In this essay, Michelle Malkin uses a term I had never heard before but which I think fits what’s happening in the US today: It’s not “socialism” or “communism” under which we suffer. Our dangerously chaotic, selectively oppressive predicament is … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a revised version of a previous post.] Robert Frost’s poem “A Case for Jefferson” isn’t great poetry—even though it’s a poem by a master of the genre. It’s more in the vein of light verse, which Frost … Continue reading →
Portland used to be a pretty nice town. What happened?: …[S]omewhere around the time of the Ford administration…Portland reinvented itself as the Pyongyang of the Pacific Northwest, if with a few more trendy artisanal coffee bars than Kim Jong-un has … Continue reading →
…and even prior to that, I don’t think I had watched them for several decades. I watch very little network TV and not much TV at all. I suppose somebody does, though. And now this: CBS has announced a target … Continue reading →
[NOTE: The following is a revised and updated version of a post I wrote over seven years ago, based on Allan Bloom’s book published in 1987.] I’ve written before about Allan Bloom’s masterful The Closing of the American Mind, published … Continue reading →
Don’t ask Brittany “O’Brien” Marshall to design a bridge for you: “Nope the idea of 2+2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing,” wrote Marshall… Marshall goes by … Continue reading →
…by the values of the right. The rule of law, free speech (which the left also championed when they were a relatively small minority), polite discourse in the public arena, respect for private property. But all that time, the left … Continue reading →
Killings weren’t enough to get Durkan to give the order to take back CHOP. It was only when “protestors” came to Durkan’s house and scared her family that she clamped down on CHOP. Her excuse was the murders in the … Continue reading →
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 →