I just published this long post on how the current riots and statue-toppling represents a war on Western Civilization. I want to add something here, on a related topic. John Hinderaker of Powerline has written a piece today on much … Continue reading →
Commenter “AesopFan” calls attention to this: Grant did briefly own one slave he freed years before the war; but as a general he smashed the Confederacy, and as president he crushed the Klan. He presided over the ratification of the … Continue reading →
Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reports on the latest in the campaign against him: Earlier this week, the Black Law Students Association circulated an email statement to the Cornell Law School community repeating many of the false and misleading … Continue reading →
Here’s the way the leftist mantras go: All white people are responsible for the sins of every white person throughout time. Unlike whites, not only are all non-white people not collectively responsible for the sins of other non-white people, but … Continue reading →
Ever since I’ve been blogging, I’ve periodically received emails from people in academia about their fear of disagreeing with the herd of leftists. In the past few years it’s gotten even worse in academia, as well as the entertainment world … Continue reading →
Here are the demands of the radical leftist group that has taken over a neighborhood in Seattle. The operative word in their document is demand. They demand this and they demand that. To list just a few demands, they demand … Continue reading →
What’s happening now in the United States, at an ever-increasing pace, is rule by mob. But it’s a special sort of mob. The internet and social media, especially Twitter, facilitates the process. Its main practitioners are leftists, mostly but not … Continue reading →
As Roger Simon writes in the Epoch Times: “Off the pig!” Sound familiar? Not quite “Dead cops now” but close. Marx, almost right for once, famously said, “History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” … Continue reading →
But the left doesn’t care. Why should they? Lies are their daily bread. And they work. I wager that a few months from now, most Democrats will still think the photo’s real, and even if they don’t they still will … Continue reading →
…caught throwing Molotov cocktails at police cars. And being stupid enough about it to get arrested. I guess it’s not all white supremacists: …Mattis is a corporate lawyer with Times Square law firm Pryor Cashman. Authorities say Rahman, 31, tossed … Continue reading →
I cannot state strongly enough how unmoored these actions are from the ordinary safeguards our legal system has attempted to provide defendants: In the case against Michael Flynn the court appointed amicus curiae, essentially a court appointed outside lawyer enlisted … Continue reading →
From commenter “Snow on Pine”: …[The left adheres to] the idea that, as our knowledge and capabilities have grown, our human nature has also changed–evolved–and that over the last 250 or so years our basic human nature has undergone some … Continue reading →