I was only mildly surprised to receive an email from Pajamas Media today which said, in essence, “so long, it’s been good to know you, effective March 31,” when PJM will end its Pajamas Media Blogger and advertising network. I sort of saw it coming. I’d noticed that PJM was tightening, creating its identity around a crew of established conservative “name” writers and the bigger bloggers, rather than the sprawling mass of bloggers. It was predictable because no entity can... Read more
Charles Krauthammer gets it exactly right in this piece: In these most recent 20 years — the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world — America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved — and resulted in — the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. The two Balkan interventions — as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed... Read more
Or, more properly, you and I may be wandering around the house in sweaters, but President Obama can turn up the heat. Just days after calling DC folk wimps for not being able to handle a little snow, and just months after proclaiming his 43 word manifesto, we read a glowing article about President Obama which includes this warm narrative: The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President... Read more
Yes, I do. I miss Bill Clinton. You know how bad this stimulus forever socialist bill and Obama/Pelosi’s overall grandiose-ness is? This bad: It’s making me miss Bill. I miss Bill, and I miss George W. Bush. I even miss George H.W. Bush, who I came to appreciate too late. By that what I mean is, I miss old-fashioned American presidents; flawed men who had no allusions that they were perfect. Men who (in Clinton’s case) needed to be loved... Read more
Andrea Shea King remembers being part of a great national tragedy. I am always deeply moved by the gentleman who removes his hat and hangs his head in instant and terrible grief. And in just a few days, the anniversary of the 2003 loss of Columbia. We don’t remember that one as well – partly because it happened “off camera” so to speak…but perhaps we were still numb from 9/11, too. I remember watching President George W. Bush speak at... Read more
I’m tied up with a project, but since you don’t have to waste three minutes reading me today, do take two of them and call your representative and let him or her know how you feel about this absurdly pork-filled “stimulus” package, which is approaching almost 900 BILLION dollars. The package does not seem to create many jobs at all – but it does keep shoveling money at the people who waste it while producing nothing and creating few jobs.... Read more
Nada te turbe; nada te espante; todo se pasa; Dios no se muda, la pacïencia todo lo alcanza. Quien a Dios tiene, nada le falta. Solo Dios basta. May nothing disturb you. May nothing astonish you. Everything passes. God does not go away. Patience can attain anything. He who has God within, does not lack anything. God is everything! — Teresa of Avila From Morning Prayer: No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another God dwells... Read more
Lots of people writing about Obama’s interview with al-Arabiya. Some are angry that he gave his first presidential interview to a news agency outside of the US. I don’t care much about that – the man’s entitled to speak to whomever he wants – but some of Obama’s answers seem to me just a bit disoriented or perhaps I should say purposely disorienting. Obama does not come out and say it, he merely agrees with the dishonest framing by his... Read more
You’re the greatest reader a blogger could ever have! Have I told you have great you are, lately? I love this short film. Thanks, Frances! Read more
Okay, I’m sort of joking with that headline. I’m giddy and need a break from my project. To be fair, Robert J. Samuelson, whom I like, does try to take a constructively critical view to President Obama’s stimulus: But in practice, the stimulus could disappoint. Parts of the House package look like a giant political slush fund, with money sprinkled to dozens of programs. There’s $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, $200 million for the Teacher Incentive... Read more
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