Writing more in sorrow than in anger, “The Risky Wager of Betting on Trump”, the National Review’s Andy McCarthy has had it up to here—okay, maybe not all the way up to “here”, but almost all the way—with Donald Trump: Since the election, we’ve had two months of a president publicly insisting the election was…
U.S. Bombing Raids: American War Crimes or Commie Propaganda? Or both?
George Blake, a British spy for the Soviet Union whose information apparently led to the deaths of many operatives for British and American espionage agencies, is dead at 98. Blake, who was employed by the British as a spy, was turned by the Soviets after being captured during the Korean War. But, according to his…
Linda Greenhouse, a few bricks shy of the truth
It never hurts to have a friend in the White House, does it? In what amounts to a love letter to Joe Biden, New York Times Supreme Court gal Linda Greenhouse tells us how the steel entered Joe Biden’s soul during the confirmation hearings for Judge—and not to be Justice—Robert Bork. Up until that time,…
Eugene Volokh, brilliant and noble champion of the First Amendment or just another brick in the wall?
Both, actually. At the age of 10, in 1978, Mr. Volokh took the Math “Aptitude” SAT and scored 780 out of 800. He graduated from UCLA at 15, later graduated from UCLA Law, and now teaches there, and also runs the estimable, largely libertarian “Volokh Conspiracy” website. Here is what someone who is quite reasonably…
Eric Ineke JazzXpress—“Rhythm-a-ning”
Live at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam during Eric Ineke’s 70th birthday concert on April 1, 2017. Featuring Rein de Graaff – piano, Tineke Postma – alto sax, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen – tenor sax, Simon Rigter – tenor sax, Gidon Nunes Vaz – trumpet, Marius Beets – bass, and Eric Ineke – drums. Posted by Eric Ineke-…
Some “conservatives” are whistling past the graveyard of American democracy; others are busy swinging a shovel
I like to keep track of what the “responsible right”, as I like to call them, is up to, a task that I perform by rounding up the usual suspects—Ross Douthat, Jay Nordlinger, Kevin Williamson, Ramesh Ponnuru, David French, and Jonah Goldberg, among others—finding most of them at either the National Review or the American…
Ramesh Ponnuru sincerely wishes that Donald Trump would stop farting so loudly. Particularly when he’s sitting on Mr. Ponnuru’s face
Well, he does. In a recent post, “Trump’s Record on Clemency”, written before the president’s most recent (to date) rogue’s gallery of releases, Mr. Ponnuru acknowledges that, well, the president can do anything he goddamn pleases when it comes to pardons, including pardoning a bunch of murders and corrupt political pals whenever the mood strikes…
Feuds, Zoom, and Italian Food. Oh, and also bullshit. How Politico makes Mitch McConnell’s slimy deal sound cute.
Paul Krugman, not always my favorite knee-jerk liberal, gets it right: Mitch McConnell spent $900 billion to elect two Republican senators from Georgia, but once the election’s decided, won’t spend a dime to help 300+ million Americans, because economic stimulus only makes sense when a Republican president is in office. Politico, to its discredit, weighs…
Woke and Broke: The New York Times wants to destroy the city’s public school system
In today’s editorial, “Reopen Schools, and Reform Them”, the pathetically “correct” New York Times argues that “Scrapping the high-stakes admission tests for New York’s specialized public high schools is long overdue. They severely disadvantage talented Black and Latino students.” A more accurate head would be “Reopen schools, and then destroy middle class support for them,”…
The “Solar Winds” Fraud: Special Hot Air Edition
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and the latest fake news regarding “Solar Winds”, the Russian super hack that wasn’t, is a good example. It’s just coincidence, I’m sure, that a sudden leak regarding Russian perfidy should emerge just as Joe Biden was taking office. The odds were already roughly 1,000,000,000,000,000 to 1…