Is the Italian election a portent of things to come in our own? The Obamalike candidate defeated by a 71-year-old on the right? Hmmm. The Italian political scene and ours are very different, to be sure. But there are also … Continue reading →
Dr. Sanity deconstructs (love that word!) the emphasis of the postmodern Left—and its current well-known incarnation, Obama—on rhetoric. That’s postmodern rhetoric, as in, “[P]ersuasion in the absence of cognition… truth or falsity is not the issue: what matters primarily is … Continue reading →
Due to a “bunch of stuff,” (channeling Barack Obama here) on the part of the Sanity Squad members, there will be no podcast this week. We plan to be back next Monday, same time, same station.
Continue reading →I’ve got that blogger tendency towards rampant free-association. So when I described Jefferson as “Apollonian” in an earlier post today, that started a little drumbeat in my brain which led me to the following—a photo of Balanchine’s ballet “Apollo,” a … Continue reading →
I thought this comment by Tarnsman, at Belmont Club, worth pondering: ….both the Syrians and Iranians must be watching the emergence of an American-trained, American-equipped and American-supported Arab army [in Iraq] with great trepidation. Iraq could end up with an … Continue reading →
Shrinkwrapped attempts to connect some Middle East dots.
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Continue reading →Commenter Martin Bebow writes, appropos of yesterday’s post in which I cite an example of Obama lying about Karl Rove: I think the use of the word ”˜lied’ is excessive in this case. He did say “people like Rove’ after … Continue reading →
So far it’s taken me something like 200,000 words—and still counting—to explain my change of political mind. But Gerard Vanderleun shows you how to do it in one easy step.
Continue reading →Say it isn’t so.
Continue reading →A confession a day keeps Governor Paterson okay.
Continue reading →For all of you Sanity Squad podcast fans, tune in tonight at 8 PM Eastern time (or download later) to hear Dr. Sanity, Siggy, Shrink, and me discuss the volatile situation in China re Tibet.
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