Ugh! I’m linking positively to the National Review, to this article by Stanley Kurtz! Actually, I don’t know enough about Stan to know if I really dislike him, but the record he presents of self-righteous leftie rampages is discouraging to say the least. The Enlightenment? We don’t need your lousy, stinkin’ Enlightenment! Who wants to…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Joshua Redman —“Trinkle Tinkle”
Festival Triumph of Jazz at the Moscow House of Music on 19 February, 2011. Joshua Redman (tenor sax), Reuben Rogers (bass) & Gregory Hutchinson (drums). Posted by Taberculat
David French, daring to speak the unspeakable, so to speak
“Make no mistake,” the National Review’s sometimes rational (but not this time) David French warns us in light of the recent Manchester bombing, “there is an emerging bipartisan consensus that a certain amount of terrorism is just the price we have to pay to live the way we want to live. Now, to be clear,…
Jonah Goldberg, taking 10,000 words (more or less) to suggest that he really really wishes Donald Trump wasn’t president
Jonah Goldberg has a weekly (I guess) column at the National Review called “The G-File”, in which he raps, often at no mean length, about what it means to be the G-Man. In the current iteration, Jonah seems to have a lot on his mind, but his thoughts don’t quite come trippingly to the tongue,…
Kushner Russian deal totally not a big deal, Trumpers trumpet
It’s good to talk! Yes, that’s the word from Trump mouthpiece and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly: “Any information flow into the government and then considered by the government, I won’t criticize that.” Uh-huh. The former four-star Marine Corps general made these comments on the ABC Sunday talk show “This Week”, duly reported for…
Marcus Roberts—“Trinkle Tinkle”
Marcus Roberts, taking Monk for a ride. Michigan State University, 1994. Posted by Shimon-D-I
UPDATE: Clarence Thomas didn’t “vote black”; other conservatives voted “white”
On Monday, I used the time-honored journalistic dodge of “ethically” floating a sensational but unverified allegation by stating it in the form of a question, to wit: Clarence Thomas didn’t just ‘vote black’, did he? Well, according to Mark Joseph Stern, over at Slate, he didn’t. Instead, he voted “Thomas.” “Clarence Thomas Joins Liberals, Shocks…
Shorter Rod Rosenstein: “I’ve always been a pr*ck!”
That’s what 100 senators learned at a special, closed, “classified”1 hearing from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last Thursday. The House held a similar hearing on Friday. From what was leaked, it seems that “R-Rod” couldn’t stop talking about what a shit he is. In fact, we now have Rosenstein’s statement from the Friday meeting,…
Clarence Thomas didn’t just “vote black”, did he?
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is, to put it mildly, known for his scorn for anything resembling “affirmative action”. So why was Thomas joining a bunch of, you know, liberals, in Cooper v. Harris to affirm a lower court ruling overturning a little scheme cooked up by North Carolina Republicans to pack all the black…
The Vials of Republican Wrath
Over at the National Review, the often (though often not) “honest conservative” David French has an interesting post “Stop Making Terrible Arguments For Blind Loyalty”, complaining that he often hears pleas from “real Republicans” to be, in effect, as bad as the Democrats. As French puts it, the argument goes something like this: “The GOP…