Timothy Shenk, a professor of history at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, which is “within” (somehow) George Washington University, has a nice article up at the New York Times, A Lost Manuscript Reveals the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail. What the good professor is talking about is a 250-page…
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Okay, I guess that 1996 Clinton-Gingrich welfare reform bill wasn’t perfect after all
In the unlikely event that you are an assiduous reader of this blog, you know that I’m a big fan of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that drastically reduced welfare dependency in the U.S.—and welfare dependency really is a thing—or it really was—regardless of what “passionate” liberals want you to think.1 But, as it turns…
Ḥasidic schools: The Story Behind the Story Behind the Story
A week or so back the New York Times busted a big one, In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money. “New York’s Hasidic Jewish religious schools have benefited from $1 billion in government funding in the last four years but are unaccountable to outside oversight” ran the subhead. Well, over at Mosaic,…
Democrats behaving badly. Again!
Oh yeah, it’s self-flagellation time around the Literature R Us corral, and my comrades in arms have supplied me with an awesome array of whips, knouts, and other assorted scourges, painful even to look upon, much less touch. But, well, duty calls. Yo, Joe Biden! Shut up! “They’re killing people,” bellowed/whined Uncle Joe back in…
CDC admits mistakes, promises to do a better job in covering its ass in the future
“CDC director orders agency overhaul, admitting flawed Covid-19 response”, says today’s Politico. “Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization”, says today’s New York Times. “Inside America’s monkeypox crisis — and the mistakes that made it worse”, says today’s Washington Post. Yeah, you can’t make this stuff up—and, most unfortunately, you don’t have to,…
Yo, Blobists! If we “have” to learn how to get along with Saudi Arabia, shouldn’t we “have” to learn how to get along with Russia and China too?
Yeah, Blobists! Or Establishmentarians, or whatever you like to call yourselves these days! What is the deal with this hardnosiosity, or perhaps rhinosaurusism, that is coming to the fore with regard to Saudi Arabia? I first noticed, and bewailed, this unfortunate “trend” last March, when I faulted Atlantic editor Jeff Goldberg for pushing the line…
Shorter Nancy Pelosi: I cans so be dumber than Joe Biden!
What is the deal with Nancy Pelosi? Is she thinking “Well, I’ve fucked up domestic policy, now I got foreign policy to deal with”? She’s already visited Ukraine (“They gave me a medal! That’s how important I am!”) and I guess maybe she’s expecting to get one from Taiwan, though, really, no one seems to…
Is Ron DeSantis inevitable? Well, maybe.
The National Review can’t get enough of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and it’s easy to see why: DeSantis drooler in chief Rich Lowry’s review of DeSantis’ bad boy with a Harvard sheen swagger bears the following subhead: “A glimpse at what Trumpism without Trump can look like.” Okay, to some of us that can…
CRT v. Anti-CRT: Wait, Wait! You’re BOTH Right! Occasionally.
OCTOBER 6, 2022 UPDATE: In the course of this report—somewhere in the middle—I discuss crime data from the FBI. I should have pointed out that these data are estimates rather than complete tallies. We don’t know, for example, that there were 10,440 homicides in the U.S. in 2020, although the FBI says we do. I…
What if they gave a Cold War, and nobody came?
I spend a lot of time grasping at straws these days, and Politico has kindly sent a couple wafting my way of late, viz., The U.S. Can’t Force the Rest of the World to Support Ukraine. Here’s Why. and A Forecasting Model Used by the CIA Predicts a Surprising Turn in U.S.-China Relations, said surprising…