[The following is a slightly edited repeat of a previous post.] Tonight is the beginning of the Jewish holiday Passover. In recent years whenever I’ve attended a Seder, I’ve been impressed by the fact that Passover is a religious holiday … Continue reading →
Together again.
Continue reading →This is a terrible, sickening story: Dozens of protesters gathered in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka on Friday to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against her … Continue reading →
The headline reads: “Snakes force Liberian President George Weah out of office.” So I wondered was it snakes, as in the Liberian version of Nancy Pelosi or Robert Mueller or Adam Schiff? And office, as in the presidency? No: Press … Continue reading →
The reactions to the Mueller Report on the part of the press and the Democrats have been exactly as expected—ignoring collusion and focusing on supposed obstruction—and Mueller gave them plenty of red meat to energize them in their continued campaign. … Continue reading →
She’s not the dancer she used to be, I’m quite certain of that. Not even close. The legs are much weaker and not fully straight, the arch less pronounced, the turnout barely there, and her elevation is probably nil. But … Continue reading →
Andrew C. McCarthy writes: The attorney general [Barr] stated that the special counsel evaluated ten incidents with an eye toward whether they amounted to an obstruction offense. Barr elaborated that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein disagreed with Mueller … Continue reading →
As far as I can tell, the Mueller Report is exactly and precisely as expected. Here’s the summary by Professor Bill Jacobson at Legal Insurrection: Trump won. Big League. People are [poring] over the details of the report, but the … Continue reading →
Norman Podhoretz is eighty-nine years old and still going strong, not to mention sharp as a tack. Case in point, this interview. Unfortunately, the Podoretz interview itself is behind an impregnable paywall, so that link is to a post at … Continue reading →
Hanson writes: The reelection of Obama had convinced progressives that he had discovered electoral magic: record voter registration, turnout, and block voting of “minorities” that could overcome the old Perot, Reagan Democrat, silent majority, and tea-party dinosaurs in the critical … Continue reading →
Perhaps not: White people. Nobody likes giving up power. And they never see the writing on the wall. The new day arrives and no one has the heart to tell them they and their old tired privileged ways are over. … Continue reading →
Boy, I go away for a while and the comments get taken over by squabbling. I don’t mind a small amount of it, but no more than that. So, to repeat a post I wrote some years ago on the … Continue reading →