Sobering thoughts on this Saint Patrick’s Day as we prepare to go to war. Fred Hiatt at the Washington Post writes: “Last year the U.S.-Russian “Project Vinca” succeeded in spiriting bomb-grade material out of an insecure site in Yugoslavia. But that operation required more than a year of planning and an infusion of private funds… Continue reading

Guess who’s blaming the Jews…again. Guess who’s making a name for himself as the Father Coughlin of the 21st century.

More delightful anecdotes from Yankee-loving French via Rod Dreher: “One of the most moving things I have EVER seen was my father’s 60-something assistant, a wiry, austere, formal French woman, bear down on an American college student who was wearing short-shorts and listening to his boombox in one of the cemeteries in Normandie. She grabbed… Continue reading

If you want to feast on a decade’s worth of film write-ups (and waste an easy hour at least), check out the New Yorker’s new online Film File compendium.

On the other hand, it’s good to hear that there are some Yankee lovers over there.