Glenn Reynolds points to Reason TV and “Why you’re living in the libertarian moment. ….” I’ve suggested otherwise more than once, unless by “moment” we mean a passing pulse of time — then, perhaps, that’s about right. But libertarianism is neither the de...

Instapundit: TRANSPARENCY: An “Off-the-Record speechâ€� at the National Press Club? It’s a tribute to Dr. Strangelove: “You can’t do reporting here! This is the press club!â€� Well, I followed the link and I was pretty confused.  Isn’t the National Press Club’s most famous event...

Or something like that.  I took a couple of days to visit with my parents in their southern Florida home.  It was worth coming down here just to be the second-youngest person for miles around; I would be the youngest but my kid brother came along, too (it was his idea actually).  My parents are j...

It’s pathetic all ’round to see a fellow like Roland Burris, who by indications appears to be a gentleman at the very least (or perhaps at most), reduced to this: Democrats and Obama have said that the corruption charges against Blagojevich would strip credibility from anyone he appoints...

Hitch on Hillary: In matters of foreign policy, it has been proved time and again, the Clintons are devoted to no interest other than their own. A president absolutely has to know of his chief foreign-policy executive that he or she has no other agenda than the one he has set. Who can say with a str...

Pace Emmett Tyrell, now is the conservative crackup. Melissa Clouthier is right: You really have to take a few minutes to watch this, the whole thing, to get a sense of where we aren’t going, and how we aren’t getting there. I don’t know what to make of it.  First of all it’...

Rocky Blogfriend is online. Ron I am really having a crisis of faith Rocky in? Ron Us I can’t believe some of the crap that’s going up on RW blogs Rocky Lol You ain’t seen nothing yet my friend Ron I never considered Plonis DePloni a major intellectual but she is getting absolutely...

This somewhat stinging look at soldiering was first published on April 27, 2007. I added a new first sentence. — RDC “Generals and majors, uh huh,” goes the old lefty XTC song… And in between them are colonels — in this case, Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, who has written a sc...

The New York Law Journal: Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward H. Lehner today gave the Legislature and Governor David A. Paterson 90 days to adjust the pay of the state’s 1,300 judges to reflect the rise in the cost of living since their last raise nearly 10 years ago. Justice Lehner found that...

Chris Matthews’s Leg: I’m confident America is ready for a leader who doesn’t know what the crap he’s talking about, but says it in a truly beautiful and uplifting way. After all, we had the exact opposite for the last seven years. I’ve got that thrilling sense that we&...