…and of course there is no way he is innocent no matter what proof might be offered. Here’s Andrew C. McCarthy on the subject: Byron York’s Washington Examiner column takes up the question of whether, where Donald Trump is concerned, … Continue reading →
Like Charlie Gard before him, British toddler Alfie Evan’s situation highlights not just questions of medical ethics, but the power of the state over the individual. I wrote about Charlie here. Alfie Evans’ situation differs in some details, but it’s … Continue reading →
Whatever conclusions you draw from it, I don’t think the news is good. The Republican Debbie Lesko won; that’s true. But she won by a far smaller margin than she had every right to expect, considering the district’s history, according … Continue reading →
…that I would not like to be standing next to Melania Trump, inviting comparisons. The woman can wear anything and look good. This outfit, for example. I really like the asymmetrical suit jacket, but the whole thing is so over … Continue reading →
No, that doubling of “fake” is not a typo. Irony, they name is NY Times. On Saturday the Times published a story entitled “Is Facebook’s Campbell Brown a Force to Be Reckoned With? Or Is She Fake News?”. The story … Continue reading →
Oh-oh. Kanye West, one of the most visible of music superstars, married to media personality Kim Kardashian, has praised political changer Candace Owens (aka “Red Pill Black”; I have written about Owens previously here). The Twitter hordes have descended on … Continue reading →
Well, it depends who the “they” was. It turns out that it was the American voters and the electoral system. But this is also the woman who posited a “vast right-wing conspiracy” out to get her husband in 1998, involving … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →[See UPDATE below.] The shooting at the Waffle House that killed four has sparked the usual discussion about firearm control. I read a number of articles about it, and the comments sections were rife with people on the left crowing … Continue reading →
Google has a new director of AI: The new AI boss at Google is Jeff Dean. The lean 50-year-old computer scientist joined the company in 1999, when it was a startup less than one year old. He earned a reputation … Continue reading →
This is an important and sobering article about brain function. Here’s an excerpt: At TIRR, [Kothari, an assistant professor of rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine] estimates nine out of 10 patients who come to him with a vegetative label … Continue reading →
I’m a bookmark hoarder. Not actual bookmarks, the decorative kind you place in actual books. I only have a few of those. No, I’m talking about favorite websites I mark under “bookmarks” on whatever browser I might be using. On … Continue reading →