Unca Darrell

JUNE 30 / Samuelson on Pax Americana

BY OBJECTIVE measures, Pax Americana's legacy is enormous. Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no nuclear device has been used in anger. In World War II an estimated 60 million people died. Only four subsequent conflicts . . .

JUNE 29 / We're No. 8! We're No. 8!

THE UNITED STATES slipped two places, to eighth from sixth, in the country rankings of the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom. 

JUNE 28 / Volleying with the diversity racket

FROM John Derbyshire, "E pluribus plurimum," New Criterion, March 2003, reviewing Peter Wood, Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (Encounter Books):

Where did it come from, this ideology of diversity? Peter Wood notes the oddity of the fact that such a powerful idea, energetically propagated across the whole of society for a quarter of a century, has no founding text to refer to, was inspired by no charismatic teacher, was carried forward with no mighty struggles or cruel reverses, has roots in no significant philosophy. "It arrived unparented," says Wood, "as a kind of collective emanation of ponderous academic silliness." We just woke up one morning and there it was, demanding that we "celebrate." . . .

JUNE 27 / A fool for Christ

[MANUTE BOL,] a Christian Sudanese immigrant, believed his life was a gift from God to be used . . .

JUNE 26 / In memory of . . .

. . . DAVID EDGAR Hancock (March 26, 1970 - June 25, 2000), our son, Diana and I will make a financial contribution to . . .

JUNE 25 / The Houston Chronicle feels the oil industry's pain

IT REALLY does. Just not enough to . . .

JUNE 24 / Helen Thomas . . .

. . . disappeared into well-deserved ignominy this month after her crack about how Jews ought to "get the hell out of Palestine" and go "home" to Poland, Germany, and the United States. But let's not forget that when she resigned, it was from none other than . . .

JUNE 23 / Must-read article on that man/woman thing

THE TITLE is unnecessarily provocative and the tone is at times flippant, but . . .

JUNE 22 / General McChrystal was wrong . . .

. . . to publically criticize his civilian leaders. Accord: Victor Davis Hanson, "Military Dissent Should Be Private," nationalreviewonline.com, June 22, 2010. 

 If an officer cannot figure out Rolling Stone, how can he . . . 

JUNE 22 / Old habits hard to break

THE CHRONICLE once had a quota, apparently, of at least one editorial a week comparing Texas unfavorably to enlightened states, usually California or New York. Not such much anymore. Both California and New York are tiptoeing . . .