Clever headline, Wlady! Patrick Goodenough at CNS News has a fine report on Taiwan President Chen Shui Bian’s controversial decision to scrap the National Unification Council referenced in my post here yesterday. I find it interesting that so far the…
Some will call it gutsy, many will call it reckless (I lean heavily toward the former, btw). In a move which will surely drive the Communist Chinese absolutely BatGuano, Taiwan President Chen Shui Bian has mothballed Taiwan’s National Unification Council…
Congratulations to David Keene, Stacie Rumenap and the good folks at the American Conservative Union Foundation on the opening of the 33rd Annual Conservative Political Action Conference just moments ago at the Omni Shoreham here in D.C. George Will is…
Permit me to take a moment to point out what a significant day the 14th of December is. For on this day: -George Washington died at Mount Vernon (1799) -Stock car racing was organized (1947) –National Velvet opened (1944) -Amundsen…
Today is the 131st anniversary of the birth of Winston Churchill.
A reporter friend of mine tasked with covering the Bush speech for a major daily newspaper which shall go unnamed here (suffice to say the outlet in question has not been all that friendly to this administration) just remarked to…
I must say I am encouraged by the backlash I sense this year against the nutty, runaway trend in our society whereby the term “Christmas” continues to be replaced with the word “Holiday.” From the protests against Wal-Mart, to Speaker…
Just received this email from a friend: “Dick Durbin said on ‘Meet the Press’ that Alito’s pro-life stance would disqualify him. Durbin, like Al Gore and Dick Gephardt, was vehemently pro-life in the 1980s when he was in the House…
Without comment due to mind-numbing disgust. From The Australian: Actor forced to stop smoking: From correspondents in Rome, November 15, 2005 A STUNNED Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator…
Mark Humbert’s latest on Democrats’ increasing strength in N.Y. state is worth reading. Was somewhat (pleasantly) surprised to see Republican moneybag Georgette Mosbacher’s comments on the NY State GOP: “Our New York party leaders have tried to be everything to…
