I’m both fascinated and puzzled by this essay by Russell Jacoby, a professor (now emeritus) in UCLA’s history department. He writes: …[M]y ’60s generation [posed as] much more radical than previous American intellectuals. We were the leftists, Maoists, Marxists, Third … Continue reading →
The GOP is on the warpath, and the victim is the FBI. Why are the Republicans doing this to those agency innocents, fighting for truth, justice, and the American Way? It’s because of Trump, of course: The attacks on [FBI … Continue reading →
After all, Republican lies are SO much worse than Democrat lies (which don’t exist). This is particularly hypocritical, in light of Joe Biden and family: Another New York Democrat, Rep. Ritchie Torres, urged the House Ethics Committee to probe the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I see that Twitterfiles #6 is now up [hat tip: commenter “Griffin]. I plan to deal with it in a post tomorrow.] John Hayward writes: The corruption Musk is exposing at Twitter makes it seem more obvious in retrospect … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part V of the Twitter files can be found here.] The powerful wokesters at Twitter wanted to ban Trump, the guy they all knew – just knew – is a Nazi. And so when he didn’t violate their rules, … Continue reading →
The amount of coordination between federal agencies such as the FBI, DOJ, and DHS was vast, according to the latest analysis by Matt Taibbi, third in the series. Here’s one small part of it: 17. During this time, executives were … Continue reading →
I may write more later tonight about what’s revealed in this batch, but I’m more likely to do it tomorrow. If you’d like to read up, here’s the link. Taibbi mentions that the next group of files will be dealt … Continue reading →
We on the right knew for years that it was happening. Twitter was not just blocking conservatives outright when they hadn’t actually violated terms of service, but it was also shadow-banning them and subjecting them to a host of other … Continue reading →
Here’s the announcement: Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is changing her party affiliation to independent, delivering a jolt to Democrats’ narrow majority and Washington along with it. In a 45-minute interview, the first-term senator told POLITICO that she will not caucus … Continue reading →
The divided party is the GOP and the united party is the Democrats. Oh, I know the Democrats aren’t really united. Not completely – just nearly completely. In recent decades and especially since Obama became president, they have purged their … Continue reading →
Commenter “Richard Aubrey” asks: …[T]he dem/lib/prog and anti-Trump folks are…..strange. If one mentions a fact inconvenient to their views, they’ll say, “Fox” or “Trump” with the self-satisfied air of intellectual triumph. Logic and facts are meaningless… Shrug. “Faux news”. I’m … Continue reading →
During his administration, Obama was careful to keep his leftist core under control except to those with discerning eyes. Obama carefully calibrated his movements to the left and never went too much further than the public could accept with the … Continue reading →