This article by Todd S. Purdum in Vanity Fair is totally biased, coming from the left, way left; but it is also totally fascinating. I have a million things to do but can’t stop reading: In Evansville, though, Palin concentrated on the task at hand: an emphatic defense of the anti-abortion cause. But in doing [...]
I always read Dick Cavett’s column for the New York Times. I am a great fan of his, inasmuch as I am a great fan of anyone who is beautifully well spoken, intelligent and thoughtful. Here he is on Sarah Palin, whom I believe we both agree should just go away: I feel a little [...]
This is some extremely powerful writing on liberty and government’s slow eroding of our freedoms. Although inspired by a failed attempt in the UK to mandate the detention of terror suspects without charge for 42 days, this has as much — if not more — to do with America. Those behind this law in Britain [...]
I wanted to resist getting political on this thing but here is something I can’t resist yelling about. Hillary Clinton wants to suspend the federal gas tax this summer. What that would accomplish besides increasing demand for a dwindling resource is beyond me. Anyway, she’s adopting a hard line on this, as evidenced by an [...]