For a while after the bombings in Britain, it looked like the dangerous multiculturalist mindset British elites have advocated for decades would be pushed aside for a strong sense of British nationalism.  But if this is any indication, Britain’s famed stiff upper lip is now all a-quiver, beaded with sweat at the prospect of offending its tormentors, who have gathered in its cities like tumors. Where have you gone, Maggie

Reviewing previous responses by the feds to natural disasters, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Jack Kelly argues that FEMA’s response actually improved for Hurricane Katrina—which devastated an area larger than Kansas or Utah or Idaho or Minnesota (and as large as Great Britain): It is settled wisdom among journalists that the federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was unconscionably slow. “Mr. Bush’s performance last week will rank as one

For a little over a week now, I’ve been stressing the need for honest analysis of the emergency management breakdown we witnessed in NOLA, arguing time and again that should we truly wish to address the systemic coordination problems between local, state, and federal governments with respect to emergency response, we need to be able to locate those problems, identify them by name, and correct them. …All of which seems

Ace and Karol are both hosting threads dedicated to listing the most overrated movies of all time.  Unfortunately, their readers have drifted into self-parody, including in the mix such unassailable titles as Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, and Caddyshack. Now, long-time readers of this site know how much I dig ‘70s cinema; so when Ace listed among his choices for most overrated The Exorcist, Dirty Harry, Network, and others…well, I was