Mac Donald writes about the recent Stanford event at which law students shouted down a conservative judge’s speech, and the school’s DEI officer seemed to take the students’ side: At 7.02am on March 9th, the morning of Duncan’s planned speech, … Continue reading →
Trump has written a couple of things lately in response to Bragg that have created the familiar storm of indignation. Let’s take this one first: Potential death and destruction? He continued to step on the rake…wow. ?????? pic.twitter.com/W8dXZmG6qP — Rocky … Continue reading →
Melanie Phillips writes: The focus of opposition [and riots] is [Netanyahu’s] proposed judicial reforms. The protests are also fueled, however, by fear of the nationalist and religious ultras in the governing coalition and by hatred of Netanyahu, who for some … Continue reading →
The so-called top law schools are nothing like they were when I attended one. There was already a leftist element back then, but it probably consisted of less than a quarter of the faculty. The courses were relatively non-political, too, … Continue reading →
I’ve seen lots of articles lately of this sort: More than HALF (56.3%) of liberal white women age 18-29 have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. That’s more than DOUBLE the percentage (27.3%) of conservative white women in the … Continue reading →
Commenter “OBloodyHell” opines, in the Naomi Wolf thread: I do not believe you were truly “liberal” beforehand, Neo. I suspect you always had a part of your mind filled with doubt, conscious and unconscious of certain inconsistencies. Depends what you … Continue reading →
In this substack essay by Naomi Wolf, she apologizes to conservatives and Trump-supporters for having believed the Democrat/MSM January 6th narrative. In it, she makes some historical points: Massing peacefully at the Capitol and other public buildings, is part of … Continue reading →
Here it is, from Matt Taibbi. It’s about the tale that Russian bots influenced the 2016 election, which appears to have been an actual disinformation campaign by the Democrats, who tried to convince Twitter to spread the word. Even the … Continue reading →
It’s very common for me to see a question – sometimes rhetorical and sometimes otherwise – that can be answered rather easily with a simple search. Most of the time I don’t mind doing that search, but I wonder why … Continue reading →
I certainly hope so. The end might just be that the rebels have extracted enough concessions – some of them improvements on business-as-usual – and McCarthy gets elected. The latter is something that’s okay with me although not ideal because, … Continue reading →
I’m no Einstein. (I thought I’d get that out of the way first.) However, I’ve always liked that word: Gedankenexperiment, otherwise known as “thought experiment.” I’ve got one for you about the current brouhaha over electing a Speaker in the … Continue reading →
The GOP margin is tiny, and a small portion of the conservative wing in the House sees its chance to wring more concessions from would-be Speaker Kevin McCarthy. At least, I hope that’s what’s going on, because no realistic alternative … Continue reading →