A lovely tribute from a liberal commentator about a conservative colleague who died of cancer recently.

Study finds American university faculties are very liberal.

A case of Newsweek living down to expectations.

Obama is a product of Chicago Democratic machine politics: his career is very much one of each position being a stepping stone for the ( Read more... )

About the notion of “human rights” under which Steyn and Macleans are being prosecuted in British Columbia. The Albertan Human Rights Commission continues to widen the speech it regulates. Such hate crimes cases apparently have a 100% conviction record. Of course; such bodies are dominated by the “concerned” and such convictions extend their ( Read more... )

Liveblogging the Steyn/Macleans “human rights” free speech case. And also. Further. The saga continues. The continuing saga. The entire exercise is outrageous and Orwellian.

As success in Iraq mounts, the politics appears to be changing.

The Secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force Chief of Staff lose their jobs on the same day. There ( Read more... )

A Clinton supporter has written a positive appraisal of Reagan’s Presidency.

About Kissinger, his successes and failures, and his Jewishness.

The latest - and somewhat strange - case of the long history of White House officials and critical memoirs.

The enduring themes of American foreign policy and the debates over them: The idea that today’s ( Read more... )

About the assault on free speech in Canada and on-going divisions in the West.

The awkward politics of affirmative action.

It is an election year, so the US Supreme Court is handing down a lot fewer 5:4 decisions. Or maybe there are other factors at work. About why conservatives care about the courts more than liberals ( Read more... )

Chicago was obviously nostalgic for Prohibition and speakeasies, so found a new thing to ban (the term “duckeasy” is hilarious).

About the image of the well-hung black man.

Some of the seized “children” in the raid on the Mormon polygamists appear to be legal adults reducing the number of underage mothers in custody to 26. Which is still quite a ( Read more... )

The “DC Madam” has committed suicide.

A new statue of Matin Luther King is causing a bit of a fuss.

Changing the rules in one local areas is driving illegals (and possibly others) to surrounding areas.

Publishing the laws of Oregon is apparently a breach of copyright. MoreSome of the academics involved in publicly hounding the Duke Universty ( Read more... )

Really cute promotional video from the BBC.

Pictures from the Balkans.

The Swiss are worried about plant rights: We live in a time of cornucopian abundance and plenty, yet countless human beings are malnourished, even starving. In the face of this cruel paradox, worry about the purported rights of plants is the true immorality. What this really ( Read more... )

Using The Godfather as a metaphor for the options for American foreign policy. (It's clever, but seems to be a bit of an example of the moral obtuseness foreign policy realists are often criticised for.) A nice critique of a neocon intellectual with a poor analytical record. An elegant response to criticism.

The District of Columbia is settling ( Read more... )

The Newseum and the slow death of the American newspaper.

Spot the decimal point error in this report. Helpful hint here.

The problems of modern parenting: When officer Daniel Swift asked the woman what she meant by that, she said that the two belong to different street gangs ( Read more... )