Jun 10
From Jim Geraghty’s morning newsletter: When did President Obama’s public agenda begin to really focus on the oil spill on a daily basis? When the story became about him.
Jun 07
Of course, if you don’t care about politics in states other than you own, I don’t begrudge you in the least. But for those of us junkies, tomorrow we have primaries in NV, CA, SC, and AR, among others. In Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln is in a runoff with a liberal challenger for the Democratic nomination. [...]
Jun 07
Was party to a fascinating discussion last night. Visiting with pro-life college kids, a number of which are currently participating in Crossroads, the Catholic Charity in which folks walk across the country (literally) in witness to the Culture of Life. A heated debate erupted between some of the kids and some locals, in particular a [...]
May 25
Quick thought I wanted to get down before I forget it. Imput requested on hashing it out. I was recently asked by my old “mentor” figure, a short balding 80′s heavy metal rocker turned Classical Guitar virtuoso and Ciceronian Rhetorician (yup) currently teaching in the UAE (yup again), how America “feels” right now. While I [...]
May 14
MTV’s review of “Robin Hood” (which I am very sadly not going to be able to see this weekend) doesn’t like the movie much at all: In fact, the Robin cobbled together by writers Brian Helgeland, Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris isn’t even the jaunty rogue nobleman of earlier versions of the story; here, he’s [...]
May 12
From the AP: MOSCOW, Russia — Following high level complaints about “imperfections” in international law, Russia announced Tuesday that captured Somali pirates “have all died.” A Russian official claimed that 10 pirates seized by Russian special forces aboard an oil tanker last week were quickly freed but then died on their way back to the Somali coast. The [...]
May 06
Of some good books/articles on the 2006 Lebanon War? Figure it might be a fun side project. Just curious, all the COINdinista’s keep talking about it.
May 04
There’s an interesting piece on Twitter up at Newsweek. It’s interesting insofar as the author, Julia Baird, half stumbles towards some interesting questions, but settles for banal, dull, tripe. I got my hopes up from the title “Our True, Tweeting Selves: Why historians salivate over Twitter,” but was disappointed when the author couldn’t offer anything [...]
Apr 26
As of this moment, some poor sop thinks he’s a hundred-ninety bucks richer. It’d be two-hundred bucks but he left the ten-dollar screwdriver in the front seat of my car after he bashed in the passenger side window with it. Factoring in the rather long odds of the police ever tracking him down and the [...]
Apr 20
E.J. Dionne offers the latest left leaning spin on the Tea Party Movement. “WASHINGTON — The tea party is nothing new, it represents a relatively small minority of Americans on the right end of politics, and it will not determine the outcome of the 2010 elections. In fact, both parties stand to lose if they [...]
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