Unca Darrell

JULY 14 / Another "attaboy" for Mr. Anderson

NICK ANDERSON seems to be laughing more frequently these days at his fellow libs and their pieties.

JULY 13 / How is this not racist and sexist?

"A White Man's Voice as Judge"

JULY 13 / Dear Congressman Jeb Hensarling:

UNCA D recently got a letter dated "Thursday Morning" from Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), finance chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

"Dear Friend," it began:

JULY 11 / The Economist on Texas and California

I'LL COME back soon with a review of the contents, but the cover art for this week's Economist ("America's future: California v Texas") is too good to hold for later.

JULY 10 / So why are we deliberately corrupting the code?

I DON'T recommend the full article, but these lines are provocative:

Almost everything we know, everything we are, is absorbed from the culture around us. In [a] very strong sense, our minds are not our physical brains, but the cultural software running on them.

JULY 9 / Stratfor on the U.S.-Russia summit

THE IMPORTANT NEWS from the summit was as follows: first, no one screwed up, and second, U.S.-Russian relations did not get worse -- and might actually have improved.

JULY 9 / Remind you of Congress?

THE PRESENT House of Commons is probably the first in which every member is a professional politician whose parliamentary salary and allowance are his or her main source of income. The great majority of members have never been in any other trade or profession.

JULY 8 / This post is boring. Read it anyway.

IF YOU don't have an answer to the issues posed below, you have nothing useful to add to the central public policy debate of our time.

JULY 8 / Samuelson on health care, welfare

IT'S HARD to know whether President Obama's health-care "reform" is naive, hypocritical or simply dishonest. Probably all three.

JULY 7 / What is it about libs and fantasies of beating people up?

THE HOUSTON Chronicle's fantasy of violence first bubbled to the surface in February.