It’s no secret that the left wants to hold the House and take the Senate, so that even if Trump wins again they can thwart his every move in terms of legislation. And the Senate is particularly important, of course, … Continue reading →
It’s easy to mock George Packer for what he writes in this Atlantic essay about choosing a school for his son in New York City. But I find his essay heartbreaking as well as complex. He’s a well-meaning liberal who … Continue reading →
I just wrote a post about the Democrats’ cavalier attitude towards the 2nd Amendment, but that post was more about politics. Now I want to emphasize the anti-Constitutional aspects of the move. As John Hinderaker of Powerline writes: …[W]hy should … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Some of the following is lifted from a back-and-forth discussion I had with commenter “Montage” on a previous thread.] I maintain that the left’s goal is to be in charge forever: one-party rule. And they believe in breaking the … Continue reading →
From a Kevin D. Williamson article in National Review: They [several writers, but really much of the Democratic Party today] do not understand the United States as having two legitimate competing political camps but as suffering from a kind of … Continue reading →
The absolute inability of the urban liberal bourgeoisie to come to terms with any significant political defeat is the phenomenon I’m dying to see analyzed by serious scholars. (I believe the answer is ultimately theological). https://t.co/FwdQt5s0lA — Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) … Continue reading →
I don’t even pretend to understand the maneuverings going on in Britain right now over Brexit. And the more articles I read, the more convinced I am that no one else really does, either. Although I hope Boris Johnson understands … Continue reading →
…keep their views quiet at times due to fear of lowered grades. No surprise there. I was thinking recently about an incident that happened to me around 2005. I was having dinner with a guy who was—ahem—interested in me. He … Continue reading →
There have been a number of articles about the left’s campaign to get a bunch of leftist DAs-in-name-only (DAINOs?) into office, in order to stop prosecuting a lot of people. Rather Orwellian, don’t you think? Here’s a NY Times article … Continue reading →
It may seem almost funny to those on the right who’ve been complaining for years (pre-Trump, anyway) about how the right never fights back—but people on the left often say the same thing about the left: that is, that the … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread: Thread: On Media Narratives 1. Once upon a time, the legacy media controlled the daily news narrative. There were three principal broadcast TV networks which took their nightly news cues from the NYT and, secondarily, … Continue reading →
The politics of American Jews have come up recently, due to Trump’s “disloyal” remarks. The majority of Jews certainly do vote for Democrats, as Trump noted. But it’s not that simple. For some secular Jews, leftism has replaced Judaism as … Continue reading →