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There’s been quite a bit of buzz about the hire of Commentary online editor Jennifer Rubin to the Washington Post. I’m not as concerned as some others about implications for “balance” – Ezra Klein is a perfectly good liberal – but that doesn’t change the fact that Jennifer Rubin is positively moonbatty. In the above [...]
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There was a time, back when I was young and innocent and held to a charmingly antiquated idea of what “the left” was or should be, that I could be as exorcised and driven by reading The Nation as I’ve been in more recent years enrapt by Commentary. Such was my righteous anger toward what [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — For numerous reasons with the details of which I shall not bore the intrepid reader who dares to work his way through this treasonously titled screed, I have been remiss in my obligations to PostRight, and thus am two weeks late in addressing this topic, about which I’ve continued to ruminate [...]
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was affected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people…. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections was the real American Revolution —John Adams As voters headed to [...]
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I’m aware that for decades this has been a cliche that has never come to pass. But who can now doubt that from Egypt to the Gulf – that is, in the entire American protectorate of the Arab world – the time is ripe for revolution? Beginning, where else, with Israel/Palestine, the two-state solution was [...]
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A long and impressive list, including TAC‘s own Scott McConnell, has signed on to this open letter to the Deficit Commission urging them to call for responsible but large and serious cuts to the Pentagon budget. Though there is very little I will put past our decadent political class, it would be a new low [...]
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Born in the same year as my father, and now as dead as he is. The Pope first gave the Kings of England the Lordship of Ireland. That he was English is neither here nor there. He was the Pope. A Papal Blessing was sent to William III when he set out for Ireland, and [...]
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The facts have not changed, any more than has the Teaching of the Church (which cannot), hence the tiny coverage given to this in L’Osservatore Romano. Certain people might consider applying some journalistic or scientific objectivity to the question of where in Africa the condom use relentlessly promoted by Western NGOs and compliant governments has [...]
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Only about twenty percent of the Southern Sudanese are Christians, and the separatist fighters there are no slouches when it comes to recruiting child soldiers, or to attacking African Union peacekeepers. However, they have become celebrity culture’s favorites, aided and abetted by the lazy use of “Arab” and “Muslim” as synonyms, as well as by [...]
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My book is now available for pre-order at Amazon.
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