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Heather Mac Donald sums up the last four months
Government malfeasance. Please read the whole thing.
Continue reading →Trump to send federal troops…
…to crime-ridden cities: President Trump is deploying 100 federal agents to Chicago to help combat rising rates of some crimes – a move that marks an expansion of the White House’s intervention into local law enforcement as Trump continues to … Continue reading →
Excellent video on COVID
I found this last night, and it’s one of the best things I’ve seen so far on COVID and public policy. These guys are smart and they’re reasonable, IMHO:
Continue reading →Michelle Malkin on anarcho-tyranny in the US
In this essay, Michelle Malkin uses a term I had never heard before but which I think fits what’s happening in the US today: It’s not “socialism” or “communism” under which we suffer. Our dangerously chaotic, selectively oppressive predicament is … Continue reading →
Meritocracy? What’s that?
Meritocracy has been dying a slow and painful death for many many decades. It used to be a basic American value. I don’t know when that began to change, but the first thing I noticed along those lines was many … Continue reading →
Robert Frost for our times
[NOTE: This is a revised version of a previous post.] Robert Frost’s poem “A Case for Jefferson” isn’t great poetry—even though it’s a poem by a master of the genre. It’s more in the vein of light verse, which Frost … Continue reading →
Fighting the White Fragility cult
Some suggestions for responding to White Fragility trainers, particularly if your exposure to the program happens in the workplace. The book White Fragility has also become very popular among book groups. In addition, it increasingly serves as fuel to cause … Continue reading →
Portland, Oregon – woke city central
Portland used to be a pretty nice town. What happened?: …[S]omewhere around the time of the Ford administration…Portland reinvented itself as the Pyongyang of the Pacific Northwest, if with a few more trendy artisanal coffee bars than Kim Jong-un has … Continue reading →
Promising vaccine trials
We could use some encouraging news, and I think this qualifies: The researchers are calling their experimental vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222). It combines genetic material from the coronavirus with a modified adenovirus that is known to cause infections in chimpanzees. … Continue reading →
Is it time for the Gods of the Copybook Headings to return?
Or perhaps they already have. I’ve written before about how a course I took in college on Russian Intellectual History stopped me from joining the left in the late 60s. Here’s an excerpt: It was there I learned – without … Continue reading →
Senator Hawley takes a page out of Alinsky and asks the Democrats to live up to Rule #4
What’s Alinsky’s Rule 4? “”Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Even though the Democrats are historically the party of slavery (some would argue it’s the party of ideological slavery today, and I don’t disagree), and … Continue reading →