I’ve been hearing that we need a new Church Committee. Let’s take a look at the old one. The Church Committee in Congress was bipartisan. In fact, the committee was set up in the Senate in January of 1975 by … Continue reading →
This is a recent bald-faced lie told by the Biden administration: The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a somewhat-edited version of a previous post.] Today is the eighty-first anniversary of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The generation that reacted to it by mobilizing and fighting World War II is on its very … Continue reading →
The CDC is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. I’m going to assume that a lot of misleading stuff will be written about that study, so I’m linking to a post I wrote … Continue reading →
Apple had a role in the recent demonstrations in China: AirDrop, the file-sharing feature on iPhones and other Apple devices, has helped protestors in many authoritarian countries evade censorship. That’s because AirDrop relies on direct connections between phones, forming a … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Whenever I have a math-heavy post like this, I always get nervous that I’ve made an arithmetical error.] I see it again and again: the assertion that the 2022 midterm results were almost unheard-of, because a president’s first midterm … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post.] Yes, indeed, I am that old—old enough to just barely remember when Veterans Day was called Armistice Day. The change in names occurred in 1954, when I was very small, in … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Two days ago I wrote a post on the over-the-top fearmongering of Michael Beschloss, who has written a number of books on presidential history and who is often described as a “presidential historian.” That reminded me that shortly after … Continue reading →
First, a little background on Beschloss. Nine books on the presidency. Graduate of Phillips Andover, Williams, and Harvard. He’s not a product of today’s “woke” education, either: he’s 66 years old. And yet this is the same man who said … Continue reading →
It’s such a popular word these days, isn’t it? Ever wonder where it came from?: “Disinformation” is not a word from the English language. It is a direct translation of the Russian word dezinformatsiya. It is a KGB form of … Continue reading →
Commenter “Bauxite” has some interesting things to say: Russia is what it is. It’s a big mess, and it has been a big mess more often than not for most of its history. I have no argument with that. Next: … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a somewhat-edited version of a previous post.] The stock of Christopher Columbus has fallen in recent years as a result of the general campaign on the part of the left by figures such as Howard Zinn to … Continue reading →