Commenter “Mac” expresses what I’ve been feeling too: I have a sense that politically, culturally, socially, things are *not* going to be ok. Things are *not* going to work out. The America that we knew is not going to survive. … Continue reading →
Young people probably have no idea about that happened back then. But those of us who are older certainly remember. It was stunningly shocking at the time, and even worse because it occurred in Germany at what was supposed to … Continue reading →
“Fascism” and “fascist” are popular epithets that have come to mean anything people want them to mean, but they always mean “bad.” Lately Biden and his minions have taken to calling the half of America that doesn’t agree with them … Continue reading →
Yesterday there was a discussion in the comments about making any analogies to Nazism. Commenter “M J R” had this to say, for example: I would agree with Stone [that the FBI has become Biden’s Gestapo], except I would not … Continue reading →
The Biden administration certainly hasn’t forgotten [emphasis mine]: Admittedly, the [Iranian] regime has more than once pumped the brakes on nuclear diplomacy. This intransigence signaled that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, may not have ever wanted an … Continue reading →
Something like this raid would have to have been done with the utmost transparency and documentation, as well as objective observers, if it’s done at all. But none of that was present. Here’s today’s news: FBI agents who searched former … Continue reading →
The title of this post is taken from the title of a book of photographs by Roman Vishniac, of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the 1930s. Here is the story of how the photos were taken: …[B]etween 1934 and … Continue reading →
I was raised on The Weavers, the folk-singing singing group of which Seeger was an important member – that, plus Tom Lehrer, Flanders and Swann, Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Mikado” and “HMS Pinafore”, and every Broadway musical from the mid-1940s to … Continue reading →
…had actually already happened when I was there, around 2008. The docents were already droning on and on about slaves and Sally Hemmings, almost as though those were the main points of Jefferson’s life. This NY Post article describes what’s … Continue reading →
One of the problems with discussing Dobbs with anyone on the left is that it was decided on the grounds of what’s in the Constitution and what is not. Why would that be a problem? Simply because the left is … Continue reading →
Several commenters have called my attention to the fact that there’s a new Israeli film about Adolf Eichmann. It’s entitled ““The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes,” and it features interviews in which he describes how much he knew about … Continue reading →
In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, a jury in DC acquitted Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who had been accused of lying to the FBI. The reason this result is no surprise is because the trial … Continue reading →