The date nights with Mrs. Blather have been too rare for several months now owing to the twin pressures of book deadlines and financial austerity measures. You know, like the wise financial austerity measures our government has put in place to get the skyrocketing budget deficits under control. {pause for hysterical laughter}{additional pause for weeping) […]
Just a survey of some worthwhile commentary from around the interwebs: Helen Thomas’ Exquisite ‘Weimar Moment’ Reflects Progressive America–Abraham H. Miller Erdogan and the Israel Card–Wall Street Journal Blast from the Past: (Video) The Late Tony Snow Smacks Down Helen Thomas Israel’s Gaza Blockade: It Works–Jonah Goldberg
In the post on Helen Thomas below, I mentioned that I thought Helen Thomas’ comments were not “animated by anti-Semitism” but rather a broader hatred of Western Civilization of which Israel and the Jews are merely a conspicuous subset by virtue of being an island in a sea of Islamic/Arabic culture . In response commenter […]
Little by little, the truth about the so-called humanitarian flotilla that attempted to run the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza is coming out. It is now widely known–at least to those not so deeply invested in Israel hatred that they are immune to the obvious–that the flotilla was a provocation financed and orchestrated by the […]
Finished another book yesterday. And by “finished” I mean writing, not reading. This one was a ghost-writing gig. Between this project and the Palin book I’ve written about 100,000 words since getting back from Alaska in mid-March. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. I’m thrilled to have had the opportunities. But meeting the deadlines has […]
Helen Thomas. She’s the hyper-liberal White House reporter who used to harangue and hector Ronald Reagan before she did the same to George H.W. Bush which was before she spent eight years pecking at Bill Clinton from his left flank which was before the eight years of harpy-like shrieking at George W. Bush. Of course, […]
That’s what they call it in Britain. It’s Memorial Day here but the spirit is the same. On both sides of the Atlantic we have come to associate the red poppie with remembrance of our war dead because of some words by Canadian Colonel John McCrae. McCrae had served as a gunner in the Boer […]
There’s a fascinating essay by Walter Russell Mead at the online version of “The American Interest titled: “Pentecost Power.” An excerpt: Christianity is not only the world’s largest and fastest-growing faith. Christianity is also the world’s most pro-American faith. Not all Christians like American values and American ideas; from Pope Pius IX to Dietrich Bonhoeffer […]
. . . seem close to slipping their threadlike leashes on the Korean Peninsula. At least this article in the Financial Times seems to indicate so. A shooting war there of any type at any time would be a very bad thing for the world. But especially now. Especially with this Commander-in-Chief.
The folks over at CollegeHumor.com (warning, that site is filled with, well . . . college humor) have put together a nice little compilation of some of the questions left unanswered by the writers of LOST. Note that I said “some” of the unanswered questions. There are scores of others. I find it amusing that […]
