Chris Cillizza writes in the WaPo about the unprecedented shift in Donald Trump’s favorable/unfavorable polling in Iowa, from 27/63 back in May to 61/35 now. Did I say “shift”? More like “reversal”: Numbers just don’t reverse themselves like that in … Continue reading →
Ace translates a fascinating interview Mark Moogalian gave to Le Figaro. In case you don’t recall who Moogalian is, he’s the Virginia-born professor married to a Frenchwoman and living in France, who was one of the first people to engage … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Beverly.”] Here’s a 1994 interview with Camp of the Saints author Jean Raspail. He’s the Frenchman who wrote an extraordinarily prescient and disturbing work of fiction, published in 1973, about a future takeover of the West through … Continue reading →
…to its own immigration (“migrant”) crisis. It seems that some of the countries with more lenient policies are trying to pressure the others into being more like them: Interior ministers from all 28 EU states will meet in Luxembourg on … Continue reading →
He was my early favorite, a fighter who had been remarkably successful in a blue state. Yes, he’s a low-key Midwestern-nice kind of guy, but I thought he’d pick up the pace when he started campaigning for president. But Scott … Continue reading →
Whenever Obama uses the word “smidgen”—watch out, methinks he doth protest too much. Remember when?: In his remarks denying anti-Semitism, Obama was apparently responding to Ben Carson, who said this: Some, including GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson, have gone as … Continue reading →
It’s a mountain in Alaska that’s been known as McKinley for about 100 years. Obama has decided to rename it with its native American name. This has made Alaskans happy and Ohioans furious, and although I don’t have a dog … Continue reading →
Randomly, I came across these two quotes only two days apart while researching completely different things. The first is from a post by Richard Fernandez: One didn’t intellectually convince people to attack the German lines. One led them – a … Continue reading →
…so you don’t have to.
Continue reading →…and Orin Kerr tells us the ways in which the Times has distorted the truth in order to make Thomas look bad (many of the comments there are worth reading, too). Most liberal Democrats long ago absorbed and swallowed whole … Continue reading →
Expect more of this sort of horrific crime: A man shot a uniformed sheriff’s deputy “execution-style” while he fueled his patrol car in the Houston area, killing him instantly, authorities said. Deputy Darren H. Goforth, 47, was returning to his … Continue reading →
From an October 2012 post of mine: One thing I believe is that, if Romney loses this election, the right will start tearing itself apart in anger. That’s another thing the left banks on, and””if indeed some of the polls … Continue reading →