DEPT. OF "SAD BUT TRUE"
Mark Steyn @ National Review Online
George Will @ Washington Post
Mark Judge @ The Daily Caller
On the other hand, a word from a future President:
And even finer words from a former President, eschewing the fake eye-contact of the teleprompter, speaking from his notes on the podium, speaking from his heart:
REMINDERS OF OUR BETTER SELVES
Linked here at Pajamas Media, courtesy of Bruce Bawer
[apropos of not very much, Bawer is an American writer who is gay, and who moved to Amsterdam and then to Oslo in the belief that society in those places was much more educated, sophisticated, free, and tolerant than that of the United States -- boy, did he get a wrong number. He has since re-thought that thesis, and written While Europe Slept and Surrender.]
Excellent round-up of links of all sorts via the Anchoress
