Here were my predictions for 2010, and here’s how they did: Jon Huntsman will resign as ambassador to China and begin to lay the groundwork for a Presidential bid in 2012. Has not happened. In retrospect, I failed to credit… Continue Reading
Everyone is blogging, talking, and tweeting about the profile of General Stanley McChrystal in the current edition of Rolling Stone, which hit the Internets today. What seems to be catching everyone’s attention is a combination of the dismissive to disrespectful… Continue Reading
Direct from the source: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” said President Barack Obama. Well, he’s on his way to getting half that wish granted — right now it looks like he’s on… Continue Reading
In politics, “growth” is used by some to describe what others would characterize as an “ideological transformation” that takes place over time rather than immediately. Question: was President Obama’s speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, which he used to justify… Continue Reading
Representative David Obey has proposed a “war tax” in the Share Our Sacrifice Act. This is, I presume, a progressive’s idea of fiscal responsibility. Most families would pay an additional 1% of their net income as a surtax to their… Continue Reading
This is an opium poppy in bloom, almost ready for harvest. Opium poppies were originally indigenous to Asia Minor and Thessaly, and were allegedly introduced to Afghanistan by Alexander the Great during his conquests there. This photograph was taken from… Continue Reading
There’s this cool classic rock song from The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again. It’s used as the theme music for one of the CSI shows. I’ve always liked the interplay between the Hammond pipe organ and Pete Townsend tearing up… Continue Reading
I’ve been suggesting for quite some time that Obama’s campaign promises were overpromises, that once reality reared its ugly head and he had to look at the problems facing the country, at home and abroad, right in the face, a… Continue Reading
This time, it’s the Blackwater Worldwide corporation, asking for Shari’a law to be applied to a fatal airplaine crash that took place in Afghanistan. It’s actually a pretty routine sort of lex locus delecti argument, but some find it ironic… Continue Reading
The President has found his war czar. Should When things don’t go very well as Iraq’s parliament retires for a two-month recess and eventually reconvenes for its rigorous schedule of meeting for two hours a day three days a week,… Continue Reading