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The reasoning of the Democrats I know
I found that the following statement – embedded in an article by Walter Russell Mead, that focuses on a different issue – encapsulates the attitude of so many of the Democrat voters I know. Here it is: We live in … Continue reading →
House passes debt ceiling law
It has no chance of becoming actual law, but it’s the opening gambit in the usual tug of war on the subject. Here’s an approving piece on the subject. And here’s a more pessimistic one. I tend to think that … Continue reading →
Heather Mac Donald talks about crime and race
Most violent crime is intra-racial – that is, blacks mostly kill and/or violently attack blacks, whites mostly kill and/or violently attack whites. And the black-on-black violent crime rate is much much higher than the white-on-white violent crime rate. But the … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/27/23
Rather fun. But they seemed to get tired after Raphael’s “The School of Athens.’
Continue reading →More on Tucker Carlson’s leavetaking from Fox
Fox’s actions regarding Tucker Carlson, and speculations on his future, are still big news. And we still don’t know many hard facts about either. So here’s a roundup: From Thomas Lifson at American Thinker: From Cockburn at The Spectator. And … Continue reading →
Legal education is indoctrination at Columbia and elsewhere, and has borne much fruit
On the Columbia Law School curriculum: Parents are paying $331,350 — or students are going into enormous debt — for what amounts to a three-year reeducation camp at Columbia to produce leftist social warriors who will, as Christian says, “upend … Continue reading →
‘Disinformation” and the search for truth: more Twitter files
I was about twelve years old when I first read Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. It scared me more than anything I’d ever read. Did I understand every single bit of it? No, but I understood a surprising amount. And it … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/26/23
Melanie Phillips: on Israel’s Remembrance Day
It’s something like our Memorial Day, and it’s today. In her article, Phillips quotes at length from a recent interview with Itamar Marcus, head of Palestinian Media Watch. It’s well worth reading the whole thing, but here’s an interesting excerpt … Continue reading →
Biden announces that he is running – on empty, and on ads
But it doesn’t matter that he’s got little left in the tank. They’ll push him across the finish line, if necessary. I don’t usually watch Biden speak, because his mendacity and hypocrisy sickens me. But I forced myself to watch … Continue reading →
About Dominion v. Fox, and the news itself
Commenter “Kate” writes: The whole problem with the Dominion lawsuit is that news organizations are supposedly free to report what political factions are saying. Apparently they are only free to repeat leftist charges. Fox News has folded and damaged news … Continue reading →