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Archive for February, 2010

The Al Gore Comedy Hour

By Roger Kimball | February 28th, 2010

Admit it: you can’t think of Al Gore any more without tittering, can you? Even some Apple shareholders are disgusted with the former VP turned eco-nut moneybags. He’s become “a laughing stock,” declaimed one disgusted shareholder, and no wonder.
True, Al Gore has positively cleaned up by exploiting the business opportunities that have come his [...]

Capitulation, Danish style

By Roger Kimball | February 26th, 2010

The Danes have had a glorious record defending free speech for centuries, so it was no surprise that they closed ranks and got behind Jyllands-Posten, the distinguished Danish newspaper, when, in 2005,  it published 12 caricatures of the world’s best known pedophile after Roman Polanski.  Everybody knows what happened then: partisans of the religion of [...]

What Ronald Reagan has to say about today’s “bipartisan” circus on health care

By Roger Kimball | February 25th, 2010

Gentlemen, start your teleprompters.
The nation readies itself for the spectacle of Obama’s special exercise in showmanship and partisan bi-partisanship, offering Republicans and the American people once last chance to sign on to the Democratic plan to take health care out of the hands of us plebs and hand it over to a caring, sharing government.
Any [...]

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