Confused and worried by the turbulence in global financial markets? This explains it in terms even Germans – and the rest of us – can understand. Not comfortable reading: The monster is not the financial system, crooked and stupid as it may have been. The monster is the burgeoning horde […]
We started with junk food. Then we had junk sport. Now we have Junk Diplomacy. This takes numerous exotic forms. But in its mainstream version it consists of high-level expensive and expansive Dialogue, the more vacuous the better. Thus European Voice reports poor prospects for this week’s EU/Latin America Summit […]
Ann Althouse wonders if it is really so bad for Whites to love Obama for the ‘wrong reasons’. On the other hand, here are some White people who are really loved by Blacks. And it rocks!
The bewilderment of the UK Left’s chattering classes as Labour ratings sink would be enjoyable were it not for the devastation their ideas have created. Thus Polly Toynbee in the Guardian today, who still seems to think that squeezing the super-rich will make some sort of useful difference. She opines: […]
Once upon a time when a product required plastic safety glasses the instructions said so, and one used one’s intelligence to put them on one’s head: lenses to the front of one’s face, and the curvy bit in the middle astride one’s nose for extra comfort. No longer. Now we get […]
The Independent has bewailed the fact that so many UK voters think that environmental concern is merely an excuse to raise taxes and (shock!) that climate change is totally natural: the findings make depressing reading for green campaigners. If they are thus depressed, good. Take my boiler at home, a fine […]
Sound advice to today’s young people from P J O’Rourke, who tells us how a truthful politician would campaign: "No, I can’t fix public education. The problem isn’t the teachers unions or a lack of funding for salaries, vouchers or more computer equipment The problem is your kids!"
Ezra Levant attends a conference of grantrepreneurs, people who exist on and for public subsidies. Not a pretty sight. He asks a very pertinent question: Can an NGO really be an NGO — a non-governmental organization — if it is organized, or paid for, by the government? Friday’s conference wasn’t […]
Every now and then one sees something … Unusual. Such as, via Jay Nordlinger, the striking spectacle of former UK Cabinet Minister Clare Short seemingly relishing the day when her former boss PM Tony Blair will fall into the hands of ‘brave lawyers’ – and be put on trial by […]
