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 →
Victor Davis Hanson sums up what we now know about the Covington Lie, as he terms it [emphasis mine]: The entire psychodrama boiled down not to what the facts on the ground showed, but rather who each party was perceived … Continue reading →
I think of the Covington story and the Buzzfeed Cohen/Trump story as connected, even though their subject matters differ tremendously. The common meta-subject-matter of both, the lessons to learn from both, go like this: (1) There is no limit to … Continue reading →
I’ve noticed many pundits, in the fallout from the Covington boys vs. the Native American incident, saying that the kids shouldn’t have worn MAGA hats. I’ve seen it said over and over, mainly by people walking back previous vicious comments … Continue reading →
Daniel Pipes observes: MbS [Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman] versus Jeremy Corbyn symbolizes these two tectonic shifts, as does Israel now enjoying better relations with Egypt than with Sweden. The president of Chad turns up in Israel but … Continue reading →
On the blue blue cities: Conservatives do not do well in the cities… But it’s not only the coastal dens of sin that we have written off: In Texas — Texas! — Republican office-seekers (a reasonable if imperfect proxy for … Continue reading →
…isn’t easy. There are widespread riots. But exactly who is rioting and why they’re rioting isn’t completely clear, although they certainly seem to be anti-Macron. But there are plenty of reasons to be anti-Macron, some emanating from the left and … Continue reading →