John Hinderaker spotlights an email sent by David Leonhardt, the Times’s “senior writer” who writes for the paper’s daily newsletter. Here are some quotes from Leonhardt’s email: Strange as it may sound, the American government can function without a healthy … Continue reading →
I haven’t followed the E. Jean Carroll versus Trump trial at all closely. You may not have followed it much, either. But plenty of people are following it with great interest, most of them hoping it will be one of … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Rather fun. But they seemed to get tired after Raphael’s “The School of Athens.’
Continue reading →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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →