Archives: 2008 May

Earlier today I participated in a conference call with Senator Jon Kyl and Randy Scheunemann of the McCain campaign. The purpose of the call was to respond to the Obama campaign’s attacks on statements McCain made yesterday:
I can tell you that it [the Surge] is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and […]

My friend, fellow Dartmouth alum, and novelist-screenwriter Roger Simon has a post up called “Mirengoff in 08.” He’s referring, of course, to the Dartmouth election campaign which, mercifully, is drawing to a close.
Meanwhile another Dartmouth alum, Angus King the former governor of Maine, states the case for our Parity Slate […]

With the Democrats about to resolve the delegate dispute in Florida and Michigan, and with their primary season about to end, it’s quite possible that the Obama-Clinton clash of the titans will soon expire. When this happens, the party will begin to rally behind Obama, and his standing in the head-to-head polls with McCain […]

One of our readers makes the point that the Scott McClellan-Peter Osnos affair has the earmarks of communist thought control, as in Darkness at Noon. In this process, one offers the prisoner better food, to be sure, but most importantly helps him understand where his thinking was wrong, and then leads him to “right […]

…are beginning to seep into the mainstream media. Today, the Washington Post reports on its interview with CIA Director Michael Hayden, in which Hayden described the problems that have beset al Qaeda:
In a strikingly upbeat assessment, the CIA chief cited major gains against al-Qaeda’s allies in the Middle East and an increasingly successful campaign […]

An English professor at Dartmouth used to say, “I don’t really know what I think until I write it.” He was referring to the fact that thoughts crystallize when subjected to the rigors of the English language and its rules of usage and grammar. And he was paying homage to the magic of […]