Joe Bob Briggs writes: You might disagree with what Trump is doing, but the way to change what he’s doing would be to change the law. That’s not how he’s … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2018
“How an ACLU founder became an apologist for Soviet tyranny”
I suppose Reason Magazine intended that subhead to be ironic, rather than the unintentional set up to the obvious (and unfunny) punchline, "So what's your point...?" Anyhow, Matthew … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: “It is becoming a cliché that America is undergoing its own version of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution”
Steve Sailer writes: But that’s not the only analogy between late-1960s China and 2018 America. One of the mainsprings of the Cultural Revolution was a vindictive aged actress out for revenge on the … [Read more...]
“Journalist Edward Jay Epstein has shown that in crucial respects, the Times coverage was at odds with what the [Pentagon Papers] actually said”
Neo-Neocon quotes the WSJ: The lead of the Times story was that in 1964 the Johnson administration reached a consensus to bomb North Vietnam at a time when the president was … [Read more...]
David Cole: The Left-Wing Cannibal Holocaust
The Left has been eating itself since the Russian Revolution (or even, arguably, since the French one.) And yet it persists. So I don't glean as much hope or meaning from evidence of cannibalism as others do. But, yes: It is damn entertaining to witness... Anyhow, here's [Read more...]
Hey, remember that whole “Glenn Beck vs. Cass Susstein” thing?
The New Yorker does: In another show, Beck insinuated that Sunstein had been inspired by … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: The 17 Most Annoying People of 2017 — and Justin Trudeau makes the cut!
Jim Goad writes: What I find very interesting is the fact that Nguyen wasn’t quite brave enough to go whole-hog and, say, expose herself to a brick of uranium and actually get … [Read more...]