Maybe they have. But maybe they haven’t. For a few weeks now, ever since Trump threatened to send troops to stop the riots and Senator Cotton backed him up, and the entire left, Democratic Party, and MSM (but I repeat … Continue reading →
Today is Thomas Sowell’s 90th birthday, and I want to wish him a happy one. Sowell may also be happy today that he’s been retired for several years, because chronicling our current mess is not fun, although I would dearly … Continue reading →
Be Mayor Durkan fool, be she knave, or be she both? Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant joined a large group of protesters outside the CHOP zone who marched to [Seattle Mayor] Durkan’s house on Sunday afternoon. You mean, they didn’t … Continue reading →
This is the kind of New Yorker I remember from my youth. You didn’t mess with them. The young man doesn’t quite know what hit him: Somewhere I read that the lady in the video is named Vickie Paladino, and … Continue reading →
The NY Times and the left (but I repeat myself) would have you believe that America’s founding principle of the most basic kind was slavery, and that all along slavery and racism have been the driving forces behind the US. … Continue reading →
In September of 2018 I wrote a post that began like this: It’s no accident that the Furies were women: “According to Hesiod’s Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the … Continue reading →
Most people who have watched this video of one of the founders of BLM focus on the fact that she says that she and one of the other three founders of BLM are Marxists. And although that’s certainly of interest, … Continue reading →
Last night I was talking on the phone to a friend on the right (I have one or two). I mentioned something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately, which is that the current BLM/Antifa movement brings to mind … Continue reading →
…or by what a small group of attention-getting radicals want. In the turmoil we’re now experiencing, many people are afraid. That certainly makes sense – it’s frightening. Just a few short months ago things seemed relatively “normal.” Then COVID came, … Continue reading →
…although to the elites, Democratic politicians, and to the left (is that redundant?), BLM is the new religion and “all lives matter” is unforgivable racist heresy against it. The fact the black lives are included in “all lives” is explained … Continue reading →
I have a clue for Jonathan Chait: he knows very little about conservatives. For example: One universal fact of political life is that people tend not to enjoy highlighting faults committed by their own side, and often respond to others … Continue reading →
I’ve already written about yesterday’s SCOTUS decision in which the majority said that the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employers from firing gay or transgender people because of those traits. But I want to add some further thoughts. In Justice … Continue reading →