Seven years
It’s been seven years since 9-11. Seven years, a Biblical number. I’m not sure whether they were seven lean years or seven fat ones on the whole. But one thing I do know is that they’ve been seven astonishing and … Continue reading →
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Reflections on 9/11
[This is a slightly edited version of a piece first published two years ago.] Does it seem as though seven years have passed since that dreadful day of the stunningly blue sky, the orange flames, the plumes of grey-black smoke?
Continue reading →Did you know that John McCain’s running mate is actually George Bush?
And here we were thinking it was actually a trash-talking, spectacle-wearing, pregnancy-concealing, former beauty queen/sportcaster pistol-packin mama named Sarah Palin. But no; it’s really George Bush [see link’s last paragraph for the revelation]. To be more precise, John McCain’s running … Continue reading →
Gaffing all the way
Gaffe wars. [See also this. Since this particular tempest is about economics, I’ll not weigh in myself.]
Continue reading →The green lawn: somebody’s ass is grass
For those of you who are eager to know why, oh why, oh why on earth John McCain stood in front of a sickly electric-green background for a few terrible minutes last night, the mystery may be solved. Sort of. … Continue reading →
Taking Palin seriously
Christopher Orr of TNR gets it. [ADDENDUM: Heh.]
Continue reading →Vetting Palin
The WaPo takes on the rumor that Palin was insufficiently vetted, and appears to demolish it. My perception is that McCain was impressed from the first by Palin and was especially taken with her maverick, reformer quality, which he sensed … Continue reading →
And here’s the latest in pretzel-like contortions on the subject…
Found in the comments section of Michele Catalano’s PJ article on the Palin baby brouhaha (links don’t seem to work, but the time stamp is 1:06 PM and it was written by “4Heavenssake”): The first baby was probably a C-section … Continue reading →
The campaign chess game
I’ve thought about this question myself: does Palin’s VP candidacy change Hillary’s calculus for 2012? I think it does. As Ms. Althouse says, it presents her with a conundrum: whose election would be best for Hillary? The way this campain … Continue reading →
Ayers and his revolutionary educational gameplan for America
Bill Ayers has been getting a lot of press lately for his connection to Obama and his status as “unrepentant terrorist” from the 60s. But forget about that for a while, and take a good look instead at the “rehabilitated” … Continue reading →
One reason a bitter primary campaign isn’t such a hot idea…
…is that affords an opportunity for the opposition to make ads like this one in the general: Everybody knows that, in a primary, candidates say nasty things about rivals in their own party. What’s to stop the other party’s nominee … Continue reading →
Totten on Georgia
As usual, Michael Totten is well worth reading. Here’s his take on the Georgian situation.
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