Archive for June, 2010

Vincent’s Sunflowers

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Lovely.

Traveling and Christianity

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Thoughts from Rick Steves: You could go to Africa and take in all the finest golf courses and come home having learned nothing. Or you could go to Africa and drink tea with local people, help them out in different ways and gain empathy for them. You’d come home changed. That’s being a traveler. Travelers [...]

Rain (1932)

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Contemporaneous New York Times review.

Thanks for the Heads Up Greece

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

The 100 Americans the Left Hates Most

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Here.

Centcom Starts a Blog!

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

With the requisite Facebook and Twitter pages.

AZ Warning Signs — Obama Plays Golf

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Barack Petroleum

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Your Saturday Steyn: If finding Obama “not engaged” is now a firing offense, who among us is safe? It only gets better. Meanwhile, Barack asks if there are good golf courses in Toronto while Governor Jindal is told he cannot use berms to cleanup the Barack Petroleum mess.

It Is Not Sustainable

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mullen gets it right: “I was shown the figures the other day by the comptroller of the Pentagon that said that the interest on our debt is $571 billion in 2012,” Mullen said at a breakfast hosted by The Hill. “That is, noticeably, about the size of the defense [...]

Yes Virginia, the Media Do Collude

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Duh. Weigel used JournoList for exactly the purpose its critics suspected it would be used, i.e., to attempt to shape media coverage for the benefit of the Left. And he did it more than once. . . . Weigel was explcitly urging his fellow J-Listers to engage in what Weigel’s buddies and fellow travelers like [...]