“Climatic Zones” writes NASA’s James Hansen “have been shifting poleward for the past thirty years ... If this movement continues ... it will become the predominant cause of extinction of species, many already threatened.” Climatic zones are indeed moving steadily north. But what consequences can be expected from a rate of poleward climate shift that Hansen calls “unprecedented ?”  The answer … [Read More]

The conservative base’s anti-McCain revolt—emanating from Rush Limbaugh, Human Events, and the non-Ponnuru wing of NR—reached apotheosis, or self-parody, on Thursday as Ann Coulter threatened to vote for Hillary if McCain got the GOP nomination—even campaign for the woman. One should look upon this spectacle with a jaundiced eye. For as Mark Levin, Coulter, and & Co. exhort the troops to … [Read More]

A proud Spartiates, James Vourantonis, whose parents immigrated to the American Midwest in the 1940s, and who on this website praised another Greek, Taki, for defending in his endorsement of Ron Paul the ancient tradition of Greek liberty, reminded me of something that I recently told my students while teaching classical Greek grammar. (Pardon my periodic sentence!) I was trying … [Read More]

Efficiency has always run a distant second to fun among Catholics. During the Middle Ages, almost one-fourth of the days on the calendar could plausibly be taken as major feasts, encouraging the masses to stop working and start carousing. An Italian friend chalks up the greater wealth of places such as Sweden, compared to say, Sicily, to the sterner habits acquired … [Read More]

Poor little Jamie Kirchick: it can’t be easy being a known lickspittle and liar. This Norman Podhoretz-wannabe is stamping his foot and having a real hissy fit over The American Conservative‘s endorsement of Ron Paul for President. Don’t they know that “respectable libertarians like the writers at Reason magazine and the Cato Institute almost immediately disassociated themselves from the fringe presidential … [Read More]

Appropos my recent Antiwar.com column on John McCain’s foreign policy views, and especially this piece in the current issue of The American Conservative, check out this Bizarro McCain:  [Read More]

Yes, there is dissent over at National Review, a few burning embers of the original faith are still smoldering, notably the sparks given off by John Derbyshire, and, also, another Brit, Andrew Stuttaford—here‘s the latter on the heresy of Zalmay Khalizad, US ambassador to the United Nations, who dared intervene during a discussion involving some Iranian government officials at a recent … [Read More]

Paleocon and Ron Paul supporter John Derbyshire on the likely outcome of the November election: “Conservatives — to the catacombs!”  [Read More]

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Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), on the prospect of John McCain occupying the White House: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.” Yeah, my thought, exactly. [Read More]