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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Jefferson versus the Muslim pirates
City Journal has posted a few of the highlights from its forthcoming Spring issue. Among them is Christopher Hitchens’s engaging account of “the first overseas war that the United States ever fought.” Hitchens gets off to a rousing start. He relates the wisdom dispensed by the academic historian Frank Lambert: One of the historians of the Barbary conflict, Frank Lambert, argues that the imperative of free trade drove America much »
Professor Liviu Librescu, RIP
In the unspeakable tragedy of the Virginia Tech murders, the death of Professor Liviu Librescu has especially brought us up short. He survived the Holocaust as a teenager in Eastern Europe only to become the victim of a murderous rampage in his adoptive homeland. He reminds us of the incalculable human loss represented by the Holocaust. By contrast with the many young victims whose lives were taken at Virginia Tech, »
A prophet with honor at his alma mater
John Hinderaker is at Dartmouth this weekend to attend a meeting of the Rockefeller Center board of visitors. Yesterday he spoke at a Rockefeller Center panel on blogging that is covered in this story in today’s Dartmouth Daily. Also appearing on the panel with John were Pajamas Media maestro Roger L. Simon, University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse and Dartblog proprietor Joe Malchow. JOHN apologizes: I think Scott and »
Israel’s Gathering Storm
Caroline Glick’s excellent Jerusalem Post column “Fighting the next war” is the latest in her series on the threats confronting Israel. Glick writes: Syria has been openly preparing for war since the last summer. And in the space of the past week alone, the Syrians twice announced their intention to attack Israel. On Monday, Syria’s Propaganda Minister Moshen Bilal threatened that if Israel doesn’t fully implement the Arab plan which »
Meet Dave Gaubatz
The current issue of the (UK) Spectator has some extremely interesting articles. The article by Washington Post editorial board member Anne Applebaum on Vladimir Putin is one of them, but none surpasses Melanie Phillips’s “I found Saddam’s WMD bunkers” in interest. Phillips’s article tells the story of Dave Gaubatz, an agent in the US Air Force »
Red faces at Yale
The Yale Daily News reports: In the wake of Monday »
The Hillary Factor
In reading about and commenting on politics and public policy, I find polls to be the most irritating and useless of news hooks. Today the latest Gallup Poll indicating Hillary Clinton’s increasing unfavorability has been widely reported in columns and articles including those by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann as well as Ian Bishop. The Gallup Poll that is the source of these items is here. What’s wrong with the »
A word from the Swift Boat Vets et al.
Michael Barone takes note of John Hinderaker’s post “Ineffective, even for a liberal” responding to Eric Boehlert. In his response John recaps the contribution of the Swift Boat Vets to the 2004 campaign. Barone comments: John Hinderaker at Powerline skewers the claim, often made in mainstream media and the left blogosphere, that the charges made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against John Kerry have been “discredited.” To the »
At the circus
Alberto Gonzales isn’t exactly winning rave reviews on our Forum or, it seems, around the conservative blogosphere generally. However, the main concession his interrogators seem to have gained so far is that Gonzales approved the termination recommendations with little or no scrutiny. Now, President Bush might well want a more hands on Attorney General, and I certainly would. But unless the decisions made by staff and approved by Gonzales were »
Live blogging the Gonzales hearing
We’re off and running at the Power Line Forum with a live blog thread here. Please join in if you’re listening or watching. »
The killer in the lecture hall
Professor Barbara Oakley writes: I thought you’d like to know that the New York Times actually published my pro-gun op-ed related to the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Still hard for me to believe. I LOVE your blog and read it religiously. Thank you so much for your wonderful insights. Barb Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor of Engineering Dept. of Electrical & Syst. Engineering Oakland University Rochester MI Professor Oakley’s »
Do do the wudu that you do so well, part 3
Today Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten concludes her series of columns on the the introduction of ritual washing facilities to facilitate “wudu” for Muslim prayer at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Kathy’s column is “‘Accommodation’ could open door to more demands.” It’s a pedestrian heading for an alarming column that takes a look at the “accommodations” road we’re headed down: Canada, our neighbor to the north, is farther down the »
Politicizing tragedy, take 2
The New York Sun invited John to expand on his thoughts about “politicizing tragedy” in the context of the Virginia Tech murders. His column appears in the paper today as “Barrel of the gun.” John writes: The gulf between left and right is deep, but perhaps not so deep as the divide between the political and the apolitical. The apolitical majority instinctively believes that the human dimension of an event »
John Edwards’ bad hair day
In a piece below called “In Search Of A Candidate,” John discussed recent woes (of differing kinds) experienced by the two top Democratic presidential contenders, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. At the AOL blog I noted that, to make matters worse, number three contender John Edwards had a bad hair day. »
Blood sport and its enablers
Ruth Marcus tries to find the common thread between Alberto Gonzales and Paul Wolfowitz. This seems to be the fad among Washington Post columnists. Yesterday, Eugene Robinson tried to link Gonzales and Wolfowitz (along with Karl Rove) and Richard Cohen produced a specious piece trying to equate Gonzales and Mike Nifong. The theory may be that piling on more non-scandals (or in Cohen’s case a real scandal) will give the »
Volunteers Wanted
Tomorrow morning, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify on the U.S. Attorneys teapot tempest. The hearing will begin at 9:30 eastern time. Most of our readers will be working, and I will be on an airplane. But it would be great if someone would live-blog the hearing. Just start a new thread in the General Discussion section of the Forum, give it an »
Media lies: Can Eric Boehlert tell the truth?
In the post below, John Hinderaker eviscerates the heart of Eric Boehlert’s Media Matters post “Can conservative bloggers tell the truth?” Boehlert sets up his one big lie — the one deconstructed at length by John below — with a barrage of little lies. To take just one example, Boehlert writes that “Power Line played a starring role in advancing the Terri Schiavo talking points memo hoax during the spring »
