Yes, really, and it’s not just a single opinion writer, it’s in an editorial. What’s going on? Well, the first thing to notice is that they’re not saying “let him build the wall.” But they do write the following stunning … Continue reading →
Someone once asked me about what I actually do as a blogger, and I replied airily, “Oh, I just write a term paper a day.” It was meant to be a joke, but the joke wasn’t so very far from … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Later on in his interview, the philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has much to say about what humans can do on the biological level to help make the world better, in the general … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part II here.] As soon as I saw the headline for this article, I thought it might be about Peter Singer. I’ve written at great length about Singer before (see this, this, and this), and the title of the … Continue reading →
A lot. Read the whole thing, but particularly note this: Hamas and Iranian-controlled Islamic Jihad launched over 600 rockets killing several Israeli civilians. The rockets were launched mostly from civilian locations in Gaza towards civilian locations in Israel. Israel retaliated … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson has written a new essay that fairly drips with well-deserved contempt for James Comey. One of my reactions to reading it was to wonder anew how it could be that Comey had been so well-respected prior to … Continue reading →
A while back we had a Great Musicals Debate here in which commenter Richard Saunders wrote, in response to my saying that I much prefer the original stage version of “Guys and Dolls” to the Brando/Sinatra film version: Neo — … Continue reading →
The folks at Google have made sure that Kay Coles James will not be on an AI ethics board they’re setting up, because she’s from the Heritage Foundation. She may be a black woman, but as a conservative black woman, … Continue reading →
A few days ago you may have come across the story of some MAGA-hatted Asians who were assaulted in DC: A Twitter account proudly posted a short video clip on April 30 showing several street thugs harassing a group of … Continue reading →
…are now, even as we speak, trying to find someone to accuse Bill Barr of sexual molestation, harassment, abuse.
Continue reading →Amateurs, doing what they love, having fun for the love of it. Apparently they learned that in four hours. Oh heck, I’ll throw this in too. Very schmaltzy, but good schmaltzy (the backstory is worth watching, but if you want … Continue reading →
Maybe it doesn’t even matter which it is, because the impulse is the same whether it’s supposedly religious or supposedly secular/leftist: to destroy history and its representations and replace them with the new orthodoxy. The deeper motive is to indoctrinate … Continue reading →