To despair or not to despair?
That is the question – or at least, one of the questions. I know that some of you – maybe most of you – are feeling some despair right now. Maybe a lot of despair. What we’ve been seeing – … Continue reading →
That is the question – or at least, one of the questions. I know that some of you – maybe most of you – are feeling some despair right now. Maybe a lot of despair. What we’ve been seeing – … Continue reading →
What’s the war on statues about? It’s a case of “venting,” of course, in the emotional sense. But it’s much much more than that. The pulling down and/or defacing of statues is not some emotional spur-of-the-moment impulse, although I suppose … Continue reading →
In September of 2018 I wrote a post that began like this: It’s no accident that the Furies were women: “According to Hesiod’s Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the … Continue reading →
From a speech Reverend Martin Luther King delivered at DePauw University in September of 1960: Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Kate.”] As I wrote yesterday, the Flynn framing was their “insurance policy.”
Continue reading →We certainly need them. Perhaps there are too many choices for one to have really caught on, because forums like Twitter need to reach a critical mass to work well. Twitter was the first to come up with the format, … Continue reading →
…in Madison, Wisconsin. And no one seems to have the will to stop it: In Madison, statues of Wisconsin’s motto “Forward” and of Col. Hans Christian Heg were dragged away from their spots guarding the statehouse. Heg was an anti-slavery … Continue reading →
No surprise at all. What is at least somewhat surprising is that a terse note actually has surfaced from our good friend Peter Strzok describing the event, which apparently occurred (also not a surprise) a couple of weeks before Trump’s … Continue reading →
Perhaps. At least, he’s certainly gotten closer to that goal: The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ordered Judge Emmet Sullivan to grand the government’s motion to dismiss the criminal charges against Michael Flynn. You can read the … Continue reading →
Most people who have watched this video of one of the founders of BLM focus on the fact that she says that she and one of the other three founders of BLM are Marxists. And although that’s certainly of interest, … Continue reading →
Last night I was talking on the phone to a friend on the right (I have one or two). I mentioned something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately, which is that the current BLM/Antifa movement brings to mind … Continue reading →
I’ve had several conversations about this topic recently. A friend mentions worriedly that COVID is on the rise, and I point out that such a statistic has no real meaning. I mention that it was expected, that it’s partly a … Continue reading →