I already commented on the crazy episode of the e-mails; an episode that, to the disinterested observer or to the candid friend, conveys nothing but desperation and lack of principle. (Or desperation so intense as to destroy principle, and for that matter commonsense.) Now we have had another damp squib, at the end of what was, like the tapes, a ( Read more... )

This unpleasant abortionist creep, who can't hold back from connecting opposition to abortion with Fascism, nonetheless agrees with me that it is specifically opposition to abortion that has fuelled the rise of the conservative movement. (History disproves her pathetic claim in that area: Fascism, and Nazism even more, were into free love, sexual ( Read more... )

Do the big left papers know something we don't? Are they so certain that, unless something utterly shattering comes to light in the next few days, Sarah Palin is going to run for President, shatter Obama and fill House, Senate and states governments with Tea Partiers and worse? Nothing except political despair of a transcendent, staring-eyed ( Read more... )

I can't imagine what Sarah Palin thinks she's doing. If she is running for President, which I thought was certainly the case thus far, then I cannot see this as anything but a step backward; and not only because Fox News is a highly divisive outlet, but above all because I cannot remember a single case of a political commentator or journalist ever ( Read more... )

A significant passage from Sarah Palin's Facebook account of her book tour:

"The book tour is beyond all expectations. This feels like the time when a team comes together, gearing up before a major competition to show unity and supply strength and encouragement to each team member equally, regardless of the team member’s role or title ( Read more... )

Ever since Sarah Palin announced her resignation as Governor of Alaska,( Read more... )

British media, including the supposedly conservative ones, are supporting Obama and (especially) hounding Sarah Palin, with a ferocity unknown even to their American counterparts, and looking more like the Daily Kos than anything, so to speak, human. This is appalling in itself, and may well end up being disastrous if by any chance McCain and ( Read more... )

I answered this to one of my online friends, but I think everyone ought to read it ( Read more... )

A real and serious issue with exporting any European or Japanese model of universal health coverage to the USA is the size and diversity of the nation. The attempt to micro-manage the British Health Service - by now reduced, thanks to the growth of local parliaments, to England alone - from Westminster is notoriously one of the major problems with ( Read more... )