William Katz: The noble entertainer
Occasional contributor William Katz is the proprietor of Urgent Agenda. He sends us the following note on David Brown:
David Brown died last week. Most Americans probably never heard of him, but they’re certainly familiar with his impact on movies. With his partner, Richard D. Zanuck, he launched the feature-film career of Steven [...]
The Scozzafava Scandals
Ordinarily, I dote on every word writ by Rich Galen, cybercolumnist extraordinaire, proprietor of Mullings, my favorite non-blog blog (neg-blog?) Alas, I think he has really gone off the Newtonian end on the NY-23 race.
In today’s Mullings, Rich writes the following:
The Conservatives nominated a guy named Doug Hoffman who does not live in the [...]
Don’t Go Breakin’ My [Baitsim]
Wikipedia helpfully recalls that “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” was written by Elton John with Bernie Taupin under the punning pseudonym “Ann Orson” and “Carte Blanche.” Elton performed the song as a duet with Kiki Dee, and had a huge smash with it in 1976.
Wikipedia notes that whe song was intended as [...]
A Warrior for the Cause
I was struck by the contrast between two things I saw today. The first was at The Corner, where Mark Steyn quoted this depressingly accurate assessment:
Whenever the centre-right wins an election, the centre-left allows that its opponents have the office, but denies they have the mandate. They can govern for a term, yes, but [...]
New ‘Devastating’ ACORN Revelations To Come Out Tomorrow
Paul Chesser reports at American Spectator that Big Government blog proprietor Andrew Breitbart, just now on Fox News’ “Hannity,” said yet another ACORN revelation (presumably from the O’Keefe/Giles video duo) is coming tomorrow, and he characterized it as “devastating.”
I look forward to it being very very devastating. It just couldn’t happen to a more [...]
Yaacov Lozowick: Israel’s Gaza report
Yaacov Lozowick is the Israeli author of Right to Exist and the proprietor of Yaacov Lozowick’s Ruminations. He flags Israel’s report on the Gaza operation, commenting that the “report, in my reading, is a game changer, or should be. Yet as far as I can see, almost no one has noticed it, much less [...]
