I had been dreading yesterday for weeks, and I felt that dread especially keenly in the week leading up to the election. The arguments on the right that the polls were rigged never made sense to me. When I researched … Continue reading →
Here’s a great moment from Reagan (hat tip: Dr. Sanity). The speech was given in 1961, over fifty years ago. But his words seem all too prescient, considering what’s going on today:
Continue reading →Chavez wins. It might be the case that fraud was unnecessary for the Chavez win. But if fraud was necessary, then fraud was committed. There is virtually no chance Chavez was going to be allowed to lose. The lede says … Continue reading →
…that Obama’s election has improved our standing around the world. And I would submit that, although I agree with the headline that this is an endorsement Obama “doesn’t want,” I’d amend it to say that what he actually doesn’t want … Continue reading →
An interesting bit of trivia: While at Eton, Eric Blair (future pen name, George Orwell) “was briefly taught French by Aldous Huxley.” England’s a small place, isn’t it? That wasn’t Orwell and Huxley’s only exchange. Huxley wrote to Orwell on … Continue reading →
…is today. The French rallying cry “
Continue reading →[NOTE: A portion of this post has been recycled, and part is very new.] For many days after 9/11 I found myself going to the ocean and sitting on the rocks. Everyone remembers that blue blue sky of 9/11, but … Continue reading →
…by Andrew McCarthy.
Continue reading →It can do almost anything it wants to. Rick Hills, an NYU law professor who appears to specialize in federalism (and does not appear to be a conservative), writes: I am no friend of the Commerce Clause argument against the … Continue reading →
I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning reading the SCOTUS Obamacare decision. What I found was so distressing I’m having trouble digesting it; it’s too fibrous and unappetizing a meal. But I’ve already swallowed it; in fact, … Continue reading →
…that the large-soda ban isn’t even likely to work. So saith the economists who did the study he cited to justify the ban.
Continue reading →I suggest you read the whole thing—but here’s what I take away from this article on NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s efforts to ban large sugary drinks, as well as previous health efforts to protect the Big Apple’s citizens from their own … Continue reading →