The Spectacle
- Moses Farrow Depicts Mia Farrow, Not Woody Allen, as Abuser
- A Voice For Freedom And The Constitution In D.C.: Congressman Tom Garrett Of Virginia
- Another Ship Bound for China Turns Around Halfway, Then Turns Around Again
- U.S. and European Taxpayers Are Funding Palestinian Violence
- Exploring S.A. Prüm Rieslings
- We’ll Never Be Rid of Them: Obamas Sign a Deal With Netflix
- Michigan Think Tank Looks Into Scope of State’s Crony Capitalism — It’s Not Pretty
- Terror Attacks Rock Indonesia’s Oppressed Christian Community
- The Trucking Industry, Regulatory Mishaps, And Self-Governance
- D.C.: Good News on Tips, And a Few Tips for Its Dumpster Fire of a Metro
- RIP Tom Wolfe
- Krugman on Drugs
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Donald Trump: The Pro-Life President
Who knew? Who knew or really believed that candidate Donald Trump would become pro-life President Donald Trump? Politicians say things. Mitt Romney was for abortion in Massachusetts before he was against it as a presidential candidate. John McCain held a nuanced view on abortion as presidential candidate saying that abortion would be okay in special […]
The Papadopoulos Affair: Such a Downer
To paraphrase Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, George Papadopoulos, an adviser to the Trump presidential campaign, had to walk into London’s Kensington Wine Rooms in May 2016 where he got drunk and told Alexander Downer, Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK, that Russia […]
John Brennan’s Plot to Infiltrate the Trump Campaign
As Trump won primary after primary in 2016, a rattled John Brennan started claiming to colleagues at the CIA that Estonia’s intelligence agency had alerted him to an intercepted phone call suggesting Putin was pouring money into the Trump campaign. The tip was bogus, but Brennan bit on it with opportunistic relish. Out of Brennan’s […]
Going Amish? Not Just Yet!
I think I’m on the verge of developing what might be called “Amish syndrome.” Now, don’t jump to conclusions. I’m not about to trade in my beloved Lexus for a horse-and-buggy rig. After all, horses would be much higher maintenance than my reliable old sedan, even with the odometer at 107,000 miles and counting. And, […]
With God and Richard Pipes
The most respected academic authority on the Russian Revolution, 20thcentury communism, and the Cold War has died. He was Richard Pipes, longtime professor of Russian history at Harvard, and a remarkable man. Where to start with an adequate tribute to Professor Pipes? I’ll start with some biographical observations and then finish with personal reflections. Richard […]
Deep Stategate: The Sweetheart Leaks
So here’s the headline from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, as reported after his appearance on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures show: FBI informant news ‘mother of all leaks,’ House Intel Committee Chair Nunes says The report says, in part, this: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Sunday the news regarding an FBI informant’s alleged […]
It Didn’t Use to Be This Way
One telling detail keeps escaping the men and women of words who would end school shootings by one expedient or another: gun control, better security, the arming of teachers, more careful vetting of potential gunmen and so forth. The detail of which I speak: We didn’t use to endure this horror. It didn’t happen. The […]
Trump Zig-Zags on Trade Talks With China
President Donald Trump has spent his entire adult life railing against the excesses — and damage — that untrammeled “Free Trade” has done to the United States and the majority of Americans. In many ways, his surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election (it was only a surprise to the very same free trade cultists he railed […]
Medicaid and the Democratic War on Work
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that states could experiment with work requirements as a prerequisite for Medicaid eligibility, the Democrats denounced the policy as racist and cruel. They didn’t explain how such requirements could possibly be racist in states whose Medicaid populations are nearly 100 percent white. Nor did they […]
The Firesign Theater Media
If you are a graying Baby Boomer like me, you might remember a comedy troupe from the 1970s called “Firesign Theater.” They had their origin in FM “progressive” radio (KPFK-Los Angeles, 1966). The ensemble put out some two dozen comedy LP albums (remember those?), the most prominent with titles such as “We’re All Bozos on […]