The zeitgeist has passed me by
Actually, I’m not sure I ever was fully with the program, even when I was young. But in the last couple of years, as I watch the world from my perch here at a computer in New England, I’ve become … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Liberty
Another must-read…
…from Glenn Greenwald: House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms: Democrats’ justification for silencing their adversaries online and in media — “they are spreading fake news and inciting extremism” — is what despots everywhere say.
Continue reading →Can HR1 pass in the Senate?
Commenter “Bauxite” writes: Can’t see how they pass HR 1 without nuking the filibuster. There’s no way that 10 Republicans will vote for it. The pressure will be on Manchin and Sinema, though. I’m going to start worrying if there … Continue reading →
The ghost of Biden past gave a speech last night
I didn’t watch the speech except for a short excerpt. It is too depressing to see how depleted he is. I never liked the guy – at best, he was a mendacious, conniving mediocrity. But now, in addition to not … Continue reading →
Piers Morgan refuses to apologize
No Soviet-style confessions for Piers: On Monday, while discussing Markle’s revelation in her interview with Oprah Winfrey that she’d had suicidal thoughts but was denied help from senior members of the royal institution, Morgan said: “Who did you go to? … Continue reading →
Contemplating HR1
I was going to write a big long post on HR1 today, but I can’t bring myself to do it right now. Maybe tomorrow I’ll gird my loins and tackle it – tackle it again, that is, because I’ve written … Continue reading →
Elite private school education: at least these parents won’t have to worry that their kids will need to be sent to re-education camp
Instead, their kids are getting their goodthink indoctrination very early in life. Bari Weiss formerly wrote for the NY Times, but she got pushed out for being insuficiently woke, despite remaining a liberal. Here she meets with and reports on … Continue reading →
The pro-Biden pro-life evangelicals: promise them anything
Apparently there is a group of pro-life evangelicals who supported Biden because he – or some spokespeople for him – indicated there would be wiggle room on abortion and the Hyde Amendment if Biden were to be elected. Now they … Continue reading →
Our gracious CDC overlords are being magnanimous…
…and are allowing “fully vaccinated individuals” (that’s me!!) to do the following: Americans who have received the full COVID-19 vaccine can gather with vaccinated grandparents or friends without wearing masks or keeping their distance, according to new CDC guidance announced … Continue reading →
What does the left think would be the danger in leaving Trump’s CPAC speech on YouTube?
They’ve removed it, and they’ve suspended Right Side Broadcasting for publishing it. The left has been banning and canceling people for quite some time, but a more blatant and extreme form of institutional (and corporate) censorship began – as far … Continue reading →
The radical “Equality Act”
The Democrats are now bent on codifying at the federal level the so-called “Equality Act,” which if passed would do the following: This bill would require Americans to consider gender identity and even biological sex a personal choice, not an … Continue reading →
Why didn’t more professors oppose the Gramscian march or at least stick up for free speech?
Commenter “huxley” asks this question: I’m trying to understand how academia slid further and further to the left… I’m interested in Prof. Everybody, the academicians who watched and are still watching as their world was gradually taken over by the … Continue reading →