Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If you want to be entertained by the insanity that is American higher education, where the focus has shifted entirely from expanding their brains to pandering to their ignorant social justice concerns, you can read Power Line’s take on the obsessive lengths to which Yale went, first to consider changing Calhoun College’s name
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I finally got around to watching last week’s 60 Minutes, which had a segment devoted to Schuyler Bailar, a person who got admitted to Harvard as to swim on its women’s swim team, but who had breast removal surgery over the summer and presented at Harvard asking to swim on
Continue readingI never, ever thought that I would write the words “brilliant comedy sketch” in connection with anything from Comedy Central, let alone Larry Wilmore’s The Nightly Show, but this is good. It’s really good. You’re going to have to put up with the first almost-two-minutes of Wilmore talking, because that’s
Continue readingBush didn’t, Obama wouldn’t, but the next president should: Call into the Oval Office the leaders of Muslim communities throughout America to say, “Because of the First Amendment, the fact that you and the people in your community practice Islam is irrelevant to us in America. Your faith is your
Continue reading[My friend Wolf Howling sent me an email with a “rant.” I was so impressed with the rant that I asked if I could publish it here, and Wolf Howling kindly agreed.] After reading several articles today, I think that I finally have a better perspective on the phenomena of Bernie Sanders,
Continue readingI was discussing with a friend two articles today, when I suddenly saw the future — and believe me, it’s not pretty, or at least not any prettier than Daniel Craig in a lush blonde wig as he carries out his secret agent duties. The first article involved the trauma
Continue readingAs this election year’s craziness continues, I keep trying to keep myself from getting upset. My mantra is that I should save my energies for things I can change, either directly or through my own small contributions. For everything else, I need to relax and watch the passing spectacle. That’s
Continue readingAll of the posts I’ll link to pre-date today’s New Hampshire primary. This is a NH primary-free zone. You might find it refreshing. And now, to the good stuff: Trump could destroy conservativism in America for decades. I think Charles Krauthammer hits the ball out of the park on this
Continue readingBernie supporters, we are told, are overwhelmingly young. If you’ve been wondering why hip young people are drawn to a foam-flecked, angry, hand-waving, wild-haired old communist, these two videos give you the answer (language and content alert as to the first). They also explain why socialists want free college education
Continue readingOften, when a movie or a novel wants to use a truly vapid slogan for a pretend political campaign, the writers will fall back on the phrase “Now more than ever.” It’s so broad and vague as to be utterly meaningless. Yet it’s precisely what popped into my mind today when I thought
Continue readingAre you familiar with speed chess? I learned about it when I was at Cal. Since I worked at the Bancroft Library, I had access to an employee break room. Every day at lunch, two men would sit there, chess board in front of them, timer at their side, and
Continue readingInspired by Marie Kondo’s advice that true organization begins with throwing out everything that is neither useful nor sentimental, I am continuing to plow through every nook and cranny in my house. This is the first organization system that’s made sense to me, which is why I haven’t already given
Continue readingMy day has spiraled so wildly out of control, I despair of ever getting it back. Fortunately, a good friend who knows well how I think sent me an email that says much of what I would have said today if I’d had the time. So, here is the “Bookworm
Continue readingI have been collecting links for days and will try to share them all with you. Here goes: Only conservatives are paying attention In an attempt to deflect attention of Muslim depredations in Paris, the Left and its foot soldiers (all of whom seem to be my Facebook friends) immediately
Continue readingI haven’t had a chance to get much writing done today, but a friend who knows what interests me sent me such a chock-full-of-information email that I’m just going to pass it on to you. Well, the gossip mags have been talking for two weeks about some male star HIV
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