Month: February 2009

"You who are so wise must know that different nations have different conceptions of things. You will not therefore take it amiss if our ideas of the white man's …

A very informative interview in The Atlantic has been making the rounds in the bologosphere. Robert Barro, a Harvard economist and former champion of Keynesian economics, has bluntly declared...

Today's winners are the New York Newsday newspaper and its reporter, James T Madore. In an article about new NY Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, Madore wrote- Only two of Gillibrand's …

The title has nothing to do with anything except as an excuse to post this classic from David Bowie when he was at his thin white duke-iest. Then again …

There's heartbreaking news out of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. If by heartbreaking you mean "predictable attempt at garnering sympathy straight out of the al Qaeda training manual." In …

The headline from BBC News reports US seeks to rework foreign ties in a story on Joe Biden's remarks at the Munich Conference on Security Policy. Continuing a theme …

Will Ferrell has a Broadway production about President Bush that's nothing short offensive. It's so bad I really believe he'd portray Hitler in a better light. "We were joking …

Well that didn't take long. For years we heard laments about the former Bush administration's "politics of fear". The term was usually bandied about disparagingly when discussing specific measures …

Will Obama do it in order to prove he's discarding the ways of the past? From the AP: Iran sternly dismissed decades of U.S. policies targeting Tehran and declared …

This is just disturbing: From the Boston Globe (emphasis mine): TAMPA - The Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Florida doctor accused of medical malpractice in …