THE MAGAZINE A Brief, Brilliant Career Why we can’t forget Sandy Koufax. A MAN FOR ALL TOO FEW SEASONS For five memorable seasons, Sandy Koufax dominated baseball as no other major league pitcher ever had before. From 1962 to 1966, Koufax led the National League in earned run average, the only pitcher ever to do […]
‘Soft’ Nation There’s nothing soft about a dead-parrot economy, a flatline jobs market, and regulatory sclerosis. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/278894 ‘The way I think about it,” Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, “is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft.” He has a point. This is a great, great […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/278843 Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen killed by President Bush. It was during the latter’s administration that, according to National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson, we conservatives began falling […]
Moderation, Saudi-Style Women will always be serfs under sharia. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/278882 A woman is sentenced to be whipped ten lashes for . . . drumroll . . . driving a car. That might have made for a fairly typical week in Saudi Arabia. After all, the kingdom’s 20 million subjects and 5 million immigrant laborers are under constant surveillance by the mutaween, the Commission […]
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/936b7166-ea3e-11e0-b997-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1ZXLR18HP “● Veto Palestinian statehood at the UN regardless of what the rest of Europe and Nato do, until such time as Hamas renounces its determination to destroy the state of Israel, which is the vanguard of the west’s struggle against radical Islam.”Award-winning historian and commentator on modern politics ● David Cameron should require every […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/484/president_barroso_europe_s_clunking_fist “Clunk”: The sound rang out across Europe yesterday morning. “Clunk”: the sound Britons had heard many times before under our esteemed former Prime Minister’s fist. “Clunk”: the sound that will reside with everyone that witnessed Jose Manuel Barroso’s State of the European Union address. President Barroso’s fist flew furiously for half an hour, as […]
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4105/full Almost overnight, euroenthusiasts have folded their tents and abandoned the field. Television editors, unable to find any elected representatives prepared to argue for closer integration, keep having to make do with a former Labour MEP called Richard Corbett, who now works for European Council President Herman Van Rompuy. Barely a week passes without another […]
Worried about what’s happening to medical care? Part one in a series. Posted By Roger Kimball URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/10/01/worried-about-whats-happening-to-medical-care-part-one-in-a-series/ I am out in the Chicago suburbs with some of my New Criterion colleagues to talk about our thirtieth anniversary season [1] and the desirability of assuring that the magazine has the wherewithal to make […]
http://www.ilanberman.com/10432/return-of-the-czar It’s all over but the counting. Russia’s presidential election may still be some six months away, but the outcome of that contest is already crystal clear: a return of Vladimir Putin to the country’s top post. On September 24th, Mr. Putin, who currently serves as Russia’s prime minister, ended months of fevered speculation about […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/iran-pastor-facing-execution-as-apostate-from-islam-now-branded-zionist-and-traitor.html HILLARY CLINTON WAS TOO BUSY CALLING HOMES IN ISRAEL’S CAPITAL “SETTLEMENTS: TO ISSUE MORE THAN A MILD WATERED DOWN REBUKE FOR THIS OUTRAGE…..RSK Pressure and bad publicity are mounting for Iran as Yusef Nadarkhani faces execution at any time for refusing four times to recant his conversion to Christianity and return to Islam. And […]
