One evening a while back, I began looking at old videos of Jacques Brel. The last thing I imagined was that the question of politics would rear its ugly head. What an arresting guy! I became curious (as I often … Continue reading →
Have you noticed it? Used to be that the term “RINO” was reserved for Republicans who really were very close to being Democrats—that is, Republicans who crossed the line to vote with the Democrats very often, argued Democratic causes, and … Continue reading →
Yesterday I read this article by John Hinderaker at Powerline: During our previous wave of mass immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both immigrants and American officials understood that assimilation into American culture, most importantly learning to … Continue reading →
It’s a mountain in Alaska that’s been known as McKinley for about 100 years. Obama has decided to rename it with its native American name. This has made Alaskans happy and Ohioans furious, and although I don’t have a dog … Continue reading →
Randomly, I came across these two quotes only two days apart while researching completely different things. The first is from a post by Richard Fernandez: One didn’t intellectually convince people to attack the German lines. One led them – a … Continue reading →
…the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has an “Office for Diversity and Inclusion.” The head of what’s referred to as the “Pride Center” there has decided to encourage students to use so-called gender-neutral pronouns such as “ze, hir, hirs, and … Continue reading →
Now we know what the Virginia killer alleged were the racist words that had supposedly been uttered three years earlier by Alison Parker, whom he decided to finally murder: The 24-year-old white reporter, who was murdered on live TV along … Continue reading →
You may notice that I haven’t covered the Trump phenomenon too much, although I wrote a couple of articles about the issue of illegal aliens and how many crimes they are committing. But in some fundamental way Trump doesn’t interest … Continue reading →
Aleister at Legal Insurrection reports on a campaign to eliminate the words “husband” and “wife” from federal statutes: More than two dozen Democrats have proposed legislation that would eliminate the words “husband” and “wife” from federal law. Those “gendered terms” … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Well, they say you learn something new every day, and yesterday was no exception. Yesterday I learned that “Asian” means something quite different in Britain than it does in the US. Several commenters to this post of mine revealed that … Continue reading →
It’s pretty easy. (a) If you want a problem to appear to be very common, define the problem as broadly as possible. (b) Make sure you use language in the poll that conforms with that very broad definition.
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