Sparked by the Aaron Alexis case, Ann Coulter wrote a blistering piece excoriating liberals for deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill: But liberals won’t allow the dangerous mentally ill to be committed to institutions against their will. (The threat of commitment … Continue reading →
I haven’t yet written about the fight that’s been going on for quite some time between Senator Ted Cruz and the more (for want of a better word) “establishment” Republicans in Congress. I haven’t commented on it yet because it … Continue reading →
No, I’m not going to write the definitive analysis of these things. I’m going to turn into a linker and refer you to the analyses of others, because I don’t have much to add to what they say: Here’s Ace: … Continue reading →
…till Ted Cruz credits me for coming up with this phrase, but I think I may have originated it. Here’s Cruz: “I call them the Children of Reagan,” he says. He means the rising group of Republican officeholders who came … Continue reading →
I neither watched nor listened to Obama’s speech last night. Fortunately I was out with friends, so I didn’t even have to ponder whether or not to subject myself to it. I did read about it (and the transcript) when … Continue reading →
This observation by Robert Frost has long been one of my favorite descriptions of a liberal: A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Of course, that’s only true when the quarrel is … Continue reading →
The “Republicans are racist” propaganda program continues apace, along with other revisions of history. The Soviets would be so proud! Mona Charen writes: The latest entry appears to be “The Butler,” which misrepresents President Reagan…as, at best, insensitive to blacks, … Continue reading →
…and therefore has set out to destroy him. Cruz is their worst nightmare: a brainy and fearless conservative with impeccable intellectual Ivy League credentials and minority ethnicity to boot. But they feel fully up to the task of turning him … Continue reading →
…if the candidate in question is on the right. No surprise there. [NOTE: I wrote about this issue long ago (although not of course in relation to Cruz), pointing out that similar questions were raised about John McCain when he … Continue reading →
…does the DC Circuit have? In an opinion released today involving the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Executive Branch has no authority to disregard congressional mandates merely on policy … Continue reading →
……to articles like this one is: what about political changers like me? How do you explain us? Political preferences seem to come packaged with a whole set of other kinds of tastes, with liberals and conservatives having separate preferences when … Continue reading →
I found the following comment to my post on Tamerlane Tsarnaev and the BBC (cross-posted at Legal Insurrection) to be a good reminder of the difference between our own left/right divide vs. those of Europe: Some concepts don’t translate well … Continue reading →