I wrote a post yesterday about Nancy Pelosi’s statement, “I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16…I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school…” But today I want to emphasize that … Continue reading →
Roger Simon writes: Basically, our youth has suffered from a form of child abuse by their teachers and the media. They have been told, implicitly and explicitly, from earliest childhood that socialism is the preferable system because of “fairness.” The … Continue reading →
Scott Johnson writes: In her interview with Tim Alberta for “The Democrats’ dilemma,” Omar disparaged the sainted Barack Obama by asserting that in critical respects he was as bad as Trump is. She then denied the accuracy of the quote … Continue reading →
There were some comments recently that were so insightful I thought I’d repost them here, to draw attention to them. The first was in the knitting post. In case you haven’t read that post, it was about a big dust-up … Continue reading →
Here’s an example of how far the left—and some courts—are willing to go in the fight to offer physical (hormonal) treatments to children who identify as transgender, despite parental objections to the hormones at such a young age: Last Wednesday, … Continue reading →
The founder of the #WalkAway movement, Brandon Straka, appeared last night on the Mark Levin show. His interview has been posted on YouTube, and a fascinating interview it is. The entire interview is well worth watching, but the part that … Continue reading →
Not that we needed a reminder. But she certainly provides it. Here’s the text of an open letter from the New York state budget director Robert Mujica concerning the recent decision by Amazon not to follow through on a planned … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting question from commenter Geoffrey Britain: What is the practical difference between an entrenched ‘confirmation bias’, that is immune to contrary fact, logic, reason and common sense…and ideological fanaticism? How does a person who stops “all such meanderings … Continue reading →
This column by Matthew Continetti had such a promising title: “What to Do About the Rebirth of Socialism: Where it came from and how to stop it.” Well, maybe that’s biting off too big a hunk to chew in such … Continue reading →
But oh, we can all feel so self-righteous about it, as AOC does: Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power … Continue reading →
Now, I don’t how far to the left Nancy Pelosi really is. Probably much further than she lets on. But my guess is that she’s not too happy about the radical wing of the Democratic Party, the one whose members … Continue reading →
[NOTE: We had a discussion here the other day on why leftism, despite its failures, remains so appealing to so many people. I thought it might be time to revisit this post from 2014 on that topic. So here it … Continue reading →