You may have heard of the famous diving horses (perhaps through the movie “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken”), but I never had until a day or two ago. I was watching a TV show about Annie Oakley—what an astounding story—and … Continue reading →
Andrew C. McCarthy has been writing up a storm about Russiagate, Spygate, whatever you want to call it gate, for quite some time now, and he’s always worth reading. Here’s his latest: In rushing out their assessment of Russia’s interference … Continue reading →
I hadn’t been following the poll predictions for today’s Australian election, but I heard something on the news about it yesterday and apparently the prognostications were all for a Labor victory and a resultant change in government. When I heard … Continue reading →
Once you watch a YouTube video on a certain topic, YouTube keeps suggesting more. And more. And sometimes I follow their lead—such as recently, with videos of Gwen Verdon that kept coming up following my writing this post about her. … Continue reading →
Here’s a lawsuit that may go all the way to the Supreme Court: During the 2014-2015 school year, a Christian teenage girl was forced to recite the Islamic conversion creed — the Shahada — in writing for her 11th-grade class. … Continue reading →
I make no predictions about what will ultimately happen as a result of the investigations Bill Barr has ordered into the Russiagate investigation itself. But I do know that if I were Comey or any of the other high-up participants … Continue reading →
The College Board, which has been devising and administering the test known as the SATs, has announced the latest tweak they’ve devised to try to even the playing field: The College Board, which oversees the SAT exam used by most … Continue reading →
I couldn’t resist that headline, even though it’s not true that Comey is a Communist. But apparently he once was a Communist, according to his own report, and it wasn’t just a supposed one-off like Brennan (whom I wrote about … Continue reading →
By now you’re probably read about the the dismissal of Ronald Sullivan and his wife from their posts at Harvard College’s Winthrop House: The story begins last January when the African American Law School Professor Ronald Sullivan joined Harvey Weinstein’s … Continue reading →
Now boys, stop squabbling. Comey and Brennan are like two perps being questioned about a possible felony murder, each naming the other as the triggerman: A potential rift is emerging between James Comey and John Brennan over who pushed to … Continue reading →
Short answer: no one really knows although theories abound, and the causes are probably interactions among multiple factors. I’ve always found the history of earth’s ice ages to be fascinating, from the moment I discovered some maps as a child … Continue reading →
That’s the title of Victor Davis Hanson’s latest. My own opinion is that progressives have been anti-Semitic for a long long time. Anti-Semitism is both ancient and widespread, and what’s more it occurs among various groups and for a wide … Continue reading →