Saturday, August 06, 2016

The moment you say, ‘no, I don’t agree that the Democratic party is the salvation of mankind and Hillary is our redeemer,’ suddenly you’ve become a monster

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Christian Toto interviews Sarah A. Hoyt (via Instapundit ). Hoyt is that rare, outspoken conservative in the literary realm. It’s a c...

"Never in the last 60 years has the length of joblessness been this long"

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Never in the last 60 years has the length of joblessness been this long reported Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes for CBS News in 2012 in it...
Thursday, August 04, 2016

Punting to the People: Persons who abuse power can be stopped only by other persons who have the authority and responsibility to defend our liberties and our way of life

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 … there is nothing magical or inherently virtuous about the “will of the people” writes David French in an outstanding National Review...
Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Isn’t there something inconsistent about condemning the Republican Denny Hastert while simultaneously naming a Navy ship after the Democrat Harvey Milk?

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The “queering” of the armed forces took a giant leap forward last week writes Benny Huang (a tip o' the hat to Maggie's Farm ...
Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Insane Immigration Policies: No, stemming the flow of people who want to kill you is not a surrender to your baser instincts

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What [leftists fail] to grasp is that when openness and tolerance encounter militant Islam in a dark alley, openness and tolerance get t...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

A Tempête in a Teapot? Frenchmen Bitterly Cling to Their Accents—to All of Their Accents

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For Keith Houston ( writing in the New York Times ), learning French a quarter-century ago at high school in Scotland, the circumflex ...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

The Paris Plages event has been identified as the next potential target for a terrorist attack

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They are known as the “ Paris Plages ,” writes the Washington Post's James McAuley — three summertime beaches installed on the ba...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Even India's Poor Must Show an ID to Vote

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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Some Thoughts on the Ties of American Allies Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to Osama Bin Laden and 9-11

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With friends like Saudi Arabia, who needs enemies? asks Benny Huang . Last week we learned that the Saudi government almost certainly...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Liberals love to tell the rest of us what to do, but politicians implicitly admit the unreasonableness of their own demands by exempting themselves from them

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American liberals trumpet a “wage gap” between men and women, notwithstanding reams of social science data demonstrating that men’s high...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Echoes of 1984: What "Open-Mindedness" Means, Exactly, to Liberals

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George Orwell, call your office. The Washington examiner's Michael Barone (cheers to Ed Driscoll ) links to an article featuring w...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Black Man Tells White Leftists a Few Hard Truths About American History

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r_bq"> I did my bit today writes Antipodius on Ricochet after seeing this thing of beauty. I sat with the OR resident lefti...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Ben Franklin and His Prophecy

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Bruce Tinsley's Mallard Fillmore
Saturday, July 23, 2016

¡NO PASARÁ EL COCA-COLA! In the Wake of Obama's Cuba Accord, Le Canard Enchaîné Shows the Castros' New-Found Love for "the Empire"

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¡NO PASARÁ EL COCA-COLA! In the Wake of Obama's Cuba Accord, Le Canard Enchaîné Posted a Kiro Cartoon Showing the Castros' Love...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Some Questions for the GOP's Cruz Despisers

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Some questions are in order: 1) Isn't it true that most Republicans are not known for accusing their adversaries or their chall...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

If Somone Ought to "Get Over It", in Order to Unify the Party, and Forgive and Forget, Shouldn't That Person Be… Donald Trump?!

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In response to his non-endorsement of Donald Trump during his speech at the GOP convention in Cleveland, Ted Cruz is told, "why can...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

What If… Hillary Has Been Planning All Along to Drop Out of the Presidential Race

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You're right. Call me crazy. But what if — with the Democratic primary following the Republican one — Hillary Clinton — along with ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

How to Know Whether We Live in a Democracy or Whether We Are in the Throes of Populism

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From Mumbai, Anand Pandya writes: Nassim Nicholas Taleb has put it best: “When people vote the way of the intellectual-yet-idiot e...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Disastrous Claims About Rising Sea Levels Run Into One (Un?)fortunate Fact

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The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, write...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Mallard Fillmore Ought to Be Required Daily Reading

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Bruce Tinsley's Mallard Fillmore and… his take on the Fourth of July