A little delayed today
I just got back from a trip to NYC and am somewhat behind in a host of tasks. So further posting will be delayed till this evening. It was beautiful in New York. Here are some of the things I … Continue reading →
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Let’s see…
…whether it’s still considered perfectly okay for Clinton partisan George Stephanopoulos to be among the press covering the presidential campaign in 2016, as well as controversies about the Clinton Foundation, after this revelation. ABC seems to think he’s just as … Continue reading →
Obama the knave: the long view
When you blog you write an awful lot, day after day after day. That means that you forget some of what you wrote—perhaps not “forget” exactly, but it slips your mind and it’s only on looking at it again that … Continue reading →
Maligned UVA dean sues Rolling Stone and Sabrina Erdely
An excellent move: Nicole Eramo is seeking more than $7.5 million in damages from Rolling Stone; its parent company, Wenner Media; and Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the investigative journalist who wrote the explosive account of sexual assault on the campus in … Continue reading →
Obama to liberals: my way or the highway
Now it’s liberals’ turn to feel the sting of Obama’s sharp tongue. They seemed to have had no problem with his previous personal attacks on Republicans for disagreeing with him, or with secrecy on the contents of previous bills. And … Continue reading →
Amtrack derailment
This is a bad one. I don’t have much commentary or speculation right now, because we know so little about the causes. What we do know is that at least six people are dead and 146 injured in the derailment … Continue reading →
Bearing witness to the Reich
I have continued to read Victor Klemperer’s two-volume diary I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years (I’ve written about the book before, here and here). Klemperer was in an unusual position in Germany. Although born a Jew, … Continue reading →
Free speech is threatened—but of course, you already knew that
Perhaps you’ve noticed that the topic of free speech has been coming up again and again and again lately. The battle to protect it has taken on new urgency, in part because too many people appear to have forgotten what … Continue reading →
Christianity declining in the US
Especially among the young. As William Jacobson points out, this is likely to be the result of decades of effort among “progressive” educators and the MSM. Many people I know consider it axiomatic that religion and science/logic are antithetical, and … Continue reading →
Mark Steyn on the reaction to Garland
Mark Steyn has some obligatory reading on the “Yes, but…” reaction to the attack on Pam Geller, and he doesn’t mess around: The Washington Post offered the celebrated headline “Event Organizer Offers No Apology After Thwarted Attack In Texas”, while … Continue reading →
Seymour Hersh, Obama, and the Bin Laden raid: liars liars pants on fire
My question is quite simple: who’s the bigger liar, Seymour Hersh or President Obama? A lot of attention is being paid to Hersh’s piece in the London Review of Books that claims that “a single source says Obama lied about … Continue reading →
This is cringeworthy
Mark Halperin wants Ted Cruz to go on “Dancing With the Stars” and perform salsa to prove his Cuban authenticity, or something like that.
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