faux serious introspection
Daniel Larison takes issue with Obama’s Notre Dame speech and especially Obama’s use of doubt, which Larison maintains is not a quality, but rather “a function of a mind clouded by the passions”. Doubt,...
Tagged: Obama
secrets and substance
“So if the Democrats want a truth commission, and the Republicans and Dick Cheney want a truth commission, why can’t we order up a double order of truth commission? Am I missing something here?” ...
adventures in invective
“What leaves me with a queasy feeling, though, is the growing sense that Obama is willing to denigrate America in order to boost his own personal popularity in other countries. As President, Obama has...
Oh give me…
…a break people. Will you stop at nothing? Have we already forgotten the close, close relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud? Yes, Allahpundit mentions the hand-holding Bush and his Saudi...
quote of the day
The kerfuffle over the Obama commencement at Notre Dame has sparked a lot of rather boorish commentary. A more nuanced approach is hard to find, but not impossible:
Gone to Pot
I had planned to kick things off with a sweeping introductory post, but it seems William Brafford has already taken care of the intellectual heavy-lifting. For now, the essentials of my biography can be...
Grrrr….
You know, there are actual policy consequences for the kind of “haha, the stoners came out!” attitude that President Obama, and the media, demonstrated towards the question about ending the prohibition of marijuana at...
Trapped
Via Andrew, Chris Hitchens has some harsh words for Israeli settlers in the West Bank: Peering over the horrible pile of Palestinian civilian casualties that has immediately resulted, it’s fairly easy to see where...
Economics Round-Up, or: Why We are All Screwed
I don’t know about anybody else, but this whole treasury/bailout/banking thing is just mind-numbing and overwhelming and I find myself in turns going from angry to confused to depressed to giggling and I’m just...
Bobby Jindal – as terrible as everybody else
So, meandering around the web today one comes across almost universal consensus that Bobby Jindal’s speech was simply awful. The odd thing is, almost all the critics of the speech offer up the same...
D. Linker on Culture War-Abortion
Damon Linker with a followup on the intra-left argument about whether Obama will end the culture war with a piece today in TNR. He responds to the question of whether Obama can indeed heal...
Talking About the Same Thing
Professor Joseph Wagner of Colgate University, one of the three professors who most influenced the development of my early political thought, was fond of saying that the venom associated with certain issues was because...
The Filter of War
Freddie writes: While I continue to believe that our national conversation is far from an equitable or fair one, I have to admit that things have changed; there is more criticism and questioning of...
