Revisiting Munich
With hawks pulling out the Munich analogy every time the US or UK makes a concession to some regime deemed sufficiently evil in the court of public opinion, Alex Massie revisits Neville Chamberlain’s actions...
Monthly Archive: September 2009
Should we have invaded Hungary in 1956?
The decision to remove missile defense systems from Eastern Europe has provoked a lot of unusually silly commentary, but the latest from Townhall deserves special recognition: It is all too reminiscent of the Hungarian...
mercenaries
Conor points us to this post by Kelley Vlahos on private military contractors and the myriad abuses committed by them on the taxpayers’ dime. Writes Vlahos: Thanks to whistle-blowers — at the threat of...
Beatlemania
Bunch approvingly links to this piece of music criticism from ESPN (?), the thesis of which seems to be that the Beatles, while great for their time, haven’t aged very well. I’ll leave the...
improvements to the current health care reform proposals
The health care debate is ramping up. We now have a bill going forward in the Senate and one in the House, and pretty soon the twain shall meet. In the midst of all...
Frummaging Through Foreign Policy
David Frum is Dickensian: the best and worst of Republican thinkers. Assuming there are any left. His work on a domestic reform based conservatism is I think excellent. His foreign policy views, eh, not...
Translating Lingua Limbaugh
I see this story percolating through the left side of the blogosphere today. It seems to be missing the context necessary to accurately interpret what Limbaugh was actually saying, which was a different kind...
Jack Hunter on Glenn Beck
I know I just said stop talking about the talking heads – but I think that Jack Hunter is on to something in this post. First off, let me just say that before Beck...
Missile Defense
Nuclear disarmament is the college debate topic this year, so happily I’m paying closer attention to nukes than to, say, taxpayer-funded prostitution rings. The latest development is fairly straightforward: Obama plans to disassemble a...
ACORN stuff.
So the ACORN videos are crossing over to CNN and the Daily Show (h/t: Conor). At this point, it seems rather hard to deny that there’s something wrong with ACORN. By appearances, it looks...
technical difficulties
We are experiencing technical difficulties. If OG’s want – this is a good time to NOT post and not be logged in to the site. I’m not sure what’s wrong or when it will...
Nearly half of America’s doctors will quit under Obamacare
This startling figure from Investors Business Daily. Chart after the fold:
Blame Capitalism, not Religion, for Paul Bettany’s Ailing Hollywood Career
It turns out that rumors of a religiously-inspired anti-Darwin backlash were greatly exaggerated (credit goes to Freddie for his initial skepticism) – apparently, the Darwin biopic Creation can’t find a US distributor because it...
