Quoting Winston Churchill can get you into hot water. Mark Steyn writes : On Saturday, Paul Weston of Liberty GB, a candidate in next month’s European elections, was speaking on the steps of Winchester Guildhall and quoting Winston Churchill on … Continue reading →
Ace writes about Common Core math pedagogy: Common Core needlessly complicates the simple. They complicate the simple, supposedly, to impart “number sense” to kids, to get them to understand not just that 9 +3 = 12, but why 9 + … Continue reading →
…will be happy to hear that UCLA has rejected a three million dollar donation from Donald Sterling for kidney research. People are falling all over themselves to show how righteous they are by shunning Sterling and everything he ever touched. … Continue reading →
I’m in agreement with Andrew McCarthy on this: In what he foolishly thought was a safe place to let his hair down, Kerry merely gave voice to what the Obama administration thinks. “Apartheid” trips easily off his tongue because it … Continue reading →
Please forgive my cynicism, but I don’t think America cares about Benghazi. It’s a yawn because it’s been officially declared a yawn by the administration and far more importantly the MSM. And so I’m not at all confident that this … Continue reading →
The foibles of Donald Sterling and his mistress have somehow managed to remind me of these guys, another pair with a rather large age gap, and who represented what in those days (1974) passed for an ethnically diverse couple: For … Continue reading →
…the definitive post on the Sterling brouhaha.
Continue reading →Here’s a good article about voter fraud and its incidence, and the Democratic argument against its existence. The piece dovetails pretty much with what I wrote recently on the subject here, but it marshals some additional facts and is well … Continue reading →
I don’t know much about the agenda of the authors of this Politico piece entitled “Wall Street Republicans’ dark secret: Hillary Clinton 2016.” I’m going to assume they have one, though, and that it’s not to help the 2016 Republican … Continue reading →
…has made the following statements: If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday… Kerry also … Continue reading →
…Holocaust Remembrance Day. Bookworm writes: Back in the 1930s, no one could believe that the Germans, considered the most civilized and advanced of all Europeans, could become so bestial. The tragedy today is that, when we look at the Islamists, … Continue reading →
I’m not going to waste time listening to the tape of a conversation between the 81-year-old billionaire owner of the Clippers and his 20-something girlfriend that has everyone in an uproar about his racism. It’s a private conversation, for goodness … Continue reading →