Unca Darrell

MAY 7 / Quotation of the day

OUR CULTURED cousins, the Europeans -- role models for higher Dems -- hate math. So last weekend they . . .  

APRIL 13 / A White House, DNC mouthpiece says . . .

. . . Mrs. Romney never worked a day in her life. The next day, the Chronicle reports . . . 

JANUARY 18 / Is America in decline?

FOR MORE than two centuries, even before the formation of the United States, the answer has been no. To ask the question was a fool's errand. Despite recession and depression, despite wars and rumors of war, despite bad presidents and worse legislators and judges, despite it all, the longer trajectory was ever upward. Choose your own measure. Material prosperity. Life expectacy. International power. Better prospects for women and racial minorities. Up, up, up.

But is that still true?

JANUARY 6 / Are they talking about the same guy?

Comparing four newspaper ledes on the death of Kim Jong Il offers a useful primer on the shortcomings of the Houston Chronicle and New York Times and the relatively better work at the Washington Post (where, at least, the liberals are adults and editors still demand journalism) and the generally excellent Wall Street Journal. 

Absurdly gentle

Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader . . . 

JANUARY 3 / The Chronicle did not quite apologize to . . .

. . . China. But in an editorial about the merit of teaching Mandarin in a planned new HISD magnet school, the paper couldn't help itself: It had to say something gratuitously nasty about . . .

DECEMBER 9 / Stratfor on Afghanistan

SOME IN AFGHANISTAN have claimed that the United States has been defeated, but that is not the case. The United States may have failed to win the war, but it has not been defeated in the sense . . .

NOVEMBER 29 / A preview of next year's October surprise?

IF WE get to the scary point of Iran's going nuclear in 2012, expect the Obama administration -- up for reelection and without much of a domestic record to run on in these hard times -- to consider . . .

 

NOVEMBER 18 / So why doesn't he just quit yakking about it and . . .

. . . run for president of China? I'd be happy to pay . . .  

November 17 / President Obama was not born in Kenya

HE WAS born in Asia.

The logic of the syllogism is inarguable: 

NOVEMBER 3 / The Greek prime minister . . .

. . . was wrong to . . .