A couple of commenters on the Evergreen thread challenged the idea that it’s possible to change minds on the left by offering them new information and knowledge, even questioning whether it’s possible to change them at all. I know a … Continue reading →
You may already be familiar with a recent incident at Evergreen State College in Washington state that resembles so many other incidents at colleges lately. At Evergreen, an angry mob of students confronted a professor for standing against racism, and … Continue reading →
I’ve posted this song before, but I think it bears repeating, especially on Memorial Day. It’s Tim McGraw’s extraordinarily moving song “If You’re Reading This:” If you’re readin’ this My momma’s sittin’ there Looks like I only got a one … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of an older post.] The story “The Man Without a Country” used to be standard reading matter for seventh graders. In fact, it was the first “real” book—as opposed to those tedious Dick … Continue reading →
Or certainly the hottest 80-year-old. Freaky. This is a holiday weekend, and you might want to leave politics for a while (I know I often do) and turn to the tale of Deshun Wang (or Wang Deshun), an 80-year-old Chinese … Continue reading →
Paul Mirengoff’s Powerline post on the recent decision of the 4th Circuit to uphold the lower court’s injunction on Trump’s immigration EO is entitled “Trump resisters in robes.” I think that’s pretty much correct. But I don’t think the judges … Continue reading →
It’s a complicated situation that Andrew C. McCarthy attempts to explain here: So, to summarize, we have the communications of Americans inside the United States being incidentally intercepted, stored, sifted through, and in some instances analyzed, even though those Americans … Continue reading →
You guessed it—why, public assistance, of course! Like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, at least for a while. Here’s the scoop on Abedi [emphasis mine]: Salman Abedi is understood to have received thousands of pounds in state funding in the run up to … Continue reading →
Some time during the next month or so I hope to unveil a new blog theme (template). My goal is to avoid some of the glitches I’ve been having with the old one, but also to improve the way the … Continue reading →
Ah, that Obama. Far be it from him to retire from the limelight and let his successor have his day. Coinciding with Trump’s trip to Europe, Obama has decided that it behooves him to go, too: Merkel, the most powerful … Continue reading →
The headlines have been uniformly negative on Trump’s speech about NATO. It’s as though the MSM is relieved, after Trump’s successful Saudi speech, to have really bad things to say about him (not that they didn’t have bad things to … Continue reading →
Ginaforte won, 50 to 44. Why did he win, despite his being charged with misdemeanor assault? Some or all of the following: (1) Two-thirds of the votes had already been cast, and so recent events had a limited ability to … Continue reading →