A popular stereotype holds that journalists tend to be literate, and that the British are more intelligent than their US...
This blog has looked once or twice in the past three years at Democrats' use (and uses) of the term...
Was listening, the other day, to an odd little song by Harrison & Clapton: Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove...
Apropos Tikkun's Michael Lerner (Hillary's one-time guru): What happened in Obama's first year is that most of those who had...
One of the enduring themes of my own life, and thus Random Observations is the battle between what I think...
America sleeps as Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve, poised between two possible futures, and being shown dreams — well, nightmares,...
Victor Davis Hanson: Adverbs Can Tell Us a A Lot When we do know for a fact that Mutallab tried...
Obama's Pastor, reverend Wright, says quite a number of vitriolic inflammatory things his sermons. Wright and his defenders insist his...
Canada's David Warren raises an important distinction while defending Sarah Palin: Candour is when you tell a truth that is...
Like most Americans, I'm a bit of an Anglophile. The "special relationship", James Bond, Monty Python, Yes Minister (and much...
An acronym is a word composed of abbreviations of other words. In the "old days", people used to include all...
Best of the Web Today: ... the Obama administration's efforts to make nice with Tehran's lunatic regime do seem to...
My mind boggled when I heard Stevens' Heller dissent (bold added, of course): The Court would have us believe that...
This week, goes to Hope for Peace and Justice: Religious dialogue is so dominated by conservative churches, denominations and para-church...
Today's random question: If "patriotism" can merely consist of having good intentions, and wishing to do what's best for your...
I don't mind jargon. Jargon is a special set of terms which apply within one particular field or discipline. When...
This kind of language, common in the press lately, shows gross hypocrisy: Madrid was put on high alert following the...
Appropros the most recent Michael Newdow Attempt To Be An Important Person-In-The-Spotlight... When everyday people like you are told something...
I've been dutifully sorting my bloggages into various categories, on the theory that sometime I'll learn Movable Type well enough...
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the United States of America. Now shorten it to an acronym, and we get "U.S.A.". Now,...