It seems a person can’t say a word these days without someone recording it or writing about it. For example, the San Francisco fundraiser at which Obama described the bitter clingers of Pennsylvania was meant to be a very private … 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 →

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 →

Shrinkwrapped attempts to connect some Middle East dots.

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 →

Say it isn’t so.