Today is a day of celebration in Kosovo, as the ethnic Albanians declared independence from Kosovo this past weekend. World reaction has been mixed. Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States have all supported the move towards independence, while Russia, China, and Spain have all rejected it. That should make us feel pretty good […]
You can tell something troubling is afoot in the political landscape when all someone has to do is say they stand for “change,” and they have the devotions of swooning throngs.
I can’t think of a past election when candidates for the opposition haven’t promised change as a populist mantra. That is probably why we seldom […]
As any faithful reader of old Superman comics will tell you, one of Superman’s nemeses was Bizarro. For those of you who have lives, Bizarro was a backwards version of Superman from a planet known as Bizarro World. On Bizarro World, everything was the opposite of the way things were on Earth. Up was down, […]
I’ve been visiting a blog Media Lizzy turned me on to. It’s called ‘Obamacans 2008 Unite!’. It’s for Republicans who support Barack Obama to testify as to why they do. My involvement there has been to opine that self-styled Republicans now supporting Obama couldn’t have been much of a Republican to begin with.An Obamacan commenter […]
“Therefore victory in war is not repetitious, but adapts its form endlessly.”
- Sun Tzu
The Art of War
There were secret meetings in restaurants, encrypted e-mail messages using a mysterious shorthand, suitcases crammed full of stolen documents.There were covert payoffs: a pocket stuffed with a wad of bills, free poker games in Vegas, a wallet suddenly […]
I don’t celebrate “President’s Day”. I celebrate the presidents individually, not the whole gaggle of them at once. These days, George Washington has been relegated to that “truth telling guy” to be seen on the one dollar bill and on TV commercials at the end of February or that guy lumped in with Lincoln on […]
