After a lot of investigation, the WaPo pronounces that Obama “parsed” his denial of the call to Canada and awards him two Pinocchios. Turns out that senior Obama advisor Austen Goolsbee “informally” met with (but did not phone) Georges Rioux,… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, there will be three hours of argument in California’s consolidated same-sex marriage case before the Supreme Court. As longtime readers know, I don’t see any reason why gay people should not be able to get married and I do… Continue Reading
I remember as a teenager I liked Jeff Healey’s blues-rock album. The kid from Canada, struck with blindness since he was one year old, who taught himself how to play guitar, was such a good story, and the album was… Continue Reading
We lost power today at about 10:30 and didn’t get it back for about two hours. In Tennessee, that would have most likely been because of a rainstorm downing a power line. Alternatively, it would have been caused by some… Continue Reading
Famous deaths — would modern medical technology have been able to save the victims? A doctor in Montana offers his opinion: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, James Garfield and William McKinley would have made it. Robert Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln would probably… Continue Reading
I understand about hunting and its role in contemporary wildlife management. Really, I do. Without hunters taking deer, for instance, America’s forested and semi-forested lands would soon be absolutely overrun with the creatures, which would within a year or two… Continue Reading
Bill Moyers interviews Shelby Steele about Barack Obama. Steele is not the first to suggest that when Americans look at Obama (at least right now), they see the better angels of their own souls rather than the actual man and… Continue Reading
An interesting study of the famous sculpture on display in the Louvre. A commercial for the corporate sponsor is mixed in with the work, but it’s worth your time anyway.
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have unleashed anti-NAFTA rhetoric in their battle for votes in Ohio. Apparently, union workers in Ohio still feel threatened by NAFTA and this is a good way to rally those voters to your banner… Continue Reading
I’ve nothing more to add to Rick Moran’s comments about John Hagee endorsing John McCain, or its near mirror image on the other side of the aisle, Louis Farrakhan’s endorsement of Barack Obama. The post is worth it alone for… Continue Reading