Re: Some More On Obama’s Performance
Jennifer Rubin’s take on Obama’s performance:
John, I think Obama is suffering from three factors. First, the expectations for him, based on a good deal of media puffery, is that he should dominate these events. When he doesn’t and looks like a beleagured professor or a mid-level executive whose employees are refusing to get on the [...]
Roman Polanski’s "Pure Entertainment"
I recently complained about the tendency of filmmakers to deny the authorial intent of their films; it's one thing to make a truly ambiguous movie and then challenge the audience to discover for itself the meaning, but it's another thing entirely to simply deny the obvious point that you are making in your film.
We see another [...]
Like the scorpion said to the frog, ”I just can’t help myself”
Think of Obama as the scorpion - he just can’t help himself:
You know the old fable about the scorpion and the frog, and how the frog is nice enough to help the scorpion cross the river on its back even though it’s certain the scorpion will kill him, and the scorpion promises that he won’t [...]
Contract Renewal
You’ve must admit, there’s something Churchillian about Newt
Gingrich. He may not be the most beloved politician on the
national scene, but Newt always has his eye on the ball. Nobody
does the issues better.
This casts Newt in the role that Churchill played when he
was an [...]
The plot thickens in Indiana
A new Rasmussen poll has Indiana’s Demoratic Senator Evan Bayh trailing Republican Congressman Mike Pence by a 47-44 margin. It’s far from clear, however, that Pence will run for the seat; indeed, I’ve been told that Bayh’s camp believes he won’t. Pence stands to be a huge player in the House if [...]
For Our Female Readers
Our male readers have been treated to international pageant coverage for some years now, so it seems only fair to share this with our female fans. Plus, there is a huge news hook: Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown, the man of the hour, won Cosmopolitan magazine’s “Sexiest Man in America” contest in 1982, [...]
