And they are voting for pro-democracy candidates: Pro-democracy candidates appear to have made major gains in Hong Kong’s district council elections, as early results trickled in Monday morning, with multiple high-profile pro-government figures losing their seats. More than 2.9 million … Continue reading →
Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection has been doing tremendous work promoting free speech. Two years ago he spoke at Vassar on the subject, amidst turmoil from activists spreading lies about him and seeking to silence him. Recently he reflected … Continue reading →
…the Nineteen Eighty-Four election, according to Victor Davis Hanson: It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future versus American traditionalism. I don’t think there’s any “becoming” about it. This has been true of elections ever since at least … Continue reading →
Beto O’Rourke got a lot of attention when he suggested that churches opposing gay marriage should lose tax-exempt status: “There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone … that denies the full human rights and the … Continue reading →
A couple of commenters mentioned this piece by Matt Taibbi. It’s quite fascinating, because Taibbi – a guy who defies classification but is described (accurately, I’m going to assume) by commenter “huxley” in these words: [Taibbi] tends to write purple-prose … Continue reading →
It seems to me that it wasn’t all that long ago when the vast majority of Americans believed that the sort of behavior seen on the streets of Minneapolis by “demonstrators” “protesting” the Trump rally would be completely unacceptable, and … Continue reading →
From Claudia Rossett: But what the initial extradition-law threat highlighted for Hong Kong’s people was that unless they are able to elect their own leaders, they will be directly at the mercy of a Beijing-appointed chief executive, who will — … Continue reading →
I read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four when I was about twelve years old. You might say that’s too early to truly understand it. And if you said that, you’d probably be right. But even then, I understood it well enough. … Continue reading →
It’s easy to mock George Packer for what he writes in this Atlantic essay about choosing a school for his son in New York City. But I find his essay heartbreaking as well as complex. He’s a well-meaning liberal who … Continue reading →
I just wrote a post about the Democrats’ cavalier attitude towards the 2nd Amendment, but that post was more about politics. Now I want to emphasize the anti-Constitutional aspects of the move. As John Hinderaker of Powerline writes: …[W]hy should … Continue reading →
I wonder what polls Kamala Harris had access to that make her think the time was ripe for the “just do it” approach to gun control: During last night’s Democratic presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden admonished Sen. Kamala … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Some of the following is lifted from a back-and-forth discussion I had with commenter “Montage” on a previous thread.] I maintain that the left’s goal is to be in charge forever: one-party rule. And they believe in breaking the … Continue reading →