On yesterday’s thread about anti-MAGA rage in the health professions, there was some discussion about the leftism of therapists. I’m unaware of any threats by therapists to kill MAGA fans. But then again – unlike nurses and doctors – they’re … Continue reading →
I promised a while back to tackle this subject, and here’s my effort. I don’t claim to really know the answer – that’s the short version of this post. But I’ll give it a try. A great many people would … Continue reading →
Somehow, Mamdani got all the coverage, but there’s also a new socialist mayor in Seattle. That Overton Window sure has moved, especially with the younger generation: Mayor Katie Wilson has been less specific in her proposals than Mamdani, but she … Continue reading →
Time flies; things change. There’s still plenty that we don’t know about J6. One thing we do know is that the Democrats made sure their narrative of the day got cemented in people’s minds very early. Here’s Victor Davis Hanson … Continue reading →
I was wondering whether any prominent Democrats had broken ranks and praised the Venezuela operation that netted Maduro. And so of course I thought of John Fetterman, and he didn’t disappoint: “I don’t know why we can’t just acknowledge it’s … Continue reading →
Mamdani’s appointees so far are about as expected. A sampler: On Friday, the new mayor named Ali Najmi to chair his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, which picks judges for family and civil courts and interim appointees for criminal courts; … Continue reading →
Your intrepid reporters are on the job: … [Some in] our present liberal media … seem more concentrated on trying to debunk what Shirley was exposing than on finding out the facts. CNN had a correspondent confront Shirley outside of … Continue reading →
The phrase in this post’s title comes from Margaret Thatcher: “Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.” [Often quoted as ‘the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of … Continue reading →
All it takes is to become Trump’s enemy, and the MSM will give you the sympathetic star treatment. From Ace, a post entitled: “As Predictable As the Setting Sun: After Conspiracy Theorist and Lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene Turns on Trump, … Continue reading →
Solzhenitsyn famously said: “live not by lies.” How many politicians follow that maxim? Vanishingly few. And I wouldn’t expect them to; politics is a dirty, compromised business. And yet, not all lies are created equal. Some lies are minor: “I … Continue reading →
Melanie Phillips is not pleased: Bad as all this is, the really shocking thing has been the refusal by certain mainstream conservatives to denounce [growing anti-Semitism on the right] and shut it down, appearing instead to nod along to it. … Continue reading →
Switching it up: Originally conceived by George Orwell as a satirical allegory for the Russian Revolution and the subsequent struggles of the USSR under the rule of Joseph Stalin, Animal Farm’s political ire is redirected in this lively CG-animated adaptation … Continue reading →