Newly-minted Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas got a lot of attention for this hard-hitting exchange yesterday: I hadn’t seen Cotton in action before, and my first thought about him on seeing this (after noticing his laserlike intensity, which seemed to … Continue reading →
Jordan makes good on its threats to ISIS: State TV showed footage of the attacks, including fighter jets taking off from an air base and bombs setting of large balls of fire and smoke after impact. It showed Jordanian troops … Continue reading →
I get weary when I read things like the text of President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast: And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the … Continue reading →
You may or may not be familiar with the Duggar family of the reality TV show “19 Kids and Counting.” I don’t watch the show often, but I’ve seen it now and then, and one theme that began a while … Continue reading →
It was inevitable that this sort of pressure on the Supreme Court would increase as the Obamacare subsidy case draws near—the alarmist attempts to convince the Court that overturning Obamacare would be an unprecedented and catastrophic act on their part: … Continue reading →
First, a disclaimer: I don’t know what caused Brian Williams to lie about his helicopter experience in Iraq, and I don’t know what caused him to continue the lie. The lie was egregious, repeated, and seemingly reckless. Seemingly reckless, because … Continue reading →
I think this comment at Hot Air on a thread about ISIS burning the Jordanian pilot is of particular interest: That ISIS IS the same crowd is exhibit two billion and seven of the morally bankrupt media who refused to … Continue reading →
Remember Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz, who said she’d been raped, the university administration had dealt with it wrongly by exonerating the accused, and that therefore she was going to carry a mattress around on her back as an art project … Continue reading →
President Obama sees everything through the prism of race combined with whatever political advantage he can obtain from the use of race in his rhetoric. Thus, an early political utterance (June, 2008) emphasized his race and insinuated that his opponents … Continue reading →
For those of you who’ve been following the death [murder] of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman, this is significant news: Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death has gripped Argentina, had drafted a request for the arrest of President Cristina Ferné¡ndez … Continue reading →
ISIS has released a video showing the murder of the Jordanian pilot they had captured. Instead of beheading, they burned him alive in a cage. In response, Jordan announced that tomorrow it would make good on its threat to execute … Continue reading →
Here’s an article on the laborious and idiosyncratic complexity of the relationship between pointe shoes and the ballet dancer. The shoes are hand-made (and for professional ballet dancers, custom-made) but they are not worn as is. There is a lengthy … Continue reading →