David Halberstam, in what may have been his last article before his death, pretty much proves that Bush is channeling Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits rather than David McCullough when he claims he’s like Harry Truman. … it was Truman’s decision to meet MacArthur’s challenge, even though he surely knew he would be the short-term …
Anyone Who Had A Heart — Linda Ronstadt; composer: Burt Bacharach & Hal David; album: Winter Light Why Don’t You Write Me — Simon & Garfunkel; composer: Paul Simon; album: Bridge Over Troubled Water When Will I Be Loved — Linda Ronstadt; composer: Phil Everly; album: Heart Like A Wheel Expecting To Fly — Buffalo …
I crawled out to the kitchen this morning, turned on the coffeemaker, and heard unusual music coming from the family room. I poked my head around the corner, and there was Mom watching Live Earth. It’s all over my cable system, from HD Universal to Bravo to various NBC outposts like MSNBC and CNBC. I …
Michael Bérubé used to write a wonderful blog, and he still pens the odd piece at Crooked Timber. His latest entry points (almost incidentally) to an essay (.pdf) he wrote for Common Review, titled “Harry Potter and the Power of Narrative.” In it he describes his son’s introduction to and affection for J.K. Rowling’s books. …
If you missed Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment Tuesday, here’s a link to the transcript as well as the video. It’s an impassioned call for Bush and Cheney to do what Richard Nixon ultimately realized he had to do: resign. Regrettably, the modern Republican party has no principled Senators like Barry Goldwater, who had the courage …
A government that spies upon its citizens, evades the courts and feels no compulsion to explain itself beyond vague warnings of security threats must be brought into check. The damage caused by terrorists on 9/11 begins to pale against the havoc wreaked upon America by America itself. Jeepers! Where did such a seditious opinion appear? …
I noticed the title of David Brooks’s column praising the Libby commutation is “Ending the Farce.” (See a wonderful take-down of all its factual errors here.) It would be instructive to search the archives of the Weekly Standard and any other place his columns were published during the Clinton presidency to see if he’d expressed …
From the Declaration of Independence, written July 2, 1776, published July 4, 1776: ?That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ?That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to …
Unlike many of us who weep for the rule of law, I suspect Scooter and his supporters are walking around singing this song today.
I’ve seen this sentiment several other places, and it both amuses and depresses me. Paris Hilton did more time than Scooter Libby.