Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello) used to ask why priests say for ever and ever at the end of a song or prayer. He asked, “Doesn’t the first “for ever” cover it?”
While there is a difference between rejecting what someone says and denouncing who they are, doesn’t rejecting cover it? Is it necessary to denounce the speech […]

As a pathetic sign of desperation, Clinton has pulled out the scare ad. And my verdict is they can’t even make a good one.
The all-time worst scare ad was LBJ’s “Daisy” and the mushroom cloud to beat up on an already defeated Barry Goldwater. (Keep in mind that Hillary was a Goldwater Girl as her […]

Saw this over at Balloon Juice and thought it might be fun to play over here.
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Look up page 123.
3. Look for the fifth sentence.
4. Post the three sentences that follow the fifth sentence.
Here’s mine: “Lester Sill would put it more bluntly. “Sonny had his nose […]

During one of my previous lives as a “suit” I also knew William F. Buckley. I used to visit 150 East 35th Street (between Lex and 3rd) where NR had offices at a time shortly after I became disgruntled with the direction of Rolling Stone (which I wrote 1968-70,for believing it was the voice of […]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made it official: he will not launch an independent run for the White House. He may be one of the biggest Independent voices out there but he will remain neutral unless one of the two candidates offers “independent leadership”. By that he means that candidate needs to embrace “practical solutions that […]

For a close-up and wonderfully inspiring look at what real grassroots organizing looks like, I turn every day now to texansforobama. A favorite bit today is another great band doing its bit to reach out to Latino voters.

The smear of Barack Obama begins even before he’s nailed the nomination. Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama’s church, is now the target of an IRS investigation, generated by concerns that Obama used the church for political purposes. Oh Please. After Falwell and the good Doc Dobson have skewered Dems from the pulpit for more […]

He says it all right here. There is a difference between supporting the country of Israel, a friend and ally, or the aggressive Likud party. We can have mature relationships with many countries, even if the particular party in power is irritating.
But there has been too much lock step support of the Likud. […]

I knew the William F. Buckley, Jr. who the NYT described today as “the man who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance, famously arched eyebrows and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center of American political discourse”. He was 82.
A younger Buckley worked on a project of mine to help restore credibility to the drug […]

I just found this on the net, Bill Kristol is criticizing Barack Obama as being unpatriotic for not wearing a pin of the American flag.
I don’t think so at all, such a badge should be a matter of personal taste to be respected by all.
The only country that requires badges that I know of is […]