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New Orleans Storm Relief: The Prequel
The disgracefully inadequate federal response to Hurricane Katrina is not the first time New Orleans’ requests for help have received a less-than-adequate response. In addition to the Bush administration’s opposition last month to funding coastline restoration, the administration also dragged … Continue reading
The Plot Against Imagination
I just finished Philip Roth’s latest novel, The Plot Against America, and I have to say I was much less than impressed, especially given that I read it immediately following Five Days In Philadelphia: The Amazing “We Want Willkie” Convention … Continue reading
Amnesty International vs. Arrogance International
Please take a moment to make as large a contribution as possible to Amnesty International, the latest member of the Shrub administration’s Axis Of People Who Insist On Telling the Truth About Us. If you have not already heard, Amnesty’s … Continue reading
Protected: Joe Who?
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Popes, Infallible and Otherwise
As a recovering Catholic (for better or for worse, one is never an “ex” Catholic any more than one is an “ex” alcoholic), I can’t let the Pope’s passing go without some comment. Let me start with one point. People … Continue reading
Left, Right and Wrong
Mother Jones this month had a surprisingly refreshing article (use code MJJ9AK to view the whole thing) on the failures of the left, which spoke to me more than almost anything else I’d read on the subject. The central thesis … Continue reading
Hunter S. Thompson, 1937 – 2005
Let all those who feel that Americans can be as easily led to beauty as to ugliness, to truth as to public relations, to joy as to bitterness, be said to be suffering from Hunter Thompson’s disease. –Kurt Vonnegut, reviewing … Continue reading
Nation-Building As Done By Actual Grownups
In a column headlined “Our Blindness,” Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist Mark Helprin grimly questions our preparedness for handling any of the major challenges facing the U.S. in the 21st century, which he identifies as the rise of China as … Continue reading
Oh, all right, it’s OK to help tsunami victims, we guess…
While still decrying “the ugly hand of altruism,” the lunatics at the Ayn Rand Institute have grudgingly retracted the essay it released last week, “U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims.” Now mind you, these purveyors of institutionalized selfishness do not … Continue reading
Protected: The New Rudy Blues
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