More classical piano. This time by Vladimir Horowitz, one the greatest classical pianist of all time. This piece is slow and beautiful. (Via Pejman Yousefzadeh’s blog).
Mr. Horowitz is playing Liszt Consolation No. 3.

This surprises me:
Conservative blue-collar “Reagan Democrats” left the party in the 1980s for Republican President Ronald Reagan and many never came back. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore lost working-class whites by 17 points, and in 2004 John Kerry lost them by 23 points.
But wait, the Democratic party is supposed to be the [...]

The left-wing institutions that have so much power in Canada have reached a new level of nuttiness:
Datt wouldn’t wash her hands. She just wouldn’t — she said she couldn’t. So her employment was terminated. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered that McDonald’s pay her not only $23,000 for “lost income”, but an additional $25,000 for [...]

Here is a reminder of the wonders of Western civilization. Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata mvt. 3. If you are ever going to listen to just one piece of classical piano, this is the guy to watch. I believe he is around 75 years old here, but maybe he is older. He was born [...]

This website has been doing strange things lately. It may be due to the zillion spam hits I get everyday. Spammers will try to break into your site too. Recently I have had posts edited with advertising materials (in the actual posts, not the comment section).
Today I see that an old draft post was published. [...]

Western countries that have long been run by left-wingers have begun imposing various limits on free speech. As an American, this is a really frustrating thing to watch. Here is a new example in France:
PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she [...]

A news article today notes the same points that I did in my last post regarding the US president boycotting the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in China. Fortunately, President Bush will likely show more sense than Clinton or Obama who insist that he should boycott. From the news article:
Bush is giving no indication he [...]

I have never liked the idea of the Olympics being held in China. The Olympics shouldn’t be held in countries that are not democracies and that regularly abuse human rights. But isn’t it a little late for our leaders in the US to start protesting now by thumbing our noses at the Chinese? The Democratic [...]

Primary care doctors who accept Medicare and Medicaid patients are often doing charity work. If the federal government is going to fund an insurance program for the retired and the poor, then they should reimburse doctors at the going rate. Otherwise doctors are in the difficult position of having to make a choice between turning [...]

In Cuba:
HAVANA - It’s not the stuff of Lenin or Marx, or even of Fidel Castro, but it’s hardly free-market capitalism, either. In fact, steps to encourage a Cuban spending spree may help the communist system and its new president survive.
In rapid-fire decrees over the past week, Raul Castro’s government has done away with [...]