We know that China isn’t the least bit interested in liberty, and so policies such as these should not shock us: Imagine a nation in such a state of distress that its citizens were reduced to bartering for food. A … Continue reading →
I’d like to second what he said:
Continue reading →My gut feeling is that most Americans who are not on the left are heartily sick of hearing about the horrors of January 6th from the Democrats’ perspective, and have Moved On to more pressing concerns like inflation and crime. … Continue reading →
I had never heard of this before I saw this video:
Continue reading →The ostensible reason is COVID, of course, the all-purpose excuse. The real reason – IMHO – is they have gotten very very accustomed to just phoning it in (that is, computering it in), and being paid for it. So why … Continue reading →
…it’s got a new Soros-backed DA named Alvin Bragg. And you know what that means: Bragg took over on January 1. On January 4, Bragg promised to instill new rules similar to those in San Francisco and Philadelphia, both of … Continue reading →
Recently I returned from a cross-country visit out west. The less said about the airport from which I left, and the crowds there and lack of decent signage, the better. And yes, wearing a mask almost unceasingly for close to … Continue reading →
[NOTE I wrote about the James Webb Telescope previously here.] I’ve grown so used to assuming government incompetence (or worse) as the default position that I’m gobsmacked by this news: The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the … Continue reading →
Food for thought: Democrats backing abortion rights predict a “revolution” of outraged voters ousting anti-abortion Republicans in elections for state legislatures and Congress. At least some Republicans are nervous about such a backlash… Today, the leading pro-abortion rights constituency is … Continue reading →
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting was the first book I ever read by Milan Kundera back when it was first published in 1980, and it probably is still my favorite work of his. It’s a very strange but wonderful … Continue reading →
White people in some states willl have a tougher time getting possibly lifesaving meds for COVID [emphasis mine]: It takes a score of 4 or more to be somewhere on the list to receive monoclonal antibodies, the best treatment we … Continue reading →