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Trick or Treat or Voucher?
Megan McArdle has been on a rare old tear recently, pushing the argument for school choice, here and here and here and here and here. It will not surprise some… Continue reading
1 CommentDancing for the Queen of the Fairies
Appropriately enough – this being Halloween don’t you know- Slate has this week been running a series of dispatches from my own native heath (Part 1 here, Part 2 here… Continue reading
1 CommentA Noun, a Verb, and 9/11
Best* line of the Democratic debate? It’s not even close. Joe Biden on Rudy Giuliani: "He only uses three words in a sentence: A noun, a verb, and 9/11." *By… Continue reading
0 CommentsMedia Disappointed by Hillary’s Clear Victory…
OK, so Hillary was all over the place on whether illegal immigrants should be allowed driving licenses and, sure enough, that’s what Chris Matthews and co focus on immediately. But… Continue reading
1 Comment“End the Horror”!
November 1st would have been election day had Gordon Brown not been spooked… Here’s a poster the Tories are placing in papers around the country today: The tag-line reads: Tomorrow… Continue reading
0 CommentsObama gets angry! Or, rather, no he doesn’t…
So the first question in tonight’s Democratic debate at Drexel University goes to Barack Obama who is asked – as he must have known he would be – to outline… Continue reading
0 CommentsQuestion of the Day
Is there a specific word – or neologism – for wanting to write a blog post (or several in fact – and wanting to write them quite badly) but finding… Continue reading
1 CommentIf You Read One Post About Waterboarding
American conservatives who seem to think that waterboarding is perfectly ok – and there are, shamefully, many such people including the two leading candidates for the Republican party’s presidential nomination… Continue reading
0 CommentsRon Paul: the Housewife’s Choice?
Isaac Chotiner issues a provocation: British coverage of the United States must be really bad if William Hill have been persuaded that Ron Paul is a 12/1 shot to become… Continue reading
0 CommentsValues: An Immensely Malleable Concept
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is visiting Britain this week. Fine. These are people we need to be able to do business with, however much one might wish it otherwise.… Continue reading
0 CommentsFred Thompson, Scourge of Moonshiners
So, Fred Thompson is just a conservative good-old-boy from Tennessee whose folksy charm is his biggest selling point. OK, well then you might expect that Fred would be a champion… Continue reading
2 CommentsLindsay Lohan and William Jennings Bryan?
Someone arrived at this blog thanks to a search for: Angelina Jolie George Wallace. Readers are invited to suggest other, even more improbable, Hollywood-Politics couples in the comments section.
2 CommentsDepartment of Local Interest
Lots of talk about taxis in Washington DC and, more particularly the Mayor’s announcement that DC will switch to a meter system, abandoning the current fare tariff which is based… Continue reading
0 CommentsBut at least the trains ran on time…
Megan on the horrors of travelling in the United States these days: You know, I never really understood why making the trains run on time was so important for Mussolini,… Continue reading
1 CommentMedia Training 1980s Style…
Jim Hacker, immortalised forever in the classic BBC comedies Yes, Minister and Yes Prime Minister prepares to deliver a Prime Ministerial televised address to the nation. But what, if anything,… Continue reading
0 CommentsWhy does John McCain hate America?
John McCain tells ABC’s This Week that – shockingly! – torture is " a very important issue to me" and consequently that he can’t guarantee that he will vote to… Continue reading
0 CommentsMidgets need not apply?
Via Arthur Goldhammer – curator of the excellent French Politics blog which has become an invaluable resource for keeping up to speed with Sarko et al – comes this splendid… Continue reading
0 CommentsObama: Tiocfaidh ar la
Well, who’d have thunk it? According to today’s New York Times: Obama Promises a Forceful Stand Against Clinton In classic NYT fashion here’s something a little Pooterish about the headline… Continue reading
0 CommentsFirst CAMRA takes Manhattan?
This New York Times piece by Eric Asimov has, for British readers, a certain charm. It’s rather like seeing the world through alien eyes. My what strange yet wondrous habits… Continue reading
0 CommentsForget 42nd St, Rush to See the 42nd Highland Regiment
As someone who has, er, fond teenage memories of being barked at by NCOs from the Black Watch during hours of drill on the parade-ground and rather fonder recollections of… Continue reading
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