A big win …
… for the conservatives in Japan.
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The Virginia playbook: run as a moderate, govern as a radical
Here’s how it works: Spanberger’s very first order of business was reversing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Executive Order 47, which had allowed for coordination between the Virginia State Police and the Department of Corrections and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That … Continue reading →
Guess what? There’s fraud and waste in red states too
This should come as no surprise: Tapscott reported that the most startling takeaway from the 2024 audits (the latest available) was that “the results for the red states are strikingly similar to those of the blue states.” He noted that … Continue reading →
The WaPo Dies In Darkness
It’s a sad day at the WaPo: The Washington Post told staffers today that it was moving forward with a sweeping round of layoffs that was part of a “broad strategic reset” of the storied newspaper, which will include eliminating … Continue reading →
Right and left, left and right: in Costa Rica and in the US
You may have noticed a Latin American wave of elections won by politicians on the right. The latest is in Costa Rica: The rightwing populist Laura Fernández has won Costa Rica’s presidential election in a landslide after promising to crack … Continue reading →
On therapists as social justice warriors
On yesterday’s thread about anti-MAGA rage in the health professions, there was some discussion about the leftism of therapists. I’m unaware of any threats by therapists to kill MAGA fans. But then again – unlike nurses and doctors – they’re … Continue reading →
What are the goals of George Soros?
I promised a while back to tackle this subject, and here’s my effort. I don’t claim to really know the answer – that’s the short version of this post. But I’ll give it a try. A great many people would … Continue reading →
There’s another socialist mayor in the US who just took office
Somehow, Mamdani got all the coverage, but there’s also a new socialist mayor in Seattle. That Overton Window sure has moved, especially with the younger generation: Mayor Katie Wilson has been less specific in her proposals than Mamdani, but she … Continue reading →
It’s been five years since J6
Time flies; things change. There’s still plenty that we don’t know about J6. One thing we do know is that the Democrats made sure their narrative of the day got cemented in people’s minds very early. Here’s Victor Davis Hanson … Continue reading →
Democrats on the capture of Maduro
I was wondering whether any prominent Democrats had broken ranks and praised the Venezuela operation that netted Maduro. And so of course I thought of John Fetterman, and he didn’t disappoint: “I don’t know why we can’t just acknowledge it’s … Continue reading →
Mamdani’s rogues gallery of appointments
Mamdani’s appointees so far are about as expected. A sampler: On Friday, the new mayor named Ali Najmi to chair his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, which picks judges for family and civil courts and interim appointees for criminal courts; … Continue reading →
The MSM jumps into action … against Nick Shirley, maker of the viral video about Minnesota daycare centers
Your intrepid reporters are on the job: … [Some in] our present liberal media … seem more concentrated on trying to debunk what Shirley was exposing than on finding out the facts. CNN had a correspondent confront Shirley outside of … Continue reading →