“What is called poetic
insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely
mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to
assume a garb so sordid.” Hawthorne
Feature of the Day:
The audacious plan to end hunger w...
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist of The Doors,
passed away today of bile duct cancer. He was 74.
Manzarek and Jim Morrison were classmates at the UCLA film
school and would form The Doors shortly after graduation in 1965.
Guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer Jo...
I was out most of the day and did not learn of the devastation
of the mile wide tornado in Moore, Oklahoma until about an hour or
so ago.
At this point, the casualties are unknown. But a woman who spoke
with Bret Baier told him there were children being p...
The lesson coming out of South Carolina these days seems to be
that people don’t like being told what to do by outsiders. South
Carolinians know what they believe and outside outrage isn’t going
to change that.
We saw it when Mark “IR...
Hello Anré,
Congratulations on your college graduation. I enjoyed your
interview on CNN, but would offer one suggestion for your
consideration:
You said that you want to go to Washington to learn about
Progressive policies.
Why not open your mind to the...
Reporter Elizabeth Flock of U.S. News and World Report,
over
here in the Washington Whispers column, has discovered the
announced purpose of the meeting that drew NTEU president Colleen
Kelley to the meeting discussed in today’s special report.
Writes...
Check out my recent
interview with Dan Mandis of 850 KOA in Denver, Colorado about
all things drone: Legal issues, national security implications, and
the robotic aircrafts’ future here at home. The link can be found
below. And remember folks, shari...
If you read one (non-Spectator) article this morning,
make it
Jillian Kay Melchior’s latest piece over at NRO. Melchior
interviews a Texas woman named Catherine Engelbrecht, who, after
filing with the IRS for tax-exempt status for two Tea Party gro...
A 74,000-page tax code that no American citizen can possibly
know or understand is the basis for our federal system of taxation.
The current IRS scandal is not a bug in the system. Rather, this
kind of behavior is a feature, long prized by the Ruling
Elit...
