By • Oct 29,2008

You mean to tell me…

…that Syria’s going to stop doing something it wasn’t doing anyway? Namely: patrolling its border and keeping terrorists from striking American citizens within Iraq? It’s going to continue to allow...

By • Oct 28,2008

Re Richard Dawkins

Apropos Dan’s fine series of posts: …I shall be talking about God a great deal, and this is a word which offends unholy people just as badly as words like...

By • Oct 26,2008

8 years later

Ordinarily, this would fall flat on its face, but these guys have accomplished a rare feat: repeating history first as farce, and second as tragedy:

By • Oct 02,2008

Morning Head-scratcher

Harry Reid, yesterday: We don’t have a lot of leeway on time. One of the individuals in the caucus today talked about a major insurance company — a major insurance...

By • Sep 27,2008

We need answers

Damir’s right to bust my chops a bit — I’m sure Hank Paulson has heard the moral hazard argument once or twice in his career — but it seems to...

By • Aug 15,2008

One more Olympics note

How should the “winner” of the medal race be counted? Only by gold medals won, as the ChiComs want, or by total medals, as the USOC appears to want? This...