Remembering Oskar Morawetz
The New York media have paid scant attention to the passing of the Czech-born Canadian composer Oskar Morawetz (1917-2007), who died this month at 90. One of Canada’s few internationally known...
View ArticleBe A Divider, Not A Uniter
Yesterday’s Washington Post reported that Senator Barack Obama claims he can move the country out of “ideological gridlock” and bring the country together more effectively than can Senator Hillary...
View ArticleMitt Romney’s Boilerplate Mistake
So Mitt Romney, facing the rise of Mike Huckabee’s Christian-centric campaign in Iowa and judging that the Huckabee surge is related to discomfort with Romney’s Mormonism, gave his much-anticipated...
View ArticleThe Democrat’s Unseemly Race Thing
From Hillary’s Kentucky-fried stump speech, to Oprah’s unsettlingly delirious endorsement of Obama, to Hillary’s invocation of Martin Luther King’s ghost, to Obama’s Afrocentric church, and on and on ....
View ArticleMartin Luther King Day at the CIA
Back in April, CIA director Michael Hayden declared racial and ethnic diversity to be a “a mission-critical objective.” The agency is evidently making significant progress toward that end. “[O]ne-third...
View ArticleBill’s Nap
Being cranky and needing a nap is no way for Bill Clinton to help his wife grab the youth vote from Barack Obama. And snoozing center-stage during a Baptist service in honor of Martin Luther King isn’t...
View ArticleHillary’s Wright Moment
Given the mostly positive response that Barack Obama’s speech on race in America has received in the media, it looks as though Obama will be able to put the anti-American and racist comments of his...
View ArticleDionne, Confused
The Washington Post‘s E.J. Dionne, Jr. wrote a deeply confused column today. I had several thoughts on it. 1. Dionne’s column quotes Martin Luther King, Jr.’s remarks in 1968, referring to Vietnam as a...
View ArticleBill Clinton: EMT
There’s no reason to think the following is a fabrication. But two days ago Bill Clinton painted a pretty dramatic picture of his involvement in the aftermath of the 1968 D.C. riots brought on by...
View ArticleNobel Speech
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech could have been a whole lot worse. In fact, there is much for conservatives to crow about and much to drive the antiwar(s) Left up the wall. He did acknowledge the...
View ArticleWill They Be Silent?
Ed Koch is very upset– with Obama and with American supporters of Israel. He writes: The plan I suspect is to so weaken the resolve of the Jewish state and its leaders that it will be much easier to...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Ben Smith sounds skeptical about this ad campaign: “If Alexi Giannoulias pulls this one off, it’ll be one for the annals of political history: He’s trying to cast the failure of his family’s bank —...
View ArticleRichard Cohen on the Ground Zero Mosque
Of late it has become something of a hobby of mine to point out how the left is becoming increasingly unhinged and alienated from America. The event that seems to have triggered the latest outpouring...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Jr.
On this holiday honoring his birth, it is worth reminding ourselves why Martin Luther King Jr. deserves the place he holds in the American imagination. Dr. King was — with Jefferson, Madison, and...
View ArticleMLK and the American Founding
As we honor Martin Luther King Jr. today, it’s worth recalling that among his great contributions was that King saw great injustice and sought to confront it within the American political tradition....
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