Monthly Archives: August 2015

Mr. Weiss turns that ever useful Straussian device of packing an essay full to the brim with the argumentatively useful and the tangential, in equal measure, or even what might be politically useful information, to the business of obfuscation rather … Continue reading →

The Stephens essay is the perfect opportunity to re-post the Barber/Ganesh video, the title of which features the ‘soft left’, when what is at issue is the ‘hard left’ and the utter importance of the ‘centrists’ , which is, in … Continue reading →

You have to marvel at the Financial Times and their policy of Left political hysteria mongering, here are Lionel Barber and Janan Ganesh in a carefully staged, but strategically brief, political conversation. ‘FT editor Lionel Barber talks to political commentator … Continue reading →

I’m sorry to say that it sounds like Mr. Kay wrote this essay on his lunch hour. Now, I’m not saying that he didn’t have a point, and that it wasn’t well argued, in a self-serving kind of way. That … Continue reading →

Notice the extreme defensiveness of Mr. Lake and the reason for that is he is one of ‘those Neo-Cons’ the president is referring to. No surprise here. Mr. Lake has been consistent from The Daily Beast to BV in his … Continue reading →

Excuse Manu Raju and Burgess Everett from the designation as ‘reporters’! I found this report on the internet without any real effort: in regards to how American Likudnik Chuck Schumer might vote on the Iran Deal: http://nymag.com/daily/intelli… Dated April 23, … Continue reading →

Is the definition of political misfortune Peter Beinart’s faint praise of Joe Biden, or Jeffrey Goldberg and William Kristol’s praise of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy toughness? Mr. Biden is another stolid, unimaginative New Democrat, not withstanding Mr. Beinart’s attempt at … Continue reading →

The Republicans will never learn, as long as Sen. McConnell and his coterie of sclerotic old white guys, continue to pursue the Neo-Confederate/Originalist Party Line: the myth that women need daddy’s guiding hand, because they are unable to confront such … Continue reading →