Commenter “Snow on Pine” makes the following excellent observation about the differences between left and right: The fork in the road occurs at the crossroad named Human Nature. Believe that humans are innately good and that it is just their … Continue reading →
Law professor Ilya Somin makes a very poor analogy between Trump’s Mexican tariffs and the Berlin Wall in this article entitled and subtitled, “Trump’s Plan to Force Mexico to Lock In its Own People: The President’s effort to coerce Mexico … Continue reading →
Richard Fernandez has a scary article about the threats posed by 5G: “Whoever Controls 5G Will Be Able to Surveil and Control the Planet. Will It Be the U.S. or China?” That’s a title that grabs attention. It’s based in … Continue reading →
Or is it the other way around? From OAC’s Green New Deal [emphasis mine]: …[W]e are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases…we spell this out through a plan that calls for eliminating greenhouse gas … Continue reading →
The Democrats’ new election and campaign finance bill may have escaped your attention and gotten lost in the shuffle. But it deserves scrutiny: Today [Feburary 6, that is], House Democrats are holding hearings on a monstrous, 571-page election- and campaign-finance-reform … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This story brought me out of my usual Sunday blog-hibernation.] The news story of the Catholic high school students in MAGA hats who were captured on video supposedly harassing a Native American Vietnam vet was a tale I ignored … Continue reading →
As part of a previous discussion about UFOs, commenter “huxley” wrote: I must say, if one sees a UFO and takes it seriously, it’s a crisis. One asks, or at least I did, what is reality, how do we know … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly-edited reprint of a previous post.] I happen to like Thanksgiving. Always have. It’s a holiday for anyone and everyone in this country—except, of course, people who hate turkey. There are quite a few of those … Continue reading →
Europe has been in turmoil over the issue of so-called “migration” (which at this point in time is the arrival of people who are predominantly Middle Eastern or North African Muslims, although it is not completely limited to those groups). … Continue reading →
…because they’re advocating going down a road that would have an excellent chance of leading there. For those unfamiliar with the Red Guards, please see this. And for those who think I’m engaging in hyperbole, please read an essay appearing … Continue reading →
Educators and people who set education policy are constantly tweaking college admissions standards in order to reach the holy grail of enough diversity, or the right kind of diversity. Here’s an article appearing in The Atlantic which offers a new … Continue reading →
It started with the judicial decisions that put a stay on Trump’s “Muslim ban”-that-was-not-a-Muslim-ban because the courts decided his real intent—based on some much earlier campaign statements—was to institute an actual Muslim ban. I wrote back then: In other related … Continue reading →