On...Fallen Indian

RIP Indians Legend Bob Feller

Bob Feller footage from OleMissCub on Vimeo.

The more I read about him the more I'm impressed. So much that this is my first post in 2 months. I wish I had more good news about the 2011 Indians. Boy could they use a Bob Feller. Once in a century product however.

From Cleveland Plain Dealer

An American Icon

War Hero

ESPN's Collection of articles and videos

New York Times and all the Bob Feller related Links

On...Grab Bag of Monday Stuff

Before we go camping I will just leave you with a few Monday morning articles that jumped to my attention.

Canada's National Post jumps in between Obama and Sarkosy and the Burka

Former Ford President and Secretary of Defense Robert "Quagmire" McNamara has died at 93

Left of Center Washington Post Columnist Fred Hiatt questions Obama's "Stuff the Beast" strategy.

Newsweek's David Ignatius speaks to Obama's Russian Reset Utopia

and last but not least
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat had a really good piece on the lesson of Sarah Palin.

On...Getting Fired Up

Want to know what really fires up a Conservative?

Read this essay by Andrew Ferguson in the Weekly Standard. By the time you get to the end a conservative will be shaking his/her head and pacing around the room or stomping their feet or putting a fist through a wall. It boils the blood. But whatta ya goin' to do?



Then you think that Newsweek is dying, The New York Times will get bailed out or die, and no one watches CBS news anymore. Ah, the market works.

Oh, yeah and Helen Thomas will eventually kick the bucket. By the way, doesn't she (and I use she lightly) look like Emperor Palpatine in a bad wig?

On...Republican Reform

The New Right

Brand-names are very useful. The GOP is far from ruined as many wishful thinking wags would like to suggest. Diminished under Bush/Cheney? No doubt. In hibernation? Yes. In need of new blood and new vision? Definitely.

Included here are 3 essays all dealing with this theme.

• Ross Douthat, now at the New York Times, adds his 2 cents.
  
• Joe Scarborough sounds off over at Newsweek
  
• James Forsyth looks at the Tory model in The Washington Post.
  

Hopefully the GOP can be molded along these lines.

And more importantly, Dick Cheney can shut up and go back to Wyoming. When did he get so talkative? Even when he's right about something it seems dirty and cold.

Time to revist my old doctrine of convervative virtues. On...Principles. Always good for a refresher.

On..David Brooks

Welcome Back (Hopefully to stay)

I've enjoyed David Brooks for sometime. His book Bobos in Paradise is a minor classic, but the last few years he has become the most staunch and mythical centrist on the planet. I've had a number of conversations about him with colleagues and he has almost become a joke on how middle of the road-utopian he has tried to be. I don't know if occurred when he was hired by the New York Times to be their token "conservative" or it's simply his good guy genes. Occasionally he has a good article but he's been so centrist it's sucked the life out of his writing. He had been the post-boy for post-partisanship. I don't know how such a smart guy can belief in such magical nonsense. Obama and Rove-clone Gibbs are already using bi-partisanship as a weapon against the Right. [Isn't Gibbs just odious? He makes me physically sick.]

Well, maybe Brooks is having the avalon-snakeskin removed from his eyes. He really nails this whole GM-Obama-Big Government mess on the head in his article today.

I encourage everyone to read it. It goes nicely with the Detroit News' latest editorial.

BROOKS: CAR DEALER-IN-CHIEF

DETROIT NEWS: DeFacto Take Over