World’s oldest man
He’s 111. He may be the world’s oldest man, but there are 66 women who are older than he is. He lives in New York but was born in Poland. He seems to have all his marbles, but he’s frail:
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Harry Reid’s war against the Kochs
Here’s the latest installment in Harry Reid’s two minutes hate against the Koch Brothers: Charles and David Koch are one of the “main causes” of climate change, charged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor. “While the Koch … 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 →
Orwell, Animal Farm, and socialism’s inherent contradictions
Yesterday commenter “Nick” wrote this on the thread about Krystal Ball’s Animal Farm summary: OK, OK, I hate to be this guy, but Orwell would have been fine with Ball’s reading. Orwell was a socialist. His problem with the pigs … Continue reading →
Obama’s foreign policy advisors: the parade of the puerile Best and Brightest
First we have Ben Rhodes, fiction writer morphed into Obama’s deputy National Security Advisor while barely in his mid-thirties, with nary a bit of foreign policy experience under his belt except what he learned on the job. But he has … Continue reading →
David Horowitz on his lifelong subject: the left
David Horowitz has devoted his entire adult life to the left. First, working for it. And then for the last three or so decades, fighting against it. One of the many ways to fight it is to inform people about … Continue reading →
Kerry was only reflecting Obama
I’m in agreement with Andrew McCarthy on this: In what he foolishly thought was a safe place to let his hair down, Kerry merely gave voice to what the Obama administration thinks. “Apartheid” trips easily off his tongue because it … Continue reading →
John Kerry, our illustrious Secretary of State…
…has made the following statements: If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday… Kerry also … Continue reading →
Destructive Generation
I’m reading the book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. It’s a chilling document, especially because—unlike in 1989, when the book was first written—it’s become more and more clear that the left’s long … Continue reading →
Bundy’s remarks on race, welfare, and slavery
Cliven Bundy’s remarks about race, welfare, and slavery have drawn a lot of fire, and the right is attempting to back away from them. First, take a look at what he said: “I want to tell you one more thing … Continue reading →
The candidate as grandmother
Will Hillary Clinton’s impending grandmotherhood become a campaign issue, as in “softening” her, and adding “a compassion thing”? I must admit that the mere notion puzzles me. I assume that Andrew Ross Sorkin, the NY Times financial columnist who suggested … Continue reading →
Eric Holder, persecuted martyr
This. Used to be, long ago, Americans would have rejected this sort of whining. But in the Obama administration it’s become standard. Blame, blame, blame others, and always declare or at least imply that the criticism one receives is due … Continue reading →