Dennis Thatcher, Hebie Mann, Budy Hackett

Respectful note is made of the passing of Sir Dennis Thatcher, husband of Lady Margaret Thatcher. His funeral was today in England.  Sir Dennis was 88.

And a nod of respect as well to Herbie Mann, who joined Heaven’s band

“Black politicians and civil rights organizations’ loyalty to the education establishment means academic doom to black youngsters. Washington, D.C,. politics and its schools, among the worse in the nation, are a case in point. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, along with

IF YOU PLAN not to read this summer, (Hillary Clinton’s Ghost written) “Living History” is just the book.

Gotta love anyone who comes up with that line. P.J. O’Rourke, in this case.

Larry Kudlow says Americans think the Economy is on the right track. Then, he goes ahead in today’s column and makes a strong case that their perception is correct.

One of the better bits I’ve seen this week, comes from Doctor Thomas Sowell. It’s required reading.

From the article:

Last week, the Million Mom March had a shindig on the front steps of West Palm Beach City Hall to commemorate national ASK Day, a day designed to remind parents to ask whether guns are in

Diana West has come up with an excellent article which asks some questions which are bound to be uncomfortable for Howard Dean… If he ever makes it to the final round, these questions ought to send him packing easily enough.

A while ago, on usenet, I made the statement that one of the objects behind our action in Iraq was Palastinian peace.

Conformation of this came up this morning:

BY JAMES TARANTO
Tuesday, July 1, 2003 3:27 p.m. EDT

In case you’ve not heard from our usual news suspects, there’s a revolution going on in Liberia.  Our president, George W. Bush has been asking Charles Taylor, the President there to step down. Thus far, the request has been refused.

Salon is in debt… bigtime. Here’s the figures

— By way of Drudge…

You’ll recall I promised to keep you up to date on the outrage at Oxford.
Here’s an update on that.

Isn’t it amazing how a New York Times writer, Diana Jean Schemo has to go outside the Times to get

Jeff Rosen in The New Republic this morning, makes an excellent case against the Lawrence case in Texas; one of the better ones I’ve seen. Interestingly, he makes the same comments as regards judicial activism as I did a few

An interesting article this mornng from the Telegraph.  Among other things, the writer, Janet Daley, points up the prevailing attitude at the BBC:

What is most disturbing about encounters with BBC current affairs people is not that one has disagreements

An interesting take from Mona Charen today.

There’s a number of people who think (As usual) that it’s all the Bush administration’s fault. Charen, though takes a different view, and, unlike the usual idiots in the Bush Bashing camp, what

The 9th Circus court has come up with a ruling I’m not convnced is a fully GOOD thing.
I have to think about this one a bit.