Saturday, November 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Popularity with the "Bankrupt Left" and in the Rest of the World in a Nutshell

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 … the bankrupt Left shrugs, “She may be a crook, but she’s our crook.” writes Victor Davis Hanson as the National Review columnist expl...

Shaka, the legendary king who warred across South Africa forging the modern Zulu nation: There’s battle, conquest, siblings turning on each other and murdering each other — it’s better than “Game of Thrones,” and it’s all true

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The Daily Show 's Trevor Noah was drawn by Jillian Tamaki for an interview with the New York Times.  … And now for a movie or TV sh...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Never designed to be popularity contests: The genius of the Electoral College is that it gives everyone a voice and everyone a stake in the election's outcome

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Over at the Investor's Business Daily, John Merline points out that if California was more like the average Democratic state, Trump...

Not My President — The Difference Between 2008 and 2016

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That Was Then This Is Now by Branco
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Thanksgiving Cartoons from the New Yorker

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Ten Thanksgiving cartoons from the New Yorker (See also Art Buchwald's attempt to explain the holiday to the French (and to othe...

Kilomètres Deboutish and le Jour de Merci Donnant

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An American tries to explain Thanksgiving to the French. For four or five decades, this Art Buchwald column from the 1950s was printed e...

Electoral College: Democracy is all about majority rule; A republic is about the self-rule of a nation of free people

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Clinton “won” an election we didn’t have writes Mark Cunningham acidly in his New York Post article on protests concerning the 2016 elec...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Earth to Democrats: It ain't about race!

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Normal Americans are thinking about their paychecks, their job security, their health insurance, the price of goods and services and the...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Do red state Americans and blue state Americans live in the same country anymore?

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This election year has been one for the history books writes Benny Huang —a jolting roller-coaster ride of scandals, vitriol and clas...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Growing Number of French Citizens Demand the Right to Bear Arms and to Self-Defence

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After the long list of attacks that have shaken France, from Le Bataclan to Nice, Le Figaro's Esther Paolini reports on a growing n...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Abraham Lincoln's Thoughts on Plans to Ditch or Reform the Constitution and the Electoral College

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Doesn't Honest Abe 's June 20, 1848, Speech on Internal Improvements (first para below) and his February 13, 1848, letter to a Jo...

Why the electoral college? So that every part of the nation has some kind of say over the next executive while preventing large swaths of said nation from being bullied

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This week, anti-Trump protesters hit the streets in big cities around the country, notes Reason's David Harsanyi , chanting ...

Electoral College: even under a parliamentary democracy, Hillary Clinton would still have lost, as Republicans have built a huge majority in the House of Representatives

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Now the losers of the 2016 election are turning their fire upon the Constitution writes John Yoo . Clinton will win by a slight majori...
Friday, November 18, 2016

In a democracy, it's never a good idea to mock the people for too long

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In Le Figaro Ivan Rioufol writes that In a democracy, it's never a good idea to mock the people for too long, accusing it of incarna...

Why a Black Voter in Southern France Voted for Trump

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An African-American from New York living in the Basque country, Marjorie explains to France Info how she is disappointed by Barack Obama ...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

There are some people in this world, let’s just call them Social Justice Warriors, who see a racist under every bed

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And the award for dumbest reporter in America goes  announces Benny Huang to… Josh Feldman of Mediaite! During game seven of the Worl...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Le Figaro at the Maison de la Radio's Election Night in Paris

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Thibault Izoret Masseron had a 2-minute report for Le Figaro from election night in Paris's Maison de la Radio. Douche froide pour...

Mystère Président

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The front page of le Courrier Picard was chosen by the Newseum as one of the ten best front pages related to Donald Trump's election. ...

That Is the Reason — That Is Precisely the Reason

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Powerline's Steven Hayward (gracias to Ed Driscoll )
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

We Must Resist Monarchism–Even When the President is a Republican

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If I have one thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving sighs Benny Huang , it’s that the reign of Barack Obama is nearly over. And I ...