I know a man whose refined sensibility was savaged by the untimely loss of his beloved wife. He decided in his despair to leave his work in America for a while and repair to Paris. There in The Louvre he encountered Théodore Géricault’s famous painting, The Raft of the Medusa.
He was transfixed by this [...]
The Bush-Obama strategy for rooting Al Qaeda from its various rat holes is analogous to tying our boots together and careening towards bankruptcy.
It’s based on the simplistic notion that Al Qaeda’s mission is to kill us, whereas Al Qaeda thinks that killing us is at all times wonderful but ruining us is better and easier, [...]
It’s a testament to the power of right-wingers to bully the press that The New York Times yesterday devoted 102 column inches to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s extramarital love life without once noting that as a fledgling hypocrite and congressman he had gone hunting for Bill Clinton’s head in the aftermath of the former [...]
Read More...The Muslim Arab conquest of Persia in the first half of the Seventh Century A.D. should be priority reading in Washington, not the usual breathless news used to gift-wrap commercials.
Idol-smashing anticlerical Arabs burst out of the Arabian peninsula and began scooping up the eastern Roman empire and the Sassanid empire of the Persians in the [...]
How many Americans drive past car, recreational van and boat dealerships every day wondering how they’re surviving the recession, or if they’re surviving? Are they looking a little down at the mouth, a bit sad and tatty?
Don’t depend on our free press to tell you how they’re doing, because—just as the free press didn’t warn [...]