Anyone surprised at the vote? Didn’t think so. The general trend is for greater and greater control by agencies in matters that may seem innocuous, technical, and/or unimportant at the time but can have wide-reaching effects especially when they are … Continue reading →
[UPDATE 9 PM: The shooter has been identified as Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein.] Danish authorities haven’t been quick to give out the details of yesterday’s dual attack in Copenhagan, but so far it appears that it is mirroring the recent … Continue reading →
I’ve often had a similar thought, which the following passage by Roger Kimball expresses so well (and “liberal” and “liberalism” in the following doesn’t just mean “liberals” as in “progressives,” but also “liberals” as in “classical liberals”): Liberal regimes have … Continue reading →
…that folks who thought we should abolish the IRS and simplify the tax code were wacko. Now they make a lot of sense to me, particularly Ted Cruz: Now that Republicans control Congress, Cruz said the party must seize on … Continue reading →
I don’t like this development: France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and those glorifying terrorism… Authorities said 54 people had been arrested for hate speech and defending terrorism since terror attacks killed 20 … Continue reading →
…for the better. This surprises me. I admire and respect Hannan, who is an eloquent man and who represents the Conservative Party for South East England as a Member of the European Parliament. I have never found him to be … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote that the message sent by Obama’s non-attendance at the Paris march was “unmistakeable.” But I guess it wasn’t, because there’s been a lot of chatter about it (see, for example, the long list at memeorandum) and many … Continue reading →
The still-at-large suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France fall into the dreaded category of native-born jihadis. The brothers Kouachi, one of whom had served time for trying to get to Iraq to fight the Americans, apparently fell off … Continue reading →
I’m not sure when it happened, but I fear there’s been an insidious change in attitude towards Obama. It occurs to me that the right may have gone through the clichéd five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression—and reached cynical … Continue reading →
…when it responded to the North Korean cyberattack by pulling the film that satirized North Korea. “I wish they had spoken to me first,” he said (the “they” referring to Sony, not to North Korea). He also again vowed to … Continue reading →
When I first read about the cyberattack on Sony I didn’t pay all that much attention. That turned out to be wrong. This attack on a US company, almost certainly by the government of North Korea, is a devastating blow … Continue reading →
Lately the WaPo has been backing off from its kneejerk approval of the Obama administration, but this editorial along those lines is especially strong: IN RECENT months, the outlook for the Castro regime in Cuba was growing steadily darker. The … Continue reading →