Commentary - America's Future

By David Polansky • Dec 18,2008

What scares me is it almost makes sense

The folks at The New Republic have an idea: why not universal healthcare, right now, not just in spite of but because of the economic crisis? And the thing is,...

By David Polansky • Dec 18,2008

A spectrum of thoughts on Fareed Zakaria

Reading this Newsweek piece by Fareed Zakaria brought to mind two points: 1) Zakaria is an interesting bird, belonging to a school of thought that might be termed “declinism, except.”...

By David Donadio • Dec 17,2008

Col. Qaddafi comes through for the Armenian homicide

Check out this Times piece: A few weeks ago, a check for $491,000 was delivered to a small private middle school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, De La...

By Daniel Kennelly • Dec 17,2008

She’s gone from suck to blow!

Via Andrew comes this short video giving a graphical representation of immigration to the U.S. from 1820-2007. There are all sorts of nits to pick with the data, no doubt,...

By Sonny Bunch • Dec 16,2008

Clint Eastwood

Oscar season is upon us, hence the slightly less than routine posting. But I did want to pass these little nuggets from Clint Eastwood in the latest Esquire along: We...

By David Polansky • Dec 16,2008

The real Bill Ayers?

I realize that a lot of folks were quite up in arms over this rather sanctimonious op-ed that appeared last week in the paper of record, in which former terrorist...