Conservatives and Republicans, on the other hand, continue to battle it out: Was her choice a success or a disaster? And if one holds negative views, should one say so? For conservatives in general, but certainly for writers, the answer is a variation on Edmund Burke: You owe your readers not your industry only [...]
Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon, was the publisher of the London (UK) Telegraph newspapers and Spectator from 1987 to 2004, and founded the National Post of Canada in1998. His columns and reviews frequently appear in a large number of publications in Canada, the [...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Kristol quotes Senator McCain to illustrate the qualities that are needed to rise to the times.
Viva Zapata! It’s a movie made by Elia Kazan. It was one of the trilogy of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront and Viva Zapata! Marlon Brando stars in it. He plays Zapata. It’s a heroic tale of [...]
Any institution that manages over $5 billion should be regulated, whether it’s public or private, an insurance company, bank or private equity fund.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community.
Your hands can’t hit what your eyes can’t see.
Scandaglio, appuntata, controtempo, incontro, sforzo, appuntata, avazione
The bomber will always get through vs.The Battle of Britain
Who is working within whose OODA?
Truth be told, Sarah is working within John’s.
History is not immutable. But there is one pattern that comes very close to being a law of history: in the long run, the rise and fall of great nations is driven primarily by their economic strength. Rome, imperial China, Venice, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom — all had their day, and their [...]
Dear Pup once said to me sighfully after a right-winger who fancied himself a WFB protégé had said something transcendently and provocatively cretinous, ‘You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.’ “
Thursday, October 9, 2008
John McCain will get the fundamentalist vote November 4. But the real question is how many evangelicals will vote for Barack Obama - the one presidential candidate to confess Jesus as Lord.