The new Sanity Squad podcast is up. This week we discuss Bolton’s leavetaking–and whether it even matters, given what the UN has become. We also offer our take on allegations that the AP is playing fast and loose with the … Continue reading →
Once again, I want to remind people to ignore trolls. I plan soon to be getting enough time to redesign the blog in order to better deal with them. Till then, the best thing to do is ignore them rather … Continue reading →
Well, I was going to write a post something like this one. But Shrinkwrapped has done it so much better than I, so I recommend you just go there and read.
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Continue reading →The wonderfully intelligent and clear writer Victor Davis Hanson has another fine piece, entitled “Losing the Enlightenment,” about the decline of will and conviction in the West. I suggest you read the whole thing. One sentence in particular struck me … Continue reading →
I’ve ignored the idiotic brouhaha over actor Michael Richards’ bigoted outbursts, but this story I just couldn’t ignore. It turns out that Richards’s publicist said that Richards isn’t anti-Semitic after all–he’s Jewish! Leaving aside the question of whether one can … Continue reading →
I’ve written about economist Milton Friedman’s life, here, but I wanted to add a link to a lovely reminiscence by Friedman’s good friend Mark Skousen, complete with Mutt-and-Jeff photo of Friedman next to John Kenneth Galbraith (and the equally tall … Continue reading →
Robert Kagan and William Kristol have something to say in the Weekly Standard about the new yen for realpolitik: So let’s add up the “realist” proposals: We must retreat from Iraq, and thus abandon all those Iraqis–Shiite, Sunni, Kurd, and … Continue reading →
Fox News has been doing some interesting and rather gutsy things of late, not by blogosphere standards but by network standards. First, there was the Glenn Beck airing of “Exposed,” and now a recent showing of a broadcast featuring the … Continue reading →
For some it’s Black Friday–biggest shopping day of the year. For me, though, it’s the day of the leftovers. I’m taking the day off from blogging and just having fun with family, friends, and food. Not a bad combination. See … Continue reading →
I hope everyone is now safely ensconced with the relatives and friends of your choice, with the turkey about to be eaten, or roasting away merrily in the oven, right on schedule. In my family (I’m here in NY, by … Continue reading →
Nancy Pelosi may have gotten the kid-gloves treatment from the media during the election, but now the gloves are off. Her championing of Murtha for Majority leader (and her simultaneous abandonment of her former deputy, Hoyer) seems to have struck … Continue reading →