Seventy-five years ago today, Persia changed its name to Iran. Wikipedia tells us the name Iran is a cognate of Aryan, and means “Land of the Aryans”, which may explain the country’s similarities with another country believed to be run by the Aryan race. In the spirit of President Obama’s outreach to the country’s [...]
From Jim Geraghty in National Review’s Morning Jolt:
Politico: “President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say.”
Well, we didn’t really expect humility, did we?
Great to know, Mr. President, that Iran shot protesters dead in the streets and beat the hell [...]
Time once again to look back at the predictions of last January. Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long said that Cassandra did not get nearly the kicking she deserved. Well, I hope I deserve better.
My predictions, 29 for 2009, are below, and the results are in italics.
1. Beer and alcohol prices will increase substantially due to [...]
You don’t want to miss Christopher Hitchens today. He connects the dots between the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo to Obama’s speech at Cairo and finds where Western assumptions are only helping the enemy:
Yet if we think it probable or possible that a man would only mutate into such a monster after undergoing the [...]
Pundit Nation already has the You Tube video political leftists will cling to – McCain did not shake Obama’s hand, but had his wife greet him instead.
Look, if McCain really wanted to be a snot, he would have steered his wife away from Obama, not towards him.
Of course, I would have to steer [...]
