The Campaign Is a Performance
I maintain that Barack Obama was terrible during last week’s debate and that many liberals — goaded on by a political media desperate for a new storyline and thrilled with the prospect that November’s election...
Daily Archive: October 8, 2012
The “Long Emergency” Has Been Rescheduled for Obama’s Second Term
by Neil Hébert This week blogger Libby Anne wrote a post about the apocalyptic predictions made by Focus on the Family prior to the 2008 election detailing the fallout of an Obama victory. It’s...
Slumming It: the Manhattan Institute edition
The following is adapted from a comment I left at www.city-journal.org. Shooting a large fish in a small barrel is a solemn affair. Let us begin.
So, Hey, Columbus. That Was A Pretty Big Deal When You Think About It.
Not to get all pro-Western in my biases or anything. And not to indicate ignorance of a half-millenium ornamented by all sorts of awful things. But I think it’s fair to say that European civilization...
Treme, Season 3, Episode 3, “Me Donkey Want Water”
In a nutshell, the problem is this: Treme doesn’t have much time left. It’s only getting an abbreviated fourth season which means that we can be relatively certain how much more of the show...
