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Friday, March 4, 2005

The Iraqi Security Situation

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Strategy Page offers some insight into how a suicide bomber was able to get a car close enough to a crowd of police recruits to kill 125 of...

Vive La Revolutione

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Michael Ledeen gives us a good lesson in the recent history of democratic revolutions and urges that we pick up the pace: It was the begi...

Snare and Delusion in the Middle East

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The more things change with the Palestinians the more they stay the same. This article in the Jerusalem Post suggests that everything in th...

Bush and Putin at Bratislava

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David Adesnik at Oxblog has a good analysis of what was going on between Bush and Putin in Bratislava the other week. A lot of commentators...
Thursday, March 3, 2005

Don't Ask Why

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In a post a few days ago titled Skewering Academic Feminists we had written that it is distressing that so many students, particularly fema...

The Damascus Road on 9/11

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Little Green Footballs tips us to this outstanding essay by a Bay Area writer named Cinnamon Stillwell who eloquently describes her politi...
Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Cheney in '08

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For the past several months I've been telling anyone who would listen (an audience made up mostly of house pets and young grandchildren)...

Reaction to "Watching Our Kids Self-Destruct"

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A reader offered a personal experience of his own in response to our post the other day titled Watching Our Kids Self-Destruct . He writes: ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Don't Mess With Texas (Ladies)

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This will bring tears to your eyes. It's a voice mail recording of a call from a motorist who witnessed a fender bender and the subsequ...

Roper v. Simmons

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The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 in Roper v. Simmons that it is cruel and unusual punishment to execute people for murders committed before ...
Monday, February 28, 2005

Is Increased Longevity Good?

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Here's some good news to cheer you: Average life expectancy in the United States rose to a record 77.6 years in 2003 from 77.3 years...

Watching Our Kids Self-Destruct

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Rebecca Hagelin recounts her experience as a substitute teacher in her local middle school. It's pretty depressing stuff. Perhaps most...

Putin's Understanding of America

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For a former KGB guy Vladimir Putin has a very attenuated understanding of how things work in the U.S. as this MSNBC/Newsweek report makes ...

Time's Running Out for Zarqawi

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An Australian news agency has this story predicting the imminent capture of Abu al Zarqawi: Iraq's interim Government says security ...
Sunday, February 27, 2005

Hollywood Narcissism

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We took our yearly pass on the Oscars tonight. No doubt somebody cared about this annual celebration of Hollywood narcissism and tastelessne...

How You CanTell

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IMAO lists ten indictors that you may be left of liberal. There's a chuckle or two in the list. Thanks to Cheat Seeking Missiles for t...

Rescuing Our Schools

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American high schools are obsolete says Bill Gates , but this is really not news. That schools aren't doing the job we'd like has be...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Skewering Academic Feminists

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Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield has written an eloquent indictment of contemporary feminism, especially as it is encountered at the univ...

A Caution and a Hope

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Do you have children who will be selecting a college in a year or two? If so, Viewpoint recommends the following two reading assignments. T...

Canadian Veto

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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday that if there are missiles aimed at the United States flying over Canadian airspace the ...