A Few More Thoughts

Unlike my eldest daughter, who is a mathematician and econometrician, I have about as much training in statistics as did St. Anselm of Canterbury or Augustus Caesar. But I did check out the recorded hits for major paleoconservative and paleolibertarian websites with those who have knowledge of such ...

Is Europe Waking Up?

A demonstration against the "€œIslamicization of Europe"€ scheduled to take place in Brussels on September 11, 2007 and put together by the umbrella organization Pax Europa has been prohibited by the socialist mayor Freddy Thielemans. The intended demonstration, which was supposed to march by ...

An obvious Omission

                                                An Obvious Omission In his latest column for Tribune Media Services, Jonah Goldberg ...

Homo Americanus

A polyglot Croatian scholar, Tomislav Sunic, provides in his newest book, Homo Americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age, reasons that a good European should distrust the US. These reasons are significantly different from those that one might encounter in the Euro-American leftist and mainstream ...

Firing Foxman

Judging by the leftist pattern of American Jewish voting and by Jewish responses to Gallup polling on social issues, one would have to conclude that Abe Foxman's nuttiness is a widely shared phenomenon among American Jews. It also resonates well among liberal Christians and non-Jewish secularists ...

Telling Us Nothing

An op Ed piece in the Washington Post (August 14, 2007) prepared by Grover G. Norquist about why we should admire Karl Rove irritated the hell out of me. A tribute to the retiring presidential advisor by someone who is supposed to speak for the American Right, the text praises a man of deeds who ...

Another Historical Invention

                                                   Another Historical Invention Sitting in the doctor's office waiting to have ...

Troubling Thoughts

I wonder how many of our readers saw last night’s discussion with Republican pollster Frank Luntz, a commentary that was absorbing enough so that I was able to watch FOX for more than thirty seconds. The Republicans who had come to the debate in Iowa were thrilled by the thumping, warlike ...

Announcement

Two days ago my frenzied attempt to “make sense of the American Right” came out as a book with Palgrave-Macmillan. My readers are urged to get hold of this slim volume, which Peter Brimelow describes as a “must read” for sudents of the American Right. Copies are available ...

Loose Ends

                                               Loose Ends The avalanche of criticism encountered by my blog concerning Ann, Rush, and the GOP's ...