I’m trying to revive the Chris Matthews’ Leg site which was pretty much ignored while I worked on the Paul Harvey book. I’m moving the bulk of that activity to Twitter in hopes that the shorter format will be conducive to more frequent updates. You can visit the new Chris Matthews’ Leg Twitter feed here. […]
Some thoughts on the news . . . GM My first thought upon hearing that the United Auto Workers union is going to end up owning 55% of GM and 39% of Chrysler, with Barack Obama essentially owning most of the rest, was this question: What happens the next time Ford goes to sit down […]
It was quite a weekend. Female Offspring Unit #3, a 9th-grader, was in a big musical production at school. Seussical the Musical was a boffo success but now comes the big anti-climactic, post-event letdown. Now it’s back to school-as-usual. What’s worse, we’re in those final focus-challenged weeks before school lets out for summer. F.O.U. #2, […]
Up to this point I must confess I’ve had difficulty perceiving the big, tragic problem with holding jihadi terrorists in Guantanamo. But this news report has opened my eyes: Grenade accident kills Yemen Gitmo detainee’s sons SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — The two young sons of a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo died when a grenade they […]
Today is William Shakespeare’s birthday. To mark the day I thought I’d mention something I linked to several years ago, but recent discoverers of this happy blog may have missed. It is not widely appreciated that Shakespeare was a world class insulter. His plays contain some of the finest put downs and disses ever composed […]
I give you: The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Enjoy Here you have the suppositions and values of environmental activitsts taken to their logical endpoint. Their assumption: We humans don’t belong here and the sooner we disappear the better. Not coincidentally, the History Channel has been re-running its “Life After People” specials the last few days. […]
Ross Douthat has some interesting thoughts over at the Atlantic blog about a discussion on what will serve as America’s unifying “civil religion” in a secular age. Read “Theology Has Consequences.”
In researching the forthcoming book on Paul Harvey, I was deeply impressed by the writing Mr. Harvey did back in the 1950s. Here are two examples that we cite in the book. First, on the Income Tax: But you know it was for us, the American people, to become the first in recorded history voluntarily […]
The criminalization of conservatism has begun. Michelle Malkin has the details: Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. The “report” (PDF file here) was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read […]
Peter Kirsanow has a revealing little post about the Congressional Black Caucus’ fawning over Fidel Castro: Useful Idiots Caucus Excerpt: Next time they visit the island gulag, they might notice the contrast between the number of blacks in positions of political power and the number of blacks confined in Castro’s political prisons. Should they need any […]
