I’m not going to bother to fisk this NY TImes op-ed by Alexis Grenell because Ann Althouse has already done it very well in this post. Instead, I want to concentrate on one phrase in one sentence of Grenell’s leftist, … Continue reading →
Canada’s Quebec seems to be joining the many places around the western world that are swinging towards the right in response to the left’s immigration policies: The business-friendly CAQ is expected to win a majority of seats in Canada’s second … Continue reading →
Yiddish is a language that has a lot of words that express personality qualities and types, particularly loser types or mean types or conniving types. These words often combine humor with rueful sarcasm and cynical realism about the vagaries of … Continue reading →
Yesterday I put up a short clip of Clarence Thomas excoriating the Senate Democrats at his 1991 hearing. I want to highlight it now: Thomas speaks with great eloquence, but it’s his affect that is especially arresting. You can feel … Continue reading →
This evening I wrote a post about the second Kavanaugh accuser. I want to add a few more thoughts, but I decided to use a separate post. Not only was it inevitable that the left would find someone else to … Continue reading →
For the “believe the women; Kavanaugh is guilty as the day is long” crowd on the left, there remain the inconvenient accusers. These accusers are female, too, like Kavanaugh’s. In nearly all instances, their stories of sexual wrongdoing on the … Continue reading →
If Kavanaugh and Ford is the second act, Thomas and Hill was the first. Please don’t quibble with me. I know that Bork preceded that. But I’m talking about sexual allegations mounted against a SCOTUS nominee after the initial hearings, … Continue reading →
On many blogs on the right I see commenters saying things like, “If Corker and/or Flake cave on Kavanaugh, that’s it for me. I’m voting third party and the GOP will be dead to me forever.” That makes zero sense. … Continue reading →
Fairness is so unusual these days, especially among Democrats (which Dershowitz still is), that it is worthy of special note. I’ve become more and more respectful of Dershowitz in recent years for his devotion to principles over party, as in … Continue reading →
A video has emerged that tells us what we already knew—that the heads of Google follow the ethos of the left: Someone leaked to Breitbart an hour-long video of an “all hands” Google meeting that was held just after the … Continue reading →
There’s a long-running argument, online and elsewhere, about how socialist the National Socialists (otherwise known as Nazis, whose full name was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party [*see NOTE below]) were. The Nazis certainly weren’t conventional socialists, if there can … Continue reading →
This new book by Jonathan Haidt seems very promising. It’s entitled The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Now, I’m not sure the people coddling the American mind … Continue reading →