(Updated from 2010, when Obama-the-idea was still new.) The Hook The GOP establishment has always kept one foot in the water bucket during a thunderstorm; never fixing that hole in the roof, because, when it’s raining, it too wet to…
Self-Radicalize; When You Don’t Have Anything Better to Do
(Photo: Ahmed Khan Rahami, 29, convicted in October 2017 of the September 2016 New York City and New Jersey bombings, injuring 30). In 1992 I took an overnight train from Moscow to Ukraine, with an escort who knew the ropes…
Roy Moore and the Soft Bigotry of Elitism
(I’ll get to Roy Moore shortly.) The Mason-Dixon Line of Elitism Who knew that Queens was just a half mile east of Dayton, Tennessee? Christopher Hitchens (RIP) once said that the English wear their class on the tips of their tongues. That…