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Why are the Democrats choosing to align with criminals?
Isn’t that a losing game? Don’t the vast majority of US voters want to be safe from crime? And after all, didn’t Democrats learn their lesson about this during the election of 1988, when one of the reasons Dukakis lost … Continue reading →
Aiming towards evil: Lenin and music
A while back I was looking up one of my favorite films, The Lives of Others, and I came across this quote at Wiki: …Maxim Gorky [said] that Lenin’s favorite piece of music was Beethoven’s Appassionata. Gorky recounted a discussion … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/14/2025
Update on my ex-husband
Yesterday my ex-husband did indeed manage to get out of the rehab hospital and come home, against their recommendations. Without going into details, I’ll just say it was a very stressful day. I don’t know how it will ultimately go. … Continue reading →
AOL dialup is ending
Are you kidding me? Dialup? It was still around? AOL dialup is sort of like the coelacanth, but its days are numbered: AOL, the company previously known formally as America Online, is discontinuing its Dial-up internet service after 34 years. … Continue reading →
Minnesota fraud case: the perps are not diverse
From Powerline: The number of defendants charged in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud has now reached 73. Fifty have been convicted. Almost every defendant is a first- or second-generation Somali immigrant. In a case that has yet to be … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/13/2025
ABC reporter mugged by reality
The current Democrat line is that crime in DC is no biggee. But ABC news anchor Kyra Phillips begs to differ: “We can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single day because we’re all experiencing … Continue reading →
On the Gaza tunnels
The Gazans are adept at three things: propaganda, killing, and digging elaborate and extensive tunnels. In fact, their tunnel system is almost certainly the most elaborate in the world. But in that, they are helped along by geography/geology. Here’s an … Continue reading →
Britain’s growing “migrant” crisis
It’s interesting how there are harmonic resonances in much of the Western world for problems concerning illegal aliens (called “migrants” by the left) and those who ask for asylum and are not true asylum seekers. In the US – for … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/12/2025
Yes, you can – but why would you want to?
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