9/11, Eight Years On
A longtime friend and blogger related feeling reluctant to write about 9/11 on this anniversary. “Everything just feels so tense and uncertain,” this person wrote, “I’m having a hard time focusing on...
View ArticleHeadline questions
Saddest headline in my email today: George W. Bush was the last American President. I’m in sort of a cranky mood, especially after getting this thing in my email a dozen times. Not the HA post, the...
View ArticleDemocrats Channel Rhett Butler
For some reason, even though we did not host Thanksgiving here, and none of us overdid during the day (I even convinced my MIL to eliminate the pasta course) yesterday most of us around here were like...
View ArticleGatecrash Update
My Li’l Bro Thom sends along this piece in the WaPo with the note: Your musings about the real GateCrash story are not far off the mark at all. I had written: What if what happened is this: this couple...
View ArticleSecState in a Headband?
So, the Obama administration’s “smart diplomacy” on Iran is not working. And this is very troubling, indeed. Iran is test-firing increasingly advanced missiles at a time when, as Ed Morrissey notes,...
View ArticleTerrorist not Talking; Obama Cruises Yemen – UPDATED
Noted at The Corner: To see the danger we face because of Obama’s return to a law-enforcement approach to terrorist interrogation, read today’s front-page story in the Washington Post. At the very end...
View ArticleNeoneocon; Hitler's Germany & US
Neoneocon rouses me from my couch that I may link to her fascinating post, one that seems relevant to our day. She offers a quote from a book (written by an American “man of the left”) recounting the...
View ArticleRandom Must-Reads
Collected in my tab-bar since I started feeling cruddy – might as well share with you all the things I have either read or “been meaning to get to reading…” All submitted mostly without comment,...
View ArticleSOTU Speech Reaction
My Elder Son was on his way home from school and listening to the speech as he drove. He came in and said, “this speech is reminding me of Chesterton’s dictum that ‘The reformer is always right about...
View ArticleShahzad's grudge is recent? – UPDATED
The mainstream media has presented us with a plethora of possible motives behind Faisal Shahzad’s attempted bombing in Times Square. We have read that he was a victim of the (Bush) economy, whose house...
View ArticleWondering about Ameridolotry, Krugman, Absorption…
My plan to work, work, work, today is being interrupted by a family situation that needs attending-to (nothing awful, but important, nonetheless) so here’s some interesting stuff I meant to respond to...
View ArticleBloomberg: No Clergy, No FDNY -UPDATE
So, let me get this straight, just so we’re all on the same page, here. When two hijacked, terrorist-piloted passenger jets were deliberately flown into the Twin Towers, in an act of war against our...
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