Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 5 / What better way to celebrate . . .

. . . the birth of Jesus than to buy someone a clean, safe drink of water? So let's give a few bucks today to Living Water International.  

You can donate here or by sending a check to Living Water  International, Post Office Box 35496, Houston, Texas  77235-5496.

Then hug your kids and do something that's fun.

DECEMBER 2 / On President Obama on the Berlin Wall

. . . President Obama delivered a speech via [read by] video link so milky bland, so smothered in boilerplate, that he might have been speaking almost anywhere, about anything. . . .

NOVEMBER 19 / Stratfor on war and justice

GEORGE FRIEDMAN teaches everything we need to know the "extraordinarily complex can of worms" Attorney General Holder has opened with his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court.  

NOVEMBER 19 / Will Hugo Chavez go to war?

THE CLASSIC endgame for totalitarians who have wrecked their own countries is to go to war with a neighbor, conveniently scapegoated for the ruin at home. Saddam Hussein did it in Kuwait. Will Hugo Chavez follow the same playbook?

NOVEMBER 18 / Ecumenical rhetoric

ROBERT D. KAPLAN, to whom attention must be paid, sides with the multiculti crowd on speaking softly about Major Hassan. But he does it for a strategic reason, not the hollow moralism.

NOVEMBER 13 / Clicking on the Wall

HERE IS A good collection of links about the fall of the Berlin Wall. I copied them from Arts & Letters Daily. Let's work through them together.

NOVEMBER 13 / Does BHO have faith in basic goodness of our system?

SO ASKS Michael Barone in "History is Calling -- Will Obama Answer?" Washington Examiner, November 11, 2009. The piece is most valuable for this idea:

NOVEMBER 9 / The fell wall

TODAY IS the twenthieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To my deep regret, real life impinges on my capacity to honor it in the way it deserves. Just know this:

NOVEMBER 6 / Baker deconstructs the Wall

[THE FALL of the Berlin Wall] could not have happened without Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, who disregarded their hawkish advisers . . .

OCTOBER 19 / The black-and-white world of East Germany

FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE James A. Baker, III, recently recalled his 1989 visit to East Germany.