"On Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor..."

"... I was working as a reporter for the Hono­lulu Star-Bulletin." After a week of war, I wrote a story directed at Hawaii’s women...

Larry Ellison buys Lanai.

A steal?

Why would Obama pretend to have been born in Kenya?

I asked this question the other day , when Breitbart broke the news of that literary agent's brochure that said Obama was born in Kenya....

10 Reasons Why the Christmas Day Pants Bomber Will Be Blogged Endlessly.

1. It was a completely serious terrorist attack intended to and capable of taking down a large jet above a major American city, so 9/11 is v...

Let the President stay in the White House — or, at most, retreat to Camp David.

"President Barack Obama’s Christmas Day began with a briefing about a botched attack on an airliner in Detroit and ended with a visit t...

Camille Paglia has an "increasing sense of forboding" about the election.

She supports Barack Obama , and she remembers the "ruthless whittling down of John Kerry" in 2004. She's not just critical of ...

"It's the fact that he grew up in Hawaii, and I think he can make change."

The view from Guam.

"They're tired. Dog-tired. The stallion makes heart-stopping speeches. And the beaver just beavers along."

Erica Jong — her mind addled by animal imagery — tries to write about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. [T]he stallion is drunk on his own ...

"And the hope they have unleashed is palpable."

Writes Andrew Sullivan, palpating hope. Look at their names: Huckabee and Obama. Both came from nowhere - from Arkansas and Hawaii. Both cam...

Is Barack Obama's first memoir "a blueprint for negative attacks"?

"Dreams From My Father" was written 11 years ago , after Obama was approached by a publisher interested in his success at Harvard ...

"It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad..."

"... and who cares what they think. They're named Dave." Says Penn Jillette , if you challenge him about the fact that he name...

78.

Great! Roberts is confirmed by a margin of 78 to 22. As to those 22 Democrats who voted no, they have openly embraced an ideological view o...

Post-Hawaii, back to normal.

N.Z. Bear has Hawaiian honeymoon pics . And news of a reactivated ecosystem! We inhabitants of the ecosystem are most grateful!

Oliver Stone conquers the New York Times.

The NYT is helping Oliver Stone lay the foundation for the excuse he's planning to use when his movie "Alexander" bombs. (I p...

Cross-country driving mania.

Yesterday, I did a post on long cross-country drives, which is a special little mania of mine. The post brought this email: I once drove st...

Hawaiian Cheney-love!

My cool Hawaii contact, "Yoshio," has this report on Cheney's visit (I've boldfaced details that especially struck me): I ...

The fight for Hawaii.

Here 's the Honolulu Advertiser's coverage of Cheney's visit to Hawaii. The article also reports on a telephone interview with J...

Adding up the Electoral College votes and really caring about Hawaii.

I'm looking at the averages on the polls in the battleground states at Real Clear Politics and plugging the results for each state into...

A writer admires a writer he identifies with.

Tom Carson has a deft essay on Bob Dylan's "Chronicles," in the NYT Book Review. Carson writes elaborate start-and-stop sente...

My first Blogad ... Hawaii.

One of my blogging specialties has always been, as my subtitle above says, "the way things look from Madison, Wisconsin." Now, I s...