An interesting piece by Melanie Phillips: The stakes in this election were enormous, not just for Britain but for the world. Labour is led by the most far-left leadership in its history, supporting terrorists abroad and incubating virulent antisemitism at … Continue reading →
The upcoming UK election (December 12) has focused on the Brexit issue, but there’s another one: the Labour Party’s anti-Semitism. You can find several articles on the topic in today’s Telegraph: for example, this one as well as this. You … Continue reading →
Democrats would love, love, love to get rid of the EC. Their rhetoric is to establish a “make every vote count” democracy (republic? who needs it?). But the actual motivation is that they believe a national vote would favor them … Continue reading →
Peter Boghossian writes: The correspondence theory of truth basically states that objective truth exists and we can know something about it through evidence and reason… In Culture War 2.0 the correspondence theory of truth—with its commitment to the idea that … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Artfldgr] Here’s an interesting interview with two black women explaining how they realized they were actually Republicans. It takes a particular kind of courage: Parker: Well, I came to believe what I believe by reading a proverb a … Continue reading →
…the Nineteen Eighty-Four election, according to Victor Davis Hanson: It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future versus American traditionalism. I don’t think there’s any “becoming” about it. This has been true of elections ever since at least … Continue reading →
We’ve already talked an awful lot here about the phenomenon of the NeverTrumpers on the right. Even so, this piece on the subject is well worth reading: Before President Trump’s explosive entrance onto the political scene, mainstream conservatism was somewhat … Continue reading →
The Democrats pretended to do something today, but it was nothing or worse than nothing. Byron York calls the resolution they passed “The Adam Schiff Empowerment Act.” But Schiff was already informally empowered to do what the act still allows … Continue reading →
Commenter “mhjhnsn” writes, in the thread about the Democrats’ reaction to the killing of Baghdadi: …[W]hat this really says to me is that there is NOTHING that Trump can do to mollify, even for only a day, those who hate … Continue reading →
Often there seem to be international trends in response to historical forces, trends that then create their own historical forces. The age of 20th Century dictators, for example. Later, the resurgence of conservatism in Reagan and Thatcher. Then, a reaction … Continue reading →
In a recent thread I mentioned that Beto O’Rourke lied about how leftist he was when he was running against Cruz for the Senate, and that he’d been following the principle “Lie until you get in power, and then do … Continue reading →
Commenter “Mac” writes: I recently had an exchange with a leftist who explicitly rejected the significance of plain facts to the debate. For him the only *fact* that mattered was that his cause was morally right. It dawned on me … Continue reading →