The Uvalde school shooting has been a terrible thing. The murder of children and teachers by a teenaged gunman who only gained access through a fluke of a door that didn’t lock when it should have, and the carnage and … Continue reading →
…and still not especially clear. I’ve noticed, also, that many people who are following the story – be they newscasters or pundits or commenters on blogs – keep getting the details mixed up and either inferring things that weren’t said … Continue reading →
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 →