Well, that's been a depressing few days, hasn"t it? Have you been watching the pictures on TV? Howling mobs of blacks throwing bottles; overturned cars; stores looted and burned; police in riot gear watching passively; black faces contorted with rage; furrowed-brow white liberals excusing, ...
White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements History has come up ...
I have been reading Paul Johnson's new short biography of Dwight Eisenhower. This fulfills a long-standing intention of the feebler kind"a velleity, Bill Buckley would have said. Thus: In his 1983 book Modern Times, Paul Johnson made a point of talking up U.S. presidents then regarded ...
The control room's in Germany, but I doubt that'll get them off the hook with Cultural ...
Reading the November issue of Literary Review (a British monthly, somewhat like the New York Review of Books but less claustrophobically liberal), the following thing caught my attention. It's in Donald Rayfield's review of Stalin, Vol. 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, by Stephen ...
And then, for a dude who used to teach Constitutional Law, Obama sometimes sounds shaky on the ...
I maintain some vestigial links to the old country. Among them is the inclusion of the London Daily Telegraph in my morning trawl through the online news. It's sheer sentimentality on my part. The Telegraph was one of the first major outlets to publish me, back in the 1980s. At that time it ...
When a "recent convert to Islam" wants to go off and join the jihadis fighting in Trashcanistan, LET HIM ...
Some boffins at Harvard University claim to have transmitted information from one person's mind to another by telepathy. Reading through the paper, I thought the content transmitted wasn"t very impressive"just the Spanish and Italian words for "hello""but hey, baby ...
Those people have no voice. There is effectively, in most precincts, no-one they can vote ...