Saturday, August 04, 2012

Learn the Word, Bro

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The Atlanticist reminds your correspondent that CFO jobs don’t grow on trees. So morally repugnant Chic-Fil-A motorist and bullier of ...
Friday, August 03, 2012

The Leftist Way: Making the Useful Unwashed Believe Non-Existent Economics Facts

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My clients are diminished by me having a gov contract?! Now you’re making shit up @nopasa @richlowrie @LilMissRightie #p2 #tcot #left #right...

Le Débat sur France 24: Mitt Romney a-t'il commis des gaffes ou non ?

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While a heated debate on Mitt Romney's alleged gaffes was taking place on the English-language set of the France 24 news channel, a si...

Good-Bye, Friend: RIP John Keegan; Keegan's Perspective on the Iraq War

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John Keegan has died (cheers to Instapundit ), the military historian who is best known for The Face of Battle (I still treasure my colleg...
Thursday, August 02, 2012

Our Sophisticated European Betters

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They have such a healthy and open attitude toward life, especially where sex with sheep is involved. A farm hand is reported to have receiv...

Maybe He Knows Something We Don't: Kofi Annan to Step Down as Syria Mediator

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Unexpectedly, announces Le Monde , Kofi Annan will not renew his mandate as Syria mediator for the United Nations and the Arab League, and ...

Erik Svane Discusses Romney's Alleged Gaffes During Heated Debate on France 24's English-Language TV Channel

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During a heated 40-minute debate with Newsweek's Paris Bureau Chief and others on France 24's English-language channel ( part 1 and...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Stranger Than Paradise

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How weird, you ask? They invite you to customize your pan-galactic omnivorous transnational super-dooper–state (the EU). As if it actual...
Friday, July 27, 2012

So Long, and Thanks for all the Kleingebäck

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In the town of Breisbach on the Rhein river near the gateway to the Black Forest - in the most prosperous and Cutsie-poo part of Germany...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

“Trying to Make the World Safe for their Volvos”

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That just about sums ‘em up.

Venezuela Cartoonist Compelled to Hire Bodyguards, Risks 30 Months Behind Bars

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While the presidency of Hugo Chavez is denounced in a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) — " The accumulation of power in the execut...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

What’s Yours is Theirs’

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L’Express ’ personal fiance section runs down a list of things that will come under taxation assault in France. Painful and economically st...

“Reagan should have a monument in every city” says Walesa as another Gipper statue unveiled in Eastern Europe

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The Gdansk statue of Ronald Reagan is the second major statue to be unveiled in Poland — this one in the company of fellow Cold Warrior Joh...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Rome’s Pantheon Symbolizes a Remarkable Leap in Human Knowledge

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An article about the Pantheon in the Weekend WSJ provoked me to think about the example it represents to us in the broader context of human...

The Only Good Woman Is a Leftist Woman

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Ellen Barkin tells Jon Lovitz to "shut the fuck up", reports Twitchy (thanks to Instapundit ). In order to get to the bottom of...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

America the Beautiful Sung by Jon Kahn

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Jon Kahn sings America the Beautiful on Troopathon .
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Isn’t Soylent Green a Place Name Somewhere in the UK?

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In eastern Europe, there was a popular joke people told: “if the desert was made a socialist state, there would soon be a shortage of sand.”...
Friday, July 20, 2012

It’s Just Like Obama’s Vision of America

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Translation from original Klingon German: ... “Welfare is sexy” ... In the Brussels Journal , George Handlery decrypts the symbolism of gr...

A lust for power disguised as the phony virtue of “compassion”

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Here it is only mid-July and already the true thuggish face of the Obama Permanent Campaign is emerging for all to see writes Michael Walsh...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Citing Mister Cuddles

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They are fossils, these old-line Marxist-Leninist / Permanent Revolution type Trotskyite variants. They even fall for phony, concocted quo...