I, too, was disappointed to see that Arlen Specter took a very public step to announce his allegiance to the Democratic party.

She [Hillary] warned Israel that it risks losing Arab support for combating threats from Iran if it rejects peace negotiations with the Palestinians. The day Israel needs Arab support to combat the threat posed by Iran is the day Israel should close up shop and hand the keys over to the Palestinians.

Al Gore, the man who has become the Ravi Shankar of new millennium junk science by using fear, misinformation, gullibility and blind faith as a sitar that he plays with wildly lucrative virtuosity.

nothing is worse for a liberal administration than to have their idolized French brethren bite their extended limp hands

An incomplete survey of newspaper accounts and organizer estimates pegged the Tea Party protest population at a minimum of 250,000. We can now, therefore, officially call it the Million Taxpayer March.

But here comes the keen reporting, done as he was leaving the White House press briefing (oooh, ahhhh)

And if they demand to be "out" as well as gay, then "the ultimate sacrifice" is not really the ultimate sacrifice for them, is it? The ultimate sacrifice is the one they are not willing to make, namely that of their public sexual identity. That strikes me as reason enough by itself not to let them in [into the military], since it casts doubt on their willingness to make other sacrifices. Insisting on the right to be openly gay is a form of that inappropriate nursing of one’s individuality which it is precisely the first task of military training to break up and break down.

But one response would be that Democrats are tripling the debt, which means that generations of Americans not yet born will be taxed to pay for spending today. That is a kind of taxation without representation.

Disclosure of the [torture] techniques is likely to be met by faux outrage, and is perfectly packaged for media consumption.

For starters, the culture has become more pro-pirate.

I'm off to deal with edits to my magazine piece, and then I'm taking a nap or launching cocktail hour, whichever comes first.

He [Mayor Thomas Masters] said cities should have the right to maintain social standards, just as they can dictate the height to which certain trees can grow. “I think society has the right to draw the line,” he said.

He [Obama] also said, cryptically, that Islam had made great contributions to America — by which he meant not the massacres of 9/11 but the fact of his having had a Muslim father.

for every one pirate assault, a lethal air assault should immediately follow

and thanks especially for identifying yourself as a Ph.D. I might not have known how seriously to take your comments otherwise.

In particular, Mr. Gates's budget priorities give no indication of how the Pentagon will ensure that U.S. military dominance extends to the battlefield of the future, outer space.

Both as a social institution and as a public policy, marriage exists to foster connections between heterosexual sex and the rearing of children within stable households. It is a non-coercive way to channel (heterosexual) desire into civilized patterns of living.

The Obama administration continues to populate key legal positions with leftist lawyers and, especially, law professors.

What does "economic justice" mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

In other words, even if the economy improves by mid-2010 and the media trumpets it to the skies, the public still may be skeptical -- and the Democrats would be sure to get the blame.