What’s behind the apparent obsession with so many on the left with what they keep insisting must be called “torture”? A lot of it obviously has to do with the media’s “narrative” of the last eight years, which became a moral psychodrama featuring George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the role of what amounted…
A funny but pointless movie that has already died the death at the box office. Why is that, I wonder?
In the “PostPartisan” pages of today’s washingtonpost.com, Jonathan Capeheart answers yesterday’s op. ed. by James J. Lindsay, Jerome Johnson and E.G., “Buck” Shuler, Jr. on why it would be a bad idea to repeal, as it has been suggested the Obama administration intends to do, Section 654 of U.S. Code Title 10, which bans openly gay…
Outside Italy (where he owns most of them), the European media have agreed that Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister of Italy has a tin ear, is “gaffe”-prone and regularly offends people. In fact, he is a something of a buffoon, someone who can always be relied on to say something to embarrass himself and others….
The gentle humor of this coming-of-age story is perhaps just a touch too gentle.
Today’s Washington Post gives an account of the arrival of the first of the fallen at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware — Air Force Staff Sergeant Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Virginia, killed by an Improvised Explosive Device in Afghanistan — since the Obama administration’s lifting of the ban on the media’s photographing such arrivals. I…
In “A Tale of Two Farces,” yesterday’s Wall Street Journal was very good about pointing to the irony of the thing: Here’s the match-up. In the right corner we have Omar al-Bashir, for 20 years the Islamist dictator of Sudan and the man most responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Darfuris. In the…
The boyish champion of “common things” has now grown up to try to make utopia, rhetorically at least, one of them — From The Washington Times of April 3, 2009
Have we elected our first fully-fledged celebrity president as an escape from politics? — From The New Criterion of March, 2009
If the good times have been dominated by fantasy and superhero movies, what will we do for “escapism” when we need it? — From The American Spectator of March, 2009
As we approach the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre by a person who shall be here, as he should be everywhere and forever, nameless, school shootings are in the news again. According to today’s Washington Post, a man in Nevada who is said to have “idolized” the Virginia Tech murderer, has been arrested…
