Last night President Trump gave a speech outlining his policy on Afghanistan. The text can be found here. In considering what to do in Afghanistan, Trump was in a bind. Actually, it’s not just Trump who’s been in a bind; … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This post refers back to events that were decribed in a previous post.] Paypal, in its infinite mercy (that’s sarcasm, by the way, in case it’s not clear), has decided to reinstate the account of Jihad Watch, previously banned … Continue reading →
William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection has this to say (the whole post is worth reading): That truth that both sides [in Charlottesville] were violent doesn’t mean both sides were equal. But the denial of the truth that both sides were … Continue reading →
It might seem that the perps in the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks should have been easier to detect because this was a multi-person cell, a group rather than a lone wolf. Nevertheless, not a single one of the people involved, … Continue reading →
This is a chilling, must-read article. In it, William Jacobson quotes a post he wrote last Friday: …[In the past there have been] attempts to intimidate internet hosting companies and companies that provide internet infrastructure to cut off access to … Continue reading →
Jerry Lewis has died at 91. You can read tributes to him here and here. That first article calls him a “nonpareil genius of comedy.” I guess so, but his shtick—and slapstick in general—didn’t appeal to me. I do recall … Continue reading →
On Monday, August 21, 2017, America will witness one of nature’s grandest spectacles. The “Great American Eclipse,” as it is being called, will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the continental United States since 1979, when a massive … Continue reading →
The perpetrators of the Barcelona and Cambrils terrorist attacks seem to have been a fairly large and organized group of young men who are either Spanish citizens of Moroccan origin or non-citizens of Moroccan origin (the coverage has not made … Continue reading →
I detect a theme and a meme. Here we have Bannon unleashed (you’ll find the word in the URL) and unchained. And here we have Trump untethered, now that Bannon has gone. Tethers work like this: Failure modes for tethers … Continue reading →
…but does a pretty lousy job of it. For example, this sort of thing: Activists [members of Antifa] don black bloc, Crow said, as a means to an end. “People put on the masks so that we can all become … Continue reading →
Jonah Goldberg writes: There’s a natural tendency to think that when people, or movements, hate each other, it must be because they’re opposites. This assumption overlooks the fact that many – indeed, most – of the great conflicts and hatreds … Continue reading →
While we’ve been busily parsing every word Trump says, ISIS hasn’t been letting any moss grow under its feet. A terrorist on a vehicular rampage killed 13 people in Barcelona and injured more than 100 before he fled—and escaped—on foot. … Continue reading →