The rhetoric from the left is becoming ever more dangerous and inflammatory. And it’s the left that says “words are violence” – if so, what shall we call this?: Gen. Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and NSA, … Continue reading →
No doubt all you news junkies have noticed that the MSM has taken to putting modifiers such as “debunked” and “false” in front of any statement they don’t like. It’s so commonplace it’s become a sort of bitter joke on … Continue reading →
Here’s a little more background on the confusion. In 2019 the Kansas Supreme Court had ruled that the state constitution includes a right to abortion, based on reasoning such as this: The decision, in which one of the seven justices … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman is a case of someone who has no problem contradicting himself, saying inane things that defy common sense, and doing it all with no sense of shame or apology but on the contrary with a sense of proud … Continue reading →
Well, language changes and evolves, doesn’t it? Sometimes overnight, depending on political exigencies: Wikipedia has suspended the edit feature on its ‘Recession’ page after users flocked to amend it to concur with President Biden’s claim that the US isn’t suffering … Continue reading →
Commenter “Bauxite” observes: The language game is the MO of the left. It works most of the time because most of our political and policy debates occur in the realm of abstract theory. The left can bluff its way through … Continue reading →
The Biden administration continues the Obama administration’s emphasis on labeling, as though calling something by a different name would fool people into actually seeing it differently. Why do they do this? The main reason is that they believe in the … Continue reading →
Google started out with the mantra “Don’t be evil”: When Google went public in 2004, it epitomised technological and entrepreneurial genius. Two engineers had developed a remarkably powerful, easy-to-use search engine, opening the doors to vast amounts of knowledge. The … Continue reading →
Commenter “F” asked a question yesterday on the thread about the exchange between Bridges and Hawley concerning who can get pregnant: I think the question of violence is where Bridges wins the point. It is a dishonest point — Hawley … Continue reading →
I was rather surprised to see how many people reacted to the video of the Berkeley professor, Khiara Bridges, in her exchange with Senator Josh Hawley, by saying they thought she wasn’t very bright. On the contrary, in my opinion … Continue reading →
ADDENDUM: And I must must must add this from “Life of Brian,” circa 1979:
Continue reading →…but this is so spectacular I couldn’t ignore it: …[Jill] Biden messed up not once, but twice in the same sentence, first by saying the Latin community is “as distinct as the bogidas (sic) of the Bronx, as beautiful as … Continue reading →