… just for the page title that comes up in your browser.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/obama-bowing-to-the-world/
Just for the record, where I come from, bowing can be a sign of respect just as much as a sign of obsequious bootlicking. Bowing to women, for instance, is no humiliation to the bower. And humility is a virtue which adorns any office, [...]
Sullivan linked to a video featuring a former U.S. Speaker of the House - who admittedly never got any reputation for integrity - call Obama “the most radical president in American history.” In the cafe where I’m writing in small-town America, there’s a little memento I often look at. It’s a “Gasoline Ration Card,” issued [...]
Is there any way Mr. Obama can hire this guy in some capacity? How about press secretary? So sensible, such auctoritas. He should just keep on talking.
A friend of mine with “national security connections” said that the whole national security apparatus was refusing to serve Obama and was refusing to provide intelligence: the CIA, military, [...]
Being in New York is interesting, to hear people assail Obama from both right and left - he’s emasculating this country and bowing down to the Emperor, or is a shill for the military-industrial complex and is “Bush III.” His decision to send more troops into Afghanistan is pleasing no one - it’s not a [...]
A friend alerted me to the following Sullivan post, which I highly recommend reading in full:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/not-racism-projection.html#more
One of the lessons of the spiritual life which can be put in brief form, is this: If you think of evil as something that someone else is or does, you don’t understand it and you don’t understand yourself. There [...]
A superb speech. This man is still head and shoulders above the other politicians around him. I felt that what had to be said were stories along these lines:
One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn’t reported gallstones that he didn’t even know about. [...]
I’ve read a few bloggers who complain that Obama’s relative silence is “cowardly” or that there is too much emphasis on “realpolitik” and he’s just waiting to see who triumphs and then he’ll embrace him. Nonsense. This man knows that he is not the story here. And what’s more, he doesn’t need to say anything [...]
I come down from my cabin to internet life here in the valley to find some real world news since last I checked, coming from Iran. A stolen election - I see no need to discuss this overmuch, it’s clearly something the Iranian government would willingly do, and there’s evidence enough already - and hundreds [...]
I sat myself down in Claryville on a cloudy, cold summer afternoon and watched the Obama Cairo speech beginning to end, and then read some of the internet reactions.
My short reaction is that Obama is a poster child for the importance of personal spiritual development. For the most part, the existence of these spiritually mature [...]
The Israeli Raid on the Flotilla.
06-Jun-10The aid flotilla to Gaza that Israel intercepted is one of the most promising things I have seen out of the Middle East in my memory. It indicates an entirely new way of fighting the battle, a way that has some chance of success. Israel’s policies are dependent on the idea that Israelis are morally [...]