Politics: March 2008 Archives

TigerHawk: Eliot's Nest

Eliot Spitzer's Princeton '80 classmates remember him when: "I think you'll recall that he was the typical student government jackass, power-hungry in his little tiny area of influence, always scheming, a real pr**k....
Even then he had scary-dead eyes, like a damn shark. He struck me as a ruthless SOB at the time, and I didn't have much to do with him if I could avoid it." Another commenter responds to the question, "Who needs sex this badly?": "The same sort of personality that desperately needs to hold high office?"

The American Spectator: Archer Daniels Meltdown

Another reason to worry about ethanol: "Alcohol fuels may constitute a new type of fire hazard because they are harder to extinguish than gasoline fires and require new types of fire-extinguishing equipment and training."

National Review: Jay Nordlinger: Only a few notes...

Nordlinger shares tales of dining with William F. Buckley Jr. at barbecue and burger joints, with many other anecdotes.

Ross Douthat remembers sailing Long Island Sound with the founder of National Review. "But you know, I think there comes a time in a man's life when he has a chance to say to his grandchildren, I once went skinny-dipping with William F. Buckley, Jr. And this, Jaime, this is that chance."