Kate Pitrone

From the Wall Street Journal, ” The Postmodern President “, wherein our president’s postmodernism is defined thus, “he’s running the first postmodern Presidential campaign, now organized almost exclusively around allegations about his opponent that bear no relation to . . . . Continue Reading »

Paul Rahe :  I don’t know that he’s right, but I’d like to believe him. . . . . Continue Reading »

The WSJ heads an editorial this morning with “Why Not Paul Ryan?Romney can win a big election over big issues. He’ll lose a small one.” Too risky, goes the Beltway chorus. His selection would make Medicare and the House budget the issue, not the economy. The 42-year-old is too . . . . Continue Reading »

Is that fair? Conservatives in academia will not find this surprising, I think.  According to Scott Jasick, in  “Admitting to Bias” in this morning’s Inside Higher Education , there is a very distinct bias in all aspects of academia, including, naturally, hiring. Just . . . . Continue Reading »

This morning brought polling about the possibility of Gen. David Petraeus as VP.  Now I see a story on Drudge Report that tells us the president is predicting the pick.  I’m a fan, but hate to see what the press would do the man and his family for pity’s sake. . . . . Continue Reading »

How do I know?  Facebook told me.  This is my opportunity to pay a little tribute to my fellow blogger.  Below, Pete writes a post that he begins with “I don’t have the mental energy . . . ” and then he proceeds to prove that even when he doesn’t have his . . . . Continue Reading »

This afternoon, I was reading the BBC News when I first saw the story of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin shooting.  I went to Wikipedia to read about Oak Creek , what kind of place it is, and a line about the shooting was already there.  Other than that, the next big story about the city is . . . . Continue Reading »

In a post below, I used  quote from Coolidge about “the chief business of the American people is business” and the context of the quote was the intimate relationship between the press and American business, since the press is American business.  This sparked a good comment . . . . Continue Reading »

Coolidge didn’t actually say that first part.  What he said was this, There does not seem to be cause for alarm in the dual relationship of the press to the public, whereby it is on one side a purveyor of information and opinion and on the other side a purely business enterprise. Rather, . . . . Continue Reading »

Joe Knippenberg talks about the Chick-Fil-A boycott on another blog page at First Things, Playing Chicken with the First Amendment . Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s ringing endorsement of the traditional family has caused quite a stir. More than a few of my Gen X and Millennial former students . . . . Continue Reading »