Month: July 2008

They’re eager to talk, it seems. But they may need to ask Sarkozy to be the mediator, as long as Bush is president.

Ross parses Phil Gramm.

The Economist’s Lexington columnist likes the centrist theme. He wants more.

… when Rove tries to take credit. Actually he does deserve credit. If Rove hadn’t driven the GOP into a durable minority, Obama would never have emerged.

A DC cyclist killed by a garbage truck has sparked the perennial car vs. bike debate. I agree with J.P. Friere. Car-drivers in DC simply treat cyclists as if they have no right to be on the road. I was run down by a car as I was slowly riding my bike across a pedestrian crossing on Florida Avenue once. Tyler Cowen argues in favor of cars. Megan takes the side of bicyclists. I’ve written about biking in DC before.

Medical animation never looked so beautiful.

Watching Mickey marinate in his anti-anti-GOP schtick has not been pretty these past few years. But I never thought his hostility to the Democrats would lead him into the arms of Jesse Jackson’s worldview. A small prediction: Mickey’s hostility to an Obama presidency will make my horror at Bush seem milque-toast.

A graphic summary of emerging trends.

"Would the Communist tyrannies of the 20th Century have been possible if The Communist Manifesto had never been written? Would Hitler ever have come to power if he had never written Mein Kampf? Would we have AIDS if Alfred Kinsey hadn’t "mainstreamed" homosexuality in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male?" – Thomas S. Winter, Editor in Chief, Human Events, in a direct mail letter.