In no surprise whatsoever, Steve Bannon has been relieved of his White House duties: President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon has been fired, two White House officials told CNN Friday. A source told CNN that Bannon was given the … Continue reading →
Yes, apparently we’re not done with this topic yet. The MSM certainly isn’t done, nor is the far left or the far right. I’m going to summarize some of what I’ve observed so far.
Continue reading →All too predictably, there’s a call in the NY Times for the ACLU to “rethink” its support of freedom of speech for Nazis. It’s from a lawyer named K-Sue Park, who works as “a housing attorney and the Critical Race … Continue reading →
This makes sense: The Nazis and White Supremacists as one faction and the Antifa and Black Lives Matter as the other faction are two sides of the same coin. Expressing this is what has gotten the president in trouble with … Continue reading →
If you read the news at all, you noticed the explosion of the meme, but here’s are some examples. If you want to know what Trump actually said, take a look [emphasis mine]: OK. Good. Are we going to take … Continue reading →
Several people have mentioned in the Durham statue thread—the post entitled “Meanwhile, the revision of history…”—that pulling down a statue is not obliterating or even revising history, it’s merely getting rid of a tribute. Yes, it’s a tribute, and of … Continue reading →
With the advent of tests for Downs syndrome in utero and the availability of abortion, the future of Downs syndrome as a phenomenon has become a question mark. In the country of Iceland, for example, 100% of the women carrying … Continue reading →
I think you’ll see why. It’s from the Czech author Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which he wrote in the late 1970s: Circle dancing is magic. It speaks to us through the millennia from the depths of … Continue reading →
…continues apace: A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building. Around 7:10 p.m. a woman using a ladder climbed the … Continue reading →
There was a demonstration, a counter-demonstration, and two kinds of violence. One was the clashes between the two sets of demonstrators, many of whom were ready and eager to fight. The second was a madman (albeit one with a neo-Nazi … Continue reading →
Actually, if may be important in any kind of change, and that includes the ability to sincerely apologize (which is not all that common). From commenter “J.J.”: Then there is the matter of open/closed mindedness. Open/closed mindedness is one of … Continue reading →
Alan Dershowitz believes that even partisans must apply the same rules to each side: Now that it is President Trump who is being targeted, my partisan Democratic friends are vociferously rejecting these neutral civil liberties arguments, because they do not … Continue reading →