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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 02:55:00 PM
When an athlete wins a tough contest and is asked what they will do next, one often hears the stock phrase "I'm going to Disneyland!" Thursday, August 21, 2008 03:50:00 PM
One hears the talk about taking oil company profits and spending them on schemes approved by government bureaucrats, and one has to quake in fear of the economic ignorance Saturday, August 05, 2006 04:19:47 PM
There was a book published twenty years ago which still holds much relevance for today. Gayle Rivers, a counterterrorism expert, member of the British SAS, wrote from first-hand experience about what was necessary to defeat terrorism. Tuesday, August 01, 2006 03:58:34 PM
Hezbollah will win because world opinion will turn against the Israelis and force them to a peace negotiation, and such always favors the terrorists as they don't abide by them. Israel will win because it is fighting for survival. Israel is fighting to totally destroy Hezbollah. Israel is fighting to force the world to recognize the danger and enforce Resolution 1559 about security in southern Lebanon. Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:22:52 AM
Some young and naive and some older and supposedly more experienced consider the Islamic terrorists a negligible danger, it would seem. There is the occasional brief mention of the danger of a nuclear device's exploding in Manhattan, but the commentators skip on merrily without considering that such a detonation is a real danger and even probable as things look now. Too many of us here and the rest of the world aren't taking the terrorists seriously. Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:59:30 PM
Citizenship in the USA is beginning to lose its allure for me. Having read the proposals of the soi-disant Greatest Deliberative Body in the World, the US Senate, I have decided to apply for illegal alien status. Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:32:11 PM
Charlie Reese wrote a piece recently, and while I enjoy Reese's pieces in the main, I found this one way too sour. Instead of a peanut butter center, it was full of sour grapes. http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese292.html Saturday, July 15, 2006 08:26:24 AM
Charlie Reese wrote a piece recently, and while I enjoy Reese's pieces in the main, I found this one way too sour. Instead of a peanut butter center, it was full of sour grapes (http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese292.html). I quite thoroughly disagree with his and Solshenitzyn's bit about America's being a cowardly country which only takes on the weak. Saturday, July 08, 2006 08:40:19 AM
Mayor Bloomberg of New York made a speech today about how tough New Yorkers were and how the plot to blow up a train in the Holland Tunnel, disrupting much of New York's transportation, was foiled. If he had a little more class, he would have given a big salute and a huge thanks to President George W. Bush, his NSA plan to spy on terrorists and those to whom the terrorists were talking, and he would have given thanks to the bank account spying scheme that was the subject of his city's major newspaper recently. Monday, July 03, 2006 10:38:59 AM
I had almost forgotten. I had announced that I was running for President of the United States a couple months ago. I guess it's time to announce my platform. Wednesday, June 28, 2006 06:24:55 AM
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an environmental suit about global warming. This gives them the opportunity to create more havoc than they did with the Kelo eminent domain case. That contra-constitutional monstrosity will likely be overturned some day, hopefully soon. But once they take on a case with so much nebulous legal miasma as the concept of global warming, we may never find our way out of the legislative fog. Wednesday, June 21, 2006 03:10:59 PM
Brooks: Prince Mac, what do you make of George Bush's approval numbers? Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:00:56 AM
When President Bush says "Stay the course," that's not exactly what he means. And the Democrats know that isn't what he means, either. Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:26:19 AM
What's up with General Hayden, the new Director of the CIA? Since the CIA is a rather byzantine organization with many confusing plots and subplots, layers upon layers of intrigue, I thought I would ask Macchiavelli for his analysis. Tuesday, June 13, 2006 08:14:25 PM
Stephen Hawking, proving that even super-geniuses can have blazing insights into the obvious--or that they can copy from others--has just pronounced that "The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth." 0r else he's been copying my pieces. Friday, June 02, 2006 09:27:07 AM
I've had so many thoughts on my mind that I decided to just sit on the back porch and relax. Which is how I came to devote an afternoon over the Memorial Day holiday to watching squirrels. Saturday, May 20, 2006 07:45:28 PM
In "Silver Blaze," one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, the following exchange takes place: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 09:57:03 PM
A few months ago I noted that a "car bomb" explosion shown on cable news was not a car bomb designed to kill or injure American personnel, but a Hollywood type explosion designed to look spectacular to the media and thus be shown on the news. Its purpose was to ultimately influence the American citizens. This mediacentric view of the war against terrorism has been confirmed by an al Qaeda member in Baghdad. Saturday, May 06, 2006 02:46:38 PM
On first thought, the renegade left wing ex-CIA analyst who got up and heckled Donald Rumsfeld at a recent speech the latter gave, Patrick Kennedy, and the terrorist-in-training, Moussaoui, may not seem to have much in common. But they do. Wednesday, May 03, 2006 08:39:26 AM
Somebody's going to jail. We can conclude now that it isn't going to be Rush Limbaugh. It won't be Dick Cheney or George W. Bush, and it may not even be Scooter Libby. But doggone it, somebody's going to jail! Who might it be? Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:45:10 AM
One of Spike Lee's more famous phrases was "Do the right thing." President George W. Bush began his presidency by doing the right thing: He pushed for tax cuts to spur the economy and because it was the right thng to do. He made the tough decision to take the terrorists on on their home turf because it was the right thing to do. He made the even tougher decision to take on Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq because it was the right thing to do. Thursday, April 27, 2006 01:25:37 PM
Did you ever have a mean little sibling, a sneaky one, who would poke you and otherwise annoy you endlessly behind your parents' backs and then, when you had finally had enough and retaliated, screamed "Mommy...Daddy!...Billy called me a bad word!" Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:05:21 AM
Did you ever have a mean little sibling, a sneaky one, who would poke you and otherwise annoy you endlessly behind your parents' backs and then, when you had finally had enough and retaliated, screamed "Mommy...Daddy!...Billy called me a bad word!" Thursday, April 13, 2006 09:58:11 AM
There are tales and legends in various cultures about a sleeping giant and the destruction that can befall those who awaken the sleeping giant. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, a famous quotation attributed to Admiral Yamamoto was "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." That this “quotation” seems to have originated from a movie, “Tora, Tora, Tora!” does not make it inappropriate. Thursday, April 06, 2006 06:36:02 AM
There is a time for politics, but politics seems most inclined to dawdle and dither, postponing meaningful decisions, and proposing nice-sounding generalities rather than specific plans. With Tom DeLay’s imminent departure from the House, many Republican politicians seem hesitant and are evidencing little intention of getting along with the agenda upon which they were elected. I would like to remind them that it was not liberal Democrats who elected them. It was not MoveOn.org which supported them. It was not the mainstream media that broadcast the rationale for their policies. Saturday, March 25, 2006 05:55:47 PM
My recent piece, “What If?,” rankled some feathers. I thought it might, though it was not written with the intention of annoying or hurting anyone. I was, as clearly stated in a disclaimer in the piece, simply speculating wildly on what might explain the recent behavior changes of “kidnappers” in Iraq. Friday, March 24, 2006 11:07:48 AM
We know from the press releases of their organization that the "peace activists" recently rescued in Iraq are ungrateful folk. They refused to thank the military troops who rescued them. Indeed, they refused to acknowledge that they had been rescued, preferring to say they "had been released," faintly implying that their captors had been sweet enough to let them go. Monday, March 20, 2006 04:51:26 PM
Watching the news a couple nights ago I noted a video camera focused on a car alongside a road, and after a few seconds, the car exploded with a large expanding red-orange flame and a plume of black smoke and a low-pitched rumble. It looked much like the explosions seen in Hollywood films. Monday, March 20, 2006 01:13:41 PM
Joanne V. Creighton, president of Mount Holyoke College, writing in the Los Angeles Times, has released the politically correct cat from the educational sack. She believes that admission to college does not favor the brightest students. What she really says was the lower fifth economically is underrepresented in colleges, and "This is not the meritocracy the SAT's early proponents had in mind." Sunday, March 19, 2006 09:35:30 AM
It should be a given that a good economy is desirable. It is almost a tautology. It is also pretty much self-evident, given the result sof the Kennedy and Reagan and Bush tax cuts, that tax cuts stimulate the economy. Thus, the syllogistic conclusion that tax cuts are good strikes many libertarians and conservatives as beyond the need for proof. Liberals disagree. |