I’ve previously written at some length about Bolsonaro (“Brazil’s Trump”) here. Bolsonaro has now advanced to a run-off against left-wing Workers’ Party candidate, Fernando Haddad. Neither managed to get the 50% total needed to have won outright in this first … Continue reading →
A lot seems to be going on between this administration and China: On Thursday, Pence delivered one of the most hawkish speeches by a senior U.S. official since the two countries restored ties four decades ago. Pence assailed China as … Continue reading →
Nikkii Haley was one of the best UN ambassadors ever, so I’m sorry to see that she’s leaving the post. That said, her job was a largely thankless task in terms of any change being effected in that body. The … Continue reading →
There was another bot crawler attack last night, unfortunately. My apologies to all of you who might have gotten “error” messages for a while when you tried to access the blog. The good news is that it seems to have … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post.] There, did I cover enough bases? Did I get it right (I mean left)? Like many things, Columbus Day has evolved. And here’s a discussion of the postmodern Columbus Day (from … Continue reading →
You hear it everywhere right now: the Republican Party is united as never before. Mitch McConnell was pretty witty about it: “I want to thank the mob because they’ve done the one thing we were having trouble doing, which was … Continue reading →
I’m not going to bother to fisk this NY TImes op-ed by Alexis Grenell because Ann Althouse has already done it very well in this post. Instead, I want to concentrate on one phrase in one sentence of Grenell’s leftist, … Continue reading →
I’m still at that big family event, so I’ll be relatively brief. —I wonder what older Democratic senators such as Feinstein and Schumer, who started out as liberal Democrats rather than full-on leftists, see when they look in the mirror … Continue reading →
The proceedings are supposed to begin at around 3:30 PM. I’m in the middle of a big family event, so talk amongst yourselves for a while. I’ll try to check in later.
Continue reading →Richard Landes, the man who exposed the al Durah hoax and coined the term “Pallywood” for the Palestinian staging of false scenes of victimization at the hands of Israelis, is writing a new book. It’s not out yet, but it … Continue reading →
I am heartily sick of Christine Blasey Ford, and I hope her three weeks of fame is now over or will be over very very very soon, and she will return to the obscurity she professes to crave. Whatever happens, … Continue reading →
So far we have: Lindsey Graham Mitch McConnell Susan Collins Collins was the goat until yesterday. But her speech made her the hero. I wonder whether she wrote it herself, and when. It sounded like it took a while to … Continue reading →