Open thread 9/20/2025
I kept waiting for this creature to turn cute:
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Speech as incitement
Ace covers a few examples on the left here. I suggest you go to the link and read it. It’s impossible to summarize. But here’s one instance [emphasis mine]: Meanwhile: the left has been promoting Cenk Uygur’s nephew … … … Continue reading →
Kimmel, TV, and government coercion
The Jimmy Kimmel brouhaha has many elements to it. For example, the left sees the opportunity to frame it as the Trump administration unfairly pressuring the network to drop Kimmel because it didn’t like his remarks, and succeeding in getting … Continue reading →
They come to bury Kirk, not to praise him
More fallout from the Kirk assassination: The House of Representatives passed a resolution on Friday condemning political violence and honoring Charlie Kirk, but nearly a hundred Democrats refused to support it. The final tally was 310-58, with every Republican voting … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/19/2025
The “it’s the Jews who did it!” folks didn’t waste any time
As expected. I didn’t know exactly what form it would take, but after I heard that Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, I considered it inevitable that the Jew-haters would blame the Jews, and quickly. This of course includes the Jew-haters … Continue reading →
Roundup, roundup, roundup
Some days the news just calls out for a roundup. So here it is. (1) This was overdue. But better late than never: “I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/18/2025
Obama does what Obama does best: blame the right
Call it “the tactic of the about-face.” Or call it “on the one hand, on the other hand.” Call it what you will, but here’s a good example. We have this statement from Obama on Charlie Kirk’s assassination. When I … Continue reading →
RIP Robert Redford
Robert Redford has died at 89. When I read that number I can hardly believe it – where oh where did that impossibly handsome young man go? But yes, he was 89, with a long life and an enormous number … Continue reading →
The swelling tide of hatred
For anyone who follows the news it’s impossible to ignore the tide of hatred unleashed against the affable, smiling, “let us all reason together,” and now-deceased Charlie Kirk and his supporters. However, it’s not new. From those who admire the … Continue reading →