Daily Archive: November 6, 2009

Not Again

Breaking news of another shooting rampage.  This (apparently) involved a disgruntled former worker.  Just so awful.

Honduras: Reclaiming the American Sphere of Influence

While I took much issue with the Obama Administration’s initial response to the Honduran crisis in July, and especially the severe sanctions imposed, which achieve little more than hurting an already desperately poor population, I must...

Lest we forget

David Frum has some images which should sober up any claims that somehow Muslims as a group are to blame for Thursday’s shooting.  The acts of the few should not condemn the peaceful majority,...

Strange Bedfellows

Here’s an entertaining scoop from Mother Jones: Crackpot ex-KGB academic teams up with tea party radicals to predict the imminent break-up of the United States.

Yes, Google is making me stupid

Or at least less apt to struggle through difficult, rewarding books. You see, I was (belatedly) inspired by The American Scene’s “Fall of the U.S.A.” series to pick up John Dos Passos and give...