I am going to post an excerpt from a post I wrote in March of 2010, two days after the ACA was passed and signed into law. I’m not doing it just to say how prescient I was. And I … Continue reading →
“Uniting the Republican Party”—has that become an oxymoron? I hope not, because it’s very hard to win elections if the party is having a civil war. Ted Cruz has
Continue reading →Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane famously said that if you can remember anything about the 60s you weren’t really there. Cute, but not really true. I bet even Kantner remembers quite a bit (as you can see by this), and … Continue reading →
This essay by George F. Will reminds me that in about six weeks we’re going to be commemorating the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. I’ve been dreading it for quite some time, in no small measure because the usual … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’m planning to recycle a slightly edited version of some older posts on the World War II era that I think bear repeating. This one originally appeared about three years ago. People often think that knowledge of Nazi genocide … Continue reading →
It occurs to me from a recent exchange in the comments section that it might be a good idea to visit the topic of the reaction of the Jews of Germany to Hitler. First I’d like to clear up one … Continue reading →
Daniel Henninger of the WSJ believes that, if passed, it will do just that: This thing called “ObamaCare” carries on its back all the justifications, hopes and dreams of the entitlement state. The chance is at hand to let its … Continue reading →
The Nairobi mall attack has conjured up memories of the first terrorist attack I ever remember: the Lod airport massacre. You may never have heard of it—or of Lod airport, for that matter, which is in Tel Aviv and was … Continue reading →
…on the part of the American public. We keep reading polls such as this one about how few Americans know the basic facts of American history. So we shouldn’t be surprised to read another. But oh, how very depressing it … Continue reading →
It’s a tried and true tactic, and Dana Milbank gets into the act here. The topic this time? The Benghazi killings and coverup. The method? Emphasize the fringe arguments that are more easily mocked and/or repudiated, and ignore or gloss … Continue reading →
…because it’s much more fun to, you know, make stuff up. Facts are not stubborn things, they’re slippery things.
Continue reading →…but sometimes we forget how nit-picky crazy they were [the following excerpt is from The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War]: To enjoy full civil rights under the new regime [in Austria after Germany’s takeover] each person required a … Continue reading →