I really try to be optimistic about things early in the year, and then I see that the Calgary Herald today features eight bloody pages of horoscopes. Weren't there at least some sightings of the virgin Mary in refrigerator mold they could have thrown in...
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Here's to 2007. I'm currently hiding in my room, neglecting my hosting duties at my own New Years party, of which I am a host. Here's a miserable way to.
The oppressive demands of fatherhood have guaranteed that this will be my most sedate New Year's Eve since 1984. Unlike 1987, I probably won't be arrested; unlike 1989, I won't squander the night reaching (unsuccessfully) beyond the threshold of my romantic caste; and unlike 1999,...
Victor Davis Hanson assumes the Virgil Goode position on immigration:Remember that many of the 9/11 terrorist murderers had lived for long periods in the United States -- dressing, talking, and.
Last night Davida and I took in the Harlem Globetrotters-New York Nationals tilt down at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati. We didn't make it through the whole game, but.
A guest post by LivyQuestion: is any major event not fodder for the online right's complaints about the insufficient patriotism of progressives? They are, to be sure, by and large obsessive cultists in form and effect; but surely reason may kick in at points. One...
Each time public opinion data is released, disclosing that roughly a third of all Americans continue to believe George W. Bush is doing a fine job, I think to myself,.
Following up on Josh Marshall's take, Jim Henley notes:And it’s also true that the US and its Iraqi allies chose to try Saddam on one of his relatively minor crimes.
Enjoy sharing the hotseat with Augusto Pinochet. In fairness, you made the General look like a rank amateur.... to pre-empt misunderstanding, I don't think his ouster was worth the bones of a single Prussian Grenadier, I'm sure that his execution will have no effect on...
Chris Bray at Historiblogography urges us to celebrate December 29 as C.D. Alston Day, in honor of the Air Force Brigadier General who predicted confidently one year ago that Iraqi.
Read Loomis' nice essay on Daniel Webster. Webster is among the most forgotten of the forgotten legislative titans of the 19th century, although I think that, outside of Lexington, even.