Here’s the trailer for the documentary “The Plot Against the President” about Russiagate: And here’s the movie’s Amazon page. It seems that you can get it free if you’re a Prime member, if I read that right. I watched the … Continue reading →
Here’s a good article on the subject of polls and how difficult it is to do them or to analyze what they mean. I have stopped even trying. And yet I still read articles on the subject, some giving hope, … Continue reading →
And – bonus video – Victor Davis Hanson really sums it up:
Continue reading →COVID news has become so politicized that it’s even harder than usual to sort out the wheat from the chaff. But I’ll try. The latest news is that the estimate of potential life lost from COVID in the US so … Continue reading →
Commenter “DNW” quotes me, and then asks some questions: [neo]:“I think that one of the basic reasons that socialism and Communism are such difficult ideas to kill is that they appeal to something universally idealistic in regular people” [DNW]: What … Continue reading →
Commenter “huxley” raises an interesting issue: Clearly someone like Obama, an intelligent, trained, leftist activist, is aware his actions aren’t pouring oil on troubled waters but quite the opposite. However, I tend to believe, lacking the ability to look into … Continue reading →
Being of a certain age, I remember Watergate as it unfolded in real time. My recollection is that, although it was slow to pick up steam, by the time of the hearings the nation was riveted by the spectacle. I … Continue reading →
Of course they do – because they believe (correctly IMHO) that they can get away with it. They do it in unison, even though it’s a preposterous notion to use the phrase in this novel way – to mean appointing … Continue reading →
One of the hallmarks of today’s Democratic Party is contempt for the American public – even its own supporters. They are children who must be taken care of, manipulated, and if need be deceived, in order to get them in … Continue reading →
As I’ve written before, when I was in college in the late 60s I happened to take a course called Russian Intellectual History. I had always liked Russian lit, I’d been told the prof was good, and the course seemed … Continue reading →
I had trouble sleeping last night. My mind kept turning over the debate – a debate I didn’t watch, but read enough about to know I was right to not watch it. And even unwatched, it disturbed my sleep. That’s … Continue reading →
So fascinating. Some excerpts: [In the 18th Century in the US] Both elementary education and higher education taught the classical world, but for different reasons. For the vast majority, whose only access was to elementary education, the ancient world was … Continue reading →