A vicious terrorist attack occurred in Spain about a year ago. That one has merged in memory along with so many others that it resembles. It featured vehicles purposely targeting pedestrians in a crowded spot, an explosion in a house, … Continue reading →
…the Kavanaugh hearings. But others have amply covered the various forms of insanity connected with the proceedings. At Powerline, we have this, this, and this. From the latter: It strikes me that the Democratic Party crossed a Rubicon of sorts … Continue reading →
The year was 2013. Faced with a Republican minority in the Senate that was blocking many of President Obama’s federal judge appointments, Harry Reid made a bold move to end the filibuster for federal judicial nominees with the exception of … Continue reading →
Nike’s support of Colin Kaepernick has caused a drop in its stock prices. But Nike is all-in: In the crowded marketplace of athletic apparel, presumably Nike’s overnight transformation from selling an apolitical product to “woke sneakers” for the SJW set … Continue reading →
Sweden is facing an election, and the right seems poised to make a better showing than usual: Polling over the summer has put the ruling Social Democrats on as low as a 21% vote share – down 10% on its … Continue reading →
Labor Day is the bookend on the opposite end of summer from its holiday beginning, Memorial Day. July Fourth is summer’s early peak, with the promise of long light-filled days ahead. But Labor Day is summer’s last gasp, the moment … Continue reading →
First let me just say that I didn’t watch it, nor have I watched clips of the proceedings. I didn’t watch the funeral because listening to speech after speech is of no interest to me and I rarely do it … Continue reading →
No, I’m not in Italy any more. But I have a few things I still want to write about my recent trip there. First and foremost: Rome, oh Rome, why so few street signs? I had a GPS that supposedly … Continue reading →
This is a good move: The Trump administration announced Friday it is cutting nearly $300 million in planned funding for the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees, and that it would no longer fund the agency after decades of support. … Continue reading →
This Politico article by Michael Kruse on the formation of the Federalist Society in 1982 is a curious piece. It conveys what I assume are the general facts—that a bunch of far-flung conservative law professors, judges, and law students met … Continue reading →
This is starting to sound like a Philip K. Dick novel: “People say, ‘Well, what about Facebook – they create and use algorithms and they can change them.’ But that’s not how it works. They set the algorithms off and … Continue reading →
If this article by Paul A. Rahe is true, we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg. I would add, however, that although (as Rahe states) same-sex pederasty, not pedophilia, is the mechanism of a great deal of the alleged … Continue reading →