Month: May 2007

I’m a father. I have a son and a daughter. Two days ago I read something that made me engage in an “unpleasant” thought experiment. I imagined that I and my son had been killed in an attack on our home. That my...

This would probably had gone in the News Bucket, if we had one today. But I have not seen it blogged anywhere – so let’s put it out there. I caught this headline in The Guardian this morning: Want peace? Then live in...

Remember, you can say almost anything, but never ask Cui Bono?

Leading neoconservative Norman Podhoretz wants George W. Bush to bomb Iran.  In a May 30 Wall Street Journal, he writes “I hope and pray that President Bush will do it.” Podhoretz sees the campaigns in Iraq and...

George Will- idiot: Conservatism’s recovery of its intellectual equilibrium requires a confident explanation of why America has two parties and why the conservative one is preferable. Today’s political argument...