Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Everything that’s wrong with the Left in one website. At City Journal, Oren Cass has written a short article that looks at modern Progressivism through the filter of Hillary’s campaign website. In some ways, the article says something we all know, which is that the modern Democrat party is not
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True confession: I didn’t watch the convention last night. Mr. Bookworm, whose politics don’t align with mine, got to the TV first. I did read about it, however, and I came away with the impression that it was a blessing that so many turncoat GOP operatives stayed away. Frankly, operatives
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Back in the 1990s, someone I knew was accused of sexual harassment within an academic setting. He was white and the accuser was a person of color, as was her supervisor. There was a witness — an intern, also a person of color — who later admitted that she knew
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With my old-fashioned mindset, if I were to go back to college to major in “American Studies” I would expect to find the curriculum filled with classes about the Constitution, the development of political parties, the immigrant experience, the opening of the West, changes in Congress, etc. Boy, would I be
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I’ve been struggling to come up with a down-and-dirty definition of modern Progressivism. I know that we can just call it socialism with an American accent, but that’s inaccurate. We need to define it correctly because doing so allows us to see and address Ground Zero — the creation point
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As the old Hollywood musicals liked to remind us, the only things free in this world are the sun, the moon, the stars, and other pretty, and not so pretty, things Nature provides, totally free of charge. Everything else comes at a cost, and sooner or later someone has to pay.
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While other commencement speakers are telling people to pursue their dreams or complaining that their free housing was built by slaves more than 200 years ago, Mike Rowe has put together a different kind of commencement address, once directed at real people who have to function in the real world:
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It’s already old news that DePaul’s resident fascists (aka students and their adult trainers) shouted Milo Yiannopoulos off the stage. Campus security refused to step in to protect an invited speaker. Worse, when the story inevitably went public, the university’s insane faculty doubled down on the type of vicious fascist
Continue readingI read yesterday in Power Line that Harvard students are getting advice from faculty about now to “rebel.” John Hinderaker suggests that all these “rebellions” are Kabuki theater with predetermined outcomes. He may well be right. But I thought of another way of challenging what’s going on:
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Thankfully, it’s not the kind of migraine that has me rushed off to the ER, or that sees me sunken into abject misery in a darkened room. I’m just lethargic, hence the fact that this Open Thread opened at almost 7 p.m. Pacific Time. Still, migraine or not, I’ve got
Continue readingThe morning was given over to household maintenance; the midday is reserved for legal work. With luck, blogging will be on this evening’s menu. Until then, I have three videos for you to enjoy. The first two are about the wonderful world of higher education, and the third is about
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I met up the other day with some friends whom I’ve known for years through our children. They are, without exception, decent, bright, extremely kind women. I think highly of them, even though they are Bernie supporters. The conversation turned to the “rape culture” on American campuses. Although they were
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I’ll be away all day tomorrow, first doing an activity with the kids, and then listening to this year’s best a cappella groups (although this wonderful group from Israel won’t be there). I therefore hope that this post gives you lots of interesting stuff to read on Saturday. Pro-Trump? Anti-Trump?
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I’m back, and still playing beat the clock when I blog, so let me get right down to business: Just one thing about Target’s preexisting open bathroom policy. You may not have known about Target’s long-standing open-access bathroom policy (all gender identities welcome wherever they want), but it appears that
Continue readingOne of the keystones of the Protestant Reformation was the notion that priests were no longer necessary to bring people into contact with God. Up until the Reformation, Catholic priests were seen as an absolutely necessary intermediary. No matter how corrupt the individual priest (and if Boccaccio and Chaucer are
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