Open thread 8/26/2025
I was here on Sunday:
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Denmark’s experience with Palestinian arrivals
Well, one thing you can say is that in Denmark it didn’t go as badly as it did in Jordan and Lebanon, where they tried to overthrow the governments. Then again, the number of Palestinians welcomed by Denmark was a … Continue reading →
All lawfare isn’t created equal
Commenter “Variant” writes, on the Bolton raid thread: Trump is simply trying to settle petty personal grudges via Lawfare and we’re trying to justify it because it was done to him. I prefer intellectual consistency on the right. I realize … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/25/2025
Red boots
I first saw professional Russian folk dancing when I was a child in the late 1950s, when during Khrushchev’s cultural “thaw” the Moiseyev Dance Company came to New York. The performance I attended (with my family, of course) was in … Continue reading →
Stories that don’t much interest me
One of the main tasks of a blogger is deciding what topics to cover. It’s not as simple as it may seem. Sometimes there are stories so huge they cry out for coverage, even if everyone else is writing about … Continue reading →
A raid on Bolton
John Bolton was Trump’s National Security Advisor from April 2018 to September 2019. It seemed an odd choice, because Bolton is a hawk and Trump is a Jacksonian on foreign policy, which is not the same thing. Bolton had good … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/23/2025
It’s about time: Trump wants to add more accountability to the visa system
Here’s the plan: The State Department said it was looking [at the 55 million visa holders] for indicators of ineligibility, including people staying past the authorized timeframe outlined in a visa, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any … Continue reading →
20 billion dollars for leftists through the EPA
From Lee Zeldin, on the Inflation Reduction Act’s grants to the EPA: And when Democrats had one-party rule in Washington, D.C., they passed this bill called the Inflation Reduction Act that had tens of billions of dollars to go out … Continue reading →
The Israeli left, the NY Times, and Netanyahu
This Tablet article by Gadi Taub is terribly depressing, although nothing in it is new to me and nothing should be a surprise. I think it’s especially disheartening, though, because it puts it all together in fairly succinct fashion: the … Continue reading →