Entries for May 11, 2006

Gerard Baker, in the Times of London, hashes over the question of whether the United States should respond to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's oddball letter by negotiating unilaterally with the Iranian regime.

Metrics—numbers—often help one to understand what's going on, particularly in a seemingly chaotic and certainly difficult situation like the one in Iraq.

So let me pass along the following metrics compiled by the Brookings Institution, which I haven't gone over thoroughly yet, and this posting from the blog All Things Conservative. The bottom line seems to be that things are going better than mainstream media coverage would lead you to believe.

What should the Democratic Party stand for? It's not an easy question to answer. Forty years ago, it seemed natural for Democrats to stand for continuous expansion of the welfare state.

Now that doesn't seem like such a good idea. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan proved that history doesn't always move left—and shouldn't.