Frequent protein wisdom comments contributor and fellow Coloradan “Walter in Denver” has succumb to the siren song of self-adulation and started his own blog, which “promises to be heavy handed, poorly thought out, and dull. Link at your own risk.” Will do, Walt. But only because I’m a sucker for confidence and arrogance, you understand…

John Podhoretz, writing in The New York Post, thinks “the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Republican Party the keys to a political bulldozer and invited the GOP to flatten American liberalism”: Why am I so sure this is a political, ideological and financial windfall for Republicans? Take a journey with me down memory lane back to 1988, when Michael Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts and Democratic presidential candidate, found

In his most recent “Impromptus,” Jay Nordlinger fairly concisely echoes my own sentiments re: Martina Navratilova’s critique of the United States (which first appeared in the German press). Writes Nordlinger: Et tu, Martina? The Czech-born tennis champion Martina Navratilova made her fame and her fortune in the United States, land of the free, home of the brave. Now she has blasted us in — of all places (I would say)

The American Prospect’s Adam Kushner thinks Dubya’s speech on the future of the Mideast was a poor excuse for a “peace plan”: Bush should have called for a real state, not a provisional one, and established a timetable contingent on reforms in the Palestinian Authority. This couldn’t be more wrongheaded. As several commentators have argued convincingly, Bush’s speech wasn’t intended to outline a “peace plan” at all, and so shouldn’t

The American Prospect’s Adam Kushner thinks Dubya’s speech on the future of the Mideast was a poor excuse for a “peace plan”: Bush should have called for a real state, not a provisional one, and established a timetable contingent on reforms in the Palestinian Authority. This couldn’t be more wrongheaded. As several commentators have argued convincingly, Bush’s speech wasn’t intended to outline a “peace plan” at all, and so shouldn’t

A Federal appeals court in San Francisco has just ruled that the “Pledge of Allegiance” is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion, and therefore cannot be recited in schools. The Pledge. Of Allegiance. To the United States of America. Unconstitutional. So whaddya say? Time to take the rabid PC puppy out to the woodshed and put it down like Old Yeller? Good, me too. I’ll get the rifle — before we

A Federal appeals court in San Francisco has just ruled that the “Pledge of Allegiance” is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion, and therefore cannot be recited in schools. The Pledge. Of Allegiance. To the United States of America. Unconstitutional. So whaddya say? Time to take the rabid PC puppy out to the woodshed and put it down like Old Yeller? Good, me too. I’ll get the rifle — before we

Yeah. And now that you mention it, I don’t remember a whole lot of Hebrews ridin’ around in Lawrence of Arabia, either. No desert pit stops to “have a shvitz? And maybe a cup of cawfee? Is that too much to ask?” At least none that I can remember. And so a pattern emerges: Arabs didn’t like the Jews then, and they don’t much like the Jews now. Coincidence? Or

Is the end nigh? Have we really gone and done it this time — destroyed the planet, raped the great orb, despoiled the spinning Mother of all Mothers? Don’t ask me. But here’s Ronald Bailey (writing in Reason), and he doesn’t seem to think so. Nor do “Great Restoration” proponents like Jesse Ausubel: In an article published this week by the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,

Is the end nigh? Have we really gone and done it this time — destroyed the planet, raped the great orb, despoiled the spinning Mother of all Mothers? Don’t ask me. But here’s Ronald Bailey (writing in Reason), and he doesn’t seem to think so. Nor do “Great Restoration” proponents like Jesse Ausubel: In an article published this week by the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,