Feb 5 2010

Obama and the war card (will Obama ‘Wag the dog’?)

Pat Buchanan brings up a good point today at Townhall:
“Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play. .
Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear program and impose the “crippling” sanctions [...]

Oct 20 2009

Sometimes you just have to believe your own eyes

The California Angels have just defeated the New York Yankees 5-4 in 11 innings following some bizarre managing by Yankee skipper Joe Girardi.
In the bottom of the 11th, the Yankee relief pitcher, David Robertson, set down the first two Angels he faced. The second of the two was Kendry Morales, a star slugger. [...]

Sep 22 2009

Darkness at High Noon: the UnAmericanism of an American Icon

A comment to the previous blogpost, That Big Ol’ NEA Scandal… Just Déjà Vu-Du, has taken issue with my characterization of the seminal film High Noon as a deeply unAmerican, even anti-American movie that slanders the American character… at a time when the only form of unAmericanism that was acceptable to the intelligensia in the [...]