Open thread 6/16/21
How could I resist this one? Look at the parrot’s name.
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A new Thomas Sowell biography is out
I haven’t read it yet, but here it is. I deeply admire Sowell and his work, and I know a lot of you feel the same way.
Continue reading →McConnell’s plans for the 2022 Senate races
[NOTE: Let’s just assume for the sake of this post that the 2022 election will be basically fair, although I realize that might not be the case.] McConnell said some interesting things yesterday. The first is that, if there is … Continue reading →
Jon Stewart tells a small part of the COVID lab origin story
Here’s Jon Stewart appearing on the Colbert Show, talking about the lab origins of COVID. Watching him reminds me that, politics aside, I often found him to be very funny: But notice what Stewart leaves out. It’s no accident that … Continue reading →
Testing
Some of the blog posts aren’t showing, so this post is a test. UPDATE 12:59 PM: I think I fixed it! We’ll see. If it continues to work now, the reason I was able to fix it is that something … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/15/21
Biden is on display for the world to see
When Donald Trump was campaigning for the GOP nomination in 2016, and then after he was elected, one of the reasons I was apprehensive is that I thought he might be a loose cannon braggart who had a very good … Continue reading →
The Babylon Bee…
…gets the last laugh over The New York Times – for now. Big update here. The @nytimes has responded to our demand letter by removing defamatory statements about us from their article. Here's their email to our counsel notifying us … Continue reading →
In Israel, a group of strange bedfellows get together and finally oust Netanyahu
Parliamentary systems mean that sometimes coalition governments can form that are composed of various parties that didn’t get all that much popular support. As long as the most popular party fails to get a majority or create a majority coalition, … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/14/21
“I got the lead because I combined a little bit of John Lennon and a little bit of Bob Dylan”:
Continue reading →RIP to the wonderful, transcendent Carla Fracci
The news of the death of Italian ballet dancer Carla Fracci on May 27th has made me sad. Fracci didn’t have the perfect physique, she didn’t have the most solid technique or the highest extensions or the most spectacular turns … Continue reading →
Why George W. Bush didn’t support Trump in 2020
Jack Cashill asks why – considering the threat that the left represented in the 2020 election and Trump’s obvious successes in his first term – former president George W. Bush couldn’t bring himself to support Trump, or at least not … Continue reading →