Open thread 1/22/22
You can find lots of information about this film at the link:
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The overbearing majority: why did Schumer force a vote on ending the filibuster?
I’m confess I’m a bit stumped about the motive for this series of votes on Wednesday night. First, there was consideration of HR1 itself, and Republicans blocked taking up the bill. Then Schumer asked for a vote “to change the … Continue reading →
The battle for GOP nominee in 2024 may not be between Trump and DeSantis after all…
…it may be between DeSantis and Youngkin. I know it’s way early to even talk about it. And I also know that Trump may end up dominating again. But it’s a pleasant prospect to contemplate – in the middle of … Continue reading →
A Canadian teacher writes about how the school system’s pandemic reaction has hurt children psychologically
It’s incredibly sad, tremendously frustrating, and infuriating because it didn’t have to be and it was foreseeable. If you close schools for this long and require remote learning, as well as drilling into children the idea that disease is all … Continue reading →
RIP Marvin Lee Aday (aka Meat Loaf)
Here’s another death of a celebrity in the arts, the actor and singer who adopted the memorable moniker Meat Loaf. He was 74 and no cause of death was given, and although COVID is rumored, I don’t know whether or … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/21/22
Has Biden met your expectations?
He’s certainly met mine. I expected a mendacious, cognitively challenged, nasty leftist tool. I expected every single thing he did to be bad for the country. And he’s fulfilled all of that early promise. I expected him to be extremely … Continue reading →
The evolution of the idea that each election is illegitimate
The idea that Joe Biden floated yesterday at his press conference – that the next election might be illegitimate if Congress doesn’t pass the Democrats’ radical “voting reform” bill – would have once been verboten. But in the last two-plus … Continue reading →
Jordan Peterson resigns his full professorship
And he certainly doesn’t go out with a whimper: I recently resigned from my position as full tenured professor at the University of Toronto. I am now professor emeritus, and before I turned sixty. Emeritus is generally a designation reserved … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/20/22
Hard to know quite what to say about this, but the voice of the narrator is annoying enough that you might want to mute it:
Continue reading →Biden makes a speech and gives a press conference
I didn’t have the stomach to watch either. You can read about both from Ace, here and here, and also at Legal Insurrection. There were quite a few extraordinary things Biden said, and I don’t mean that in a good … Continue reading →
Virginia’s new AG has an idea for dealing with those Soros DAs
This is worth considering: In a statement given to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Victoria LaCivita, a spokesperson for [AG] Miyares, defended the move, saying, “During the campaign, it was made clear that now-Attorney General-elect Miyares and Attorney General Herring have very … Continue reading →