Here’s the story as it now stands. I caution everyone to ask questions, though, before jumping to conclusions. For example: Video emerging online from Tuesday’s schoolchildren massacre in Uvalde, Texas shows local police more concerned with stopping parents than stopping … Continue reading →
Roger Angell, noted baseball writer for The New Yorker, has died at the age of 101. I had no idea he was still alive, but I used to read him regularly during the thirty or so years when I had … Continue reading →
Who is “they”? Why the MSM, of course. For as long as I’ve been blogging (and before), this has been the way it’s been. The latest involves the death of an Al Jazeera journalist: McKernan then uncritically repeats Al Jazeera’s … Continue reading →
A lot of people are writing about this Andrew C. McCarthy article in which he reports the following: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court after the current term ends in a few … Continue reading →
What is there to say anymore about a racist murder such as this most recent one, in a Buffalo supermarket – hasn’t it all been said before, so many times? I’ll say this: that each such murder is an outrage … Continue reading →
What’s going on here? [emphasis mine]: While discussing the Musk take-over on CNN’s potato time with Brain Stelter, “media analyst” David Zurawik proclaimed that Musk is “dangerous” and shouldn’t be allowed to restore free speech on the platform. Zurawik suggested … Continue reading →
You can see what’s going on here: While discussing the Musk take-over on CNN’s potato time with Brain Stelter, “media analyst” David Zurawik proclaimed that Musk is “dangerous” and shouldn’t be allowed to restore free speech on the platform. Zurawik … Continue reading →
What’s the Streisand Effect?: The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American … Continue reading →
I haven’t followed this story and before today probably hadn’t even heard of Taylor Lorenz. But it’s quite a tale. This is what the WaPo has descended to (it’s not the only pernicious thing the WaPo has descended to, not … Continue reading →
In the comments recently, Geoffrey Britain posted a link to an April 17th pronouncement by Colonal Douglas Macgregor that is entitled “Col. Douglas MacGregor on Ukraine: ‘We’re in the final phase of this war’”. Here’s an excerpt: Former U.S. Army … Continue reading →
He was in the East Village when apprehended: Frank R. James was arrested in Manhattan on a federal warrant and will face a hearing in Brooklyn Federal Court, with a police source indicating the 61-year-old suspect was busted after East … Continue reading →
I’ve noticed quite a few recent references to the Gulf of Tonkin incident that occurred during the Vietnam era. The Gulf of Tonkin is treated as though we all know the story: the government lied to get us into a … Continue reading →