Gentle Readers, Lady J.’s breeder was doing genealogy work on his dogs and bitches. So Dr. J. asked, “President Reagan had a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, is Lady J. related? The breeder, deciding to kill another hour when he should … Continue reading →
Also sprach Czar-a-thustra: In the end, the President will be tarnished but not damaged—like Reagan in the Iran-Contra affair (although the level of Obama’s probable involvement and complicity was quite different than Reagan’s). Quite true. Despite the kind but feebleminded … Continue reading →
Whenever gun control is brought up in a public venue, someone on either the Left of the Right brings up the need for mental health reform. After all, the Newtown shooter should have been in treatment; instead, he was out … Continue reading →
President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. No President – not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years. Also sprach Bill Clinton to the nation at the … Continue reading →
The Czar is running behind here. First, thanks to EC who spotted a typo (but missed several others) in an essay that was subsequently corrected. Second, RA writes in: Excellent analysis on the GOP master tactitians. Might I add that … Continue reading →
Part Two of Seven Click here for Part One: Introduction It is time Republicans started to realize Reagan was a rare event, and that we need to stop listening to the guys trying to bring him back.Ronald Reagan isn’t coming … Continue reading →
Not actually Ms. Dowd. Just a sexy librarian with which to start your day. If President Obama’s lost America’s Sweetheart and conscience of a generation (the perpetually upbeat and never cynical Maureen Dowd), he’s lost America. Well, he’s lost those … Continue reading →
Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Dr. J.’s old man served in Berlin during the Korean War, during the period where Germany, and especially Berlin was divided and controlled by American and Soviet forces. … Continue reading →
Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) saves Nancy Reagan from serious injury after she stumbles. Your Mandarin wonders if this is not a metaphor for how true conservatives like Senator Rubio can rescue the Reagan legacy and the United States from … Continue reading →
Anne Applebaum has an article in this month’s Foreign Policy that looks at the weird world into which Mikhail Gorbachëv has descended. The Czar thinks that she just about has this 100% correct: that he has wound up as some … Continue reading →
BG wrote this in angels on the head of a pin, and then sent us the pin: Regarding your observation that “American liberals attempt to diminish if not redact Ronald Reagan’s responsibility for ending the Cold War peacefully…” Liberals damn … Continue reading →
Is it not a strange irony that so many American liberals (a) want to follow Europe’s examples across the board, and (b) attempt to diminish if not redact Ronald Reagan’s responsibility for ending the Cold War peacefully? The irony being … Continue reading →
The Czar took a lead from ‘Puter (who is drop-dead gorgeous, if you (a) like open head wounds and (b) are willing to drop dead), and flipped through his wife’s quarterly teacher’s union magazine. The theme of the entire issue … Continue reading →
The Czar presupposes that comparisons between Geraldine Ferraro, who passed away at the age of 75, and Sarah Palin are inevitable. But rather than compare the two women directly, the Czar most recently thought of Ms. Ferraro because of the … Continue reading →
In Dr. J’s previous rant, he waxed poetically with regard to President Reagan’s foreign policy, probably because as a youth Dr. J was more concerned about living under the Red Flag than the havoc wreaked on our economy President Carter … Continue reading →
So how close is President Obama to President Jimmy Carter in terms of public perception? Although there are many superficial similarities, many on the Right are attempting to align the two men in order to promote the idea that a … Continue reading →
The Czar was dining on chipotle chicken sandwiches yesterday back at the Castle, and the Mandarin, dining on what we charitably call the biggest pork tenderloin sandwich we have ever seen, joined him at the table. The Czar mentioned he … Continue reading →
Kennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov–the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring–at least … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 101-200, please click here. Meanwhile, let’s get going and plow into pages 201-300. Poor Ronald Reagan. Perhaps you remember, as the Czar does, the astonishing Tax Reform Act of 1986. This … Continue reading →
So, Russia’s got a substantially larger inventory of tactical nukes than we, and have been increasingly cavalier about brandishing them. That can’t be good. Gabriel Schoenfeld writes fairly persuasively on the topic in today’s WSJ: Yet matters are very different … Continue reading →
