Peggy Noonan compares Hillary to Maggie Thatcher and other great women of modern history, and finds Hillary wanting:
The point is the big ones, the real ones, the Thatchers and Indira Gandhis and Golda Meirs and Angela Merkels, never play the boo-hoo game. They are what they are, but they [...]
I was appalled by the recent story about State Department employees being up in arms about the possibility of being assigned to Iraq -- appalled in the sense that I couldn't believe that career diplomats were refusing to serve in the most strategically vital area of our time.
I decided that, [...]
I keep waiting to read a movie review in which the writer doesn't somehow squeeze in a mention of the Iraq war. In his review of No Country for Old Men (a movie that I look forward to seeing), Peter Travers just made me wait a little longer. He [...]
The Herald's Latin America commentator, Andres Oppenheimer, is usually a level-headed (if predictably liberal) guy. But when it comes to the issue of illegal immigrants, he seems to lose his grip. His most recent column shows that the pro-amnesty crowd is being reduced to making threats of violence:
The rapid [...]
Just checking in and clearing out offers for organ enhancing medicaments. Don't think that I'm not watching you.
Btw, since I last posted, we've apparently won the war in Iraq. I for one consider this to be good news. Others, not so much.
[...]I've been away for a while, and my traffic has gone down to less than a dribble (a drip?). I should be back to more regular blogging soon, but in the meantime, I came across this scholarly and informed critique of the Reagan administration's mistakes in dealing with Iran, [...]
Universal Orlando has signed a deal to transform a corner of its Islands of Adventure park into a multi-attraction "theme park within a theme park" called the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter."
Slated to open in 2009, the biggest expansion of the park since it opened will jut off the existing Lost Continent [...]
The Times Online has a feature on Dennis Kucinich's looney lefty, 29-year old bride from Essex. If you don't feel like clicking through, believe me when I write that this is all you need to know:
At Kent she unexpectedly signed up for a master’s degree in conflict resolution after [...]
The name on the helmet is what really intrigued me about this article. Don't these royals have proper last names?
[...]NEW YORK - Dan Rather going Hollywood?
There were gasps of surprise at ABC's fall-schedule announcement this week when the veteran TV newsman popped up as an actor in clips for "Dirty Sexy Money," a new drama about a wealthy, misbehaving New York family.The role wasn't exactly [...]
Tell us something we didn't know, already.
[...]I have been following the Fred! zeitgeist, and I have to admit that I like what he has to say. Here is the text of a speech he recently gave.
[...]As See-Dubya writes, it's kind'a hard to get excited about French politics. But seeing an unreformed Socialist take a drubbing at the polls is always satisfying, especially when she accuses her opponent of being "polarizing," then in her next breath utters such cohesive rhetoric as this:
"Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy [...]
We only lose if we choose to do so. Tell the Dems what you think by signing the "We win, they lose" petition.
[...]Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey explains his state of despair:
SANDMONKEY: Let me tell you something. I was in Turkey a couple of weeks ago and I met a couple of Syrian activists. They one thing they told me that was really funny about the Pelosi visit. After Pelosi came to Syria two things happened. [...]
Especially in light of recent events, I understand the need to enforce safety on college campuses. But this is kind of silly:
Freshmen Anthony Shortt, Sarah Claussen and two friends would construct what they called bottle rockets out of plastic soda bottles, water and dry ice.
They'd take them out to the grassy [...]
Zombietime provides a graphic illustration of how the sort of anti-semitism expressed on the farthest fringes of the Right is increasingly, and openly, expressed by those on the mainstream Left.
But guess which gets reported in the MSM?
(Via Ace)
[...]The Brussels Journal has a fascinating report on an insider's view of the internal machinations of the EU Commission. It's well worth reading in full.
[...]Gary Fineout has an article on efforts to get Jim Morrison pardoned for the alleged exposure incident at the Dinner Key auditorium in 1969.
(If you think it's an odd subject for the Herald's Tallahassee-based political reporter, consider that Gary is an FSU alum who, as I knew him [...]
The WaPo is a liberal paper, but the grown-ups still seem to be in charge of the editorial page:
"We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," Ms. Pelosi grandly declared.
Never mind that that statement is ludicrous: As any diplomat with knowledge of [...]
In the course of taking Terry Jones down a few notches, Ace regales us with a history of Monty Python.
Is it really possible that there are other human beings on this planet who know more about Python than I do?
[...]Rick has demanded that I link Michelle Malkin more often. Well, ask and ye shall receive.
Bryan at HotAir asks a perfectly reasonable question:
Are you on the side of the ordinary Americans who reported the odd and deliberate activities of the imams on that airplane, or are you on the [...]
How about insulting your friends and making nice with your enemies? Writes Captain Ed: "It's difficult to achieve this conjunction of idiocy in a single week, but Pelosi & Co have proven themselves just the idiots for the task."
UPDATE: House Republicans meet with Assad. "[U]seful idiots twice over...."
[...]The headline says: Furious Blair piles pressure on Teheran. Oh, goody, I thought. The Brits are pissed and are ready to give the Mullahs a big, fat, fistful of old-fashioned John Bull.
Well, not quite.
In a significant escalation of the dispute into an international incident, the Prime Minister and Margaret [...]
To say that we've been patient is an understatement. AllahPundit has more at the bottom half of this post.
[...]From the Fat One:
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win.
Here's the result of the Minutemen's latest work:
The heavy, poisonous gas sank near the ground [...]
Whenever I hear someone from up North talk of retiring to Florida, I try to warn them: Take a bunch of guys who were men of action in their working lives, put them in a condo or gated community with nothing much to do, and you have a recipe for unhappiness:
"I [...]
It's funny how the Left can work itself into a lather over terrorists being detained at Gitmo, but says nary a word about Iran's failure to apply the Geneva Convention to the captured British Marines.
The Left has turned the entire point of the Geneva Conventions on its ear.
UPDATE: Steven [...]
From the Sunday Times:
FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.
A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.
Referring to them as “insurgents”, [...]
Much more pernicious than the politicization of the film industry has been the increasingly strident left-wing group-think of academia. The decision by the University of Florida faculty senate to refuse to award former Gov. Jeb Bush an honorary degree was, in the words of John Hinderaker, "petty even [...]
Movies used to be my life. Time was that if I didn't go out to see a movie at least a couple of times a week friends might have dropped by to make sure that I was alive. Now I hardly ever go out to the movies, preferring the convenience [...]
Late last month, I pointed to the interesting case of Steve Stanton, City Manager for Largo, Florida, a small city in central Pinellas County. After news broke that Mr. Stanton was planning to undergo sexual reassignment, the Largo City Commission voted to fire him after a contentious public hearing.
This [...]
I give the Herald such a hard time that I have to give credit when it's due. Today's article on the man who claims to have buried Che Guevara, and to be the only person who has the coordinates of Che's gravesite (as well as a lock of Che's [...]
Somebody took dialogue clips from several James Earl Jones movies and dubbed them over Darth Vader. The effect is hilarious:
[...]It's apparently not even close. (Well, it's close, but lots of surprises may be in store.)
Externalities abound. Arrow's impossibility theorem is mentioned.
What would you pay for content like this?
[...]Michael Yon has a new dispatch, er, perhaps you might call it a rant: Raw, Unedited, Barely Spell-checked.
There seem to be some clueless people in military public affairs. You would think that they would try to support a guy who is doing the best war reporting from Iraq. You [...]
Houses auctioning for less than the price of a new car. Good Lord.
MORE: Read this, too. A LOT of condo inventory is coming online in Miami over the next year. Everyone is assuming that prices will go south. The question is, how far south, and what effect will [...]
The news is posted at her blog, Cathy's World. Be sure to check out the gracious obituary by Susan Estrich.
My heart goes out to her daughter, Maia, who seems like a brave and smart young woman.
More: A heartfelt obit from "Advice Goddess" Amy Alkon, who has links [...]
Yeah, that's the stuff. The Left will be having kittens:
“I believe that ultimately the only real prospect of getting Iran to give up nuclear weapons is to change the regime,” Bolton told reporters after an off-the-record speech to the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization.
How should this be done?
“By the force of [...]
