Category Archives: General

It’s not that hidden. Ed Lazear explains it: The U.S. is not getting back many of the jobs that were lost during the recession. At the present slow pace of job growth, it will require more than a decade to … Continue reading →

That’s the news this morning. Tom Donilon, the current National Security Adviser, is resigning and Susan Rice is going to be named to replace him. It has never been clear to me that Susan Rice knows anything about national security.

“THE GREATEST myth in American politics today is the view, perpetrated by the Democratic Left and elements of the news media, that Barack Obama is a political moderate. In truth he represents an ideology that is barely within the American … Continue reading →

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, compared DNA to fingerprints and mug shots. That is not a serious comparison. DNA is everything that you are genetically. It reveals diseases your are predisposed to. It tells people things you may … Continue reading →

A few years ago the recurring idea of getting rid of the Village of New Palltz as a municipal government resulted in a $50,000 grant to study the issue. Fairweather Consulting, a local firm, was hired to conduct the study … Continue reading →

One does not follow Obama foreign policy. Its purpose is incoherent other than as a means to “increase the contradictions.” So Putin is helping out by making it obvious that the supposed cure in Syria is worse than the disease. … Continue reading →

Brent Bozell: The young man would return to Germany after the war, in 1945, and after visiting Hitler’s famous “Eagle’s Nest” mountain-top retreat, would write that, “Anyone who has visited these places can imagine how in a few years, Hitler … Continue reading →

It’s Rupert Sheldrake, raising hard questions about the dogma of science.

The Daily Freeman (Kingston, N.Y.) reports that the consolidation confusion is coming to a boil: NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Consolidation supporters will need to wait until the new Village Board is in place on Saturday before a request is submitted … Continue reading →

The Daily Freeman, out of Kingston, New York, reported several days back that Village of New Paltz mayor Jason West has been caught red-handed by Vici Danskin, doyenne of all that is decent in New Paltz: NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — … Continue reading →

Thomas Sowell on “Undoing the Brainwashing“: “This time of year, as college students return home for the summer, many parents may notice how many politically correct ideas they have acquired on campus. Some of those parents may wonder how they … Continue reading →

To say that Mark Steyn is brilliant is to state the obvious, but this column was extraordinary even by the standards that apply to him. He is, I think, one of our greatest writers, easily in the top five.

Richard Fernandez at Belmont Club quotes C.S. Lewis on men without chests: “And all the time — such is the tragi-comedy of our situation — we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly … Continue reading →

“Mr. Yang’s father would die within three days. Yet it would take years before Mr. Yang learned that what happened to his father was not an isolated incident. He was one of the 36 million Chinese who succumbed to famine … Continue reading →

It’s about six weeks past the Boston Marathon bombings, right? O.K., then, I give up, who ordered that Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s name be taken off a terrorist watch list? Not only has that question not been answered, there’s no one in … Continue reading →

America has a show culture, and in America, politics is the show of shows. But shows are always a virtual reality, a simulation of real things, that reduced to their essence are shadows of what is real. They are two … Continue reading →