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Monthly Archives: December 2008
In praise of Dick Cheney
I’ve said a few times that events are causing me to begin to miss President Bush already. Yesterday’s FOX News Sunday interview with Vice President Cheney prompted the same thought as to him, perhaps even more so. Bill Kristol touches on some of the reasons why in his New York Times column this morning. To comment on this post, go here. »
William Katz: Van Johnson, RIP
William Katz is our occasional contributor and the proprietor of Urgent Agenda. Today he reflects on the life of Van Johnson: The recent death of Van Johnson at 92 reminds us of a time when Hollywood actors played American military heroes, the studios wouldn’t have it any other way, and audiences cheered. That was a long time ago, when most Americans alive today hadn’t even been born. Van Johnson was »
Surviving Hell
I had the great good fortune of meeing Leo Thorsness last summer through the offices of McCain campaign midwest spokesman Tom Steward. When Tom invited me to meet with Colonel Thorsness in St. Paul as he toured on behalf of Senator McCain, I vaguely recalled Colonel Thorsness as a Vietnam veteran who had narrowly lost a 1974 Senate race to George McGovern in the toxic afermath of Watergate. That recollection »
America Alone?
We Americans have long regarded Great Britain as our staunchest and most effective ally. Is that assessment still realistic after the social changes in the U.K. in recent decades, and our experience in Iraq? Mark Steyn is skeptical: This is a depressing read from The Times of London about the ignominious end to the British mission in Iraq. The author is former Tory cabinet minister Michael Portillo: It cannot be »
“Cut Off the Heads of Hamas’s Leaders”
A couple of days ago, Scott passed on reader Dan Diker’s comments on an article in Israel’s Maariv daily newspaper, which recorded the fact that Arab governments are urging Israel to take a hard line against Hamas. Egypt, in particular, is determined not to accept an “Islamic emirate” in Gaza, and therefore wants Israel to kill Hamas’s leaders in Gaza. It is ironic that, just when the incoming Obama administration »
Where’s Blago?
The video below presents a montage of questions from George Stephanopolis to Joe Biden this morning on ABC’s This Week program. The questions addressed Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Rick Warren, Hillary Clinton, Guantanamo, torture, stimulus and puppies, and somehow missed Rod Blagojevich and Rahm Emanuel. To comment on this post, go here. »
Separated at birth?
Former Vikings offensive coordinator and Baltimore Ravens head coach Brian Billick provided the color commentary on the Falcons-Vikings game on FOX this afternoon. Billick is an interesting guy. He spent his his freshman year in college at the Air Force Academy as a linebacker, but transferred to Brigham Young University and played tight end. According to his Wikipedia entry, Billick says he transferred from the Air Force Academy because he »
A doctor and an engineer drive to the Glasgow airport
John’s post on the overactive Swedish “youths” reminded me that I had been meaning to point out the report by the eminent New York Times reporter John Burns on the conviction of Bilal Abdulla for bombing Glasgow’s airport. Here are the first three paragraphs of Burns’s report: LONDON — A terrorism trial centering on the use of a bomb-laden Jeep to crash into the main doors of Glasgow’s airport terminal »
Origins of the financial crisis
When it comes to analysis of the origins of the current financial crisis, Peter Wallison (above) knows what he’s talking about. The New York Times does not, and chooses to wage politics by other means. Via Instapundit. To comment on this post, go here. »
The Senator from People Magazine?
Caroline Kennedy seems to have emerged as the favorite to succeed Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate. It is up to Gov. David Patterson to name Clinton’s successor, but he is likely to take his cues from the Democratic political establishment, key elements of which apparently are lining up behind Kennedy or seriously considering this course. Kennedy’s connection with Barack Obama — she endorsed him and he would like to »
Fear the Gopher, Part II
As I noted here, Paul has occasionally written about University of Maryland sports, while I have had few occasions to brag about the Minnesota Gophers (hockey, of course, excluded). But today the renaissance of Gopher basketball continued apace, as the Gophs upset number nine-rated Louisville, 70-64. Most people would never guess that Minnesota has sent more basketball players to the NBA than any Big Ten school except Indiana. But the »
See no evil
Jim Geraghty profiles Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican party and candidate for Republican National Committee chair. Dawson says that many African-Americans have socially conservative instincts, particularly on the issues of abortion and gay marriage, and that Republicans who reach out to such African-Americans can achieve a significant level of support. Dawson may or may not be right about this (consider me skeptical). But it’s pretty clear that »
Swedish “Youths” Riot
Those European “youths” are at it again, this time in Sweden. That’s how the BBC identifies them: “Swedish city hit by youth riots.” The city is Malmo, in southern Sweden, where vehicles and barricades are burning for a second consecutive night: In the caption to this photo, Reuters helpfully explains that the fire is being extinguished by policemen because “the fire department considered the area to be too risky to »
Angling for Cheney
The new issue of the Weekly Standard carries Christopher Willcox’s review of Barton Gellman’s Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. Our own Paul Mirengoff engaged in a series of exchanges with Gellman about the book. I collected links to the exchanges here. I formed a negative impression of Gellman’s book from Paul’s comments, concluding that Gellman was responsible for the kind of tendentious and question-begging reportage that makes so much of »
Through a windscreen darkly
In his weekly column Mark Steyn meditates on the word of the year. That would of course be “bailout.” Mark draws on some great songs and jingles that will be ringing in my head the rest of the day in order to draw the contrast between America then and now. He also draws on the lament by Herb London that we posted earlier this week. Mark’s column is “We’re in »
The meaning of Iran’s rhetoric
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and other officials of the Iranian regime regularly direct blood-curdling rhetoric of hate and extermination toward the state of Israel. Is this rhetoric to be taken seriously? Bar-Ilan University senior lecturer Ze’ev Maghen thinks that it is. In the lead essay of Commentary’s forthcoming issue, he argues: The Iranians and their allies throughout the Muslim world are bent on making the abandonment of Israel the price of “peace »
The death of Deep Throat
Former FBI associate director Mark Felt — better known as Deep Throat — died this week. Felt’s death at the ripe old age of 95 lends support to the sentiment that only the good die young. Felt was of course the anonymous source for much of Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate coverage in the Washington Post. The Post’s long obituary therefore represents something like the authorized version of his story. It »
