March 14, 2011
Japan Syndrome
According to news reports, the latest earthquake pushed Japan thirteen feet closer to the United States. On an Earth that charts movement in millimeters, not yards, that is an amazing feat. Still, America is going on with its life strangely...
March 12, 2011
Tsunami
I neglected to turn on the television this morning, and I read the paper oblivious to what was occurring on the other side of the earth. David Brooks wrote a column in the Times today about America’s addiction to its...
March 11, 2011
Democrats Launch Own Inquiry Into Extremists
(Washington DC) House Democrats, concerned that their performance in the King Hearings may expose them to charges of being needlessly and dangerously politically correct, have decided to launch their own probe into the dangers of extremism that confront the American...
March 10, 2011
Buried in the News
The Space Shuttle Discovery completed its final mission yesterday and David Broder went to his final resting place. Somewhere in the future, some enterprising historian is going to write a book about the connection. Broder came to Washington in the...
March 9, 2011
Where’s Waldo?
Joe Manchin, the new Senator from West Virginia, put it pretty well. President Obama has “failed to lead”. I might have put it differently. Obama has failed to even show up. Woody Allen once said that 9/10ths of any job...