Unca Darrell

NOVEMBER 9 / Rememberin' Miss Molly

THE CURRENT ISSUE of Texas Monthly -- the one with the Aggie bonfire on the cover -- tells the story of Molly Ivins's tenure as an intern at the Chronicle in the late 1960s.

NOVEMBER 6 / Major Nidal Malik Hasan is . . .

. . . a barbarian. The thing he attacked is . . .

NOVEMBER 4 / Civilisation

IN "CIVILISATION," [Kenneth Clark] warned that Western culture rested on a thin crust of ice: . . .

NOVEMBER 3 / Why Anita Dunn matters

[LAST] NOVEMBER, the American people thought they were electing a "post-partisan," "post-racial" Presidnet who would work to restore unity and self-confidence to the county. They woke up on November 5, however . . .

NOVEMBER 2 / Righteous takedown of Pelosi bill (link fixed)

[IT] IS NO stretch to say that Mrs. Pelosi's handiwork ranks with the Smoot-Hawley tariff and FDR's National Industrial Recovery Act as among the worst bills Congress has ever seriously contemplated.

NOVEMBER 2 / Civic education

INCULCATING young Americans with the new democratic civic religion, the Founders believed . . .

OCTOBER 27 / The weak dollar

PRESIDENT OBAMA is not solely responsible for the weak American dollar, but he's responsibile for continuing the weak-dollar policy of the Bush administration.

OCTOBER 23 / The life-expectancy problem

FORBES labels this a specious argument. Is it?

OCTOBER 22 / The pension tsunami

WE FORGET sometimes that the coming fiscal disasters in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicare are not our only problems. Also problematic, both for the intended recipients and for mere taxpayers . . .

OCTOBER 18 / Basic Training: The Protestant Work Ethic

SNIPS FROM a brilliant essay: Steven Malanga, "Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic?" City Journal, Summer 2009 (emphasis added, reparagraphed):

The genius of America in the early nineteenth century, Tocqueville thought . . .