WPost columnist David Ignatius has the following words of “wisdom” for President Obama re the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran: “On the substance, I agree with Obama. The agreement will provide clear, verifiable limits on Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon for at least 15 years. Those who think more sanctions can gain a…
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Barack Obama ignorant of history, says George Will, ignorantly
George F.—“F for Fabulous!”—Will has his definitive take on the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran. Like 97% of George’s columns, the real point here is not to say anything substantial about anything, but rather to allow George to look down his presumably Georgian nose at his inferiors, said inferiors, of course, being just about everyone…
Fareed Zakaria, mixing marmalade with applesauce
In a column bearing the stentorian head “With an absent United States, China marches on”, a mildly hyperventilating Fareed Zakaria warns us that those clever Chinese folks are trying to win friends and influence people with “an avalanche of cash.” Fareed says that, according to David Shambaugh “if you add up China’s promised investments in…
Good Court, Bad Court
The U.S. Supreme Court decided, rightly, in my opinion, that the statutory construction given the Affordable Care Act by the Obama Administration is consistent with the overall intent, if not the letter, of the act. The Court also decided, wrongly, in my opinion, that homosexuals have a constitutional right to marry. Both decisions were quite…
It’s starting to look a lot like Rubio
Well, it is. I’ve got my pundit hat on, and my pundit PJs, and I’m saying the Republican nomination is Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio’s to lose. Big Chris Christie—big, fat Chris Christie, as we say down south—may have just put the last nail in Jeb Bush’s coffin when he came out against the “Common Core”…
Baltimore Morals
Kudos, a bit belated, to Radley Balko for punching up (or perhaps down) against the “black people are just as scary as ever and it’s all Obama’s fault!” meme being pushed by the Right in the wake of the brief Baltimore riot, during which, to the disappointment of many “conservatives”, I suspect, no one was…
Edward Gibbon, Part I
When I was a boy, back in the fifties, the Sunday papers were still a big deal. The Sunday paper, a full-color, four-color marvel in a black and white world, was a sensation when it emerged around 1900, bringing hours of entertainment for everyone in the family, and fifty years later the institution was still…
What’s more massively depressing than the Baltimore riots? William Kristol’s reaction to the Baltimore riots
I don’t buy the notion that “It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded,” an “explanation” given by reporter Michael Fletcher, a reporter who has lived there for 30 years. Arson, looting, and vandalism are not a response to injustice but a celebration of lawlessness. What could be worse than scenes of democratic…
Maybe we’re not so different after all!
The New York Times reports: Gao Yu, a 71-year-old Chinese journalist who has repeatedly challenged the Communist Party during a decades-long career, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday after a court in Beijing found her guilty of leaking state secrets abroad. Gao Yu is in fact a true hero of the freedom…
The Judith Miller Show: Weaving new false narratives to replace the old
After the French Revolution, it was said that of the old aristocracy that they had forgotten nothing and learned nothing. After the disastrous second Iraqi war, it may be said of the Wall Street Journal that it had learned nothing and forgotten everything. The latest entropy effusion from the WSJ Memory Hole is Judith Miller’s…