Category: Bits and Pieces

My son has a small infection in his toe. It definitely hurts, but it’s not the end of the world. This afternoon, when he was out in the backyard with his friends, I came out and announced that it was time for him to go to martial arts. “No,” he

As I mentioned in an earlier post, in preparation for the Midway Commemoration next Saturday, I’m reading Gordon Prange’s Miracle at Midway. After describing the hubris that afflicted the Japanese command six months after Pearl Harbor, Prange has this to say about the American commmanders as they prepared for the

The only thing that bugs me is that I wasn’t on the list of seditious, dangerous websites that need to be banned.

The speech starts about 22 minutes into the video:

*** Newsflash*** Heard on the popular “Don and Roma” show on WLS AM890 Radio during this morning’s Chicagoland commute: In an interview with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, John Bolton allowed that he was thinking very seriously about jumping in as a Presidential candidate. Now THAT would be interesting! My

Once again, the incomparable Richard Fernandez finds the right words to precisely define the problem, without which there can be no solution: “When historians look back on the first decades of the 21st century they may conclude that the political and economic crisis that swept over the world was the

Our youth isn’t always determinative of our mature years.  Many people sow oats, or simply make stupid decisions, when they are young.  The wise ones grow up; the unwise ones merely become old(er) people with bad judgment. Here are pictures of Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama when they were young. 

I agree with Bruce Kesler. His analysis is spot-on. I’m going to add two frivolous comments (because it is, after all, a Sunday, a day on which deep thought seems to elude me).  When when Obama tried to put Bibi in his place, the image that came to my mind

I’m reading — and completing enjoying and learning from — Andrew Breitbart’s Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!.  A point that Breitbart makes is that Saul Alinsky was right about the methods he used to integrate a specific political worldview into popular culture while simultaneously destroying political

Socialism is the disease, “perpetual adolescence” is what NRO deputy-managing editor Kevin Williamson diagnoses as the infectious agent. Watch the whole thing as a perfect encapsulation of the debates that have raged at this blog.

Sadly, there are still many, too many of those naive enough to believe that ObamaCare really, really was about reforming the health care system. The news in the Daily Caller today that 20% of ObamaCare waivers went to Nancy Pelosi’s district lays out in stark detail the workings of the

Oooh!  Oooh!  This is so exciting:  Andrew Breitbart will be speaking in Marin tomorrow night.  I’m going to be there.  Are you?