Apparently the stretch of wall near San Diego that’s been built to new specifications was an area the caravaners did not successfully scale: When it’s finished, the new section of border wall near San Diego will replace about 14 miles … Continue reading →
If you blinked, you might have missed it, but the left-wing rag known as the Guardian published a bombshell story yesterday about a secret meeting between Manafort and Assange, and then slowly and stealthily crept the story back. Everyone fingered … Continue reading →
…Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, as expected. Her victory brings the GOP Senate total to 53. That’s good, because of the tendency of certain other Republican senators to bolt and to vote with the opposition. But this particular race was a bit … Continue reading →
Orphanages have gotten a bad press for quite some time, but here’s a corrective that points out how often orhpanages have been either good experiences for their residents, or at least far better than many of the alternatives. Adoptive and … Continue reading →
As so often happens, former prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy sheds light on some legal-political news that no one else seems to have quite understood (and that includes me). The subject matter is Mueller’s charge that Manafort’s lies have abrogated their … Continue reading →
Think again. John Lott writes: People have been acting for a long time like the United States is the world’s hotbed of mass public shootings. He gives many examples of statements from public officials—such as, for example, Barack Obama in … Continue reading →
Apparently, the use of tear gas at the southern border had become a rather commonplace occurrence during the Obama years, especially in his second term. And yet few if any people seemed to care at the time. When this fact … Continue reading →
Jesse Kelly has been banned from Twitter with no explanation whatsoever, which—among other things—is in violation of Twitter’s own stated policy for informing people of the reasons for a ban. I’d never heard of Jesse Kelly before this incident. And … Continue reading →
On Mars.
Continue reading →Things have been heating up at the Tijuana border. The good news: the Mexican government seems to be on board with deporting 500 “migrants” who stormed the border over the weekend and were repelled by tear gas from the US … Continue reading →
Well, one thing we know about Chief Justice Roberts: he’s not a “Trump judge.” You’ve probably heard about the back-and-forth between Trump and Roberts on the issue of the partisanship of the judiciary. To recap: Mr Trump on Tuesday called … Continue reading →
In light of the brouhaha that arose in response to President Trump’s recent comments lauding nationalism, I think it’s illuminating to revisit two quotes from Allan Bloom’s 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind. Here’s the first: Contrary to … Continue reading →