Why would anyone say that? After all, McCain was already dead when the election occurred. And he’d been in the Senate anyway. But I have had the same thought as that expressed in this WSJ piece (at least, the first … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post.] Yes, indeed, I am that old—old enough to just barely remember when Veterans Day was called Armistice Day. The change in names occurred in 1954, when I was very small, in … Continue reading →
A color-blind one, that is. And one picture is worth 1,000 words: Here’s the website for the glasses. Most of the color-blind people in the videos who put on the glasses are overwhelmed. At first they usually pause (it often … Continue reading →
I can’t bear to do too much in-depth reporting on what’s been going on with the Florida election. It makes me too angry. I don’t like losing close elections. Nobody does. But it’s one thing to lose them fair and … Continue reading →
It seems like a no-brainer: the catastrophic fires that have swept through California in recent years could be made much less severe by a more effective and frequent use of controlled burns to thin the forest more. But although that … Continue reading →
The name of the northern California Sierra foothill town of Paradise is evocative. Paradise! A place you might want to go. A place you might even want to live. But reports are that the town of 27,000 is no more, … Continue reading →
Recently David Horowitz gave a talk at Dartmouth. He has written the college’s president this note about his experience: Leading the pack of Dartmouth character assassins who mobilized to combat my presence was Professor Annelise Oreleck, an out-of-control Gender Studies … Continue reading →
What’s going on with vote-counting in Arizona and Florida—and especially Florida—is profoundly disturbing. It’s one thing to lose a close race. It’s another to have votes dribble out in a slow bleed, always seeming to favor Democrats (and with Democrats … Continue reading →
At the moment, some readers are reporting a problem with comment editing. They can comment, but can’t edit afterwards. I don’t know if it’s the case for everyone, or just a few. I tried reinstalling and reactivating the edit plug-in, … Continue reading →
Until now I haven’t written about last night’s shooting in Thousand Oaks, California that has left 12 dead. I may have told myself I’d wait because we didn’t know all that much about it yet. But I think my reluctance … Continue reading →
This happened last night: A group of angry Antifa protestors gathered outside of Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson’s home on Wednesday evening. The anti-fascists group, possibly associated with Smash Racism D.C., chanted “Tucker Carlson, we will fight. We know where … Continue reading →
What else can explain the state’s extraordinarily cockamamie voting system? Other, much bigger states somehow manage to do it in a night, and maybe an extra day to finish up. That’s true even if they have a lot of mail-in … Continue reading →