Lacking experience, Sen. Barack Obama is running on his judgment. This week we found out, his record on that isn't so good. Days after Barack Obama granted the first television interview with his entire family, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said he regrets thrusting his two young daughters in the media spotlight. From left, Michelle, […]
Gas prices are still painfully high, and the Congress continues to be, in the words of Wm. Shakespeare, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." For those interested in blaming a particular party, I give you the following chart -- you can figure out who you should vote for if you want lower prices.
Former "Fox News Sunday" host Tony Snow died early Saturday morning at the much too young age of 53. I got a very brief e-mail from Tony a couple years back, it was no more than an acknowledgment that he'd received my e-mail. It was clear that he'd read this blog at least once, probably […]
Mary Anastasia O'Grady had an excellent article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal pointing out that last week's rescue of more than a dozen hostages from Colombia's FARC rebels rested on an underlying assumptions about who the rebels friends were. As we learn more about the Colombian military's daring hostage rescue last week, one detail stands […]
The New York Times reports: BAGHDAD — American and Iraqi officials have completed nearly the last chapter in dismantling Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program with the removal of hundreds of tons of natural uranium from the country’s main nuclear site. The uranium, which was removed several weeks ago, arrived in Canada over the weekend, according to […]
Here's a couple of posts for your further education on global warming that you won't see in the media that has bought in to the scaremongering. First, one of Anthony Watts' volunteers has discovered another temperature monitoring station that has all sorts of problems in Crosby, N.D. Second, over at Q and O, McQ has […]
When he was running for president, Bill Clinton's position on abortion was that he wanted to make sure that it was "safe, legal and rare." Two out of three isn't bad. Sen. Barack Obama last week tried his hand at pivoting toward the center on abortion when he came out and said that the "mental […]
When our benevolent rulers on the Supreme Court decided last week that we had evolved past the point of punishing child rapists with the death penalty, part of the justification was the fact that so few jurisdictions had passed laws making the crime death penalty worthy. This ignored the convenient fact that the Court itself […]
Well, it's my birthday too. This is one of several days each year that I do the obligatory banging of the tip jar(s) -- which can be found in the right sidebar below. For those of you who prefer to give a gift instead of cold, hard cash, you can find my Amazon wish list […]
It took me quite awhile, but I finally finished Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" yesterday. Make no mistake, this is not a sparsely sourced, name-calling polemic. It is a serious work of intellectual history that can be a daunting task to read. Having said that; everyone should read it. Goldberg traces the roots of fascism from […]