Archive for October, 2007

Rudy and Rambo (plus debate audio)

Yesterday was Columbus Day, which meant, among other things, lots of Italian-Americans marching through New York City, so now seems as good a time as any to blog about former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani’s status as a Catholic.
I have to admit that (despite my support for Ron Paul), there are several things about […]

Free Trade/Antiglobalization… Friendship/Genocide… Whatever

A few dispiriting reminders today that it’s hard to get a clear message across in politics:
•The Republican Party is (was?) ostensibly the more free-market of the two major parties, but Wall Street Journal reports that about two-thirds of Republican voters now say they think free trade (by which they essentially mean foreign trade) is harmful. […]

New Combatant for Tonight’s Ivy League Debate

After Harvard’s Richard Bradley and Columbia’s Perry Metzger both had to drop out of the pro-Ivy slot in our debate tonight (10/3) on “Is the Ivy League Superior?” we’ll now see David Robinson — a Princeton/Oxford man (who has worked at the American Council on Science and Health and the American Enterprise Institute to boot, […]

Dark Day, Television, and Musical Ignorance

Ah, ignorance — Google makes sustaining that state difficult, what with the ease of tracking down obscure bits of information these days (maybe that, too, will be an argument against the Ivy League in our Debate at Lolita Bar this coming Wednesday). And so it’s sort of exciting on those rare occasions when, for […]