JFK and the Unspeakable: Review Essay

Reblogged from Conversations with Dio: I lived in Nanjing, China when Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK, came out. We were cut off from a lot of news over in China. You felt like you were on the other side of the world because you were. So something had to make a big stir in the U. [...]

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The View from Abroad

The GOP is Imploding                                                                                 February 17, 2012 The 2012 Republican presidential race has been, so far, one of the most intriguing contests in recent memory.  It has consisted of multiple frontrunners, a sex scandal, one state and potentially a second state changing who it declared the winner of its caucus weeks after voting, the resignation [...]

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The Flag Pin

Do you remember President Obama wearing his flag pin so prominently during the middle of his term? I don’t. Now it features prominently in the photographs of him that appear in the media. Now the campaign season has begun, you see the red, white and blue blazing on his lapel. He started wearing the pin [...]

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The View from Abroad

Romney is Focusing on the Wrong Mechanism Coming off derogatory remarks he recently made about the underclass in America, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney apparently felt the need to throw them a bone.  Last week, he reaffirmed his support for linking regular increases in the minimum wage to the rate of inflation.  Given that Romney [...]

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“Halo Outfits Deserve to Be Attacked”

J. R. Dunn published an article today at American Thinker called Tarnished Halos. It’s about Planned Parenthood and other organizations whose reputation for good doing exceeds the actual amount of good they do. He calls these groups halo organizations. Halo organizations conceal unpleasantness beneath their lustrous public appearance. Planned Parenthood runs abortion clinics. Abortion is [...]

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The View from Abroad

Romney Does Dislike the Working Poor Many on the Republican right do not trust Mitt Romney.  That’s a foregone conclusion.  Recently he made a policy statement which will only increase that mistrust.  Last week Romney announced that his position on the federal minimum wage has not changed.  When he ran for governor of Massachusetts in [...]

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