Good Friday and the first night of Passover
Together again.
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In Bangladesh, #MeToo can get a woman killed
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 →
This headline promised more than it delivered
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 Mueller Report, the persistence of Russiagate, and the conspiracy theory phenomenon
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 →
Use it or lose it
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 on Mueller, Barr, and obstruction
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 →
Reporting on the Mueller Report
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 →
Let’s hear it for Norman Podhoretz, the original neocon
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 →
Victor Davis Hanson on the progressive revolution
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 →
Just one question: Has Michael Moore looked in the mirror lately?
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 →
Again: rules of the blog
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 →
Rebuilding Notre Dame: is it an art museum, a tourist attraction, or a cathedral?
I suppose at this point, realistically speaking, it’s something of all of them. I wouldn’t have even asked the question if Notre Dame hadn’t burned, but now that the rebuilding is being planned, it seems relevant. As commenter “Snow on … Continue reading →