You probably remember something about that fundraiser speech that Obama gave in 2008 in San Francisco, the one that featured his infamous, insulting, condescending, and reductionist “bitter clingers” remark. But looking back on it, it strikes me that Obama’s approach … Continue reading →
This seems a bit far-fetched (or at least premature) to me, but wouldn’t it be nice?: The project, a collaboration between scientists at MIT and a private company, will take a radically different approach to other efforts to transform fusion … Continue reading →
Seems to be Rotherham all over again: The Sunday Mirror blew open ANOTHER child sex abuse ring in Britain. This 18-month investigation found up to 1,000 girls, as young as 11, raped, sold for sex, and even killed for over … Continue reading →
Well, maybe not everything. But an extraordinary number of things. And boy, could he do them well. A while back I showed a clip of Rall in the barn dance from “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” in which he was … Continue reading →
I have to say that these findings somewhat surprised me, although on reflection I know they shouldn’t have: 42 of the 50 cities in the world with the highest murder rates are in Latin America. I certainly was aware that … Continue reading →
Here’s why. Excerpt: Why do we have guidelines and manuals? Because we want our law-enforcement officers to operate within clearly legitimate boundaries, not constantly to test the margins of their lawful authority. Having guidelines encourages this. It provides a standard … Continue reading →
This is terrible: A gunman and three female hostages were found dead at a military veterans home in Northern California on Friday evening, officials said, a grim end to a standoff that lasted nearly eight hours. Shortly before 6 p.m., … Continue reading →
The Weekly Standard’s Eric Felten takes a good long look at the Steele dossier itself, and finds it impossible to believe on the face of it. Forget all the brouhaha surrounding it. Just reading it should have discredited it and … Continue reading →
…the left is all excited (see also this) about Stormy Daniels, and hope that everyone will soon share that excitement, too. Daniels has told a number of stories about whether she had an affair with Trump. But if I had … Continue reading →
It looks as though there will be a meeting between North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and President Trump: News of the meeting was delivered by South Korean officials after talks with Mr Trump at the White House. They passed a verbal … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter Geoffrey Britain.] He’s talking about gun control, but it’s a primer on how to talk about heated issues in general: Freitas bears watching. When I say that he gave a primer on how to talk about these … Continue reading →
This doesn’t sound like a good idea to me: …[A] new artificial intelligence research project coming out of Japan…can analyze a person’s brain scans and provide a written description of what they have been looking at. To generate its captions, … Continue reading →