[A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001, William O'Neill, Ivan R. Dee, 448 pages] I EXPECTED A BOOK called "America During the Interwar Years" to be about Herbert Hoover and FDR, the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, the Roaring Twenties and the radio as a Publication: The American Conservative

President Obama recognized that America's image in the world was, to say the least, tarnished and made it a principal point of his campaign to insist that he would be able to improve our reputation. He might have started by rooting out all of the neocons who had taken over government-supported Publication: The American Conservative

Is it polite to laugh at the President of the United States? I admit that I went through the “someone needs a hug” phase.  But his unrelenting arrogance killed that rather quickly.  So now I see something like a rat going through a maze:  He can smell the cheese but keeps on finding dead ends, so he backs up and tries another path.

House Republicans have been busy today on America Speaking Out.com. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do so! We started off the day with a video from Rep. Paul Ryan (WI), which was followed by an entry from Rep. Dave Camp (MI) calling on a vote to repeal ObamaCare. Politico covered the story today already. If check out House Republicans on Twitter today, you’ll see many entries on ASO so I hope you’ll check them out.

[Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev, Yale University Press, 704 pages] [Alger Hiss and the Battle for History, Susan Jacoby, Yale University Press, 272 pages] SHORTLY AFTER Lawrence Duggan, a top State Department official, was Publication: The American Conservative

I missed Andrew McCarthy's NRO column "The Gitmo volunteers" when it was posted online this past Friday. It bears on the issues Paul, John and I have addressed in commenting on the Keep America Safe ad seeking the identity of those previously unidentified Obama administration Department of Justice lawyers who represented or advocated on behalf of Guantanamo detainees.

As John has said, the easiest way for a Republican to make news is to criticize another Republican. It's equally true that the easiest way for a conservative to make news is to criticize another conservative.

Keep America Safe is the handiwork of Bill Kristol, Lilz Cheney and Debra Burlingame. Its mission is to provide information for concerned Americans about critical national security issues. Paul Mirengoff has now twice attacked as "McCarthyite" the Keep America Safe ad urging the Obama administration to identify certain Department of Justice officials. The ad refers to the attorneys in question as "the al Qaeda seven."

A choice snippet from his floor speech this afternoon accusing Republicans of having mischaracterized what he said about this morning about America’s big 36,000-jobs-lost day.

Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who’ve joined the Tea Party movement. Not only is Cappy quaking in [...]

What was the significance of the Tea Party convention that wrapped up last night? I'm a big fan of the Tea Party movement but was skeptical of the convention, on the ground that anything that made the movement seem more like a third party is a mistake. With hindsight, though, I'm not sure that happened. Glenn Reynolds was in Nashville, covering the event for PJTV.

                                                                    The Dismantling of America Pardon to the cat lovers, but there are two ways to skin a cat, with respect to destruction of the America most of us love.  The Islamic Jihadists have long held that the way to destroy us is through destruction of our financial structure.  Hence, they successfully plotted to hit [...]