The Obama administration’s ruthlessness in driving through its healthcare so-called reforms has to be admired in its sheer boldness. Now what? Mark Steyn: You can say, oh, well, the polls show most people opposed to it, but, if that mattered, the Dems wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing. Their bet […]
Over at the latest Crawford Diplomatic Despatch: It all boils down to a profound infantilisation of public life. Government has turned into feckless dim-witted parents who treat their children like spoiled brats. The children themselves duly morph into something neurotic, angry and sly. To win the public’s loathsome brattish affections […]
A lively effort is being mounted to raise money to secure the release of one Nick Hogan, who has been imprisoned here in the UK for not paying a £3000 fine and a further £7000 in costs for failing to stop people smoking in his pub. Try Old Holborn, who […]
There are different sorts of bloggers. Apart from all those who write honestly and well about Cats or Cars or Cooking or somesuch, there are those of us who attempt to tackle wider themes. And we fall into two general categories: 1 Those who press their points home by unrelenting […]
Families are tricky. They stretch to outer limits our private sense of responsibility. You are Diligent. You work hard and honestly, you treat everyone fairly, you are generous towards friends and family, but you dislike being exploited or ‘expected’ to help others who don’t do all they can to help themselves. […]
Another look at Ayn Rand, this time dwelling (reasonably) on her Russian roots and their literary impact on her books. That said, I think Anthony Daniels misinterprets a number of the examples he quotes from her novels to make his point, namely that Rand was clever and perceptive but above […]
Noting this in passing I was struck by the title of the video link: Nick Gillespie pwns Blond Health Nazi What on earth is pwns? This. Which takes one to the anarchic future of the English language, and maybe of others too. From English Lit to English Leet. The tragedy […]
A most satisfactory and philosophically interesting week in the United States. The startling Scott Brown victory in the Massachusetts election for the ex-Kennedy seat in the US Senate has prompted an avalanche of analysis. Obviously it was an unqualified calamity for the Democrats. But what conclusions do Democrats and Republicans alike […]
Another Browser link, this time to a fascinating interview with Stephen Lucas, a heavyweight expert on Soviet Law. This is well worth reading since it casts some light on an area largely neglected in Western analysis of Communism, namely the way the Soviet regime tried to give legal effect to […]
Anna Raccoon has stopped blogging for a while but her site continues under guest supervision and is keeping up Anna’s brisk pace. But if you are interested in the dark underbelly of blogging – and who is not? – check out this posting over at Constantly Furious and the ensuing brawling […]
