The Anchoress
Would that perhaps be the Latin for “podcast”? Gerald might be able to tell you in his podcast on Latin. Read more
Would that perhaps be the Latin for “podcast”? Gerald might be able to tell you in his podcast on Latin. Read more
Michelle Malkin notes that some angry Islamists are now carrying on about Valentine’s Day. St. Valentine likely never thought his humble feast day would become such a sore point for so many, and now it seems that Islamic fundamentalists and leftists have found yet another thing to agree on: Fie on Valentine’s Day! The Islamists don’t like it because “These Western gimmicks are corrupting our kids and taking them away from their roots” and feminists of a certain strain don’t... Read more
Carter allowed surveillance in 1977. The next day at Mrs. King’s high-profile funeral, Mr. Carter evoked a comparison to the Bush policy when referring to the “secret government wiretapping” of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. But in 1977, Mr. Carter and his attorney general, Griffin B. Bell, authorized warrantless electronic surveillance used in the conviction of two men for spying on behalf of Vietnam. The men, Truong Dinh Hung and Ronald Louis Humphrey, challenged their espionage convictions to the... Read more
“Atticus don’t ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don’t do in the yard,” I said, feeling it my duty to defend my parent. “Gracious, child, I was raveling a thread, [said Miss Maudie] wasn’t even thinking about your father, but now that I am I’ll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets. How’d you like some fresh poundcake to take home?” To Kill A... Read more
While it’s still running you might want to check it out. Google, in association with Al Gore’s Current broadcast, seems to go out of its way to make sure everyone takes a notion away from the piece that Michelle is eyebrow-raisingly extreme and “ridiculous.” And there is a vaguely insinuation that the blogosphere is hypocritical. Also in the piece is Andrew Sullivan’s shrewd observation that the press seems more interested in being moral arbiter than a disseminators of information: “…it’s... Read more
The defenders of funeral politicization are saying sometimes crass is called for. King never did stop being “inappropriate” and “tactless.” She spoke out against homophobia, even when some of her own friends wanted to look the other way. “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice,” she said in 1998. “But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther... Read more
Not when there is a president the press wants to take down. Let’s start with the one thing we know for sure about the Bush administration’s program to listen to al Qaeda’s phone calls into and out of the United States: It’s dead. After all the publicity of the past two weeks, does anyone think that the boys working on plans for Boston Harbor, the Golden Gate Bridge or Chicago’s Loop are still chatting by phone? If the purpose of... Read more
Whether the Dems look into it and see themselves is a whole ‘nother story. Read more
Buster has, of course, been home sick all week, and it’s given him a lot of time to think. Noting that he only fell under the strep bug after all of his many commitments had been met between September and January, he has been pondering the mind and the body. And the funeral of our friend last week, has clearly also been weighing on him. “The doctors said Jane must have had cancer for 8 or 9 years,” he mused... Read more
The New Republic – which is certainly worth registering for – has another Hillaryland article, like the one last year in the NYT. Reading it, I am once again struck by the fact that all of the qualities of loyalty, steadfastness, dependability and fervor which have been decried as “Nazism” when it comes to the Bushies is, when it comes to herself, quite the thing. Read more
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