Happy Funny Valentine’s Day!
Four sterling singers.
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The new news normal
Ben Shapiro writes about news coverage these days: You’ve heard the phrase over and over again: “This isn’t normal.” We’ve heard it about President Trump’s rhetoric, and his Twitter usage. We’ve heard it about his attacks on the media, and … Continue reading →
Andrew C. McCarthy’s latest: Why did Flynn plead guilty?
Andrew C. McCarthy on “The Curious Michael Flynn Guilty Plea”. Well worth reading, as usual. Also please see this from Byron York on the same subject.
Continue reading →Our Anglo-American legal system
CNN reports: Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday brought up sheriffs’ “Anglo-American heritage” during remarks to law enforcement officials in Washington. “I want to thank every sheriff in America. Since our founding, the independently elected sheriff has been the people’s … Continue reading →
Social scientists disagree…
…on the effect of single motherhood. Statistics are tremendously manipulable, depending on what you want to say.
Continue reading →Dueling Carmens II
Commenter “Steve57” asks: I was goofing around on the intertubes. I came across this nugget [of ballet dancer Diana Vishneva as “Carmen”] and I was captivated… She wasn’t one of the “Dueling Carmens” you wrote about in June 2013 (Svetlana … Continue reading →
Limping along
The is the sixth day since I sprained my ankle, and I’m limping along. Limping is tiring. It’s also not so great because it leads to other aches and pains. I realized today that when I walk I’ve got more … Continue reading →
The phantoms of “Phantom Thread”
I used to enjoy watching the Oscars. Long long ago I actually cared about the movies themselves. But after that ended, I enjoyed the fashions. Now the sanctimonious political posturings of most of Hollywood have become relentless rather than episodic, … Continue reading →
Brennan’s next in line
The investigations go on: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump — including … Continue reading →
Happy Birthday, President Lincoln
Lincoln is one of the smallish number of presidents who can truly be called “great.” For me, his greatness isn’t confined to what he accomplished as president, or to his formal speeches, which were as brilliant as Churchill’s although in … Continue reading →
The special qualities of ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn: Part II
[Part I can be found here.] This next clip is an example of an element of Fonteyn’s specialness that’s extremely subtle. It’s not even a dance step; it’s more a bit of acting expressed through movement (acting through dance was … Continue reading →
Schiff memo delayed; McCarthy on the Grassley-Graham memo
Yesterday I wrote a post that pointed out the following: The Democrats protested mightily that the Nunes memo could not be released because it would expose too much secret and/or classified information and compromise our national security. But the Schiff … Continue reading →