Limbaugh is talking about this photo of Obama from Drudge: Limbaugh says: An American president has never had facial expressions like this. At least we’ve never seen photos of an American president with facial expressions like this. I beg … Continue reading →
In 2002, Ingrid Betancourt was running for Colombia’s presidency when she was kidnapped by leftist FARC guerillas and held in difficult captivity for six years along with fourteen other hostages. The group was freed by Colombian soldiers in the summer … Continue reading →
As if the public’s anger at BP wasn’t already strong enough, the company’s chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, put his foot into another pile of steaming doo-doo when he said: [Obama’s] frustrated because he cares about the small people, and we care … Continue reading →
By now we all have probably noticed the strange phenomenon of people who are highly accomplished in their own fields but who fail to exercise even a modicum of common sense when opining outside them. I’ve been reading Thomas Sowell’s … Continue reading →
Commenter Artfldgr, our resident historian, has reminded us that yesterday was the anniversary of the Enabling Act in Germany, 1933. The Act (the full name of which can be translated as the “Law to Remedy the Distress of the People … Continue reading →
Mark Twain time travels: …Rome’s liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil … Continue reading →
Still another piece on Rahm Emanuel, this one by Peter Baker and appearing in the NY Times Magazine. Reading it made me think once again that it’s a good thing Obama has been too full of himself and his own … Continue reading →
Obama has nobly declared that he’d “rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” But wouldn’t a “really good” president ordinarily be re-elected? And if not, why not? Assuming that Obama is not obliquely referring to … Continue reading →
It has not escaped my attention that Scott Brown is a very good-looking man. Now, I know that’s not the only reason, or even the primary reason, that people voted for him. He has other tremendous assets that are far … Continue reading →