Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, RIP; Age 89

Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. This article by Joel Kotkin presents the data showing the urban cores going more and more for the democrats since 1960. He points out the

From the GateWay Pundit:

New information reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist group by the US government. Speaker Pelosi was

Yeah, I know… Who?

I’ll bet Billy Beck knows the name, though. From the New York Times

Ruth Greenglass, whose damning testimony in the Rosenberg atomic-bomb spy case of the early 1950s helped lead to the execution of her sister-in-law

Americans are feed-up with paying over four dollars a gallon for gasoline.   Most members of Congress, republicans and a lot of democrats, agree and want to open-up domestic oil production.  Mrs. Pelosi does not.   Mrs. Pelosi would like to take

I’ve been watching the deterioration of Matt Yglesias for several months now. What is bols down to is the level of excuses Yglesias, or any liberal, for that matter, is willing to make to keep himself blissfully ignorant of the

From the Daily Mail:

George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with

Something from Political Punch catches my eye this morning:

In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger’s sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama’s now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side

I guess I shoudl have figured on this. Much is explained. It’s just that Stop the ACLU got to it first:

I neglected to mention the traitor McClellan’s Bush bashing book cuz I had nothing to say that so many

Paul Krugman (Idiot, first order) travels to Berlin and notes that there are some differences between Berlin and Atlanta:

To see what I’m talking about, consider where I am at the moment: in a pleasant, middle-class neighborhood consisting mainly

Noted a resturant review over the weekend in the New York Times… and wouldn’t have said much at all, except that it got so bad with it’s left-leaning, that even left leaner, Ezra Klein can’t stand it anymore.  Yes,

Politico’s Mike Allen:

The nation’s top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers.

The detente with Fox has provoked a backlash from

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.

 

Carter angered the

OK, I finally hit the end of my fuse with this stuff, when yesterday, a group of leftists decided to put a sign up on the Golden Gate bridge:

“One world, one dream; Free Tibet.”

Look, I sympathize with the

The Business in Venezuela is getting worse. Chavez has closed the Columbian border. AFP is reporting:

A crisis between three Latin American nations worsened Tuesday when Venezuela said it was closing its border with Colombia, even as frantic diplomatic talks