This article on his visit to Havana is one of the best—and one of the saddest—essays Michael Totten has ever written. Communism destroys nearly everything it touches, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually. Totten’s essay put me in mind … Continue reading →
I have a new post up at PJ on the topic of Obamacare and justice, winners and losers. Please comment here or comment there, or both.
Continue reading →On one level, the events of the last few weeks have been deeply satisfying. Who wouldn’t feel a certain vindication in seeing one’s predictions come true, and watch the perpetrators running for cover? But I’m having a lot of trouble … Continue reading →
…with their junk policies before Obamacare came along and fixed it for you. From an article in the WSJ by Edie Sundby, who suffers from gallbladder cancer and yet has outlived her original dire prognosis by years: Since March 2007 … Continue reading →
…quoted in this article by Ace should read Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society. But they won’t; they’re too smart for that. “Intellect is not wisdom,” wrote Sowell, and truer words were never spoken. The particular weakness of intellectual elites is … Continue reading →
Such as Sally Kohn. Kohn’s is the kind of mind that feeds on control of others—for their own good, of course—while simultaneously dripping venom. Here’s a short excerpt from Kohn’s piece at CNN, entitled “A Canceled Health Plan is a … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: I’m adding this link as an update rather than an addendum, in order to spotlight it.] Obama lied, millions lost their health care. A defense is shaping up, though, from Democrats like New Jersey’s Joe Vitale: Critics, however, say … Continue reading →
A trip back in time to the epicenter: Cornell, 1969. As Allan Bloom wrote: …[S]tudents discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears. It was a turning point, … Continue reading →
Commenter “Ymarsakar” puts his finger on one of the more disturbing developments that has come to light because of the shutdown: …[T]he park service [used to be] your friendly friends at parks. Until Obama ordered them to put the rod … Continue reading →
Sparked by the Aaron Alexis case, Ann Coulter wrote a blistering piece excoriating liberals for deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill: But liberals won’t allow the dangerous mentally ill to be committed to institutions against their will. (The threat of commitment … Continue reading →
Snowden’s modus operandi.
Continue reading →Indeed: For the United States and Europe, this amounts to a colossal strategic failure. Nothing ”” and certainly not the outcome in Afghanistan or Iraq ”” was more important than getting Egypt right. President Obama, who began his presidency with … Continue reading →