What the NY Times got wrong about slavery in the US
Nearly everything. But that’s no surprise. Interesting article, with many facts I certainly hadn’t known before.
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The federal bureaucracy is “a mortal threat to America”
From Stephen Miller, who is a senior adviser for policy to Trump: n 2016, President Trump ran against Washington’s “deep state” and “permanent bureaucracy,” said Miller, and they remain so angry that they are lying, leaking, and attacking the administration’s … Continue reading →
The spread of leftism
It seems to me that it wasn’t all that long ago when the vast majority of Americans believed that the sort of behavior seen on the streets of Minneapolis by “demonstrators” “protesting” the Trump rally would be completely unacceptable, and … Continue reading →
The left’s encouraging “whistleblowers” from the intelligence community to file complaints for political reasons has a long history
I wrote a post recently about how the plan for leaks and “whistleblowers” to undermine, sabotage, and perhaps impeach Trump was hatched before he even was inaugurated. But it may come as no surprise that this was not a new … Continue reading →
And then there’s Hillary Clinton: on impeachment, Watergate, and Whistlegate
“If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder!” —Rep. Barbara Jordan, 1974 pic.twitter.com/TkF3MdYWsL — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) … Continue reading →
Remember the Tea Party, and what happened to it?
I sure do. And after all the shouting died, the propaganda against the Tea Party remains because it worked. And events like that are, as they say, how you get Trump. Which is the point made here: I still hear … Continue reading →
Don’t be too hard on him, after all he’s only a kid
Nixon won 49 states and he was impeached. https://t.co/EyPHiQvKi9 — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 29, 2019 If you’re wondering who Jake Sherman is and why I’m picking on him: Jake Sherman is a senior writer for POLITICO and co-author of … Continue reading →
Leninthink
Another great article by Gary Saul Morson has been published in New Criterion. He’s the author who wrote a piece about Solzhenitsyn that I discussed previously here. This time Morson is writing about Lenin – or rather, about the thought … Continue reading →
How the great truth dawned: the Gulag as change agent
Gary Saul Morson has written an extraordinary aticle for New Criterion. It’s hard to capture its flavor. I suggest you read the whole thing, if you haven’t already. I could excerpt almost any part of it, but I’ll choose this: … Continue reading →
Nationhood: why Brexit hasn’t happened
A number of people have recommended this article by Christopher Caldwell that appeared in the Claremont Review of Books, entitled “Why Hasn’t Brexit Happened?” It’ well worth reading. A few excerpts: In Britain as elsewhere in the world, the struggle … Continue reading →
The recent history of press bias
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread: Thread: On Media Narratives 1. Once upon a time, the legacy media controlled the daily news narrative. There were three principal broadcast TV networks which took their nightly news cues from the NYT and, secondarily, … Continue reading →
The Founders, slavery, and the Times’ 1619 Project
In 1619, slavery was ubiquitous throughout the world. There was nothing surprising or unusual about it being brought to the Americas. Slavery has nothing to do with American exceptionalism or American aspirations or values, unlike the claims of the 1619 … Continue reading →