Benghazi and Chappaquiddick
At first it might seem like a stretch to compare Benghazi with Chappaquiddick, but the similarities exist. Modern pundits are anxious to compare every scandal to Watergate. But not every scandal is...
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Revenge vs. Love of Country
Yesterday's election saw the victory of "revenge" over "love of country." Every so often, a politician accidentally speaks the truth (or something close to it). Last week, Obama said something very...
View Article401(k) accounts to be seized?; Obama's revenge.
On November 1, 2008, I predicted that Obama would seize private retirement accounts, including 401(k)'s. I provided more detail on November 15, 2008. A story in Time Magazine now appears to lay the...
View ArticleHarry Belafonte advises Obama to imprison political opponents; Revenge
Harry Belafonte (as a guest on MSNBC) has advised President Obama to imprison his political opponents "like a third world dictator." If you are not sure exactly who it is that Belafonte wants to see...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Mark Steyn
It may be that the strange synchronicity between the president and the permanent bureaucracy is mere happenstance and not, as it might sound to the casual ear, the sinister merging of party and state....
View ArticleQuote of the day - Will Durant - The Renaissance
But it took more than a revival of antiquity to make the Renaissance. And first of all it took money - smelly, bourgeois money: the profits of skillful managers and underpaid labor; of hazardous...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Jim Treacher
"Trayvon could've been me, 35 years ago [quoting Barack Obama]." This is big. Can we track down the Hispanic guy he beat up for being gay? Jim Treacher - 7-19-2013
View ArticleQuote of the day - Daniel Greenfield
Al Sharpton, MSNBC’s in-house bigot and hate-crime king, had his usual words of wisdom to offer after the Zimmerman verdict.“What this jury has done is establish a precedent that when you are young and...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Will Durant; Lorenzo De Medici; Florence
The merchants preferred economic prosperity to political freedom; the proleteriat was kept busy with extensive public works, and forgave dictatorship so long as Lorenzo [De Medici] supplied it with...
View ArticleQuote of the day - G. K. Chesterton
“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school." ~ G.K. Chesterton
View ArticleQuote of the day - Joe Sobran
Seriously, folks, this was a far more literate country when it spent far less money on its schools. I'll say it again: in one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Will Durant
An age of political excitement is usually a stimulant to literature . . . [b]ut a state always verging on bankruptcy, and engaged in almost permanent revolution, does not favor art - and least of all...
View ArticleSeptember 11th anniversary; Shoud the U.S. now help Al Qaeda?
The tragic irony of today's anniversary is this - at the same time that we commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, we are seriously debating whether we should commit U.S. air and naval forces to...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Ann Coulter
If you are in the minority of Americans not already unalterably opposed to Obamacare, keep in mind that the only reason the government is shut down right now is that Democrats refuse to fund the...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Leonardo da Vinci
If you are alone, you are all your own; with a companion you are half yourself; so you squander yourself according to the indiscretion of your company. Leonardo da Vinci [as quoted by Will Durant, The...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Will Durant
So men hand down to their successors their heritage - their lore and codes and skills; and transmission becomes half the technique of civilization. Will Durant - The Renaissance - p. 233
View ArticleThe consequences of tyranny; Perugia.
In case you are wondering what happens when a society succumbs to one-party despotic rule, read the following passage on the city-state of Perugia (in Renaissance Italy). The author describes the...
View ArticleJ.F.K.: The Man and the Myth; 50th anniversary book recommendation.
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, I will recommend one book to balance all of the usual propaganda. The book is not about the assassination. It was written while Kennedy...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Leonello
"It is an ancient opinion, not only of the Christians but of the Gentiles, that the heavens, the sea, and the earth must some day perish; in like manner, of many magnificent cities nothing but ruins...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Mark Steyn - Obamacare - Hoover Dam; Golden Gate Bridge;...
Obamacare is as close to a Hoover Dam as latter-day Big Government gets. Which is why its catastrophic launch is sobering even for those of us who've been saying for five years it would be a disaster....
View ArticleDeadly winter conditions prove the "warmists" wrong once again.
More evidence to disprove "global warming" from the Winter of 2014. - Steve Czaban discusses frigid temperatures and their effects on football fans. - AP reports on sub-zero temperatures and at least 9...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Camille Paglia
Hollywood Bible movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more truth about art and society than the French...
View ArticleQuote of the day - Camille Paglia - AIDS
Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS. Camille Paglia - Sex, Art, and American Culture p. 216
View ArticleQuote of the day - Will Durant
It is easier to rule a state in its decline than in its youth; diminished vitality almost welcomes subjugation. Will Durant, The Renaissance, p. 699 (writing of late-Renaissance Florence)
View ArticleSome things are predictable.
As the days go on in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, it is becoming a safe bet that two predictions will come true: (1) Stephen Paddock will officially be known as a lone gunman, despite all of the...
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