The Spectacle
- Congressional Conservatives: Don’t Let Problem Solvers Caucus Play You For Suckers!
- ‘Fixing’ Obamacare Means Taxpayers Spend More for the Same Lousy System
- Treating Teachers as Normal Employees Benefits Children
- MMF’S Angelo Carusone Responds
- Mitch McConnell Upset That President Trump Is Making Him Accountable for Once
- Charter Schools Help District Schools
- Google and Lena Dunham: The New Thought Police
- RIP Robert Hardy
- ‘Sully’ Wrong on Air Traffic Control Reform
- Don Boudreaux’s Open Letter to Nancy MacLean
- J-School Bores
- The Mooch Is Out, Before He Was Even In
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‘Get Out,’ Horror Films, and Social Commentary
Jordan Peele, director, and writer of the acclaimed horror-satire Get Out (released on DVD on May 23, 2017), is a black man. And Peele has been quite open about his views on race relations, once telling the Los Angeles Times, “Little Haley Joel Osment in ‘The Sixth Sense’ can see dead people. Well, I can see […]
Venezuela: The Coup Was an Afterthought
Those of us raised during the Cold War tend to think of democracy and communism as opposites. They’re not. Democracy tends toward communism until the egalitarian dream proves unworkable, then it collapses into tyranny. In the United States, we’re blind to this. We think that history, which began in 1776, has a direction, or sides, […]
Needed: Civilian Control of the Military
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Liberalism, Transgenderism, and Gay Conversion Bans
“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” So spoke Justice Anthony Kennedy in his famous, or infamous, 1992 opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey largely reaffirming the right to abortion established twenty years earlier in […]
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Various & Sundry Things This Side of John Podesta and Other Crawfish
I offer the following bloviations and utterances in lieu of a coherent column, seeing as though very little of our national affairs is transpiring in any coherent fashion… There is a concerted effort on the part of the cultural Marxist crowd to insure everybody’s morale is degraded to the point where we’re all at each […]
Sherlock Holmes Investigates Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Her Rogue Computer Technicians
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, The Sign of the Four, the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes, asked Dr. Watson: “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” An intricate mystery haunts Washington, one so complicated it boggles the […]
Fifty Years of Resistance
Washington I have experienced defeat in presidential politics many times. Actually, I expect most Americans have. You win some and you lose some. I first experienced defeat in 1964 when Barry Goldwater went down, though in that year I was not even old enough to vote. I experienced it in 1968 and again in 1976 […]
Fascist Media Matters Moves to Silence Hannity
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